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Another English village with a foreign sounding name is Britwell Salome Oxon, but there is no connection with the girl who performed the dance of the seven veils to receive John the Baptist's head on a platter (as per the Oscar Wilde play)

 

[Calthrop]

Britwell Salome's pub the Red Lion, was for a while a Michelin Star-winning gastro-establishment called the Goose, owned by the property developer Paul Castle. Selly Oak, West Midlands, still has a Goose Inn.

 

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Selly Oak Water Pumping Station operated from 1878 until the 1920s. It was built by the Birmingham Corporation to house a Boulton and Watt steam engine pumping water for domestic use from a borehole underneath the building. The building is in the Gothic style and was designed by Martin & Chamberlain. The company designed police stations, public baths and waterworks, and Historic England have designated their Pumping Station at Whiteacre Waterworks as a Grade II* listed building, being amongst the very best structures by these architects.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Selly Oak Water Pumping Station operated from 1878 until the 1920s. It was built by the Birmingham Corporation to house a Boulton and Watt steam engine pumping water for domestic use from a borehole underneath the building. The building is in the Gothic style and was designed by Martin & Chamberlain. The company designed police stations, public baths and waterworks, and Historic England have designated their Pumping Station at Whiteacre Waterworks as a Grade II* listed building, being amongst the very best structures by these architects.

Is that Whitacre Waterworks at Shustoke ... or a different one?

 

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Is that Whitacre Waterworks at Shustoke ... or a different one?

Yes, it is .... my apologies, I read the information as saying that it was at a place called Whitacre!

Carry on with Shustoke.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Melrose in Roxburghshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.

 

[DerekC]

Melrose is the site for the annual "Borders Book Festival". A similar annual festival, also in borderland although not celebrated as such, is held at Hay on Wye.

 

[Calthrop]

Penelope Chetwode, married to John Betjeman and an author in her own right, lived during her later life very near Hay-on-Wye -- just over the border in England. She was born in Aldershot, Hampshire.

 

[Springs Branch]

During the IRA's mainland bombing campaign, there were fatal bomb attacks in several British towns and cities, including Aldershot and Warrington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Marlow in Buckinghamshire also has a rowing club.

 

[Springs Branch]

Marlow was known as Chipping Marlow for part of its history - the prefix being derived from the Medieval English word for "market"
Another ancient settlement which has lost the same prefix (or at least a spelling variation on it) is the former Chepping Wycombe - known today as High Wycombe.

 

[341o2]

High Wycombe lies on the River Wye. there is a second River Wye in Derbyshire which rises near Buxton

 

[Calthrop]

Northampton also has a twin town in the German state of Hesse. (Buxton's "twin" is Bad Nauheim; Northampton's, Marburg.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gloucester also has a Guildhall.

 

[Calthrop]

The Roman settlement on the site where Gloucester now stands, was Glevum. Another Roman location beginning with G, was Gariannonum: arose late in Britain's Roman era -- thought probably to have been what is now Burgh Castle, Norfolk (near Great Yarmouth).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Billingford in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Waveney.

 

[Calthrop]

One of my favourite "go-to" 's: Billingford is only just in its county, lying on the border with Suffolk. The same applies to Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim -- adjacent to the border of Co. Cavan (all this Irish material, of note vis-a-vis the principal subject of these Forums !).

 

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Llanymynech Golf Course (Llanymynech nr Welshpool) crosses the border, with 15 holes in Wales and three in England. Problems under lockdown due to differing rules between the two countries

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontrobert in Powys also lies on the line of the River Vyrnwy

 

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The church of St John the Evangelist, Pontrobert, was built in 1853 following the formation of the new parish to designs by Richard Kyrke Penson. He was a leading Gothic Revival Architect, whose work mid and West Wales and the Border Counties of England; it consisted mainly of Anglican churches, church schools and church restorations. One of the former is Holy Trinity Church, Felinfoel, Carmarthenshire, built between 1857 and 1858.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanelli also lies on the line of the River Lliedi.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanelli has hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales six times between 1895 and 2014. Poor St. Asaph (Clwyd) has never had that honour at all.

 

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St Asaph was awarded City Status to mark HM The Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012; a unsuccessful bidder on that occasion was Wrexham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Matlock in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles.

 

[Calthrop]

Matlock (not Derby) is nowadays the county town of Derbyshire. In a parallel further south, Trowbridge (not Wilton) is nowadays the county town of Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hilperton in Wiltshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Melksham Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

According to the website www.villagepumps.org.uk, the pump at Hilperton is equipped with an oversize stopcock.
Another village with a surviving, but defunct pump is the Somerset settlement of Combe Florey.

 

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Ascerbic author and journalist Auberon Waugh, eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh, lived and died at Combe Florey. He was born at Dulverton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Withypool in Somerset also lies on the line of the River Barle.

 

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In the 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer was in charge of the village of Withypool in his duties as forester of North Petherton.