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Hythe was the home of the Mackeson Brewery, which after changes of ownership, closed in 1968. It was the birthplace of Mackeson Stout, which was first brewed in 1909. It is no longer brewed locally but is now produced under contract by Hydes at their brewery in Salford.

 

[John Griffiths]

Dundee also has a university which received its foundation Royal Charter in 1967.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool also has a School of Dentistry.

 

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In his Journal in 1755, John Wesley (who was born in 1703 in Epworth, Lincolnshire) wrote that he thought that Liverpool was "One of the neatest, best towns I have seen in England".

 

[John Griffiths]

Epworth is on the Isle of Axholme, no longer an island in the conventional sense; the same can be said of Broadstairs on the Isle of Thanet.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sennen in Cornwall is another town with historical links to smuggling.

 

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St Ewe is also the location of a stone Cornish Cross.

 

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The Heligan Estate is located at the eastern edge of the parish of St Ewe, overlooking the small port of Mevagissey. The long-term home of the Tremayne family, the estate is now best known as the location of the Lost Gardens of Heligan, a recently restored Victorian garden.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Macduff in Aberdeenshire also has an aquarium that features sea life local to its location.

 

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Macduff has an RNLI lifeboat station, which is equipped with an Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat, B-804 Lydia Macdonald. Another Atlantic 85 class lifeboat is B-806 Mudeford Servant, which is based at Mudeford, Christchurch, Dorset.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mudeford has a pillar box with vertical letter slot manufactured in 1856; Framlingham, Suffolk, has two!*

*of a slightly different design to that in Mudeford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huntingdon also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sir John Major was MP for Huntingdon from 1979 to 2001. He was born in 1943 on the St Helier estate in South London.

 

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The St Helier Estate's Bishop Andrewes Church, in Wigmore Road, was designed by the architect Geddes Hyslop in 1933. In 1934, he was commissioned to remodel Buscot Park, a country house at Buscot, near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Faringdon was the first fair trade town in SE England; the first in the UK was Garstang in Lancashire.

 

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Garstang lies on the River Wyre, as does Out Rawcliffe, a village and civil parish in the Over Wyre area of the Fylde in Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bispham was also once administered by the Hundred of Amounderness.

 

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Coronation Street actress Violet Carson OBE (the original battle-axe Ena Sharples) lived in Bispham until her death in 1983. She was born on German Street in Ancoats, Manchester, in 1898.

 

[John Griffiths]

German Street, Ancoats, was renamed Radium Street to satisfy anti-German sentiment during WWI. Another street sharing the name of a chemical element is Mercury Avenue in Wokingham, Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tuam in County Galway is another town where bull-baiting used to take place.

 

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The national primary road N17 begins at the Kilmore Roundabout in Tuam, and ends where it meets the N4 Sligo-Dublin road at the Toberbride roundabout. Whilst still in County Galway, it passes through the village of Miltown, where it passes over the River Clare.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clonmel in County Tipperary also has a Market House.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hereford is also a centre of cider production.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Redbrook in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the River Wye.

 

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Redbrook is in Gloucestershire, and adjoins the border with Monmouthshire in Wales. Two local pubs, the Bell Inn on the English side at Redbrook, and the Boat Inn at Penallt on the Welsh side of the River Wye, serve locals and visitors well.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangattock-Vibon-Avel was also once under the jurisdiction of the Monmouth Poor Law Union.

 

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The quiet south-facing graveyard of St Cadoc's Church, Llangattock-Vibon-Avel contains five memorial tombs to members of the Rolls family, including Charles Stewart Rolls (1877 – 1910) who, with Henry Royce , co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display at Southbourne, a suburb of Bournemouth in Dorset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberystwyth also has a cliff railway.

 

[John Griffiths]

Dumfries also has a camera obscura.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carronbridge also lies on the line of the River Nith.