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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wadhurst in East Sussex also was once the venue for prize fighting.

 

[johnnychips]

William Bidlake, an architect, lived in Wadhurst, and designed a house in Edgbaston.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Taunton is also the venue of a county cricket ground.

 

[High Dyke]

Tupholme in Lincolnshire was also the location of an outdoor music concert featuring Rod Stewart.

The day Glastonbury came to Lincolnshire!

Conscious of revealing my age, does anyone else remember when Glastonbury came to Lincolnshire?

http://lincsmemories.org/390/

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alnwick in Northumberland was also chosen as a site where a Premonstratensian Abbey was established.

 

[DerekC]

Alnwick possesses the second largest inhabited castle in England, after Windsor

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knowsley was also chosen as a site for a safari park.

 

[Cowley]

Maidenhead is also twinned with a German town (Bad Godesburg).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Silchester in Hampshire also lies on the line of the Roman road known as Camlet Way.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of England Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin has a bell-turret with a ring of five bells. Four of the bells were cast by John Stares of Aldbourne, Wiltshire in 1744, and the other by William Taylor of Oxford in 1848.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberdyfi in Gwynedd also has a disused village pump.

 

[DerekC]

Aberdyfi is home to the first Outward Bound centre. One of the other five subsequently established in the UK is at Eskdale Green.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Keswick also has a church that is dedicated to St Bega.

 

[High Dyke]

Birchover, Derbyshire also has an ancient stone circle located nearby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoney Middleton is another Derbyshire settlement that once was administered by the Hundred of High Peak.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Bladon in Oxfordshire also has a Church dedicated to St. Martin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glympton also lies on the line of the River Glyme

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of England Parish Church of Saint Mary, Glympton is now part of a single benefice with Asterleigh, Kiddington and Wootton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hawstead in Suffolk also has a Sanctus Bell in the church (All Saints)

 

[DerekC]

Horringer also has a carpet bowls club

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunham Massey also has a large National Trust edifice

 

[DerekC]

Dunham Park is a rare example of woodland pasture. Another is at Dalkeith Old Wood.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Temple in Midlothian also lies on the line of the River Esk.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The landscape painter Sir William Gillies, who was more often known as W G Gillies (1898–1973) was a resident of Temple in Midlothian. He was , however, born in Haddington, East Lothian.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Renfrew is another Royal Burgh that passed from the King to a Lord.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Renfrew Ferry is a passenger ferry service linking the north and south banks of the River Clyde in Scotland. The service, operated by Clydelink, crosses between Renfrew and Yoker, which is close to Glasgow City Centre; it is the last River Clyde crossing this far upstream.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sunderland also has historical links to shipbuilding.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Each year on the last weekend in July, the city hosts the Sunderland International Airshow, which takes place primarily along the sea front at Roker and Seaburn.

Similarly, at the beginning of July the City of Swansea hosts the Wales Airshow around the foreshore of Swansea Bay.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanelli also has connections to the tinplate industry.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

But Newport RFC beat the All Blacks before they did!!