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Group Captain Leonard Cheshire (Baron Cheshire of Woodhall in the County of Lincolnshire) VC, OM, DSO**, DFC (1917–1992), the renowned Second World War RAF bomber pilot and the founder of the Leonard Cheshire Disability charity, was born in Hoole Road, Hoole, Chester (although he was brought up in Oxford); the house where he was born (now a guest house) bears a blue plaque attesting to this. He took his title from the civil parish and village in Lincolnshire where 617 Squadron was based.

 

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Winsford is also located at latitude 53° 11' N.

 

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Winsford lies on the River Weaver south of Northwich and west of Middlewich.

 

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Shardlow in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the Trent and Mersey Canal.

 

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Sir David John Brailsford CBE (born 29 February 1964) is the former performance director of British Cycling and the current General Manager of Team Sky. He was born in Shardlow, Derbyshire and brought up in Deiniolen, near Caernarfon, Gwynedd.

 

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Rhosllanerchrugog is another settlement in North Wales to have hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

 

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Abercynon also had one of the largest Miners' Institutes in Wales.

 

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Penderyn also lies on the line of the Afon Cynon.

 

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Famous inhabitants of the village included the late composer David Wynne but the famous working-class hero Dic Penderyn (Richard Lewis) who was involved in the Merthyr Rising of 1831 was not from this parish, but from Aberafon. He took his name from the cottage in which he was born in 1807 or 1808.

 

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Aberafon in Glamorgan is located in and lends its name to the Paliamentary constituency of Aberavon. Aberavon is considered one of the safest seats for the Parliamentary Labour Party.
Similarly, a very safe seat for the Conservative Party is Wokingham.

 

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Sudbury in Suffolk also had medieval links to the silk trade.

 

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The local semi-professional football club is AFC Sudbury, which was formed in 1999 by the merger of Sudbury Town and Sudbury Wanderers, the process giving rise to the name Amalgamated Football Club Sudbury.They are currently members of the Isthmian League North Division and play at the King's Marsh Stadium in the Ballingdon-Brundon area of Sudbury.

One of their opponents in that division are Bowers & Pitsea Football Club, who play at the Len Salmon Stadium, Pitsea, Essex.

 

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Mucking was also once administered by the Hundred of Barstaple.

 

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North Shields was also the site of a lighthouse which is now defunct.

 

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Clara Vale also lies on the line of the River Tyne.

 

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Clara Vale Cricket Club currently play in Division One of the Northumberland League. Last year, they were in fourth place, behind Whickham Cricket Club, who were in third place.

 

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Douglas (IOM) has also been a winner of the Small City/Large Town category of the Britain in Bloom competition.

 

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Cuerdale in Lancashire is another settlement where a Viking treasure hoard was found.

 

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The Parliamentary army led by Oliver Cromwell camped in the Cuerdale area before the Battle of Preston in 1648. Although given that name, the battle was fought largely at Walton-le-Dale near Preston between 17th and 19th August 1648.

 

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Stackhouse in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Ribble.

 

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Tolpuddle in Dorset is also at longitude 2° 17' W

 

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Horsham also has a church which is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

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The English actor, television presenter and producer Eric Norman Thompson is best remembered for creating and performing the English narration for The Magic Roundabout, which he adapted from the original French Le Manège Enchanté. He was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire on 9th November 1929, but grew up in Rudgwick, Sussex, attending Collyer's School, Horsham.

 

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Corpusty in North Norfolk also has a water mill.

 

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Corpusty and its twin village Saxthorpe are situated either side of the river Bure which starts at Melton Constable and flows on to Yarmouth.

 

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Itteringham was also once administered by the Hundred of South Erpingham.

 

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Mundesley is also in the NR11 Postcode District.

 

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Wells-next-the-Sea is also part of the area encompassed by the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

 

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In the classic 1972 BBC adaptation of the M.R. James ghost story A Warning to the Curious, Wells-next-the-Sea was used as the filming location to represent the fictional coastal town of Seaburgh.
In James's original short story, Seaburgh was based on the Suffolk settlement of Aldeburgh.

 

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Broughty Ferry has also suffered a lifeboat disaster.