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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontypool in Torfaen also has a church that is dedicated to St James.

 

[DerekC]

Pontypool was involved in the development of iron smelting technology from mediaeval times, with a blast furnace being built there as early as 1536. All iron smelting was carried out using charcoal until Abraham Darby developed a way of smelting iron with coke at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire in 1709.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cookstown in County Tyrone also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Cookstown Hockey Club is the town's field hockey team, who play at Molesworth St, Cookstown; the first team currently plays in the Premier League of the Ulster Senior League. Another club in the same league are North Down Hockey Club, who play at The Green, Castle Lane, Comber, County Down.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dundonald in County Down also lies on the line of the River Enler.

 

[DerekC]

The Dundonald International Ice Bowl is home to the Belfast Giants ice hockey team, current UK Elite League champions. Dumfries also has an ice bowl. It is home to the Solway Sharks, current winners of the Northern Premier League.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Forfar was also created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century.

 

[D6130]

Callington in Cornwall is also associated with the production of meat pasties enclosed in pastry. (In Forfar they are known as "Bridies").

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Mary's Church, Callington is a Grade 1 Listed building consecrated in 1438 on the site of an earlier chapel; it was enlarged in the 15th century, with restoration in the 19th century, including work by J P St Aubyn and John Dando Sedding (1838 – 1891). Another Church of St Mary restored by the latter architect in the 1870s is in Stogumber, Somerset.

(I wanted to get a reference to the "East Fife 4 Forfar 5" scoreline in my reply, but you beat me to it ... curses!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Monksilver in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Williton and Freemanners.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of All Saints, Monksilver dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. It has a square west tower, built in the 14th century, which contains a ring of five bells, including one by Roger Semson of the nearby village of Ash Priors, Somerset which was cast between 1530 and 1570.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Otterford in Somerset was also once under the jurisdiction of the Taunton Poe Law Union.

 

[High Dyke]

Myres Castle near Auchtermuchty in Fife also has an example of a building with a barrel vault ceiling.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Culross in Fife was also created a Royal Burgh in the 16th century.

 

[DerekC]

A chapel dedicated to St Mungo was built in Culross by one Robert Blackadder, Bishop of Glasgow, in the early 16th Century. A more modern bearer of the name is, of course Edmund Blackadder, the hero (or possibly anti-hero) of the eponymous BBC-1 comedy series.

Edmund is in fact four different people in the four series, each descended from the previous one. We are told very little about any the versions of Edmund, but although their birthplaces may be unknown there is a definite link with Alnwick in Northumberland, the castle being the location of much of the filming of the first series.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lesbury in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Aln.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The vicar of St Mary's Church, Lesbury between 1783 and 1811 was Percival Stockdale (1736 – 1811), who was an English poet, writer and reformer, active especially in opposing slavery. He died in 1811 and was buried at Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Helen.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Town Hall is a municipal building in Market Street, Ashby-de-la-Zouch designed by Henry Isaac Stevens FRIBA (1806 - 1873). St Edmund's Church, Fenny Bentley was restored between 1847 and 1850 by Henry Isaac Stevens and Frederick Josias Robinson.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mappleton in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirksworth

(This settlement is also referred to as Mapleton in certain ancient administrative matters).

 

[DerekC]

Lyme Regis in Dorset is another place where extensive work has been carried out to try to slow very high rates of coastal erosion, albeit in a considerably different geological context.

Sorry - wrong Mappleton - resetting!

Mappleton in Derbyshire holds an annual charity event in which people jump off the bridge into the River Dove. In Lyme Regis in Dorset, on the other hand, the town council tries very hard to dissuade people from jumping off the Cobb.

 

[High Dyke]

Regis, Latin for "of the king", occurs in numerous English place names. The name usually recalls the historical ownership of lands or manors by the Crown.

In other places it honours royal associations rather than ownership. The "Regis" form was often used in the past as an alternative form to "King's", for instance at King's Bromley, Staffordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rolleston-on-Dove in Staffordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Offlow.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Rolleston Cricket Club play in the Derbyshire County Cricket League and have their home ground at The Willows, Dovecliff Road, Rolleston. The club played in the Premier Division of the League between 2016 and 2018, but now play in Division One of the League. The most successful club in the league has been Ockbrook & Borrowash Cricket Club, who have won the League seven times between 1999 and 2025; they play at The Arthur Honeybun Cricket Ground, Victoria Park, Ockbrook, Derbyshire.

 

[Radley]

Barrowby, Lincolnshire also has one of its border lines lie on the A52.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kelvedon Hatch in Essex also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign,

 

[Radley]

Baddington, Cheshire also has a nuclear bunker.