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Hull is also noteworthy for its unusual choice of colour for its phone boxes (Barningham features green, while Hull has cream-white)
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Xenophon PCDGS
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North Killingholme in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Humber.
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Ynysybwl in Rhondda Cynon Taf also has a place of worship named Christ Church.
High Dyke
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Skegness also has a clock tower situated on the seafront.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Orby in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Candleshoe wapentake.
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Noctorum in Merseyside was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirral.
With Noctorum's name meaning, in Latin, "of-or-belonging-to nights" (genitive case); I'd wondered, "what is that all about?" It emerges that -- far from Latin -- the name is probably derived from Old Irish; via Irish or part-Irish settlements hereabouts, probably some time in the second half of the first millennium AD. Reckoned: from Cnocc Tirim= "dry hill": likely referring to Bidston Hill, on the western slope of which Noctorum is situated. A similar situation -- more predictably, with the place being actually in Ireland -- concerns Kilkenny: name derived from Cill Chainnigh = cell / church of St. Canice -- to whom Kilkenny's (Church of Ireland) cathedral is dedicated.
High Dyke
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Kilkenny marble was used as part of the tomb, when the body of Richard III was reintered at Leicester cathedral.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Manchester also has an Anglican cathedral.
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Liverpool is considered to be Manchester's economic, industrial, and (of course) sporting rival.
High Dyke
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Whilst the River Mersey will be forever linked with Liverpool, the modern accepted start of the Mersey is at the confluence of the Tame and Goyt, in central Stockport, Greater Manchester.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Taxal in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the River Goyt.
In 1838, on the Thames riverside at Bermondsey, J.M.W. Turner conceived and began his renowned painting of the Fighting Temeraire (which appears on the £20 note). Turner had a great liking for the area around Otley, West Yorkshire; the landscapes whereof, directly or indirectly inspired a number of his paintings.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Frosterley in County Durham also lies on the line of the River Wear.
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Cyfarthfa in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough was also a noted producer of trackwork rails in its ironworks during the 19th century Railway Mania.
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I can find only Cyfarthfa (no "n"). Cyfarthfa has adjoining each other, a Park and Castle -- picturesque and much-frequented. We learn that the Castle is "former home to the illustrious Crawshay family -- reckoned as the best example of a 19th-century ironmaster's residence to have survived in South Wales". Thoughts go irresistibly to the comical song from those parts, about locomotive-owner Crawshay Bailey and his large and eccentric extended family -- assorted place-names occurring in the song. For instance, Crawshay's incongruously-named brother Norwich -- chosen by the verse-maker, I suspect, because he needed something to go with "porridge", "college", and "knowledge".
High Dyke
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The ancient city was a thriving centre for trade and commerce in East Anglia in 1004 when it was raided and burnt by Swein Forkbeard, the Viking king of Denmark.
In 1013, shortly before his death, he became the first Danish king of the English after a long effort. Sweyn began to organise his vast new kingdom from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, but he died there on 3 February 1014.
In 1013, shortly before his death, he became the first Danish king of the English after a long effort. Sweyn began to organise his vast new kingdom from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, but he died there on 3 February 1014.
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Salisbury also has a Grammar School (Gainsborough has Queen Elizabeth's High School, while Salisbury has Bishop Wordsworth's and South Wilts)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Catterick in North Yorkshire also has a racecourse.
Tetragon213
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Lancaster lent its name to the Avro Lancaster of WW2, which was later developed into the Avro Lincoln
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York was also the scene of anti- Semitic riots in medieval times.