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[Calthrop]

Catcliffe in South Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Rother.

Something I've done before: likely-spurious defaulting name-wise, to "pussies and puppies" (though we learn that the name of Catcliffe -- mentioned in the Domesday Book -- may be to do with felines ["the cliff where the cats live" -- presumably, back then, wildcats] or may mean something else altogether). At all events: a possible whimsical partner-name, in the Peterborough suburb of Dogsthorpe -- in which suburb I once lived -- derivation of whose name not given by Wiki: may well be nothing to do with man's best friend.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tydd Gote in the very southern reaches of Lincolnshire was also once administered by the extensive area remit of the Elloe Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Tydd Gote in the very southern reaches of Lincolnshire was also once administered by the extensive area remit of the Elloe Wapentake.

According to at least one account, Tydd Gote is so much in the southern reaches of Lincolnshire; that its more southerly part is across the border in Cambridgeshire. Not a situation very commonly met with in Britain; another instance -- again, according to some -- involves the village of Aberbeeg in South Wales: split between the County Boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, and Caerphilly.

(East, and West, Elloe -- names that I remember !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to St Illtyd.

 

[Calthrop]

Llantwit Major lies "intermediately" on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast; whose western extremity is some miles away, at Southerndown.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Gerrards Cross Sand and Gravel Quarry, Gerrards Cross , like the coast at Southerndown, was a filming location for episodes of 'Doctor Who'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St James.

 

[DerekC]

Whaley Bridge was in the news recently when its dam threatened to collapse. The last time lives were lost in the UK due to a dam failure was in 1925, when the Egiau and Coedty dams failed, leading to the deaths of 16 people in the village of Dolgarrog.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holyhead is another Welsh town that once had an aluminium smelting facility.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Holyhead is officially twinned with Greystones, County Wicklow.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a nature reserve called "Greystones" at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ducklington in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Windrush.

 

[Calthrop]

Framsden, Suffolk -- some way north of Ipswich -- also has a site where the rare fritillary flower grows wild. Both the Suffolk, and the Oxfordshire, villages: open their fritillary locations to the public, on just one day of the year.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saxtead Green in Suffolk also has a post mill.

 

[Calthrop]

Rendham lies on the B1119 road some miles east of Saxtead Green.

 

[341o2]

Rendham has a White Horse pub, as does Milford on Sea New Forest

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boldre in Hampshire was also once under jurisdiction of the Lymington Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Boldre's pub is called the Red Lion. Not -- we learn -- any old ordinary red lion; this one is named after a particular creature of local folklore, the "Stratford Lyon". Quoting / paraphrasing Wiki: supposedly, a giant red lion with a wild mane, yellow eyes, large teeth, and huge stag-like antlers: which in the early 15th century was pulled from out of the ground (by the antlers -- the only part sticking out) by the verderer John Stratford, in the forest nearby. J.S. then proceeded to tame the thing; which was henceforth the "familiar" as it were, of the Stratford family. There have been alleged sightings of the monster, as recently as the 1980s.

Nantwich also has a hostelry called after a feline with supernatural traits (at least according to Lewis Carroll): the Cheshire Cat.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Marbury in Cheshire East was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Nantwich.

 

[Calthrop]

Close to Marbury are several meres which are a significant wildlife habitat; playing host to among many other species, the -- scarce in Britain -- Slavonian grebe (Podiceps auritus). Another good place to see this variety of grebe is the Exe estuary in Devon -- a birders' paradise -- accessible from, among other places, the village of Starcross.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fleetwood also has a local ferry service.

 

[Calthrop]

A notable employer in the above-bolded settlement, is Lofthouse of Fleetwood: manufacturer of "Fisherman's Friend" lozenges, for home and export markets. A prominent place of manufacture of another well-known proprietary brand of quasi-medicament -- Lemsip, made by Reckitt Benckiser -- is Nottingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Honiton in Devon also has historical connections to the trade of lace making.

 

[Calthrop]

Honiton has some fame for an annual custom -- taking place in late-ish July, per a rather complicated calendar-calculation formula -- in which hot pennies are thrown from town-centre upstairs windows, to the crowds below who scramble for them. Rye (East Sussex) has a similar annual ritual, on May 23rd; attendant on the installing of the town's new Mayor. Wiki writes of such doings, rather delightfully: "The ceremony has its roots in the practice of landed gentry taking pleasure in throwing hot pennies from windows to local peasants, a seemingly philanthropic gesture resulting in burns."

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sedlescombe in East Sussex also lies on the line of the River Brede.

 

[John Griffiths]

There is a Pestalozzian educational institution at Sedlescombe; there used to be a Pestalozzian school at Worksop.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

West Stockwith in Nottinghamshire also lies on the line of the Chesterfield Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

West Stockwith in Nottinghamshire also lies on the line of the Chesterfield Canal.

Charleville (Irish Rath Luirc), Co. Cork, is also only just within its county -- right on the border of a neighbouring one. (W.S. is actually at the meeting-point of three counties.)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Mallow is also on the National Primary Route 20 (N20).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fermoy in County Cork also lies on the line of the River Blackwater.