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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belper in Derbyshire also has historical connections to the nail-making industry.

 

[Calthrop]

The chidrens' / young adult fiction author Monica Edwards was born in Belper; the family moved when she was aged fourteen, to Rye Harbour (Sussex) -- her numerous novels were set in south-eastern England, including many actually with a Rye Harbour setting.

 

[341o2]

Rye replaced New Romney as one of the Cinque Ports, Hastings is another of the five in the confederation

 

[Calthrop]

Both of the dashing young blades in Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer, have names borrowed from English towns. The unfortunately-shy-around-women hero is Marlow; his sidekick is Hastings.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The writer Jerome Klapka Jerome wrote part of his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat at a local pub, the Two Brewers. He was born in Caldmore, Walsall in 1859.

 

[Calthrop]

Caldmore is -- we learn -- pronounced not as spelt; but "Cah-mer". A similar spelling / pronunciation discrepancy, applies to the village of Cowbit (Lincolnshire), just south-east of Spalding: pronounced "Cubbit".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quadring in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Spalding Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Quadring had, until quite recently, a fine assortment of animal / colour pub names: the White Hart, the Black Bull, and -- now defunct as a pub -- the Red Cow. Thornbury, Gloucestershire, can't quite compete at the same level; but does have the Red Lion, the White Lion, and the Swan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alton Barnes in Wiltshire is another settlement where a large Roman coin hoard was discovered.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cherhill, also in Wilts, also boasts a white horse image carved in chalk download.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ripon in North Yorkshire also has a noted obelisk within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Ripon is the third-smallest city in England. Third-smallest city in Ireland (the whole island) is Cork.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doncaster also has a church that is dedicated to St Francis.

 

[johnnychips]

Pontefract also has a racecourse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Owston in South Yorkshire was also once administered by the Osgoldcross Wapentake.

 

[John Griffiths]

Owston has the second best neutral hay meadow in South Yorkshire, says wiki, while neglecting to tell us where the best is. But seeds from Owston have been harvested and used to create revived meadowland at Rossington Carr, also South Yorkshire.

 

[DerekC]

Rossington Main FC are currently seventh in the Northern Counties Eastern League, Division One. Leading the Division are Emley FC.

 

[Springs Branch]

The skyline at Emley is dominated by the Emley Moor TV transmitter masts.
A similar situation occurs with the Winter Hill transmitters at the Lancashire village of Belmont.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The now sparsely populated area of Anglezarke (only a few hill farms there now) was also once both under the jurisdiction of and administered by the Chorley Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

The "Pike Stones" at Anglezarke are the remains of a Neolithic chambered long cairn, unique to Lancashire.
These archaeological features are more commonly found further south and in Wales, including the Pen-y-Wyrlod Long Cairn, located in Powys in the vicinity of Talgarth.

 

[John Griffiths]

The hymn-writer William Williams was converted to Calvinistic Methodism while listening to a preacher in Talgarth in 1737 or 38. His best-known work is probably 'Argwlydd, arwain trwy'r anialwch', translated into English as 'Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer' (or Jehovah), and usually now sung to the tune 'Cwm Rhondda', which was composed 1907 by John Hughes. The hymn was first sung to the tune 'Cwm Rhondda' in Hopkinstown, Rhondda.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wattstown in Rhondda was also the scene of a colliery disaster.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Wattstown is named after Edmund Hannay Watts, who at one time owned the National Colliery in Wattstown. He was born in 1830 in Blyth, Northumberland, and died at St. Leonards in 1902, aged seventy-two years.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Withernsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has an inland lighthouse.

 

[Calthrop]

Withernsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has an inland lighthouse.

@Xenophon PCDGS: You just beat me to it, lighthouses-wise !

Like Withernsea, Sheringham has in the fairly recent past been the scene of conflict between Tesco -- wishing to open a supermarket there -- and local interests favouring smaller local shops and wanting no truck with a Tesco store close by.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Yarmouth was also bombed during a Zeppelin raid in 1915.

 

[John Griffiths]

Great Yarmouth's Winter Gardens were originally erected in Torquay in 1878. They were later dismantled, and re-erected in GY in 1903

 

[Calthrop]

Torquay -- more particularly Babbacombe, but that location generally reckoned as encompassed by Torquay -- has a model village (the miniature kind). The same is true of Beaconsfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Markfield in Leicestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary and All Saints.

 

[Calthrop]

Brixton, south London, has also had a very short-lived greyhound-racing track.