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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ickornshaw in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Pennine Way.

 

[DerekC]

Ickornshaw is the home of D&C Classic Motor Cycles. Spa Motor Cycles is a similar restoration company based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cambridge also hosts a noted folk festival.

 

[Tetragon213]

Oxford also hosts a world class university

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coventry also has an elephant in its Coat of Arms.

 

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Kenilworth also suffered damage during the 1940 Coventry blitz in WW2.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Offchurch in Warwickshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Knightflow.

 

[DerekC]

The name Offchurch is thought to be related to King Offa of Mercia. According to legend King Offa's son Fremund was murdered nearby and was buried in the churchyard. The story doesn't end there however.

Sixty six years later three crippled virgins were passing by and saw a vision demanding that they dig up the body of the saint (I forgot to mention that Fremund had been canonized by then). This they duly did and were directed by an angel to carry the coffin to an unknown location in a marsh near Banbury where it was buried again. Later still the body was disinterred yet again and under direction from senior staff from the local monastery and put on a cart to take it there. The cart (or possibly the animals pulling it) would go no further than Prescote, near Cropredy in Oxfordshire, where the body was buried again in a specially built chapel which no longer exists.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bodicote in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Cherwell.

 

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The Church of England Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist, Bodicote was a chapel of ease of St Mary the Virgin, Adderbury until 1855.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Sankey in the Warrington region also has a Morris Dancing side.

 

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Bold Heath also lies on the A57 Trunk Road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Treslothan in Cornwall also has an equestrian centre.

 

[Tetragon213]

The road east from Treslothan takes you to Troon Cornwall

 

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Famously Troon Cricket Club were the first winners of the National Village Championship in 1972. They won the John Haig Cup at Lord’s defeating Astwood Bank (Warwickshire) - a district within Redditch - by seven wickets.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cookhill in Worcestershire also lies on the route of the A441 road.

 

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In the Domesday Book, Cookhill is mentioned as being in the Hundred of Ash in the County of Worcestershire. The total population was of five households; another place with five householders was the current hamlet of Shell.

 

[DerekC]

Shell was an extra-parochial area before the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1863. Many other places had a similar anomalous status - they had originally been uninhabited or with very few inhabitants and has grown a significant population over time. The best named was Nowhere, Norfolk - a marshy area beside the River Bure - but unfortunately the settlement has now disappeared and the land incorporated into the parish of Acle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knapton in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Edmund.

 

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Prior to the opening of St Edmund's Church and in the Medieval period, Knapton had a chapel of ease in the parish of St Peter's Church, Wintringham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skirpenbeck in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Buckrose Wapentake.

 

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Skirpenbeck is near the village and civil parish of Stamford Bridge near where King Harold of England defeated King Harald Hardrada of Norway in 1066.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barnby-on-the-Marsh in the East Riding of Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Derwent.

 

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The parish church of St Helen, Barnby-on-the-Marsh is a Grade II listed building. Now no longer active, it is currently under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches charity. Another redundant church with the same name and being looked after by the charity is the Church of St Helen in the village of Skeffling, Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rise in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Holderness Wapentake.

 

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East of the village is Rise Hall, a Grade II* listed historic house built between 1815 and 1820. In the 1850s, a clock was installed over the stable block; this was constructed by the clockmaker Edward John Dent (1790–1853). In 1852 Dent won the commission to make the Great Clock — now popularly called Big Ben — for the Houses of Parliament at Westminster, but he died before completing the project, which was completed by his adopted son.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huddersfield in West Yorkshire also has a Victoria Tower.

 

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Trains from Huddersfield to Manchester Victoria pass through Slaithwaite.

Sorry .... wrong topic! Let's continue as follows:

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx was born on 11th March 1916 in Cowlersley, a district of Huddersfield. He died on 23rd May 1995 in London and is buried at St Mary's Old Church, St Mary's, Isle of Scilly.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whilst St Mary's is the largest of the inhabited Isles of Scilly in terms of both size and population, Gugh is the smallest in both terms.

 

[DerekC]

Brown rats have been eliminated from Canna in the Inner Hebrides, as they have from Gugh.