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[John Griffiths]

World War I Belgian refugees also settled in Birtley, Tyne and Wear, living in a district named Elizabethville and many working in the town's Royal Ordnance Factory.

 

[Calthrop]

Ruabon (County Borough of Wrexham) also had formerly (but no longer) brickworks of some renown, for those concerned with that scene.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winterbourne Stoke in Wiltshire also has a Bronze Age round barrow within its environs.

 

[DerekC]

Winterbourne Stoke parish church contains the pulpit from St Giles, Imber.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tyneham in Dorset is another uninhabited village that was taken over by the military during the Second World War and evacuated, but after the end of the war, the villagers were not allowed to return to their homes.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Domesday Book records Tyneham as Tigeham, meaning 'goat enclosure'. Another place with a goat-related name is Gateshead, 'headland of the wild goats'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster also has a Millenium Bridge

 

[Nick_C]

Bideford was also known for mediaeval witch trials

 

[Calthrop]

Bideford was also known for mediaeval witch trials

Charles Kingsley -- clergyman, novelist (author of among other works, The Water Babies and Westward Ho!), poet, social reformer, and active in various other roles: lived for a while in Bideford. He died, and is buried, at Eversley, Hampshire; of which parish he was Rector for many years.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Finchampstead also lies on the line of the River Blackwater.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Roman road known as the Devil's Highway passes through Finchamstead on its way from London (or Londinium) to Silchester (or Calleva Atrebatum). It crossed the River Thames at Staines (or Pontes).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uxbridge also lies on the line of the River Colne.

 

[Calthrop]

There's a book, The Uxbridge English Dictionary (a play on the name of the venerable Oxford ditto), about finding new meanings for existing words -- punsters' heaven -- whence has grown a widely popular game, including its being played in this very Quizzes and Games sub-forum. There is also a Liverpool English Dictionary (first published 2017) which, perhaps rather staid-ly in comparison, gives an alphabetical glossary of Scouse slang words and expressions.

 

[johnnychips]

Stockport also stands on the River Mersey.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Mersey in Stockport was culverted for creation of the Merseyway shopping centre. In the centre of Rochdale the River Roch was culverted in stages from 1904 to 1926, initially to permit tramway development. After 2015, the culverting was undone and the Roch can again be seen flowing through the centre of the town which, in 2017, it flooded after bursting its banks. There's gratitude.

 

[Calthrop]

Rochdale's magnificent town hall with spired clock tower was, according to Wiki, much admired by Hitler: to the point that "he wished to ship the building, brick-by-brick, to Germany had the UK been defeated in the Second World War". Hitler also reputedly had a fancy for Bridgnorth , Shropshire -- to such an extent that if Germany were to win WWII; he would choose to have his residence, for such time as he might spend in subjugated Britain, in that town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Atcham in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Severn.

 

[johnnychips]

Clough Williams-Ellis once owned the pub in Atcham. He is the designer of the model village of Portmeirion.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also has a statue by William Brodie in its environs.

 

[John Griffiths]

Edinburgh 's Outlook Tower and Camera Obscura was built by Patrick Geddes, a biology lecturer and leading town planning theorist born in Ballater, Aberdeenshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clyffe Pypard in Wiltshire also has a mineral well.

 

[Nick_C]

Clyffe Pypard was home to an RAF base used by RAF Flying Training Command as a training base. The command's HQ was at Shinfield, Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ufton Nervet was also once administered by the Hundred of Theale.

 

[Nick_C]

Froxfield also lies close to the Kennet and Avon canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Pamber Heath, Hampshire, also has a Pelican Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Milngavie also has a church that is dedicated to St Luke.

 

[Springs Branch]

Milngavie reservoir is a major source of Glasgow's water supply.
Another example of Victorian-era water distribution infrastructure (supplying Liverpool) is the reservoir system at Rivington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Withnell was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chorley Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Withnell is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire; it borders the villages of Brinscall and Abbey Village which are part of the parish.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Riley Green also lies on the route of the A675 road.