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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sheviock in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the St Germans Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Gunwalloe, like Portwrinkle, has historic pilchard cellars once used for pressing and salting pilchards ready for preservation in barrels. The oil pressed out was used for lamps. (Must have been a bit smelly!)

Gunwalloe parish partly contains The Loe, the largest natural freshwater lake in Cornwall. Another such -- considerably smaller -- in that county (far east and north therein, on Bodmin Moor) is Dozmary Pool, celebrated in assorted lore and legend. Nearest settlement to Dozmary Pool, is Bolventor.


(I suspect that "back in the day", the whole world was smelly -- thinking of all that horse- [and plenty other kinds of]- muck ...)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Unfortunately, the church of the Holy Trinity at Bolventor was closed in 1981 and people from there now have to travel to Altarnun to the large church there which is dedicated to St Nonna, said to be the mother of St David. That church is sometimes referred to as the Cathedral of the Moor.

 

[Springs Branch]

A fictional vicar of Altarnun, the Rev Francis Davey, is an important character in Daphne du Maurier's novel Jamaica Inn (the hostelry of former dubious repute and modern-day tourist trap being located on Bodmin Moor in the vicinity of the parish).

The author Daphne du Maurier had close associations with Cornwall for most of her life (several of her novels being set there) and died in the county in 1989 at the age of 81 in Fowey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Ewe in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the St Austell Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The name of Mursley, Buckinghamshire (near Winslow) also occurs in the proprietary title of an undertaking priding itself on highly free-range and humane egg production.

 

[DerekC]

Mursley has a pub called the "Green Man" - as have many other places. Less common is the green man in a church context. but there is a stained glass image of such a figure at the church of St Peter ad Vincula in Pennal, Gwynedd.

 

[Springs Branch]

Porthmadog also had facilities for loading locally-mined slate onto seagoing vessels for transportation.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Tremadog is a village in the community of Portmadog, and was the birthplace of Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia". He died on 19th May 1935, aged 46, after a motorcycle accident, and is buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas, Moreton, Dorset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nefyn in Gwynedd also has a maritime museum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

We seem to have contributed a different answer at the same time ... where do we go from here?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We seem to have contributed a different answer at the same time ... where do we go from here?

Simultaneous posting...yours appeared first, so I will strike-through mine.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Simultaneous posting...yours appeared first, so I will strike-through mine.

Thanks.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tremadog is a village in the community of Portmadog, and was the birthplace of Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia". He died on 19th May 1935, aged 46, after a motorcycle accident, and is buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas, Moreton, Dorset.

Chilfrome in Dorset also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath called the Frome Valley Trail.

 

[Calthrop]

Sutton Coldfield also has a parish church dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[D6130]

Emley in West Yorkshire also has a regional television transmitter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trusham in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel.

 

[Springs Branch]

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[Calthrop]

Trusham in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel.

Trusham was the ancestral home of the family of the poet Charles Causley (1917 -- 2003); who is however strongly identified with north Cornwall, especially Launceston where he was born, spent most of his life, and is buried. Causley however visited Trusham and wrote of it, and held it in some affection.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Warbstow in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Launceston Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The parish of Warbstow is one of the few left in England to still have an exclave, i.e. a territory (or a part of one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state. The main body of the parish includes the villages of Warbstow, Warbstow Cross and Trelash and a number of hamlets, whereas the exclave (from which the main part is separated by about 150m) includes the hamlet of Canworthy Water.

 

[Calthrop]

Camworthy Water is situated on the River Ottery; its original village of Camworthy lies north thereof. Camworthy's Cornish name, is Esk. Presumably no language-related link (though I'm no kind of linguistics scholar); but much further north in our island, there are several rivers bearing the name Esk: I'll go for the North Yorkshire one, on which lies the village of Lealholm.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

John Castillo (1792 – 1845), often referred to as the "Bard of the Dales", from his first published book - "The Bard of the Dales - Poems by John Castillo" was a poet who lived for much of his life in the village of Lealholm. His work is treasured as having rescued the ancient language of the dales from oblivion.

John's father, a traveller, met his spouse in Eskdale and they both returned to Ireland where John was born in 1792 near the small village of Rathfarnham, which today is a suburb of the city of Dublin.

 

[Calthrop]

Of all -- to me -- unlikely people: Barbara Woodhouse, the famous dog-trainer, was born in Rathfarnham. She spent much of her life in Headington -- eastern suburb of Oxford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caerphilly also has a church that is dedicated to St. Andrew.

 

[Calthrop]

According to the lore, Caerphilly is named after Saint Ffili; who was supposedly the son of the approx. 6th-century Saint Cenydd; who before receiving his monastic vocation, married and reproduced. Cenydd lived long as a hermit at a remote point of the Gower peninsula; where he is commemorated in the name of the village of Llangennith.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Polzeath in Cornwall is also favoured by those who enjoy the pleasures of surfing.

 

[DerekC]

John Betjeman's poem Greenaway describes the stretch of coast between Daymer Bay and Polzeath, an area of which he was especially fond. He died at Trebetherick and was buried in the churchyard of St Enodoc's church there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhosneigr in Anglesey is also a popular resort for windsurfers.

 

[Springs Branch]

There's a well-regarded restaurant in Rhosneigr known as The Oyster Catcher.
A separate restaurant with the same name is located in Easter Ross, Scotland, at Portmahomack.

The Scottish establishment offers some interesting items on its breakfast menu to help get the day off to roaring start:
- Highland Fizz: Champagne, Orange Juice & Whisky, or
- Grapefruit Glenmorangie: Grapefruit Grilled with Demerara Sugar & Malt Whisky