Xenophon PCDGS
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Neath in County Borough Port Talbot Neath also has the site of a Celtic hill fort in its environs.
The area in which this settlement lies -- around the southern shores of the Wash -- has long been a renowned venue for wildfowling: shooting of waterfowl, nowadays carried on subject to sensible regulation (Terrington St. Clement has a pub called the Wildfowler). Another part of the country which is big on this activity, is the Solway Firth area. A settlement thereabouts, important in the pursuit, is the village of Powfoot, Dumfries and Galloway -- on the shore of the Firth, a few miles west of Annan.Unsurprisingly, Terrington St Clement in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Clement.
Scrape, scrape, barrel-wise: the snooker champion Alex "Hurricane" Higgins lived for a time in Heald Green. G.K. Chesterton wrote a (semi-)comic poem about another -- fictional -- Higgins, a "creedless Puritan". Chesterton died, in 1936 -- and is buried -- at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.Heald Green in Greater Manchester also has a church named Christ Church.
Concerning loos -- "Gentlemen" and "Ladies" respectively, I believe.Noting what you say above, the two most important words in Welsh that I made sure I knew the meaning of were Dynion and Merched....can you guess which particular public buildings are signed as such?
Buried at Plumstead is William Bennet (1746 -- 1820), Anglican Bishop of the diocese of Cloyne in Ireland. Cloyne, Co. Cork -- some fifteen miles east of Cork city -- is, though a relatively obscure village, the seat of both a Church of Ireland (Anglican) diocese; and a Catholic one.Back to quiz matters...
Plumstead in Kent was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Little and Lessness.
Mea maxima culpa -- I meant NEWTON STEWART. Sure an' I was afther mixing it up with the place in County Tyrone named Newtownstewart, with a "w" and all one word...I cannot trace a settlement called NEWTOWN STEWART....