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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ellesmere Port in Cheshire West & Chester also has a Waterways Museum.

 

[D6130]

Dunstable in Bedfordshire also has - or had? - a Vauxhall car manufacturing plant.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The town was home to two football clubs, Dunstable Town FC and AFC Dunstable, who both played at the Creasey Park Stadium. However, at the end of the 2025 / 2026 season, the former folded and merged with the latter to form Dunstable Town FC. The new club plays in the Spartan South Midlands Football League Premier Division; one of their opponents in the current season (2026 / 2027) will be Sawbridgeworth Town Football Club, who play at Crofters End, Sawbridgeworth.

The Vauxhall plant closed in 1987.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gilston in Hertfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Braughing.

 

[DerekC]

Manydown near Basingstoke, Hampshire, like Gilston, is to be the site of a new garden village developed under government plans set out in 2022.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stratfield Turgis in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basingstoke Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Stratfield Turgis is a village and civil parish in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire; the parish includes the hamlet of Spanish Green.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Old Basing in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Basingstoke.

 

[D6130]

Naseby in Northamptonshire was also the site of a battle in the English civil war.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bristol also suffered an outbreak of the Black Death in the 14th century.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

William Morris (Billy) Hughes served as the seventh Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923. Born in Pimlico, London on 25th September 1862, he received the Freedom of the City of Bristol on 20th May 1916. He died in Sydney on 28th October 1952, aged 90.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Gabriel.

 

[DerekC]

Wakefield in West Yorkshire, like Stoke on Trent, is often referred to as a city of five towns.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Horbury in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Agbrigg Wapentake.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Horbury forms part of the Heavy Woollen District, a region of textile-focused industrial development in West Yorkshire, a name acquired because of the heavyweight cloth manufactured there from the early 19th century. The town of Heckmondwike is also part of the same District.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altrincham in Greater Manchester also has a clock tower.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Altrincham FC are based at Moss Lane, Altrincham and are currently members of the National League, the fifth tier of English football. Another club in the same League are Forest Green Rovers FC, who play at the The Bolt New Lawn, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worcester also has a church that is dedicated to St George.

 

[D6130]

The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal runs from Worcester to Great Haywood.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chebsey in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Sow.

 

[DerekC]

All Saints Church, Chebsey will be running a stall selling local produce at the Eccleshall (Staffordshire) Show on Saturday 5th September. All proceeds in aid of the church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Styal in Cheshire East also has a woman's prison in its environs.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The British human rights activist and author Sir Terence Hardy (Terry) Waite was born on 31st May 1939 in Bollington, Cheshire; as the son of a village policeman in Styal, he grew up in the village.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

High Lane in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the Macclesfield Canal.

 

[Purple Train]

Bredbury is also in the Hazel Grove parliamentary constituency.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Astbury in Cheshire East was also once administered by the Hundred of Macclesfield.

 

[Tetragon213]

Mildenhall Wilts is also home to a Horseshoe public house

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upperby in Cumberland also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[D6130]

Wreay in Cumberland is also situated alongside the River Petteril.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanwix in Cumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Carlisle Poor Law Union.