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Thornton in Lonsdale, being near the border with Lancashire, has at times featured in ownership disputes between the two counties. The same applies to Earby, Lancashire (near Colne).
Holy Trinity Church at Wensley was used as the location for filming James & Helen Herriot's wedding in the 1970s TV series All Creatures Great and Small.
Another location frequently used in the original series was Mrs Pumphrey's stately home, filmed at the real-life Ellerton Abbey House in Richmond, North Yorks.
In 1685 Christopher Fowler was appointed vicar of Salton. He was succeeded by his son, Philip, Philip's son Christopher, and Christopher's nephew Christopher, who died (or any rate gave up the living) in 1836.
A similar case happened at Mayfield in East Sussex, where John Kirby became vicar of St Dunstan's in 1782, and was succeeded by his son, grandson, and great grandson, the last retiring in 1920.
During the early 18th century, Mayfield became a centre for owling - smuggling wool for brandy and silk. Gabriel Tomkins was the leader of the local gang, and in 1721 he was chased from Burwash (archaically known as Burghersh), a rural village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex to Nutley, a village in the Wealden district of East Sussex and was then arrested. The gang had a reputation for not using violence and also applying their profits to the benefit of the local community, unlike many other such gangs.
The author and poet Rudyard Kipling lived for much of his life in Burwash. His unusual first name comes from that of the village of Rudyard, Staffordshire -- near Leek (Rudyard also famed for its picturesque artificial lake): his parents met in Rudyard, and named their firstborn after the village.
Situated in Bowness-on-Windermere is "The World of Beatrix Potter" attraction. Beatrix Potter in her youth, spent many family summer holidays at Dalguise (Perth and Kinross), before discovering the Lake District; with which she is so strongly associated.
At Kenmore is the Scotttish Crannog Centre; an open-air museum dedicated to crannogs: artificial islands in bodies of water, as often created in the distant past. The Kenmore establishment has a lovingly recreated example of one of these structures. The same is true of the Irish National Heritage Park near Wexford; the "deal" there, being that the crannog is just one historical item among a variety of such.
Arkholme in Lancashire is another of the "Thankful Villages" where all men from the village sent off to fight in the Great War 1914-1918 returned safely at the end of that war.
Arkholme was also a doubly Thankful Village, as it did not loose any men in either World War. Literature in the church records that all the men of Langton Herring returned from both World Wars, making it the only village in Dorset to be so.
Thomas Wakley (1795-1862), surgeon, journalist, radical campaigner, MP for Finsbury and founder of the journal The Lancet was born in Membury. At the age of eleven he was sent away as a midshipman on a vessel bound for Calcutta, but on his return was discharged and sent to school at Wiveliscombe, Somerset.
At the age of eleven he was sent away as a midshipman on a vessel bound for Calcutta, but on his return was discharged and sent to school at Wiveliscombe, Somerset.
Assuming that this was a boarding-school "deal": in view of what such establishments tended to be like a couple of hundred years ago -- one has to wonder which of the two experiences, was nastier for the poor lad.
I was excited to learn that Bert Draycott (d. 2017), several times the World Spoons Champion, was a Fishburn man and hoped to find other UK locations associated with prominent spoon players. Alas no, as the championship seems to have been thought up by Bert, and if any rivals seized the laurels temporarily, they did so without troubling the internet. Bearing that in mind...