Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Cropwell Bishop was also on the line of the Grantham Canal.
Rowsley also has a well-dressing event.
Chilcompton also lies on the line of the River Somer.
Hornchurch also lies on the line of the River Beam.
Just random thoughts, not a game entry -- that reference in the song has always intensely annoyed me, too (one can even, easily think of a variant which would rhyme with "Wear"). I'm not a music fan: tend to confuse the Rogers Whittaker, and Miller -- when I can get them straight, recall that the latter is a Yank, and quite witty; whereas the former is neither -- is for my money, totally wet and awful.Roger Whittaker had a hit with I’m Going to Leave Old Durham Town. Notwithstanding it’s a city, he also sang he was ‘sitting by the banks of the River Tyne’. As any fule kno, Durham is on the Wear. Newcastle is on the Tyne.
Norwich (the improbable given name of the eponymous Mr. Bailey's brother: one suspects that the song-maker was stuck for a rhyme for "porridge").