Settlement Association

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The Parish Church, St Mary The Virgin, is a Grade II* listed building, as is one of the local pubs, The Plough. The Plough serves hand-drawn Fullers beers; Fullers Brewery is in Chiswick, West London.

 

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Battersea also has a bridge across the Thames.

 

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Harry "Buster" Merryfield was born in Battersea on 27th November 1920 and died in Poole, Dorset on 23rd June 1999. He was an English actor best known for starring as Uncle Albert in the BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses, which is mainly set in Peckham, London.

 

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There there is Peckham Rye which is miles away from the town of Rye.

 

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The "Well Known Typing Error" Terence Alan Milligna aka Spike Milligan lived in Rye at the end of his life. He's buried in the churchyard of St Thomas Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex.

 

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Bishopsbourne, Kent also has a Mermaids Inn

 

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Sorry, but I can't resist this .... the settlement of Pett Bottom is included in the civil parish of Bishopsbourne.

 

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Whereas Pratt's Bottom is in South East London (within the London Borough of Bromley)

 

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Tarporley also has a local dramatic society.

 

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Denham also has a Swan Inn

 

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Denham also has a Swan Inn

Is that Denham the one in Suffolk or the one in Buckinghamshire?

 

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Denham Bucks

 

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Hoylake also has a noted golf club.

 

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Comedian Eric Morecambe won a local amateur talent contest, held at Hoylake's Kingsway Cinema in 1940. In [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpenden']Harpenden in Hertfordshire, where Morecambe and his family lived from the 1960s until his death, the public concert hall is named after him[/URL].

 

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Bridge of Tilt in Perthshire also has a coat of arms signpost......It shows the Scottish Gaelic name of Drochaid upon it.

 

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The newer part of the village of Bridge of Tilt is continuous with the town of Blair Atholl, being only separated by the River Tilt.

 

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Kilwinning in Ayrshire also has a Museum of Country Life.

 

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The Ayrshire College is spread over three main campuses - the Ayr Campus (Dam Park, Ayr); the Kilmarnock Campus (Hill Street, Kilmarnock) and the Kilwinning Campus (Lauchlan Way, Kilwinning).

 

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Irvine also lies on the River Irvine.

 

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Wallasey also had a gunpowder magazine

 

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Wallasey may have had a magazine but in Bedfont there was an actual powder mill

 

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Captain Matthew Webb, who was the first man to swim the English Channel (on 25th August 1875), lived in The Limes, New Road, Bedfont from 1880 until 24th July 1883 when he died attempting to swim the rapids below the Niagara Falls. He was born at Dawley, Telford, Shropshire, on 19th January 1848.

 

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Malinslee was also once administered by the Hundred of South Bradford.

 

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Malinslee is part of TELFORD . The Scottish engineer Thomas Telford was born in Eskdale Dumfriesshire

 

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Langholm also lies on the line of the River Esk.

 

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The Scottish poet Christopher Murray Grieve (known by his pen name as Hugh Macdiarmid), a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. was born in Langholm on 11th August 1892. He died at his cottage Brownsbank, near Biggar, on 9th September 1978 at the age of 86.

 

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Coulter also lies on the line of the A702 road.

 

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The Monks of Kelso and the Templars feature in the early history of Coulter; many place and farm names would enforce the latter's presence.

 

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Coldstream also lies on the line of the River Tweed.

 

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Windsor is now home to the Coldstream Guards.