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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Lower Copthurst also lies on the line of the River Lostock.
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I'm afraid that I can't find any references to Lower Copthurst - or Upper Copthurst, either. There's a Lower Copthurst Lane which runs to the River Lostock, but according to Google Maps, it's in Wheelton. Over to you, I think?
 
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EbbwJunction1 said:
I'm afraid that I can't find any references to Lower Copthurst - or Upper Copthurst, either. There's a Lower Copthurst Lane which runs to the River Lostock, but according to Google Maps, it's in Wheelton. Over to you, I think?
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I find Lower Copthurst mentioned by the British Placenames Website, as a hamlet a little way north-east of Chorley. I was in the process of making an -- admittedly a bit desperately far-fetched -- follow-on post from Lower Copthurst...
 
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I find Lower Copthurst mentioned by the British Placenames Website, as a hamlet a little way north-east of Chorley. I was in the process of making an -- admittedly a bit desperately far-fetched -- follow-on post from Lower Copthurst...
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Ah, okay, it was Mr W Pedia that couldn't help me, so if you have traced it, I'm willing to yield to you. Thanks.
 
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Here goes, then -- as said, maybe a little "naughty"; however --

Near Lower Copthurst, on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, there is a pub called the Top Lock. At Foxton, Leicestershire, there is a pub called "Bridge 61", which advertises itself as "located at the bottom of the locks": i.e. the Foxton flight thereof, on the Leicester arm of the Grand Union Canal.
 
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The Grand Union Canal at Foxton has an inclined plane; there's also one on the Shrewsbury Canal at Trench, which is a suburb of the New Town of Telford, Telford and Wrekin.
 
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EbbwJunction1 said:
The Grand Union Canal at Foxton has an inclined plane; there's also one on the Shrewsbury Canal at Trench, which is a suburb of the New Town of Telford, Telford and Wrekin.
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Trench's name is thought to originate from the village's having been founded on a cleared part of the surrounding woodland. England's many settlements with names ending in "-ley" or "leigh", usually derive that similar meaning, from the Saxon leah = woodland clearing. An example is Botley, Hampshire: thought to indicate, the woodland clearing occupied by a man named Botta.
 
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Innerleithen (Scottish Borders) also contains a Grade C Listed Building. (Achimore's is the Strath Halladale Mission Church; Innerleithen's, Robert Smail's Printing Works.)
 
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I gather that a local ?wit? opined that the finest walk in Britain, was from Newton Stewart to Gatehouse of Fleet. When pressed to say what he thought the second-finest, he testily proposed G. of F. to N.S.
 
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Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire: is another settlement created a couple of hundred years ago, under industrialist / philanthropist auspices, to provide planned and wholesome accommodation for the workers of a particular industrial complex.
 
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Robert Story (1795–1860), known as "the Craven Poet", lived in Gargrave; he was, however, born at Wark on Tweed (also known as Wark) in Northumberland.
 
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EbbwJunction1 said:
Robert Story (1795–1860), known as "the Craven Poet", lived in Gargrave; he was, however, born at Wark on Tweed (also known as Wark) in Northumberland.
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Wark on Tweed long had a tradition of an annual game of medieval minimum-rules football (against the men of Coldstream on the Scottish side of the river -- concerning a patch of land technically on the Wark side, whose ownership was in dispute) -- this game is no longer played there. Atherstone, Warwickshire, still enacts a tradition of a similar annual game.
 
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Silchester (Hampshire) is also a nowadays fairly small and unimportant settlement, on the site of a former Roman town of some magnitude. (Silchester = Calleva Atrebatum; Wroxeter = Viriconium.)
 
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Memory comes up with the book of odd "funnies" which we had long ago, which I've drawn on before in this game; including a bunch of rather bonkers clerihews about British settlements / communities. One such ran:

Selsey
Makes a change from Chelsea;
But does Polperro?
No.

Which I take to mean that even around the 1940s -- the time of publication of this book of stuff -- Cornwall was perceived by many, as being infested with annoying and pretentious trendy "incomers" from the big cities...
 
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The above-bolded Scottish settlement has a pub called the Steamboat Inn. Skegness has a hostelry called the Steamboat Cookhouse / Pub.
 
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Skegness Town AFC play at the Vertigo Stadium, Wainfleet Road and are known as The Lilywhites. The club was founded in 1947 and has been in the Northern Counties East Football League Division One since 2018. Another club in the same division are Glasshoughton Welfare AFC who, although they use the name Glasshoughton, play at Leeds Road, Castleford.
 
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Utley has a fish and chip shop which was nominated a few years ago as one of Britain's fifty best of such. Whitby also has a renowned and highly-regarded fish and chip shop / restaurant: the Magpie.
 
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