Norwich also hosts an annual science festival. (thanks @EbbwJunction1 - I'd not spotted the Caithness one being an area rather than a settlement)
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EbbwJunction1
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The Welsh actress and singer Ruth Madoc was born on 16th April 1943 in Norwich where her parents worked in medicine at the time. Her parents travelled around Britain for much of her childhood, and she was brought up by her Welsh grandmother Etta Williams and her English grandfather, in Llansamlet, Swansea.
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Also mentioned in H. Sandham's poem From Marlborough to West Wales (which tells of "odorous Llansamlet, stinking of sulphur") is a settlement some miles east of Newport: "the smugglers' marshes with the rude name (Undy)" [Monmouthshire].
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Tickhill in S Yorkshire also has a St Mary’s church.
...and is the birthplace of the famous / notorious Jeremy Clarkson. Another Top Gear luminary, Richard Hammond, was born in Solihull (West Midlands).
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Thank you for the striking-through of the earlier queried posting today, as that tidied up the thread.
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Whitstable also has a church that is dedicated to St Alphege.
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Whitstable is famous for its seafood on offer, as is a similar sounding place, Whitby.
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Ruswarp also lies on the line of the River Esk.
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Ruswarp has a local hydroelectric generation facility using the flow of water in the River Esk.
Another settlement with a "run of river" hydroelectric plant (and the largest such installation in the UK) is on the River Trent in Nottinghamshire at Beeston.
Another settlement with a "run of river" hydroelectric plant (and the largest such installation in the UK) is on the River Trent in Nottinghamshire at Beeston.
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Finding it hard to see an association between Beeston and Grosmont...
You're quite correct, there isn't one ... for some reason, I replied to the previous post rather than the last one. So, let's try this one:
Until the end of the 2005–06 season, Nottingham Rugby Club played at Ireland Avenue in Beeston. The club then moved to Meadow Lane, Nottingham, the home ground of Notts County FC; they now play at Lady Bay in West Bridgford, Nottingham.
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Stone also lies on the line of the River Trent.
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Bacup also has historical links to the flannel weaving industry.
I can't resist: we used to have at home, a book from long ago containing assorted daft stuff: including some silly "Clerihews" about British towns. One ran:
The Town Council of Bacup
Are tolerant of make-up --
Even encouraging the Mayor
To peroxide his hair.
Another therefrom, which I love:
The people of Wells
Have a cathedral all to theirsel's;
But of their bishop they have to give half
To Barf.
The Town Council of Bacup
Are tolerant of make-up --
Even encouraging the Mayor
To peroxide his hair.
Another therefrom, which I love:
The people of Wells
Have a cathedral all to theirsel's;
But of their bishop they have to give half
To Barf.
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Kirkby-in-Furness also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert,
This village is strongly associated with the name Burlington: it boasts the Burlington Slate Quarries, the Burlington Primary School, and the Burlington Inn. Burlington is also a hamlet in Shropshire, a little way east of Telford.
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Betws-y-coed is also on the A5.
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Capel Curig also lies on the line of the River Llugwy.
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Another of the three National Sports Centres owned by the Sports Council is located in Shropshire at Lilleshall.
The abovementioned Sports Centre was formerly a residence and estate owned by the Dukes of Sutherland; who also in past times (seemingly in all this, "a long way from home" !) owned the stately home and estate of Cliveden (famously frequented about a century ago, by various folk high in political circles) -- nearest settlement reckoned to be Taplow, Buckinghamshire.
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Burnage also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of the intendedly morally-improving novel Little Lord Fauntleroy, spent her early childhood in Burnage. I understand that there is at present an "anonymous UK artist", working chiefly with spray paint and stencils, who goes by the pseudonym of Fauntleroy Snooty. This name would seem clearly to be in allusion to two different fictional juvenile-aristocrat heroes: the aforementioned "little lord"; and the hero of a very long-running strip in the Beano kids' comic: Lord Snooty and his [to the lad's credit, largely proletarian] Chums. The Beano is published in the city often reckoned as Britain's kids'-comics capital: Dundee.
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Belfast was another major centre of linen manufacture.
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West Wycombe, Bucks, also has a pub owned by the National Trust (The Old Plough in West Wycombe; The Crown Liqor Saloon in Belfast).
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Chislehurst also has caves that are a tourist attraction.
The former French Emperor Napoleon III lived in exile in Chislehurst from 1871 until his death in 1873. Another Frenchman of note, the writer and reformer Victor Hugo, underwent a spell of exile in British territory (owing to enmity between him and the aforesaid Emperor): 1855 - -1870, in St.Peter Port, Guernsey.
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Buckley in Flintshire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary.