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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Weybridge in Surrey also has a church that is dedicated to St James.

 

[John Griffiths]

The parish church of St George at Bilbrough (described by Pevsner as "truly hideous", although photographs show it to be in a sturdy Norman style) was designed by George Fowler Jones, a prolific architect responsible also for the remarkable Gaacoigne Almshouse at Aberford, West Yorkshire.

 

[High Dyke]

Weybridge in Surrey also has a church that is dedicated to St James.

The rock strata on which Weybridge sits were deposited in the Cenozoic period. The Bagshot Sands (or beds) are the main outcrop to the south of the town and at Brooklands.

The Lower Bagshot Beds may also be observed at High Beach in Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nazeing in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Waltham.

 

[Calthrop]

Nazeing has a pub called the King Harold's Head -- presumably the Harold who lost at Hastings. Rye, East Sussex, has one called after the victor of that engagement -- the William the Conqueror (I had hoped for a W the C's Head somewhere -- but seemingly, no luck there).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Iden in East Sussex was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Goldspur.

 

[Calthrop]

Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leeds in West Yorkshire is another settlement where Roman lead-lined coffins have been discovered in its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Malvern, Worcestershire, is also twinned with a settlement in the Czech Republic. Leeds's "twin" is Brno; Malvern's is Marianske Lazne [Marienbad].

 

[Tetragon213]

Leamington Spa was also (as the name suggests) a Spa Town

 

[D6130]

Skipton in North Yorkshire also has a church named Christ Church.

 

[High Dyke]

Scarisbrick, Lancashire is also on the route of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

Colne in Lancashire also has a pub called The Morris Dancers.

 

[Calthrop]

Concerning Colne, Lancashire: Wiki sagely tells us that "the town should not be confused with the unrelated Colne Valley around the River Colne near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire". Still less should it be confused with the even more unrelated Colne Valley of the River Colne in Essex (said Valley, incidentally, with name-relevance to one of the LNER's smallest constituent companies at Grouping). In the valley of the Essex Colne, is a settlement with the, to me, utterly delightful name of Colne Engaine.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gainsford End in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hastead Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Gainsford End, plus neighbouring Toppesfield; won first prize in the 2016 Essex Village of the Year competition. First-prizewinner of same in 2024, was Great Maplestead, some five miles to the south-east. (County's "village of the year" could seem curiously non-specific -- one speculates that competition might be, to find the most all-round horrible specimen of same ...)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Elgin in Moray also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles.

 

[Tetragon213]

Letterston also has a St Giles' Church

 

[Calthrop]

Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, also lies on the A40 road.

 

[Tetragon213]

Bishop's Tachbrook is also located just off an M40 junction with a missing set of slip roads (in both cases, the slips facing North aren't there; one can only join the M40 southbound, or leave the M40 northbound at those junctions.

 

[Calthrop]

Like Bishop's Tachbrook: Tutbury, Staffordshire, has a pub called the Leopard. Not a hugely common pub name -- a change from all those vari-coloured Lions, anyway.

 

[High Dyke]

Stamford, Lincolnshire was another location where Bull Running took place.

 

[Calthrop]

Cruel sports department -- even crueller than bull-running, where the bull has at least a bit of a chance, and humans may also get damaged: old and not very pleasant rhyme concerning Albrighton, Shropshire (eight miles north-west of Wolverhampton) -- The finest pastime that is under the sun / Is whipping the cat at Albrighton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sutton Maddock in Shropshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Brimstree.

 

[Calthrop]

The second word of Sutton Maddock's name (first -- Sutton = "south farm settlement"): comes from the personal name "Madoc" -- that of a family which for three generations, held this manor in the 12th / 13th Centuries. In rather similar case is Porthmadog, Gwynedd -- in its earlier, formerly standard, English form of "Portmadoc", called after its founder William Madocks, initiator of the building, 1808 -- 11, of the sea wall there, the Cob (along which runs, of course, the Ffestiniog Railway); also with a nod to the ancient / legendary Welsh Prince Madoc.

 

[Tetragon213]

Dún Laoghaire is also home to a maritime museum

 

[Calthrop]

Another Irish settlement which bore a different name before the 1922 formation of the Irish Free State, is Daingean, Co. Offaly. Prior to that date, Dun Laoghaire was Kingstown; and Daingean, Philipstown.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edenderry in County Offaly also lies on the route of the R402 regional road.

 

[Calthrop]

From land routes, to water ditto: Edenderry lies a little way north of the Grand Canal; which has a short "arm" to the town centre. Thirty miles west of Edenderry, on the Grand Canal, is Pollagh, Co. Offaly.

 

[Tetragon213]

Listowel (Co. Kerry) also has a church dedicated to St Mary