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Churchill Julius had been vicar of Shapwick in the mid 1870s before going to the antipodes and eventually becoming Archbishop of New Zealand. He was born in 1847 in Richmond, SW London.
 

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Churchill Julius had been vicar of Shapwick in the mid 1870s before going to the antipodes and eventually becoming Archbishop of New Zealand.
Perth is also a settlement that was chosen as a site for a Carthusian Priory.

Back to "Antipodean" theme: another Scottish settlement with one named after it in British territory on the other side of the globe, is Ayr -- its namesake being in Queensland, near Townsville.
 

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Alexander Levie (1865 - 1955), a veterinary surgeon of some note, was born in Nesting. He died at Quarndon, Derbyshire.
 

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Bridlington is another settlement with a chalybeate spring water source.

Bridlington's motto is Signum Salutis Semper = "Always the bringer of good health". Its fellow-North Sea resort Skegness has one rather on the same theme; but less lofty, and in the plebeian tongue: "Skegness is so bracing".

(My italics in the quote above: for a long time -- having seen the word concerned, in print, but never heard it spoken -- I thought it was pronounced "chaily-beet".)
 

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Donaghadee, Co. Down, lies six miles east of Bangor -- a fact which is commemorated in the chorus of a favourite "Orange" song.
 

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The name "Castlebar" commemorates the de Barry family of Cambro-Norman origin who were part of the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1170. Their name is also the origin of that of the town of Barry, South Wales
 

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Sir George Everest -- the geographer and surveyor after whom the mountain is named -- may have been born near Crickhowell; or possibly in Greenwich. He is buried at Hove, East Sussex. (Correct pronunciation of his name is "EEV-rest"; but of the mountain concerned, is "EV-er-est".)
 

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Clitheroe is also the birthplace of a comedian who "did his stuff" under the place's name -- but unlike Eric Morecambe; Jimmy Clitheroe's stage name, was also his real name.
 

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Can't resist another couple of daft clerihews-concerning-towns, from the book which we used to have at home.

The Cathedral Chapter of Lincoln
Used to read the Pink 'Un [long-ago newspaper devoted particularly to horse-racing -- printed on pink paper]
Until its ceasing publication,
Whereupon they fell back on The New Statesman and Nation.

And

Ashton-under-Lyne
Is fine
If you keep
Asleep.

(With apologies to the inhabitants of that no doubt excellent community.)
 

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Coventry is another settlement where a Carthusian religious house was established.

Bath was also the target of heavy and destructive World War II air raids, a couple of years later. In Bath's case, because of its beauty and cultural value -- part of the "Baedeker raids" campaign, intended to hurt British morale (I don't think even Coventry's keenest defender could call it a place of great aesthetic delight -- that attack was just "business".)
 

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