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Mildenhall CC was established in 1876 and plays in the East Anglian Premier Cricket League at Wamil Way. One of their opponents in the 2021 season will hopefully be Great Witchingham CC, who play at Walcis Park, Fakenham Rd, Lenwade, Norwich.
 
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Parson Woodforde often talked in his diaries of taking the Lenwade Chaise to Norwich. He lived at nearby Weston Longville.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Chilvers Coton is another area of Nuneaton that once came under the jurisdiction of the Nuneaton Poor Law Union.
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The above-bolded settlement appears in fictionalised form in George Eliot's novel Scenes of Clerical Life, under the name of Shepperton. The real Shepperton is in Surrey, on the River Thames, about 15 miles south-east of central London.
 
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Elstree was also the home to LT's Aldenham Bus Works, which handled bodywork and chassis - engines and running gear were maintained at their other works in Chiswick.
 
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Ashbourne is home to an annual game of Royal Shrovetide Football, in which the entire town becomes the playing field. A similar annual game is the Shrove Tuesday game in Sedgefield, County Durham
 
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In the above-bolded settlement is the country house / estate, several centuries old, of Hardwick Hall (now a hotel). The nearest settlement to the better-known stately home bearing that name, is the hamlet of Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire.
 
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Port Glasgow has played host to several successful football clubs; the current club is Port Glasgow JFC, who now play at a new stadium at Parklea, Port Glasgow, following a spell playing their home games at Ravenscraig Staidam and Battery Park in nearby Greenock.
 
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The above-bolded settlement was long prominent in sugar refining; Cantley, Norfolk, still is.
 
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The above-bolded settlement's name in Irish, is "Daingean" (abbreviated form). There is elsewhere in the Republic of Ireland, another Daingean -- in County Offaly (pre-1922, Philipstown in King's County).
 
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Heathfield (East Sussex) also holds in April, a time-honoured annual celebratory / commercial event.
 
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Trenear north-east of Helston, also has a visitable -- no longer operational -- tin mine.
 
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