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Anne Lucinda Hartley Rice, best known for Challenge Anneka, was born in Cowbridge. In one of the best known episodes of the programme, her team constructed a 60-yard footbridge over the River Camel at Wadebridge. It is apparently still known locally as Anneka's Bridge.
 
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Noting that our village has made an appearance above on this quiz and I decided not to use the fact that the stocks are still there and to look instead for a church-based association.........

Mickle Trafford also has a Grade I listed parish church that is dedicated to St Peter.
 
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On high ground just outside the village of Mickle Trafford (and within the parish) dwelt a hermit named Plegmund, who went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury.
 
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Several Pennine settlements were transferred out of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire during the 1974 Local Government reorganisation.
Greater Manchester gained Diggle, and Lancashire gained Barnoldswick.
 
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Whereas Bromborough Pool was for the makers of candles, Port Sunlight was for the makers of soap.
 
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The Watts Gallery, Compton is named after and a memorial to George Frederic Watts, OM RA (1817 – 1904) was an English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. During the 1870s and 1880s, he lived and worked in Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
 
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Bohemian FC are the local League of Ireland football club, playing at Dalymount Park. One of the teams that they play are Finn Harps FC, whose home ground is Finn Park, Balleybofey, Donegal.
 
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Hugh McLaughlin, born in Killygordon, published Kavanagh’s Weekly featuring the poet Patrick Kavanagh, who died in Dublin.
 
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