Xenophon PCDGS
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Aylsham in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Bure.
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High Dyke
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Aylsham was once noted for its spa, situated about half a mile south of the town; it comprised a chalybeate spring, formerly used by those suffering from asthma and other chronic conditions.
Another location famously associated with a chalybeate well is Griffydam, Leicestershire.
Another location famously associated with a chalybeate well is Griffydam, Leicestershire.
We find that Griffydam's name is a corruption of "Griffith's Dam" -- a man-made pond; remnants of the bank built for this dam, can still be seen. (The source gives no information about the Mr. -- or indeed perhaps Ms. -- Griffith, concerned.) Another settlement whose name commemorates a person by the name of Griffith: is Griffithstown -- suburb of Pontypool, Borough of Torfaen. "Railway stuff" follows; but I would contend that it is allowable, being "social history, as opposed to gricing". Griffithstown is named after the first stationmaster of what is now Pontypool Road station: Henry Griffiths. This excellent gentleman "founded a 'terminating' Building Society to finance construction of houses in the village so that his workforce could become freehold owner-occupiers, rather than constricting rental or leasehold housing" as had been the more usual practice in those parts.
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John Griffiths
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Griffithstown - and possibly Henry was a kinsman as my people come from south Wales - includes a district called Sebastopol. Another city that is disputed between Russia and Ukraine with Welsh links is Donetsk, formerly Stalino, and originally Yuzovska, named after the coal and steel magnate John Hughes who set up mines and steel works there. Hughes was born in Merthyr Tydfil.
I'm hard to please where fiction is concerned -- two different alternative-history series which I found self disliking, and abandoned (the former as hereon, almost instantly; the latter, after reading the first few books in what became an interminable procession thereof) -- the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde, in which Merthyr Tydfil is the capital of an independent People's Republic of Wales; and the "Emberverse" series by S.M. Stirling. In the second book of the just-mentioned -- mostly set in what had been the USA, prior to the global catastrophe and what follows therefrom, which is the series's premise -- some British characters who become crucial to the action, escape by fortunate chance from a devastated Britain, by sea from King's Lynn, Norfolk.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Lincoln was also the scene of anti- Semetic riots in 1190 AD.
The lot of England's Jews in the Middle Ages was not, on the whole, a happy one -- even before Edward I expelled them all from the country. Most people regarded them with suspicion bordering on hatred; and they were very restricted as to what they might do to earn a living. A prominent 13th-century English-Jewish person -- who has been reckoned "the most important Jewish woman in medieval England" -- was the businesswoman Licoricia of Winchester (one wonders whether she was kind and charitable to "all sorts") -- who was, regrettably, murdered in 1277 in "what may have been a hate crime". (The lady has recently been honoured by the 2022 inauguration of a statue of her in Jewry Street, Winchester.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Rugby in Warwickshire also has a noted public school.
John Griffiths
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Hebron, Northumberland -- near Morpeth -- also has a namesake settlement in the US State of North Dakota.
John Griffiths
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Hebron is not named after the Palestinian city (in the way that some places in Wales have biblical names) but is essentially the same name (albeit slightly corrupted) with the same meaning as Hebburn in South Tyneside.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Southport in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.
Tetragon213
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Worthing also has a Grade II Listed Pier
Xenophon PCDGS
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Crowthorne in Berkshire also has a symphony orchestra.
John Griffiths
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Woodbeck in Nottinghamshire is also the location of a Secure Hospital (a high security psychiatric hospital).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Treswell in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the East Retford Poor Law Union.
Treswell is a mile or so south of South Leverton, Nottinghamshire; and lies likewise over one of Britain's several, overall decidedly "small-time" but productive of a certain amount of the commodity, oilfields -- this one officially called the South Leverton Oilfield.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Appleby-in-Westmorland also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
D6130
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Brougham in Westmorland is another location with a castle that was once owned by the redoubtable Lady Anne Clifford.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yarnwath in Westmorland was also once under the jurisdiction of the West Ward Poor Law Union.
There was regrettable violence, lasting for some days, at Yarnwath in 1846; in course of construction of the West Coast Main Line toward Carlisle. This was sparked off by an, in itself trivial, incident: between an English, and an Irish, "navvy" -- which escalated into large-scale hostilities between construction personnel from the two countries. A few decades later (1874), there were similar scenes -- English versus Irish -- at Skelmanthorpe, Kirklees Borough: during construction of the railway serving the settlement; resentment on the part of local folk refused employment on building of the line, in favour of "imported" Irish labour.
John Griffiths
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Poulton le Fylde in Lancashire also has an establishment called The Tipsy Cow.
High Dyke
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The affix le-Fylde ("in the district called the Fylde") was added in 1842 with the arrival of the Penny Post, to distinguish the town from Poulton-le-Sands, a village that is now part of Morecambe.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Croston in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ockbrook in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Latton in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Highworth, Cricklade and Staple.