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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Intwood in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Henstead Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The neighbouring village to Intwood -- and joint holder of name of local parish -- is Keswick. There is of course a far larger and better-known Keswick, in Cumbria.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldeburgh in Suffolk also has a Moot Hall.

 

[Calthrop]

The author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries Ruth Rendell (1930 -- 2015) was appointed in 1997 as a life peer, as Baroness Rendell of Babergh (a district, not a settlement) of Aldeburgh in the county of Suffolk (she long dwelt in Suffolk; but inland, near Sudbury). Most-renowned character in her works of fiction, is Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford (nothing to do with Wexford in Ireland, it would seem -- just the name that the author chose). The "Wexford" novels are set in the fictional Sussex town of Kingsmarkham: reckoned by many, to have been inspired by Midhurst, West Sussex.

 

[D6130]

Minster Lovell in Oxfordshire also has a ruined manor house.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Idbury in Oxfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Chadlington.

 

[High Dyke]

The village church, dedicated to St. Nicholas has a passage squint between the north aisle and chancel.

St James The Less, Sulgrave, Northamptonshire is another church that contains a hagioscope.

A hagioscope or squint is an architectural term denoting a small splayed opening or tunnel at seated eye-level, through an internal masonry dividing wall of a church in an oblique direction (south-east or north-east), giving worshippers a view of the altar

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aston le Walls in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Chipping Warden.

 

[Calthrop]

Flexford, Surrey -- between Guildford and Aldershot -- also has an Equestrian Centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eashing in Surrey also lies on the line of the River Wey.

 

[Calthrop]

Eashing has a pub / restaurant called The Stag On The River. Barkston, Lincolnshire -- five miles north of Grantham -- has a pub called just, boringly, the Stag.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Marston in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Witham.

 

[Calthrop]

East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, also has a Ramada Resort Hotel.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Rotten Calder Water is a river to the east of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire and along with the Rotten Burn it forms the southern and western boundaries of Blantyre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cambusland in Lanarkshire also lies on the line of the River Clyde.

 

[Tetragon213]

Cambusland in Lanarkshire also lies on the line of the River Clyde.

Assuming that's Cambuslang

Airdrie is also on Cycle Route 75

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birr in County Offaly also has an astronomical telescope.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Youghal, County Cork is one of the towns designated as "Irish Heritage Towns" by the Irish Tourist Board.

 

[91130nut]

Birtley, near Chester-le-Street, still has an open greyhound track.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Throckrington in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bellingham Poor Law Union.

 

[High Dyke]

A little over a mile south-west of the village are the ruins of Little Swinburne Tower, a fifteenth-century pele tower.

Canons Ashby House, in the village of Canons Ashby incorporates one of only a few pele towers constructed in the Midlands.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Disley in Cheshire East also has a noted National Trust property in its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

The historian A.J.P. Taylor (1906 -- 90) lived in Disley in the 1930s. He was born in Southport, Merseyside.

 

[Tetragon213]

Ryde also has a Grade II Listed pier

 

[Calthrop]

A couple of towns in Wiltshire (one, randomly chosen to be the association-bolded one, as below) also feature in a rather gloriously daft riddle. The Isle of Wight, and Wiltshire, riddles: below --

Q. Why are horses not of much use in the Isle of Wight? A. Because people prefer Cowes to Ryde. (Do they? I'd have thought it depended on who the people were.)

Q. Why can't French-fried potatoes be got in Wiltshire? A. Because there are no Devizes for Chippenham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Galway in County Galway also hosts a folk festival.

 

[Calthrop]

Blaydon, Tyne and Wear: also features in a fairly venerable song in the folk idiom: about the settlement concerned, as a horseracing venue. Songs called, respectively, [The] -- town name -- Races.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doveridge in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cartmel in Cumbria also has a pub called the Cavendish Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mansriggs in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ulverston Poor Law Union.