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Calthrop

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In Roman times, Towcester -- inhabited continuously between those days and now -- was called Lactodurum. Another settlement which was a Roman venue beginning with "L", is Lanchester, County Durham -- Roman Longovicium.
 

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Quarrington Hill is situated a short distance to the north of Kelloe, and was once part of the extensive parish of the same name. It merged with the village of Cassop during the 19th Century to form the parish of Cassop-cum-Quarrington.
 

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The River Nairn rises in the Monadhliath Mountains and flows northeast through Strathnairn and Daviot to enter the Moray Firth at Nairn.
 

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Nairn has one of the finest sandy beaches in the North-East of Scotland and is widely regarded as the - very genteel - seaside resort for Inverness.
 

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The River Nairn rises in the Monadhliath Mountains and flows northeast through Strathnairn and Daviot to enter the Moray Firth at Nairn.
Nairn has one of the finest sandy beaches in the North-East of Scotland and is widely regarded as the - very genteel - seaside resort for Inverness.

I'm usually reluctant to do the "monitor" bit; but, post #21,726 gives, bolded, Daviot as the "settlement to associate with"; post #21,727 latches on not to Daviot, but to Nairn. Question arises - which is the last valid posting, to follow from?
 

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Can anyone think of a link for Daviot and Inverness?
 

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There is a mysterious stone circle near Daviot, and in Loch Ness near Inverness lives a mysterious creature, about which we also know very little despite frequent sightings.
 

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Thanks both, I propose we continue from Inverness
 

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Inverness is the capital of the Highlands, but as far as I can see it is by the sea, quite low down.
CHESTER has been called the capital of North Wales, despite not even being in Wales.
 

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Inverness is the capital of the Highlands, but as far as I can see it is by the sea, quite low down.
CHESTER has been called the capital of North Wales, despite not even being in Wales.

The city of Chester gets a mention in a ballad by Rudyard Kipling, on the very general theme of his reckoning the British Empire of his time being more of a good thing than the reverse. Looe, Cornwall, is mentioned in another such, with roughly similar sentiments, by the same author.
 

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Wheal Phoenix in Linkinhorne parish had a Prince of Wales shaft which was a financial disaster, yielding only 95 tons of black tin. Harrowbarrow on the other hand had a Prince of Wales mine which was very successful, operating up to 1914 and yielding over 1000 tons of black tin and more than 10,000 tons of copper ore.
 
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Litherland was also once admonistered by the Hundred of West Derby.

In his largely autobiographical -- though classed as fiction -- work Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Siegfried Sassoon borrows and adapts the name Litherland, rendering it as "Clitherland", for the place to which in 1917 he is summoned -- on pain of potentially dire consequences -- to attend a medical board to determine whether he is fit to go back to the war. Per his real-life experiences: people have theorised that this invented location could be actually on Merseyside; or Crewe, or Chester. In real life: the verdict on Sassoon from this board, had him dispatched to a hospital at Craiglockhart near Edinburgh, where victims of shell-shock were treated.
 

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Eastbourne as a town, came into being fairly recently: in the latter part of the 19th century. Broadly the same, applies to another prominent south-coast seaside resort, namely Bournemouth.
 

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Doolin Cave contains, at 6.5m, what is reputed to be the longest stalactite in Europe. Ogof Fynnon Ddu near Penycae in the Swansea valley contains the longest in the UK at 5m.

(I always try to provide genuinely useless information)
 
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The early modernist author Joseph Conrad lived in Stanford-le-Hope from 1896 to 1898. He was born (as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) on 3rd December 1857 in Berdychiv, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, and came to England to serve in the Mercantile Marine in 1878. He died on 3rd August 1924, aged 66, in Bishopsbourne, Kent and is buried in Canterbury.
 

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Bishopsbourne boasts the Tadpole Tea Room on Frog Lane. Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, has a pub / restaurant called the Frog.
 

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