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Fenny Compton in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the Oxford Canal.
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Fenny Compton has a (listed) building called the Woad House -- presumably, the plant woad was in times past, treated there to make dye. Have mentioned the following, previously on this game -- just find it really "neat": the last place in Britain where woad was grown on a genuinely commercial scale, was Algarkirk in Lincolnshire (near Spalding). This operation came to an end in 1932.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wyberton in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Boston Poor Law Union.
The 19th-century builder William Webster was born in Wyberton. He is associated especially with several River Thames embankments in London; one of these involving the Southern Outfall Sewer, entering the Thames -- and featuring a pumping station at that spot, the ensemble having opened in 1865 -- at Crossness, London Borough of Bexley.
John Griffiths
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The armorial bearings of Nottingham are also supported by a pair of stags.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sheffield also has a modern tramway system.
D6130
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Pennsylvania is a small village in South Gloucestershire situated on the A46 about mid-way between Bath and Chipping Sodbury.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire also holds an annual Mop Fair.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Great Ryburgh in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Wensum.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chelmsford in Essex also lies on the line of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Gravesend in Kent is another settlement that was sacked during the period of the Hundred Years War.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Moynalty in County Meath also lies on the line of the Kells Blackwater.
Moynalty village -- a relatively recent creation, only a couple of centuries old -- was originally planned and built on only one side of the road on which it lies -- on the opposite side from the river: hence the local saying "All To One Side Like The Village Of Moynalty". A resemblance here, to Parkgate, Wirral, Cheshire -- on the River Dee estuary, with the buildings on one side of the village street: the other side being right on the shoreline -- local byword thus, "Like Parkgate, all on one side".
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llandrillo in Denbighshire also lies on the line of the River Dee.
John Griffiths
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I'm going to be a bit railwayish (tramwayish?) too; but only as an "aside". Llandrillo is situated on the small River Ceidiog, just before it joins the Dee. Not very many miles to the east is another Dee tributary, with a name which is the exact same, save for one letter: the Ceiriog. Seven miles east-south-east of Llandrillo is the settlement, high up that river's valley, of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog. (The Ceiriog valley of course played host at one time, to a charming steam tramway with an unusual gauge.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanarmon-yn-lal in Flintshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Garmon.
The above-bolded settlement lies very close to the B5430 road. Coedpoeth (Wrexham County Borough) is situated some miles south-east, on the same road.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Brymbo in Denbighshire also has historical links to lead smelting.
The ancient earthwork Offa's Dyke passes close to Brymbo. The first scientific excavation of said Dyke was carried out near Brymbo in 1892, by Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes; whose father was a bishop, and whose younger brother also became a bishop: of Llandaff.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Cefn-coed-y- cymmer also lies on the line of the River Taff
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Bury in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to Guardian Angels.
The writer and broadcaster Thomas Thompson (1880 -- 1951), great lover of, and celebrator in his works of, "all things Lancashire", was born and lived all his life in Bury. He was awarded an honorary master's degree for his scholarly contributions to dialect literature, by the University of Manchester.
John Griffiths
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Manchester had Britain's first bus service (forget all that metrocentric nonsense about Shillibeer in 1829), started by John Greenwood in 1824 and running to Manchester from Pendleton.
The world's first bus service, it should be noted, was established in Paris by philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1662, just a few months before his untimely death and more than 250 years before the term bus, or omnibus, was taken to mean a public conveyance.
The world's first bus service, it should be noted, was established in Paris by philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1662, just a few months before his untimely death and more than 250 years before the term bus, or omnibus, was taken to mean a public conveyance.