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Neath in County Borough Port Talbot Neath also has the site of a Celtic hill fort in its environs.
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The naturalist and geographer Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 -- 1913) lived for a while in Neath in the 1840s; he was born in Llanbadoc, Monmouthshire (just south of the town of Usk). Wallace is most noted for establishing in the natural-history realm, the Wallace Line -- geographical boundary between the areas in which obtain Asian fauna, and Australasian.
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Llanthewy Vach in Monmouthshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Usk.
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Musselburgh in Midlothian was also granted Burgh of Regality status in the 16th century.
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Unsurprisingly, Terrington St Clement in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Clement.
The area in which this settlement lies -- around the southern shores of the Wash -- has long been a renowned venue for wildfowling: shooting of waterfowl, nowadays carried on subject to sensible regulation (Terrington St. Clement has a pub called the Wildfowler). Another part of the country which is big on this activity, is the Solway Firth area. A settlement thereabouts, important in the pursuit, is the village of Powfoot, Dumfries and Galloway -- on the shore of the Firth, a few miles west of Annan.
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Bridgwater in Somerset was also the site of a Royal Ordnance Factory where fatalities occurred in an incident.
Robert Blake (1598 -- 1657), naval officer and admiral ("big" in naval matters, during Cromwell's period of rule), was born in Bridgwater -- where he is commemorated by a prominent statue near the town centre. He died at sea; but just a short way off Plymouth.
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Halstead in ssex also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.
Ian Fleming stayed at the Grade 1 listed Elizabethan country house of Moyns Park, very near Halstead; and is thought to have put the finishing touches there, to his From Russia With Love. His elder brother Peter -- journalist and travel writer -- spent the latter part of his life as squire of Nettlebed, Oxfordshire (between Henley-on-Thames and Wallingford).
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Shillingford in Oxfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Ewelme.
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Farway in Devon also lies on the line of the River Coly.
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Portarlington in County Laois also lies on the line of the River Barrow.
Some centuries ago, Portarlington received its present name; replacing one derived from the Irish language. This also happened with Newmarket, Co. Cork: part of the process of consolidating England's hold on Ireland via settling / "planting". The settlements' older names were Cooletoodera and Aghatrasna respectively.
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Brosna in County Kerry also lies on the route of the R576 regional road.
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Heald Green in Greater Manchester also has a church named Christ Church.
Scrape, scrape, barrel-wise: the snooker champion Alex "Hurricane" Higgins lived for a time in Heald Green. G.K. Chesterton wrote a (semi-)comic poem about another -- fictional -- Higgins, a "creedless Puritan". Chesterton died, in 1936 -- and is buried -- at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
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Babbacombe in Devon also has a model village.
One of my fairly frequent "saviors" in this game is the late humorist Paul Jennings; much of whose stuff I love. He got endless fun from playing around in various ways with British place-names -- in which games of his, Babbacombe (among many others) featured. I like his supposed "old and wise saying" involving the names of: what is now a part of the London Borough of Bexley -- Erith -- and a Northumbrian town. Thus, "Man erith, woman morpeth": it somehow sounds meaningful and profound.
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Noting what you say above, the two most important words in Welsh that I made sure I knew the meaning of were Dynion and Merched....can you guess which particular public buildings are signed as such?
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Plumstead in Kent was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Little and Lessness.
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Plumstead in Kent was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Little and Lessness.
Concerning loos -- "Gentlemen" and "Ladies" respectively, I believe.
Long ago in North Wales, I kept seeing signpost-like devices which read (at least approx. -- spelling from memory) Llwybr Cyhoeddus. Found self wondering about this village to which -- rather after the fashion of Rome -- everything seemed to lead. Discovered finally, that it's the Welsh for "public footpath".
Buried at Plumstead is William Bennet (1746 -- 1820), Anglican Bishop of the diocese of Cloyne in Ireland. Cloyne, Co. Cork -- some fifteen miles east of Cork city -- is, though a relatively obscure village, the seat of both a Church of Ireland (Anglican) diocese; and a Catholic one.
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Abernethy in Perth and Kinross is another settlement in which a round tower was erected.
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I cannot trace a settlement called NEWTOWN STEWART.... 
Mea maxima culpa -- I meant NEWTON STEWART. Sure an' I was afther mixing it up with the place in County Tyrone named Newtownstewart, with a "w" and all one word...I cannot trace a settlement called NEWTOWN STEWART....