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Dubwath in Cumbria is another settlement hard by a Lake District lake.

 

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Cockermouth is the Post Town for properties in the Dubwath area

 

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Ashton-on-Mersey also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

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The famous Ferry Across The Mersey calls at Seacombe

 

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The famous Ferry Across The Mersey calls at Seacombe

Seacombe has a 'combe', a bit like Combe Martin...

 

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Fishbourne in the Isle of Wight also has a ferry terminal.

 

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Seacombe has a 'combe', a bit like Combe Martin...

Pennal in Gwynedd also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter ad Vincula.

 

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Y Felinheli is also located in Gwynedd.

 

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Porthmadog was also a Welsh slate exporting port.

 

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The Welsh singer, songwriter and actress Duffy shot her first video Rockferry in Porthmadog; she was born on 23rd June 1984 as Amie Ann Duffy in Bangor, Gwynedd.

 

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There's also a Bangor in Northern Ireland.

 

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The former politician Lembit Öpik was born in Bangor, County Down; his mother lives in Leicester.

 

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Blackburn is also home to a football team that have won the Premier League.

 

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Blackburn Lancashire featured in a song by that Liverpool group the Beatles.

 

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Reading is also home to a football team that have never won the Premier League.

 

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Cheltenham also hosts a music festival.

 

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Up Hatherley lies within the Cheltenham parliaentary constituency.

 

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Plaistow also has a church that is jointly dedicated to St Philip and St James.

 

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There is a DUNDEE Road in Plaistow

 

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Eccles also lends its name to a delicacy ending in "cake"

 

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Eccles also lends its name to a delicacy ending in "cake"

So does the town of Kendal Mint, which I am reliably informed is a fictional creation, but is based upon an amalgamation of the Cumberland settlements Kendal and Mintsfeet. Mintsfeet appears, to all intents and purposes, to be a part of Kendal too, so that is that, then.

 

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Framlingham in Suffolk also had a castle erected in the 12th century.

 

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The local football club is Framlingham Town FC, who play at Badingham Road. They are affiliated to the Suffolk County Football Association and are currently members of the Eastern Counties League Division One.

One of their opponents is March Town United FC, who play at the GER Sports Ground, March, Cambridgeshire.

 

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Hedingham - why?
Well March was last month, this month is April and today is the 12th. On the 12th April 1550 Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England,was born in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England.

 

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Robert de Vere (after c1165 – 1221) was the hereditary Master Chamberlain of England and the son of Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford, and Agnes of Essex. He succeeded his brother as the third Earl of Oxford, and was one of the twenty-five guarantors of Magna Carta, which was a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15th June 1215.

 

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A copy of the Magna Carter signed at Runnymede is held in Lincoln

 

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Ilchester also lies on the line of the Roman road known as Fosse Way.

 

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Cropwell Bishop blue is the name of another cheese

 

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Elton-on-the-Hill was also another area that once came under the jurisdiction of the Bingham Wapentake.