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[Calthrop]

A pronunciation oddity quite often found in Norfolk (where in various ways, place-name spelling and pronunciation would seem frequently not to correspond) -- as per words of Norfolk character in novel, concerning Wymondham: "We do that sometimes in Norfolk -- miss out the middle syllable when a word's too long. Take the easy way round." Clearly, such things happen further north also.

Appletreewick held, for long in times past, the Ap-trick Onion Fair -- where things often got quite eventful in a pugnacious way. Something of a modern parallel elsewhere in Yorkshire: in recent times Wakefield, West Yorkshire -- centre of Britain's chief rhubarb-growing area -- has held in February, an annual Rhubarb Festival: recently "in abeyance" for several years, but it recommenced in 2025.

 

[John Griffiths]

St Ives, Cambridgeshire, also has a bridge chapel.

 

[Calthrop]

Re St. Ives, Cambs. -- one feels that the Wikipedia pranksters have been at it again. They try to tell us that the parliamentary constituency of Huntingdon, including St. Ives, is represented in the House of Commons by Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative) -- yeah, right ... Mind you, if this gentleman is Obese; there was in the not very distant past, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891 -- 1970) -- prominently active in both World Wars, and Governor-General of Australia for a spell in the 1950s -- and generally reckoned a grand chap. The Viscount was born in the Bristol suburb of Bishopston.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trerulefoot in Cornwall also lies on the route of the A38 trunk road.

 

[Calthrop]

Trerulefoot in Cornwall also lies on the route of the A38 trunk road.

Finding this one a bit of a fiend to follow on from ! All I seem able to come up with -- weak and rather far-fetched -- is a likeness of sorts, involving three-syllable names ending in "-foot", re settlements on (the latter) and kind-of-not-very-far-from (the former), county / quasi-country, borders: Trerulefoot; and Kershopefoot, Cumbria.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway is also a settlement that was connected to the activities of the Border Reivers

 

[Tetragon213]

Follow the A7 south from Langholm, and you'll eventually reach Carlisle

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Reading in Berkshire also is known for its connection with the manufacture of biscuits.

 

[Calthrop]

Just north of Reading is Caversham, Berkshire. Dunedin in New Zealand's South Island has a suburb called Caversham; that name bestowed by early settler in N.Z. and Reading native William Henry Valpy.

 

[John Griffiths]

Linslade is another place that was carved out of Buckinghamshire and donated to a neighbouring county - in this case, Bedfordshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Linslade lies on the River Ouzel; as does -- or at least, is situated very near the stream -- Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire (four miles to the north).

 

[John Griffiths]

Tynemouth, Tyne & Wear, also has a pub called The Dolphin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seghill in Northumberland was also obce under the jurisdiction of the Tynemouth Poor Law Union.

 

[91130nut]

Bridgwater also boasts a pub called The Blake Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burrowbridge in Somerset also lies on the line of the River Parrett.

 

[Tetragon213]

Street also has a pub named for King Alfred.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Middlezoy in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Whitley.

 

[Tetragon213]

Middlezoy Rovers FC's home ground is actually in Westonzoyland

 

[Calthrop]

Yet another "Zoy..." village in these immediate parts, is Chedzoy. (I remember reading somewhere, long ago: that one can still see on the walls of Chedzoy's parish church: marks and grooves from participants in the Duke of Monmouth's disastrous rebellion in 1685, having sharpened their weapons thereon.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Avebury in Wiltshire also had a Mesolithic timber trackway within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Histon, Cambridgeshire -- just north of Cambridge -- also has a pub called the Red Lion.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lidgate in Suffolk also has a post-mounted metal illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Lidgate's most -- probably only -- famous son: is the monk and poet John Lydgate, c. 1370 -- 1451; born in the village -- a very prolific (and on the whole as per the literary critics, not all that good) writer of poetry and other material. Lydgate was, briefly, prior of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex (near Bishop's Stortford).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[Calthrop]

Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, also has a namesake settlement in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leicester also has an ornamental town-centre fountain.

 

[Tetragon213]

Gloucester also lends its name to a popular cheese

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quatford in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Severn.

 

[Radley]

Follow south of the A442 from here and you’ll (funnily enough) enter Quatt.

 

[Calthrop]

Bagenalstown alias Muine Bheag, Co. Carlow, also has a church dedicated to St. Andrew.