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[D6130]

Bradford in West Yorkshire also has a former parish church that has been elevated to cathedral status.

 

[Tetragon213]

Nottingham was also made a city in 1897

 

[Calthrop]

Thame, Oxfordshire, is also twinned with a settlement in Romania. Nottingham's "twin" is Timisoara; Thame's is Sinaia.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tetsworth in Oxfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Thame.

 

[Calthrop]

In the 19th century, Tetsworth was a village without the strong control from a squire and/or parson, which was the lot at that time, of many villages. Wiki tells us that it was in those days nicknamed "Botany Bay", after the Australian settlement, from its being thus "more open to population migration and religious and social pluralism" (rather than -- I take it -- its being thought to be full of criminals ). Located at Astwood Bank, Worcestershire -- just south of Redditch -- are the Botany Bay Nurseries, Garden Centre, and Cafe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belbroughton in Worcesttershire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Halfshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Heather, Leicestershire, is also one of the seemingly umpteen places which nowadays hold an annual "scarecrow festival" -- I get boring on this subject: the point of these "junkets", eludes me -- but "each to their own", and all that.

 

[Tetragon213]

Wednesfield's Football club also plays in the Midland League

 

[High Dyke]

Constance Mary Whitehouse CBE (née Hutcheson; 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society.

She became an art teacher at Lichfield Road School in Wednesfield. Mary Whitehouse was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

 

[Tetragon213]

After a brief google search of that name and a perusing of her wikipedia article, I can only muse, what an unpleasant person...

One of the targets of Mary Whitehouse's ire (and vast and varied they were) was, of all things, Doctor Who; specifically, during the Tom Baker era of Doctor Who (The Fourth Doctor). The great Tom Baker himself was born in Liverpool

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fleetwood in Lancashire also has a cross-river ferry.

 

[D6130]

Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire is also an active fishing port.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Withernsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has a lighthouse museum.

 

[Calthrop]

The actress Kay Kendall began her tragically short life (32 years), with her birth in Withernsea in 1927. Her grave is in the churchyard of the church of St. John-at-Hampstead -- Hampstead, north-west London (area shared by two London Boroughs).

 

[John Griffiths]

The Magdala pub in Hampstead - or rather the street just outside it - was where Ruth Ellis shot dead her shady and unpleasant boyfriend, David Blakely, in 1955. The luckless Ellis was born in the north Wales resort of Rhyl.

 

[Calthrop]

Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset: also has as part of its seaside-resort attractions, a Marine Lake.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Charterhouse-on-Mendip in Somerset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Winterstoke.

 

[Tetragon213]

Hyson Green's church was also designed by William Douglas Caröe

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sneinton in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Radford Poor Law Union.

 

[Tetragon213]

Mathematician George Green was born in Sneinton. He attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wadebridge in Cornwall also hosts a folk festival.

 

[John Griffiths]

Since 1960 the Royal Cornwall Show has been held at Wadebridge. Before then it was at a variety of locations including,in 1930, Liskeard.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Veep in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Liskeard Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Lloyds Bank managed to lose a number of items of church silverware which had been deposited with them in 2005 by the Vicar of St Veep. Some of the items were 16th Century and very valuable. Happily the bank tracked them down ten years later in a vault in Glasgow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southampton also has a Sikh Gurdwara.

 

[Tetragon213]

The RMS Titanic's doomed maiden voyage started in Southampton. Her final port of call before New York (and indeed her "final" port of call in the other sense of the word) was Cobh/Queenstown Co. Cork

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Claremorris in County Mayo also has a church that is dedicated to St Colman.

 

[Tetragon213]

The main road through is the N60. Follow it north long enough and it spits you out just outside Castlebar

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bridgwater in Somerset has also hosted a blues festival.

 

[High Dyke]

Trouble over Bridgwater is an album by the band Half Man Half Biscuit. Many of their songs reference people or places.

Another of their many albums is titled CSI:Ambleside, which has a picture of the Priest's Hole restaurant and Royal Oak pub in the Cumbrian town on the cover.