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[D6130]

Eccles in Greater Manchester also has an item of baked confectionary named after it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Radcliffe in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

[DerekC]

James Hutchinson was born in Radcliffe in 1895. Whilst serving with the Lancashire Fusiliers during WWI he was awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery. He died at the age of 72 in Torquay, Devon.

 

[High Dyke]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet. She lived in Torquay, but was born in Coxhoe, County Durham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tudhoe in County Durham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Durham Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Tudhoe is in the civil parish of Spennymoor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uppermill in Greater Manchester also has a brass band.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Uppermill lies on the River Tame, which rises on Denshaw Moor in Greater Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wallasey in Merseyside also has an amateur dramatic group.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The film director and editor Charles Ainslie Crichton was born at Wallasey on 6th August 1910. He died on 14th September 1999, aged 89, in South Kensington, London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Douglas on the Isle of Man also has a noted museum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Commander Robert Benjamin Young (born in Douglas on 15th September 1773) was an officer in the Royal Navy and observed the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 from the deck of the tiny 10-gun cutter HMS Entreprenante. He died in Exeter on 26th November 1846.

 

[D6130]

Exeter is the County Town (City) of Devon, but Plymouth is the largest settlement in the County.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chatham in Kent also has a naval war memorial.

 

[DerekC]

The Chatham dockyards were attacked and fifteen Royal Navy warships destroyed during the Raid on the Medway at the end of the second Anglo-Dutch War in 1667. In 1665 the war had opened with the Battle of Lowestoft which was considered a victory for the English although the bulk of the Dutch fleet escaped to fight another day.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberdeen also has a maritime museum.

 

[D6130]

Fraserburgh is also built predominantly of grey granite.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bo'ness in West Lothian was also created a Burgh of Regality in the 17th century.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Bo'ness has played an important role in British motorsport. Hill Climb events, including the first ever round of the British Hill Climb Championship, were held on a course on the Kinneil estate most years from 1932 until 1966. One of the current venues for the Championship is the Loton Park Hill Climb, which is held in part of the Loton Park Deer Park just outside the village of Alberbury in Shropshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tettenhall in West Midlands also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[DerekC]

The Tettenhall Dick is a variety of pear grown historically for use in perry making. A comparable example of a cider apple named after a settlement is the Sweet Alford, originally grown around Alford, Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ulceby in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Calceworth.