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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brindle in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Leyland.

 

[Tetragon213]

Brindle shares its name with a type of colouration on some breeds of dog. One such breed which can have a Brindle coat is the Cardigan Welsh Corgi.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontrhydfendigaid in Ceredigion also lies on the line of the River Teifi.

 

[Calthrop]

Pontrhydfendigaid has a Black Lion Hotel. The village of Blacklion, Co. Cavan: is the Republic of Ireland's nearby "opposite number", of Belcoo in Co. Fermanagh and thus Northern Ireland (whisper it -- this location was once of minor-ish railway significance ...)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dowra in County Cavan also lies on the route of the long-distance trail known as the Cavan Way.

 

[John Griffiths]

Dowra is seven miles from the 'Shannon Pot', the source of the River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland. Ashton Keynes in Wiltshire is around seven miles from the source of the longest river in England, the River Thames.

 

[Tetragon213]

Milton Keynes also shares the same suffix.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buckingham also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse.

 

[Calthrop]

Kelso, Scottish Borders, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Nord. Buckingham's "twin" is Mouvaux, part of the Lille conurbation; Kelso's is Orchies.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ednam in Scottish Borders also lies on the route of the B6461 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Near Ednam, is a knoll called the Piper's Grave. It is named after the legend telling of a local piper who once went searching for fairies in the hill, and was never seen again. Concerning Dunstanburgh Castle -- some thirty miles south-east of Ednam, on the Northumberland coast: nearest settlement, Embleton -- there is a legend with some simariities to the Ednam one: the complicated tale of Sir Guy the Seeker; worth a Google, should one be interested.

 

[John Griffiths]

The renowned journalist and editor WT Stead was born in Embleton in 1849 but moved with his family to Howdon on Tyneside the following year. He died in the RMS Titanic sinking in 1912.

 

[Tetragon213]

Westhoughton is also home to a Rosehill Tavern.

 

[Calthrop]

Westhoughton has the melancholy distinction of being the scene of the third-worst disaster in British coal-mining history: the Pretoria Pit Disaster of 1910. The worst such disaster of all was the Barnsley Oaks one of 1866 -- in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

 

[High Dyke]

Locke Park is a 47-acre (19-hectare) public open space and one of the largest outdoor green spaces in Barnsley. In 1861, Phoebe Locke, widow of railway pioneer Joseph Locke donated the park for the benefit of the people of Barnsley.

Joseph Locke served as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in between December 1857 and December 1859. He also served as Member of Parliament for Honiton in Devon from 1847 until his death.[

 

[Calthrop]

Also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Calvados: is another Devonshire town, Totnes. Honiton's "twin" is Mezidon-Canon (the first word of which, my schoolboy self has always wanted to translate as "messy town"); Totnes's, is Vire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liskeard in Cornwall also has a Guildhall.

 

[High Dyke]

Liskeard was one of the 17 Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall. The Antiqua maneria (ancient manors), also known as assessionable manors, were the original 17 manors belonging to the Earldom of Cornwall.

Another such location was Treverbyn.

 

[Calthrop]

Liskeard was one of the 17 Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall. The Antiqua maneria (ancient manors), also known as assessionable manors, were the original 17 manors belonging to the Earldom of Cornwall.

Another such location was Treverbyn.

Taking it that this Treverbyn is the village a couple of miles north of St. Austell -- rather than the tiny settlement of the same name, some ten miles south-west of the aforementioned Treverbyn: the Neilstown area of south Dublin, also has a church dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle.

(This seems to be my morning for coming across impressive polysyllabic words hitherto unknown to me. "Assessionable" is a corker; and Wiki informs us that Treverbyn's church as above, expresses as a building, "the simplicity of design characteristic of the early Ecclesiological movement". Churches throughout Britain dedicated just to St. Peter, are legion; but there are far fewer whose name specifies the saint's apostolicity -- that word, a jaw-breaker which I thought that I'd made up; but, blow me down, it turns out actually to exist.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tullamore in County Offaly also has a boxing club.

 

[Calthrop]

There is distilled at Tullamore, the locally much-liked whiskey of the brand "Tullamore Dew". A variety of Scotland's equivalent beverage, with a perhaps slightly-resembling name -- "Old Rhosdhu" -- emanated (it is no longer commercially on sale) from the Loch Lomond distillery at Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Balloch in West Dunbartonshire also lies on the line of the River Leven.

 

[High Dyke]

Colonel George de Cardonnel Elmsall Findlay VC MC & Bar (20 August 1889 – 26 June 1967) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.

Findlay was born in Balloch. Findlay is buried at Kilmaronock Church, near Gartocharn, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland in his family plot.

Gartocharn (Scottish Gaelic: Gart a’ Chàirn) is a village in West Dunbartonshire in Scotland. It is the only village in the parish of Kilmaronock (not to be confused with the town of Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arnprior in Stirling County also lies on the route of the A811 road.

 

[Tetragon213]

Stafford also has a settlement named after it in the Renfrew County of Canada.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tixall in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Stafford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Tixall -- the people at large, and the local magnates of the Aston family -- remained a Catholic stronghold throughout the religion-related mayhem of the 16th and 17th centuries. Consequently, "fraught doings" there around 1680, time of the "Popish Plot" -- "nonsense" as one might call it, had it not entailed the tragic killing of many innocent people. Chief instigator of said "Plot" stuff, was of course the charlatan and general "bad lad" Titus Oates -- for featuring whom in this game, I have a certain liking -- he was born in Oakham, Rutland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lyndon in Rutland was also once administered by the Hundred of Martinsley.

 

[High Dyke]

Thomas Hutchinson (bap. 1698, d. 1769) was an English clergyman and classical scholar. In 1731 he was appointed rector of Lyndon, Rutland, having acquired a reputation as a scholar by the publication of an edition of Xenophon's Cyropaedia (1727).

Thomas Hutchinson was the son of Peter Hutchinson of Cornforth, in the parish of Bishop Middleham, Sedgefield, County Durham.

 

[Calthrop]

Thomas Hutchinson was the son of Peter Hutchinson of Cornforth, in the parish of Bishop Middleham, Sedgefield, County Durham.

Some degree of weirdness, concerning information re the above-bolded. Essentially nothing in Wiki a propos Cornforth, other than about the Hutchinsons as above. Adjacent to Cornforth, is West Cornforth (the Michelin Britain Road Atlas would seem to show West Cornforth as located just east of Cornforth, but never mind). Wiki has a little more to say about West Cornforth -- though as sometimes happens with this source, one feels a bit of suspicion of "pranksters at work". I quote: "West Cornforth is known locally as 'Doggie', but the etymology of the name is uncertain. It may relate to the former production of dog irons." Wiki affords no clue as to what "dog irons" might be / have been. One is led to wonder whether this is some local jest about a mythical industry; akin to that, beloved in various parts of England, about the "treacle mines" supposedly located at assorted settlements -- one such being Corpusty, Norfolk (a few miles east of Melton Constable).