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Egloskerry

Lifton

The actor Basil Rathbone (1892 -- 1967) attended Repton School in his teens. His first appearance on stage was in 1911, at the Theatre Royal, Ipswich (he played Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew).

Lydford

Tavistock South

Horrabridge

Clearbrook Halt

In the mid-1780s, the highly-controversial radical Whig politician Charles James Fox (1749 --1806) was made -- in the course of electoral-type shenanigans which would appear to have been ethically somewhat doubtful -- a burgess of Kirkwall (from the context, he seemingly never went to the...

Bickleigh

Laira Halt

Wrangaton

Warren Halt

Landewednack parish, is the most southerly on the mainland of Great Britain. The parish of Canisbay, Highland -- near John o' Groats -- is the corresponding northernmost.

Stoke Canon (2nd station)

A bit of a humdrum association, perhaps; but we've already had in the game. the "Itchington" derivation -- nothing to do with skin irritations, but a propos the local small River Itchen, far lesser-known than its Hampshire namesake. Bishop's Itchington's church is dedicated to St. Michael...