Associated with Belleau, is a figure from some centuries previously -- deeply involved in the momentous doings of the mid-17th century -- of whom, to my shame, I don't think I had ever heard until Googling re above post -- Henry Vane the Younger (1613 -- 62): politician and statesman, and earnest and convinced Puritan -- putting him on the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War. Around 1640, Vane bought, and spent some time on, the Belleau estate. He was -- if not born, at any rate baptised shortly after birth: in Debden, Essex.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Wicken Bonhunt in Essex was also administered by the ancient Hundred of Uttlesford,
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Dornoch in Sutherland was also created a Royal Burgh in the 17th century.
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Rosemarkie in Ross-shire is another settlement where Bronze Age artifacts were discovered in the area environs.
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Cobham in Surrey also has a pub called The Plough Inn.
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Sidlow in Surrey also lies on the line of the River Mole.
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Sidlow has a Church of England church, the Emmanuel Church at Sidlow Bridge, dating to 1861. It was designed by the English architect and designer Henry Clutton (1819 – 1893) with stained glass by Henry Holliday. Another of his works is Mount St Mary's College, a private co-educational day and boarding school situated at Spinkhill, Derbyshire.
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Blarney in County Cork also has a place of worship named Church of the Immaculate Conception.
Blarney in in the region of County Cork called Muskerry -- in parts of which, the Irish language is still in common daily use. Especially prominent on this linguistic scene is Ballingeary (Irish, Beal Atha an Ghaorthaidh), some thirty miles west of Blarney.
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Dublin also has a Famine Soup Pot memorial.
Wasn't that the carry-on by which, in the great famine of the 1840s, people were given soup if they would convert from Catholic to Protestant; or "if not, not" ? One feels -- for more than one reason, "not proper".
Bainbridge, North Yorkshire -- a little way east of Hawes -- also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Georgia.
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From my understanding, it was the Quakers who although very few in number compared to the population of Ireland, worked tirelessly to provide as many soup kitchens as was possible from their resources.
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Horsham in West Sussex also has a Meeting House of the Society of Friends.
Oh, my ! I do apologise accordingly, to the Quakers. The thing that I'd heard -- admittedly from a somewhat dubious source -- told of (as per my previous post) a stratagem on the part of "Prods" filled with great zeal, but lacking in various other admirable qualities -- I'd imagined the Famine Soup Pot memorials to be about something bad; rather than in praise of something good and noble.
"Quick and dirty" -- Horsham has a namesake settlement in the Australian State of Victoria, with which it is also twinned. Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, also has a namesake in that State; but as far as I know, is not twinned with it.
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Warsop in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.
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One area of Warsop parish has the striking name Spion Kop, after the Boer War battle. Another settlement named after a Boer War location is Bloemfontein, part of Craghead, County Durham.
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Cleethorpes is also home to a pub called The Punch Bowl
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Saxon Green in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to St Francis of Assisi,
I'm going to be a bit cheeky: learn that Saxon Green is a district of Bridgwater, Somerset. Also -- in the realm of paint-and-colours classification, it is the name of a (soft, mellow-toned) shade of green. Further re colour-designations plus parts of Germany: there is also the better-known Prussian (dark) blue. Association found with the hamlet of Prussia Cove, in Cornwall -- three or four miles south-east of Marazion.
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In April 1947, the battleship HMS Warspite ran aground at Prussia Cove whilst being towed to the breakers yard. She was later towed to, beached and broken up at Marazion.
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Polgigga in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Penzance Poor Law Union.
The poet and writer Dylan Thomas resided briefly at Polgigga in the early summer of 1936. Some years later -- around the end of World War II -- he lived for a spell, in New Quay, Ceredigion: generally reckoned the chief inspiration for the fictional village whose doings are chronicled in his Under Milk Wood.
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Llangrannog in Ceredigion also lies on the route of the Ceredigion Coast Path.
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Castle Douglas was also host to a Harrier GR7 crash
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Machynlleth in Powys also has a clock tower.
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Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire also has an Alternative Technology Centre
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Luddendenfoot in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.