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Macclesfield RUFC are based at Priory Park, Macclesfield and currently play in the fifth tier of the English Rugby Union system, Regional 1 North West. One of their opponents in the current (2023 / 2024) season has been Wirral RFC, who are based in Thornton Common Road, Clatterbridge, Wirral.

The English actor, comedian, singer and monologist Stanley Holloway OBE was born in Manor Park, Essex (now in the London Borough of Newham) on 1st October 1890. He died, aged 91, at the Nightingale Nursing Home in Littlehampton on 30th January 1982.

Low Moor station is also served by Grand Central services.

The Anglican church of St Stephen's on Edgewood Road, Rednal has a 450 pipe organ which was moved from St John's Methodist Church, Selly Oak in 1960.

Mills Hill is also on the Northern Trains Route 9 - the Caldervale Line.

Services at both Margate and Broadstairs are operated by Southeastern using Class 375 and 395 EMUs.

The actor Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett (Timothy Dalton), who was the fourth actor to portray the fictional secret agent James Bond (in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989)) was born in Colwyn Bay on 21st March 1946. However, before his fourth birthday, the family moved back...

As well as the current four clubs, Edinburgh was also home to four former Scottish Football League clubs. One of these was Meadowbank Thistle FC, who played at Meadowbank Stadium between 1974 and 1995, when the club moved to Livingston and became Livingston Football Club.

Birchington-on-Sea is another station on the Chatham Main Line with the "-on-Sea" suffix.

Thanks; I've no idea, then!

Foxfield is also an unstaffed station on the Cumbrian Coast Line.

St Mary's Church, Market Drayton, is a designated Grade II* listed building. It contains some fine stained glass, including the east window, showing the Resurrection of Jesus, by Charles Eamer Kempe (1837 – 1907). Another church to feature works by him is Saint Marks, Cold Ash, Berkshire.

In early 2015, Talsarnau was one of several stations on the Cambrian Coast Line to get a Harrington Hump. This is a modular, easy-to-install system whereby rather than raising the whole platform, a raised area is built where the middle doors of the train are when it stops. It means that for...

Is it connected with the Dounreay Nuclear Power Station ... ? I don't know what it's called or the strangeness of it, though!

Liphook and Ripsley Cricket Club are members of the Southern Premier Cricket League. The club play on a ground to the southwest of the village just over the border in West Sussex. In 2018, the club reached the final of the National Village Cup competition at Lord's, but were defeated by Folkton...

St Mary's Church, Norton Subcourse is one of 124 existing Round-tower churches in Norfolk; another one is St Protase and St Gervase, Little Plumstead.

St Bartholomew's Church, Haslemere is thought to have been founded as a chapel in the 13th century, and the square tower at the west end is thought to date from this period. The remainder of the building dates from a reconstruction by the surveyor and architect John Wornham Penfold (1828 - 1909)...

The final members of the original population of St Kilda were evacuated on 29th August 1930 when the SS Harebell took the remaining 36 inhabitants to the peninsula of Morven on the Scottish mainland, where they were relocated to Lochaline, which is the main village.

Despite the station name indicating otherwise, Chester Road station (on the same Cross City Line) is located closer to Wylde Green's shopping centre, The Lanes.

Dover Priory is the southern terminus of the South Eastern Main Line, and is the main station serving the town of Dover; the other one is Kearsney on the Chatham Main Line.