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[Calthrop]

Ramsgill has a pub called the Yorke Arms. As a kind of Wars of the Roses "counterbalance" -- Desford, Leicestershire (7 miles west of Leicester) has one called the Lancaster Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Agar Nook in Leicestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Sparkenhoe.

 

[Calthrop]

@Xenophon PCDGS -- heaven forgive me, I sometimes suspect you of making these places up -- neither of my road atlases has heard of Agar Nook. Wiki has, however; informs that it is in Charnwood Forest, near Loughborough. Also in those parts, is the equally weirdly-named, though perhaps better-known, village of Nanpantan.

 

[DerekC]

My ancestors lived for about a hundred years at Holywell Hall (it's just a farmhouse) in Nanpantan. There is another building of the same name, but much more impressive, at Holywell in Lincolnshire.

 

[High Dyke]

Lincolnshire Gate is the name given to a corner in the road between Holywell, Lincolnshire and Pickworth, Rutland.

It describes a point where this small country road crosses the county border between Lincolnshire and Rutland, to pass between Newell Wood and Howitts Gorse. On either side are the remains of small quarries, worked from the Middle Ages till the early 20th century for building and road stone for nearby use.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clipsham in Rutland was also once administered by the Hundred of East Rutland.

 

[Calthrop]

Horsham, West Sussex, also has a pub called the Olive Branch. (That at Clipsham holds a Michelin star, no less.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coombes in West Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Singlecross.

 

[High Dyke]

Low Ham, Somerset also has a church, without dedication to any saint.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pickering in North Yorkshire has also hosted a Steam Rally.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Pickering, Morpeth in Northumberland has been subject to flooding in recent decades.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fenrother in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Morpeth Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Can find absolutely nothing about Fenrother, apart from its existence ! Driven to slightly desperate measures: Felixkirk, North Yorkshire (near Thirsk) is another North of England settlement with a nine-letter name beginning with F.

 

[High Dyke]

Snitterby, Lincolnshire also has a church with a rounded apse.

One of my favourite churches to visit.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cold Hanworth in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Aslacoe Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Still in Lincolnshire: Holbeach in that county, also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shepeau Stow in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Holbeach Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

We learn that in the 19th century, Shepeau Stow boasted "a shoemaker who also ran a beerhouse" -- that being, one would figure, the settlement's one-time pub called the Red Last: the latter word, referring to the shoemaking tool. Not, it would appear, a direct theme occurring much -- if elsewhere at all -- for British pub names: having to get a bit far-fetched, and associate with the pub in Newent, Gloucestershire; called Cobblers.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Poulton-le-Fylde in Lancashire also has a Church of the Bleseed Virgin Mary.

 

[Calthrop]

Sutton Coldfield (city of Birmingham, West Midlands) also holds a monthly Farmers' Market.

 

[High Dyke]

During the 12th and 13th centuries, religious activities were carried out at the free chapel of Saint Blaise, constructed within the Sutton manor grounds.

There is a church dedicated to Saint Blaise in the Devon hamlet of Haccombe, near Newton Abbot.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Combeinteignhead in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Wonford.

 

[Calthrop]

Bray, Co. Wicklow, also has a pub called the Wild Goose. (At a guess, the name of the Bray establishment has overtones of the "Wild Geese" -- "self-exiled" Irishmen who in past centuries went abroad to fight in war, on the side of enemies of England; whereas that of the one in the Devon village, doesn't.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worthing in West Sussex also has a place of worship named Christ Church.

 

[Calthrop]

Prominent also on the coat-of-arms of Glasgow, are generally "water creatures". Worthing's features three fishes of the fins-and-scales kind, and a shrimp or prawn -- Glasgow's has two fishes of similar sort, as supporters; plus on the actual shield, rather weirdly, another of same lying on its back, seemingly dead, under a tree. (Also, in "small-scale" parts, Worthing's c-o-a features a lady holding a snake; and Glasgow's, a robin, on the top of the aforementioned tree.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lanark in South Lanarkshire also lies on the line of the River Clyde.

 

[Tetragon213]

Despite Lanark giving its name to the local county, South Lanarkshire's administrative centre is not in Lanark, but in Hamilton (South Lanarks)

 

[Calthrop]

Scotland would seem to specialise in crazily poetic names for football clubs -- one which I especially like, is that of Hamilton: Hamilton Academicals. English ditto, tend to be mostly a bit humdrum in comparison; with a few exceptions, such as "Argyle" (heaven knows where that came from). The best-known, though not the absolutely only, English football club with that name: is Plymouth Argyle.

 

[High Dyke]

Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire is another location where gin is produced in the UK.

 

[Electrodekka]

Hove is also a coastal town