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Nymet Rowland in Devon was also once under the jurisdiction of the Crediton Poor Law Union.
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The "Nymet" in Nymet Rowland, is the old name for the nearby River Yeo. "Yeo" seems a very popular name for rivers in the south-west; there are a number thereof in Devon (the "Nymet" one is the Lapford Yeo) and Somerset. One such in the latter county is the Congresbury Yeo, flowing through that village and entering the Severn estuary near Wick St. Lawrence.
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East Harptree in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Winterstoke.
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Birstwith in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Nidd.
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Aberlour in Moray also lies on the line of the River Spey.
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Derby also lends its name to a variety of cheese.
Derby gives me problems in this game: thus, rather frantic shifts being resorted-to. There's an old song, much loved by Derby folk, The Derby Ram -- the animal concerned, being a prodigy in many ways (and hence the nickname of Derby's football team). What is to all intents and purposes the same song, is found in Australia; only there it's The Albury Ram: featuring the town of Albury, located on an inter-State border (and -- incidental rail reference -- for long, the break-of-gauge point on the Sydney -- Melbourne main line). This antipodean township shares its name with the village of Albury, Surrey -- near Guildford.
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Ockham in Surrey was also once under the jurisdiction of the Guildford Poor Law Union.
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Ockham is the location of a relatively rare historical burial mound known as a bell barrow.
Other noted bell barrows are the four Devil's Humps near the West Sussex village of Stoughton.
Other noted bell barrows are the four Devil's Humps near the West Sussex village of Stoughton.
Close by Stoughton is Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve, noted for its yew woodlands. Another place of "yew" note is Painswick, Gloucestershire: whose churchyard has long held a hundred-odd yew trees -- various local lore pertaining to them.
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Manchester also has a Friends Meeting House.
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The Peterloo Massacre of 1819 is a well known part of Manchester's history. Less well known because it did not result in fatalities is the Yorkshire West Riding Revolt of the following year, most of it taking place in Huddersfield. However the punishments for the latter were severe - eleven men being transported to Australia for life.
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Upperthong was also once under the jurisdiction of the Huddersfield Poor Law Union.
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For cyclists and other outdoor enthusiasts, Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) operate a youth hostel in Bellingham.
The organisation also have a Youth Hostel at Betws y Coed.
The organisation also have a Youth Hostel at Betws y Coed.
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Capel Curig in Conwy County Borough also lies on the line of the River Llugwy.
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Ellis Brigham, a retailer of some horrendously expensive outdoor & mountaineering clothing and equipment, have shops in Capel Curig, and in Scotland at the Braehead shopping centre in Renfrew.
Renfrew lies at the confluence of the River Clyde, and the River Cart -- which latter must, at its official length of three-quarters of a mile, be Britain's shortest river or nearly so. It counts as the River Cart, for the short stretch from the confluence of the (longer) Black Cart, and White Cart, Waters; to where it joins the Clyde. England's officially shortest river, the Bain -- two and a half miles, running through Bainbridge in Wensleydale, to join the Ure -- is lengthy in comparison.
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Lancaster also has a Society of Friends Meeting House.
Sligo also has a namesake settlement in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania. (I gather that Lancaster County, Pa., is an area where the Amish community is prominent.)
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Carlingford in County Louth was also chosen as a site in which to build a Dominican Friary.
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Sidcup in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary.
In P.G. Wodehouse's tales of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves: Roderick Spode, the ludicrous would-be fascist leader of Britain, is the 7th Earl of Sidcup. From the same era, but in a different genre of fiction; Dorothy L. Sayers's aristocratic detective and polymath Lord Peter Wimsey, is a scion of the noble family of the Duke of Denver -- their seat being in west Norfolk, at the village of Duke's Denver: Sayers's "adaptation" of the real village of Denver, near Downham Market (she situates "hers" a few miles east of the real one).
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Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse.
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I remember watching the particular Jeeves and Worcester episode when Bertie Wooster found out that alpha male Roderick Spode had a secret other side in that he owned the exclusive feminine underwear shop in Bond Street called "Eulalie Soeurs".
Per Wiki, there has been a -- not yet quite defunct, held to by a few local folk -- considerable colloquial abridgement in those parts, of the above-bolded's name: rendering it in speech, "Gumster". Similar drastic treatment in the locality, has at least in times past been applied to Cirencester: viz. pronouncing it the same as "Sister".