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DerekC

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The inhabitants of Melcombe Regis paid for the cutting of a white horse at Osmington to celebrate the connection with George III. It is said that he was angry because he is depicted riding out of the town rather than entering it.
 

EbbwJunction1

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I don't think that there is a place called Kingscombe or Kingcombe.

There's a Nature Reserve called Kingscombe Meadows, and a Centre called Kingcombe, both of which are on the line of the River Hooke, but neither of them are in a settlement that bears either of those names.
 

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During the Second World War the Shoeburyness Boom, which ran across the Thames Estuary to protect shipping from submarine attack, ran from Royal Oak Point (near Minster) to Shoeburyness in Essex.
 

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