Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilbeggan in County Westmeath also has a racecourse.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Skibbereen in County Cork is another Irish settlement where a historical barracks was established.
A cherished tale involving Skibbereen: concerns its one-time local newspaper, the "Skibbereen Eagle". At the time of the Russo-Turkish War crisis in the 1870s -- "The Russians Shall Not Have Constantinople" and all that -- said paper (which one would guess, habitually took a pro-British stance) published a leading article admonishing the Tsar, and warning him that the Skibbereen Eagle had its eye on him. Hilarity ensued on the part of more sophisticated observers -- "that'll make the wretch change his tune", etc. A modern-day local paper with a memorable name; which, also, relishes controversy (chiefly in its immediate neighbourhood) is that of the Edinburgh area of Broughton -- the Broughton Spurtle.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Saltcoats in Ayrshire also has an historical connection to witchcraft.
Tetragon213
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Maldon is also strongly associated with salt harvesting
High Dyke
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Maldon was one location of a Royal Mint.
Under the patronage of Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, Isaac Newton became a warden of the Royal Mint in 1696. He was born at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire
Under the patronage of Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, Isaac Newton became a warden of the Royal Mint in 1696. He was born at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire
Iron ore was mined around Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, up to the 1970s. Eastwell, Leicestershire -- eight miles west of Woolsthorpe -- was also prominent on the iron-ore-mining scene.
I quite recently came across an -- at least quasi-historical -- book about Newton at the Mint, and his struggle in that capacity against a highly-skilled and crafty big-time counterfeiter. I'm afraid I found this work not all that interesting: abandoned it a fair way before the end.)
Tetragon213
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Corrected entry: Stourport-on-Severn is also home to a St Michael and All Angels Church
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High Dyke
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I am struggling to find the named location (Westwell) in the area. Can you please clarify where it is?
Tetragon213
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Apologies, I appear to have made an error in retrospect; I appear to have confused the village of Eastwell Leicestershire with Eastwell Ashford. Consider my entry a strikethrough for the time being.
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High Dyke
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We've all done that at some point.Apologies, I appear to have made an error in retrospect; I appear to have confused the village of Eastwell Leicestershire with Eastwell Ashford. Consider my entry a strikethrough for the time being.
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The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is a navigable narrow canal in Staffordshire and Worcestershire in the Midlands of England. It is 46 miles (74 km) long, linking the River Severn at Stourport in Worcestershire with the Trent and Mersey Canal at Haywood Junction by Great Haywood, Staffordshire.
Splendid British-eccentrics stuff from recent times -- subject "hermits": we learn that in 2002, advertisements were placed in the national press, for a "hermit" to make a public appearance for two days on the Great Haywood cliffs above the nearby Shugborough estate, ancestral home of Lord Lichfield. Fifty-five people applied; Ansuman Biswas was chosen as hermit.
Something of a genuine hermit in our own day, was Sister Wendy Beckett, 1930 -- 2018 (I find that the word "hermit" is applicable to either gender) -- a somewhat weird person, in the nicest possible way -- nun, and art historian: became something of a celebrity for her 1990s BBC television documentaries on the history of art. When not engaged in telly doings, Sister Wendy (who confessed ruefully, that she didn't like people very much) lived essentially as a hermit in the grounds of the Carmelite monastery at Quidenham, Norfolk -- between Thetford and Attleborough.
Something of a genuine hermit in our own day, was Sister Wendy Beckett, 1930 -- 2018 (I find that the word "hermit" is applicable to either gender) -- a somewhat weird person, in the nicest possible way -- nun, and art historian: became something of a celebrity for her 1990s BBC television documentaries on the history of art. When not engaged in telly doings, Sister Wendy (who confessed ruefully, that she didn't like people very much) lived essentially as a hermit in the grounds of the Carmelite monastery at Quidenham, Norfolk -- between Thetford and Attleborough.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Shelfanger in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Guiltcross Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aughton in West Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of West Derby.
We learn that Aughton is "known internationally for its three fine dining restaurants with five Michelin starts between them as of 2025". Another settlement particularly famed and valued on the "foodie" / multiple-fine-restaurants scene is -- perhaps a bit surprisingly -- Belfast.
D6130
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Belfast Is the location of the famous Harland & Wolff shipyard, birthplace of the 'Titanic'.The same company had another yard at Govan in Glasgow.
Govan's name in Scottish Gaelic, is Baile a' Ghobhainn (=, appropriately enough, "the smiths' town). "By the same token", the Gaelic name of Newcastleton (Scottish Borders), is Baile a' Caisteal Nuadh -- presumably, "town of the new castle". Not -- if I understand rightly -- that anyone in that part of the country speaks Gaelic as an actual means of communication; if folk thereabouts ever did, they haven't done so for a couple of millennia.
Tetragon213
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Newport (South Wales) is also literally translated as "New Castle" from its native Gaelic-origin language.
John Griffiths
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Newport's cathedral is dedicated St Woolos, an interesting saint who began his career as a regional warlord. The Welsh form of his name, Gwynllwy, is used for the name of a school in Pontypool - Ysgol Gymraeg Gwynllwy.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Pontymoile in Torfaen also lives on the waterway known as the Afon Lwyd.
Pontymoile used to have a pub called the Prince of Wales -- demolished, with a fair number of neighbouring buildings, for extensive road improvements in the late 1990s. Princetown, Devon (location of Dartmoor Prison) still has a -- seemingly flourishing -- Prince of Wales pub.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Thrushelton in Devon was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Lifton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Brindle in Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chorley Poor Law Union.
John Griffiths
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Cartmel in Cumbria also has a pub called the Cavendish Arms .
Cartmel lies on the little River Eea -- a splendidly all-vowels name. If the letter Y can be reckoned a "quasi-vowel" (it's definitely a vowel in Welsh 
) -- south-western England would seem to be chock-full of various rivers with the equally consonant-free name of Yeo. Choosing rather at random: one of these Yeos rises near Charlton Horethorne, Somerset -- between Sherborne and Wincanton -- and flows generally westward, passing close by Yeovil and finally joining the River Parrett.
) -- south-western England would seem to be chock-full of various rivers with the equally consonant-free name of Yeo. Choosing rather at random: one of these Yeos rises near Charlton Horethorne, Somerset -- between Sherborne and Wincanton -- and flows generally westward, passing close by Yeovil and finally joining the River Parrett.
High Dyke
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Keeping with the theme of strange village names, Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire also lies on the route of the Monarch's Way, a long distance footpath.
Tetragon213
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William Henry Perrins was born in Chaddesley Corbett. His greatest invention was a certain sauce invented in Worcester