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Xenophon PCDGS
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Normanton-on-Soar also has a parish church dedicated to St James [OK - YOU try finding an association!]
I have the answer very close to where I live, as Astbury (Cheshire) also has a Grade I listed parish church (this one is dedicated to St Mary). (It is a remarkable edifice as the tower is separate from the body of the church)
Ivo
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Trefiw (in the Conwy valley) also has a woollen mill connection.
SwindonPkwy
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Horsham, since both have had famous poets resident. Dafydd Jones and Percy Shelley respectively.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Burton upon Trent also has a long historical association with the brewing industry.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Newbury was also the scene of a battle in the English Civil War.
Ivo
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From the perspective of transport, Brentwood is also probably best known for a certain station facility in one of its suburbs.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Colchester was also the scene of a Roman victory against the indigenous British tribes in which elephants were used as an attacking method of striking fear into tribal warriors who had never seen such animals previously.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wallsend was classified by the Romans a being a CASTRA (Roman Fort) which was named Segedunum, with many military buildings contained within....Chester too was such a military establishment with the name of Deva Victrix.
Schnellzug
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the Wall in question, of course, being the one designed & constructed by Hadrian to keep out Foreigners. The other end of which was a short but unknown distance west of the village of Bowness-on-Solway. 
Xenophon PCDGS
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Oxted also had an iron girder viaduct over a waterway to enable transportation
deltic1989
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Think I've done this one before but Waddington also has a pub called the Weatsheaf.
Ivo
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Waddingtons are known as a producer of playing cards. By contrast, many businesses have the name Fords (unsurprisingly, many are car dealers).
Temple Meads
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Vauxhall also shares the name of a high profile car manufacturer!
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tip : There are two places called Waddington...One in Lancashire, one in Lincolnshire. Always worth clarifying which one you mean in cases like this.
By the way, is the name of the pub a localised way of spelling it ?
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Wimbledon is also a London parliamentary constituency.
deltic1989
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No it was a typo I'm good at those.
Tim Henman has won Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon 4 times. He was educated in Oxford.
Xenophon PCDGS
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No it was a typo I'm good at those.
Tim Henman has won Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon 4 times. He was educated in Oxford.
I don't think that Tim Henman ever won a Grand Slam title anywhere....:roll:
Cambridge also has a very long historical association with Universities.
Ivo
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Tiger Tim made the semis four times 
He probably should have won in 2001 though, but blew an almost certain victory over Goran Ivanisevic who went on to defeat Pat Rafter in the Final. This of course was a wildcard victory at Wimbledon!
Anyhow, Cambridge (specifically the University) is sometimes mentioned in discussions among characters in foreign children's television, as a place that University Professors may be asked to give lectures as Visiting Professors. Big Ben in Westminster is another one often shown, albeit as a picture - and usually when something is going wrong on a global scale.
He probably should have won in 2001 though, but blew an almost certain victory over Goran Ivanisevic who went on to defeat Pat Rafter in the Final. This of course was a wildcard victory at Wimbledon!Anyhow, Cambridge (specifically the University) is sometimes mentioned in discussions among characters in foreign children's television, as a place that University Professors may be asked to give lectures as Visiting Professors. Big Ben in Westminster is another one often shown, albeit as a picture - and usually when something is going wrong on a global scale.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Edinburgh also contains a very notable royal palace... to give it its full title of The Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Temple Meads
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Saltaire is also a UNESCO world heritage site.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Port Sunlight was also where a philanthropic employer built housing of a better quality than normally experienced at the time and associated religious, social and educational establishments for his own employees around the area of the factory premises.
gg1
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So was Bournville.