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Stow-in-the-Wold since apparently the full name of Quy is Stow cum Quy with Stow meaning High or Holy - thank you Wikipedia for the meaning of Stow
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The Shoe in Wiltshire is also on the route of the Fosse Way Roman Road.
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The southern end of the Fosse Way was at Exeter
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Ottery St Mary in Devon also has an astronomical clock.
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The River Otter passes Ottery St Mary and flows into the sea a little to the east of Budleigh Salterton
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Trevone in Cornwall also lies on the line of the noted long-distance footpath called the South West Coast Path.
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Aughton, Lancashire, (the village on the River Lune, not the suburban settlement near Ormskirk) also has a church dedicated to St. Saviour.
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Thingwall was also once administered by the Hundred of West Derby.
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There is a Telegraph Road in Thingwall.
Telegraphs were set up by the Admiralty to quickly communicate to the fleets (Liverpool and Portsmouth) and the first one going south was in Chelsea (or the penultimate one if the message was coming from Portsmouth)
Telegraphs were set up by the Admiralty to quickly communicate to the fleets (Liverpool and Portsmouth) and the first one going south was in Chelsea (or the penultimate one if the message was coming from Portsmouth)
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Whitby is also the site where a noted historical synod was held.
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Whitby is well known for the semi precious jewellery made from local jet found on the coast but Staithes is home to the Yorkshire Jewellery Company which sources its own jet from the coast near Whitby. Being black Queen Victoria proclaimed jet was the stone to be worn in times of mourning.
The polished stone also give rise to the phrase "jet black"
The polished stone also give rise to the phrase "jet black"
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Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is another East Coast settlement to use fishing boats called cobles.
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The author John Braine (1922 – 1986) was working at the library in Newbiggin between 1954 and 1956) when he wrote his best-selling novel "Room at the Top". He was born in the Westgate area of central Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire.
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Kingston upon Hull was also honoured with city status on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
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Kingston upon Hull gets abbreviated to Hull
whilst, and so saving a lot of confusion,
Kingston upon Thames gets abbreviated to Kingston
whilst, and so saving a lot of confusion,
Kingston upon Thames gets abbreviated to Kingston
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Scone in Perth and Kinross is also a settlement where coronations were held in historic times.
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Scone is mentioned in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 4), as a place for coronation of Macbeth after he kills the former King, his cousin Duncan. It is also the last word of the play: "So, thanks to all at once and to each one / Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone." Macbeth's castle was located at Inverness.
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Grimsargh in Lancashire also hosts a Farmers Market.
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Pilton in Somerset also has a Goose Hall
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Pilton is in The Mendip local government area, The Mendip Hill are Limestone Hills, greatly quarried, and include the caves at Cheddar
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Leicester also lends its name to a variety of cheese.
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Martin Johnson CBE played rugby for Leicester Tigers for many years and was England's World Cup winning Captain in 2003. He was born in Solihull and grew up in Market Harborough.
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Sudbury in Suffolk is another market town
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AFC Sudbury is a semi-professional football club based in Sudbury, and was formed in 1999 by the merger of Sudbury Town and Sudbury Wanderers, the process giving rise to the name Amalgamated Football Club Sudbury. They are currently members of the Isthmian League North Division and play at the King's Marsh Stadium in the Ballingdon-Brundon area of Sudbury. One of their opponents in that division are Coggeshall Town Football Club, who play at West Street, Coggeshall, Essex.
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Great Bardfield also lies on the line of the River Blackwater.
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in Great Bardfield they have made a small museum out of the old lock up, in Cromford (Derbyshire) the old lock up has been made into a contemporary art gallery selling both paintings and sculptures
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Foolow also once came under the jurisdiction of the Bakewell Poor Law Union.
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Bakewell is known for its tarts as is Ecclefechan
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Eaglesfield, in Dumfries and Galloway, also lies on the line of the Mein Water.