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Ousby in Cumbria is also one of the 51 Thankful Villages in England that suffered no casualties in World War 1.
There is also a takeaway restaurant called Blossom Garden in UpneyThe ford at Stratford was across the River Lea, which rises at Leagrave in Bedfordshire
Dial Post (Sussex) also has a meditation gardenBonsall (near Matlock, Derbyshire) also specialises in an idiosyncratic local sport. At Chipping Campden, it's shin-kicking; at Bonsall, hen racing.
Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, hero of the Indian Mutiny, was born in the above-bolded settlement. Brigadier John Nicholson, whom that description also fits (and who also died in the course of that historical episode), was born in Dublin.... in the Parish of Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, County Durham.
Celbridge in County Kildare also lies on the line of the River Liffey.