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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Theddlethorpe St Helen in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Louth Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The names of the bunch of villages in this part of Lincolnshire -- Theddlethorpe St Helen and neighbouring Theddlethorpe All Saints; the various Saltfleetbys; and Grimoldby; appeal to me for their strong Scandinavian flavour -- obviously Danes / Vikings did their stuff in abundance hereabouts. (Hopefully the names' having in happier times been sequential branch-line stations, will be allowed as a glancing / incidental remark.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanedi in Carmarthenshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Edith.

 

[DerekC]

The western end of the M4 motorway is close to the village of Llanedi. The eastern end is at Chiswick.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsingham in Norfolk also has a Russian Orthodox church.

 

[Springs Branch]

Lynx Bus's Coastliner 36 bus service passes through Walsingham on its route between King's Lynn and Fakenham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lyng in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Wensum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Lyng also has a motocross track called Cadders Hills which is run by the Norwich Vikings motorcycle club. It is the venue for the British Motocross Championship and other events. The village of Foxhill near Swindon also has a motocross track, termed recently as "The Field of Dreams".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lyng also has a motocross track called Cadders Hills which is run by the Norwich Vikings motorcycle club. It is the venue for the British Motocross Championship and other events. The village of Foxhill near Swindon also has a motocross track, termed recently as "The Field of Dreams".

Is this different from the Wiltshire settlement of Fox Hill?

 

[EbbwJunction1]

No, it's the same one - the source says that it's one word, but I'm happy to accept that it might be two.

 

[Calthrop]

On the subject of at least seemingly vulpine settlement names (as Foxhill / Fox Hill): there's another in County Mayo, near Ballina: Foxford.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Foxford stands on the N26 national primary route, which runs from Swinford to Ballina.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady Help of Christians.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Rickmansworth has been the location for many films, amongst them the 1953 comedy about the London to Brighton Car Rally Genevieve. It's the location where the car Genevieve 'broke down' at the top of Batchworth Hill, by the gates to Moor Park. Another location used is West Drayton on the outskirts of London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gorseinon in the City and County of Swansea also has a church that is dedicated to St Catherine.

 

[Calthrop]

Gorseinon was home from 1953 to 2008, to the UK's smallest cinema, "La Charrette" -- built from a withdrawn-from-service railway carriage. The kingdom's current smallest theatre / cinema / magic theatre is as it happens, not at all far away: "The Small Space" at Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cwm-y-glo in Gwynedd also has the site of an Iron Age hill fort within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Cwm-y-glo means in Welsh, "valley of coal" -- not coal in the sedimentary-rock sense, but charcoal; with an important sub-industry of the local slate quarrying, having been charcoal burning: to fuel the foundries at the various quarries, making iron artefacts for quarry use. Charcoal-burning was likewise for long, an important activity in the Weald of Sussex. The Weald and Downland Living Museum at Singleton, West Sussex: has among many other features, a reconstruction of a charcoal-burners' camp.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Binderton in West Sussex was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Singleton.

 

[Calthrop]

West Dean, West Sussex: lies close by Binderton, and also on the Centurion Way cycle path.

 

[DerekC]

West Dean is on the Monarch's Way long distance footpath which represents the escape route of Charles II after the battle of Worcester. After zigzagging across Hampshire and Wiltshire it crosses the corner of Somerset, into Dorset and reaches the coast at West Bay.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Netherbury in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Brit.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bere Regis is another village in Dorset where the church is equipped with a font believed to date from Norman times.

 

[Calthrop]

Bere Regis has a pub with the rather uncommon name of the Drax Arms. The less-conventionally-pretty village of Drax, North Yorkshire (near Selby) has one called the Huntsman.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bushmead in Bedfordshire was also a site chosen for a priory of the Augustinian Canons.

 

[Calthrop]

Bushmead -- a northern suburb of Luton -- is a fairly recent development (within the last 150 years). It occupies the former lands of Stopsley Common Farm. A little way further north-east from Luton (and still in Bedfordshire, though only just), is Stopsley itself -- now another suburb, rather than a village "proper".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caddington in Bedfordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Luton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Caddington lies just barely in Bedfordshire -- very close to the Hertfordshire border. (Until 1897, Caddington parish was partly in one county and partly in the other.) Rathmore, Co. Kerry, has a similar status: only just within its county, lying immediately west of the border with Co. Cork.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colwyn Bay in Conwy County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to St Joseph.

 

[Springs Branch]

Terry Jones, a member of the Monty Python comedy team (now deceased) was born in Colwyn Bay.

Michael Palin - another Python who worked closely with Terry Jones, including on non-Python works such as the Ripping Yarns TV series, was born in the Sheffield suburb of Ranmoor.