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The Battle of Bosworth, fought in 1485, was the last of the Wars of the Roses. The first was the Battle of St Albans in 1455.
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St Albans was named after St Alban, the earliest British saint. The most recent British saint is St John Henry Newman, based and entombed at the Oratory in Birmingham.
How's that for topical?
How's that for topical?
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The Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdrey created the first Thomas the Tank Engine stories for his son in 1943, whilst he was a curate at St. Nicholas' Church, Kings Norton, Birmingham. After a long career in the Church and as an author, Revd Awdrey died peacefully in Stroud, Gloucestershire, on 21 March 1997, at the age of 85.
DerekC
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Laurie Lee, author of Cider with Rosie, was born in Stroud. However his family moved to nearby Slad when he was three years old and that's where this, his most well known book, is based.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Prestwood in Buckinghamshire also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
DerekC
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Prestwood was for a short while the home of Clement Attlee, MP for Limehouse and for six years Prime Minister of the first Labour majority government.
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The area gives its name to Limehouse Reach, a section of the Thames which runs south to Millwall after making a right-angled bend at Cuckold's Point, Rotherhithe.
John Griffiths
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Milwall FC was founded as the works team of J T Morton's canning and preserves factory on the the Isle of Dogs. The company had been founded in Aberdeen.
johnnychips
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Andrew Cruickshank, who played Dr Cameron in Dr Finlay’s Casebook was born in Aberdeen. Some episodes were filmed in Milngavie.
John Griffiths
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The West Highland Way stretches 96 miles from Milngavie to Fort William. Roughly halfway, it passes through Tyndrum.
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Sheldon in Derbyshire once also had a lead mine.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Linton in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.
John Griffiths
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Morpeth also has stepping stones across its river (the Wansbeck).
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At the risk of too near an aqueous connection.....
Kirkwhelpington in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Wansbeck.
Kirkwhelpington in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Wansbeck.
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DerekC
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Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the first compound steam turbine, is buried in the churchyard at Kirkwhelpington. The Parsons family seat was at Birr, Co. Offaly, which for a while was called Parsonstown.
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Listowel in County Kerry is also an Irish Heritage Town.
John Griffiths
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Listowel was at the end of the world's first monorail system. Monorail was also planned as the main transport system of the proposed North Buckinghamshire New Town, which eventually saw the light of day, without monorail, as Milton Keynes.
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Telford is another of the Governmental proposed "Third Wave" of New Town developments that occurred between 1967-1970.
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Menai Bridge is also on the route of the A5 road.
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John Griffiths
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Bonar Bridge also shares the name of a bridge designed by Thomas Telford.
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Keswick has a less grand nine-hole golf course.
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Bassenthwaite also has a church that is dedicated to St Bega.
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Bassenthwaite contains 21 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. One of these is a gin gang or horse engine house, a structure built to enclose a horse engine. Another example can be found at Low Walworth, a hamlet in County Durham, England
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Kilmarnock also has a building that has served as a dower house.
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The first collection of work by the Scottish poet Robert Burns, "Poems, chiefly in Scots" was published in Kilmarnock in 1786; this edition is known as the Kilmarnock Edition or Kilmarnock Volume. Robert Burns was born on 25th January 1759 in Alloway, Ayrshire.
John Griffiths
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Glenrothes also has sculpture by Ronald Rae in a public park.
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Alloway village is a protected conservation area under provisions of the Planning (Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.
Also preserved under the same Act are parts of the Glasgow district of Govan.
Also preserved under the same Act are parts of the Glasgow district of Govan.
DerekC
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Amongst many other warships. HMS Chichester was built at Fairfields Shipyard in Govan.
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Exeter is also a cathedral city with a ship canal.