Xenophon PCDGS
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Aintree is another settlement to have benefitted from the Alt Drainage Act, 1779.
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John Griffiths
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Kirkstall also lies on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Balmerino in Fife was also chosen as a settlement in which to build a Cistercian Abbey.
John Griffiths
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North Berwick was also praised in verse by the poet William McGonagall.
DerekC
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From time to time since the 8th Century ferries have run from North Berwick across the Firth of Forth. The most recent one ran to Anstruther but I am not sure it is operating this year.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Burntisland was also created a Royal Burgh in the 16th century.
Springs Branch
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Burntisland claims to host the second-oldest Highland Games in Scotland - beaten in seniority by the games hosted in the Fife settlement of Ceres
Xenophon PCDGS
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Fochabers also has a folk museum.
John Griffiths
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Earls Colne also has a factory run by Baxters Food Group Ltd.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Winfarthing in Norfolk also has an illustrated village sign.
DerekC
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Winfarthing has a pub called the Fighting Cocks. So does Middleton St George, near Darlington. (The latter one gave its name to a station on the original course of the Stockton and Darlington Railway).
John Griffiths
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Paisley also has an airport within its bounds.
DerekC
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Ian Paisley, protestant evangelical minister and Irish politician, was born in Armagh.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Schull in Co Cork also has a planetarium.
johnnychips
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Schull is in the foothills of Mount Gabriel. Another archangel is St Michael, and Marazion is the nearest village to St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall.
DerekC
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The battleship HMS Warspite was broken up on the beach near Marazion after running aground there whilst under tow to the breakers yard. She was built not too far away in Devonport.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Portsmouth also has a naval dockyard.
John Griffiths
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Sheerness is also located on an English offshore island with bridge links to the mainland.
DerekC
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Richard Beeching was born in Sheerness, but was later created Baron Beeching of East Grinstead.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Martyr Worthy in Hampshire also has a Grade II* church that is dedicated to St Swithun.
DerekC
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From Martyr Worthy Stagecoach Bus No 67 will take you all the way to Petersfield
John Griffiths
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Sir Alex Guinness, buried in Petersfield, was born in Maida Vale, London.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wroxeter also lies on the line of Watling Street, once an ancient British trackway which was later improved as a road by the Romans.
johnnychips
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There is also accommodation called 'The Hayloft' in Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
John Griffiths
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DerekC
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Ashbourne used to have a small industry bottling and selling spring water. Malvern still does.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Tissington also participates in the traditional custom of Well Dressing.
DerekC
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The Tissington Trail could take you from Tissington back to Ashbourne
johnnychips
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Matlock is also on a spur off the Limestone Way.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bonsall is also a Derbyshire settlement that once was administered by the Wirksworth Wapentake.