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Shrewsbury also has site remains of Bronze Age barrows contained within its environments.

 

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Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury on 12th February 1809, at his family's home, The Mount. He died at [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_House']Down House, Downe, Kent on 19th April 1882.[/URL]

 

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Spean Bridge also has an accredited official scout campsite.

 

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Just about a mile away from Spean Bridge is the Commando memorial which was sculpted by Scott Sutherland FRBS. Sutherland was born in Wick and died in Dundee

 

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Whereas Wick is the town nearest the U.K. mainland’s north-east extremity, Penzance is the town nearest the south-west’s.

 

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Helston was another Cornish stannary town.

 

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Yeovilton has a smaller RNAS Base

 

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West Camel in Somerset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Somerton.

 

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Mere in Wiltshire also has a hostelry called The Walnut Tree

 

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Loders in Dorset also has medieval strip lynchets.

 

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Also near Bridport is a place which computer people may find amusing "Uploders"

 

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Southwold also has historical connections with rope making.

 

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Brighton also has a line of colourful beach huts

 

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Richard Addinsell, the composer of "The Warsaw Concerto" and many film soundtracks lived at Chichester Terrace, Kemp Town, Brighton between 1960 and 1977 and this is commemorated by a blue plaque on his house. He died in Brighton in 1977 aged 73, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, which is in Hoop Lane, off Finchley Road, Golders Green, London.

 

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Clerkenwell is another settlement that has had property there owned by the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta.

 

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There used to be a well at Clarkenwell. At Munlochy the well, a clootie well, still flows and is visited by believers and tourists.

 

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There are few early records of a settlement, but it seems likely that Munlochy expanded in the 1760s due to quarry workers extracting stone nearby to build Fort George near Ardersier, on the far side of the Moray Firth.

 

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Due west of Ardesier across on the other side of the Moray Firth in Avoch Bay is Avoch

 

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Whereas Avoch is a village located on the south-eastern coast of the Black Isle on the Moray Firth, Jemimaville is a small village on the northern coast of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Isle']Black Isle, overlooking the Cromarty Firth.[/URL]

 

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Invergordon lies to the north of Jemimaville on the other side of the Cromarty Firth

 

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Holyhead also once had an aluminium smelter facility.

 

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Fishguard is also a port.

 

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Llanychaer also lies on the line of the River Gwaun.

 

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Ruabon also has a bridge end inn

 

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Acrefair is another settlement in North East Wales with connections to brick making.

 

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Acrefair and Cefn Mawr were also home to the Monsanto Company chemical works, which had produced chemicals since before World War II. The site was the American company's first venture in Europe. Monsanto later operated the site as FlexSys, one of their subsidiaries, but production on this site ceased in 2010. Similarly, Monsanto had a plant in Newport, South Wales, which also changed it's name to Solutia before it was sold recently.

 

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Manchester also has a velodrome.

 

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Both Manchester and London have areas known as Piccadilly. London' Piccadilly Circus is famous for the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain (Eros).

 

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Haworth also has a steep cobble-surfaced road in its central area.

 

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The Brontë sisters were born in Thornton near Bradford, but wrote most of their novels while living at Haworth Parsonage when their father was the parson at the Church of St. Michael and All Angels.