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Mexborough (Ferry Boat) Halt? -- I'm groping in the dark.

Now things get difficult -- Doncaster (Cherry Tree Lane)?

Salisbury? -- open floor, if right: I've been hogging things lately.

Jamaica it is, indeed -- congrats ! Let's see what d'ya make 'a setting next question <D ...

"Pushing the envelope" a bit -- Glasgow is another Scottish city: whose name is the second word, of that of a male person of some renown (one fictional, one real). With Dundee, it is of course the celebrated "Crocodile"; with Glasgow: R.C. Robertson-Glasgow (1901 -- 65): cricketer, and writer...

"Thank you, so" -- I'm no art-from-long-ago -- or any other kind thereof -- buff: rather a lucky chance shot. I like stuff about national flags: this one (borrowed from the general-knowledge quiz on another board which I frequent) is rather similarly themed to one which I set hereon, some years...

Hieronymus Bosch?? -- from the first-named: hadn't seen him as being into haywains or conjuring -- but maybe he occasionally took relaxing-time-off, from portraying the horrors of Hell?

Walsall, West Midlands, also sounds a good deal like the "English-ised" rendering of name of a European capital city.

Park Drain

I declare, this Cooper bloke knows everything about everything :smile: ... such a tool, indeed: it "carded" or pulled apart the wool to facilitate easier spinning. Your turn, Honourable Weaving-Master, to come up with something else which will upset the Luddites ...

Thanks -- I'll pose one ... Something which appears childishly rude; but is in fact, in that context, fully "clean" and unexceptionable -- What was a Teasing Willy?

Misterton

Scawby and Hibaldstow

North Kelsey

Holton-le-Moor

Lurgan. Co. Armagh, also has a church dedicated to St. Peter. A little bit of Wiki strangeness: the entry re Snelston includes the words, re its parish church of St. Peter: "It is one of the few churches to have had dances regularly held on the roof." Just that ...

An extremely good guess: that's the one. An eminent railway author -- maybe O.S. Nock -- mentions in a rare waggish moment in one of his books, the "ster" endings of nearly all the branch's original stations, including Lybster terminus: viz. Thrumster, Ulbster, Midclyth, Occumster, Lybster --...

I recall a tale, in some book about the 1939 -- 45 unpleasantness and prisoners therein: couple of German POWs escape from camp in Scotland, and get on a train heading far south (getting out of Britain envisagedly easier, across the "narrow seas") -- they belatedly become worried about whether...

In American tough-guy and poker-playing parlance, "I'll see your West / East Cheshire etc., and raise you ... :E" -- my parents came from Chester and closely-adjacent regions; various childhood / adolescence holidays of mine spent there, many happy memories thereof... Harpenden, Hertfordshire...

Possibly a crazy one; but: which line -- (in Great Britain; and long-abandoned) ) had a wonderful, barely-broken, sequence of assonant / quasi-rhyming intermediate stations, and terminus; which sequence was spoilt, in (I believe) the post-Grouping last couple of decades of the line's life, by...