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johnnychips said:
According to this website

there are 927 things to do in New Sharlston. One of which is Diggerland in Castleford, which isn’t in New Sharlston, and I suspect the other 926 aren’t either.
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Seemingly, a similarity here with "things to do 'in' Torlundy (Highland)", mentioned in a post of mine a week ago !

Springs Branch said:
Bury in Greater Manchester also has an indoor Market Hall.
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Bury features in a Stanley Holloway comic verse "epic" -- Three'apence A Foot. Crewe, Cheshire, gets a mention in another such -- the one about Sam Small's first days in the army.
 
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Sandymount, also in County Dublin and in "Greater Dublin City"; also features in a slightly ribald traditional song.
 
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Rathfarnham is the start of the scenic Military Road, running southward through the Wicklow Mountains: built in the early 19th century, to facilitate the British Army's dealing with insurgents who found refuge in those mountains. A short spur off the Military Road leads to Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Gwnnws in Cardiganshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Ilar.
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Sounds as though it ought to be "good for you" <D ...

Gwnnws is close to the course of the river Teifi, only a few miles from its source. Approaching the other extremity -- not very many miles from where the Teifi reaches the sea -- Cilgerran (Pembrokeshire) is located on said river.
 
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Hunmanby, North Yorkshire, was also once the location of a -- now totally vanished -- castle.
 
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The playwright Tom Stoppard spent the latter part of his schooldays at Pocklington School (which, incidentally, he hated). Subsequently he lived and worked for a number of years, in Bristol.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Astbury in Cheshire East was also once administered by the Hundred of Macclesfield.
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The above-bolded "ancient parish of the Macclesfield Hundred", included ten "townships": one of which, called Radnor. That name has of course, a better-known distinct identity in mid-Wales -- involving the former county of Radnorshire subsumed in 1974 into Powys. In that former county there are the villages, a few miles apart, of New Radnor and Old Radnor. The latter -- bolded -- has the bigger population of the two: approx. 400 and approx. 750 respectively.
 
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