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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shawbury in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Roden.

 

[Calthrop]

Coningsby, Lincolnshire, also has a weather station run by the RAF.

 

[A Challenge]

Last week an RAF Typhoon aircraft was launched from the RAF base at Coningsby to escort a plane which had lost communications, which produced a sonic boom heard across the East of England. The jet achieved its highest speed of over 1,000 knots above Ickleton, Cambridgeshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The ring of six bells in St Mary Magdalene Church, Ickleton, were recast in 1927 by Gillett & Johnston, who also added a new treble and second bell, increasing the ring to eight. Gillett & Johnston were clockmakers and bell founders based in Croydon from 1844 until 1957; one of their works was a Carillon for Bourneville, Birmingham in 1934.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Port Sunlight is also a model village that was established by a philanthropic employer for his workforce.

 

[Calthrop]

Mary Wilson, wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson and poet, worked for Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight in the 1930s. She was born in Diss, Norfolk.

 

[johnnychips]

John Betjeman wrote a poem about Diss. He also wrote a more famous one about Slough.

 

[A Challenge]

Wokingham is also the name of a Unitary Authority within Berkshire as well as the main town within it.

I've made the same number of posts here today than I did in 2019 and 2020 put together

 

[johnnychips]

Will Young, who won Pop Idol in 2002 came from Wokingham. He went to Exeter University.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has a ship canal.

 

[Springs Branch]

Southend-on-Sea also has an international airport.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Farnborough also hosts an airshow.

 

[Calthrop]

Farnborough's name comes from the Old English ferneberga = "fern hill". There is also a village of Fernhill in Glamorgan, in the Cynon Valley.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Fernhill is on the B4275 road, which runs between Abercynon and Penywaun via Aberdare.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manaton in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Winifred.

 

[Calthrop]

Manaton seems to have been characterised by what many would feel to be Puritan killjoy-ish-ness resulting in hatred and destruction of interesting stuff: with the church rood screen's figures having been defaced during the Reformation; and, per Wiki: "A granite cross once stood in the churchyard, but was destroyed in the mid-19th century by the vicar, Rev. John Charles Carwithen. He did so because he disapproved of what he considered to be a superstitious custom of carrying coffins three times around the cross before burial." Much of this sort of thing was done in the religiously turbulent times a few centuries ago, in and around Norwich.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Ryburgh in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Wensum.

 

[DerekC]

St Andrew's church in Great Ryburgh is one of over a hundred in Norfolk with a round Norman tower. St John's Piddinghoe, is one of only three in Sussex with the same feature.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rodmell was also once administered by the Hundred of Holmstrow.

 

[DerekC]

Rodmell is home to the Breaky Bottom Vineyard. The Spuncombe Bottom Vineyard, on the other hand, is near Wotton under Edge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Old Sodbury also lies of the route of The Cotswold Way long-distance footpath.

 

[johnnychips]

King Edward IV rested here before the battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stockton-on-Tees also hosts an annual mop fair.

 

[DerekC]

The Newport Bridge at Stockton, opened in 1934, claims to have been the first major vertical lift road bridge in the UK. However in terms of age the Turnbridge Lift Bridge over the Huddersfield Broad Canal in Kirklees, an administrative area of Huddersfield, predates it by some seventy years.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirklees is an administrative area, not a City/town/village/hamlet.

Is this allowed?

Any news about this?

 

[DerekC]

Apparently Kirklees is not allowed. My post #18984 edited accordingly

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Newport Bridge at Stockton, opened in 1934, claims to have been the first major vertical lift road bridge in the UK. However in terms of age the Turnbridge Lift Bridge over the Huddersfield Broad Canal in Kirklees, an administrative area of Huddersfield, predates it by some seventy years.

Letcombe Regis also has the site of an Iron Age hillfort within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Letcombe Regis also has the site of an Iron Age hillfort within its environs.

One of the last occasions in which the Riot Act was read (literally and officially), was in the early 1900s in Letcombe Regis: the inhabitants had burnt an effigy of the unpopular lord of the manor. It has been suggested -- though it's doubtful whether there is any truth in this -- that said Act was read in 1971 (two years before it was repealed) in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire.

 

[DerekC]

There is a public observatory at Airdrie, and another at Kielder in Northumberland

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Formby is another area where red squirrels still thrive.