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Rosehearty throve for centuries as a fishing port; and in that role -- approximately quoting Wiki -- "prior to the arrival of railways at Fraserburgh [Aberdeenshire -- some five miles east of Rosehearty], 'was set fit to rival it'. " However, opening in 1865 of line between Dyce Junction and Fraserburgh, rapidly sealed Rosehearty's fate fishing-wise. (Damned railways -- they've got a lot to answer for <D .)
 
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The Penlee Park open-air theatre is in the town of Penzance; there is another open-air theatre at Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross.
 
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For a while in the 19th century; gold, and other things, were mined at a site near Ardtalnaig. Near Ganllwyd, Gwynedd (a little north of Dolgellau), gold-mining in small quantities was carried on until 1998.
 
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In past centuries there was at Swanlinbar an ironworks; to feed the furnaces of which, the local oak-woods were effectively destroyed. A similar situation came about, at roughly the same period, involving the ironworks which there was at Bonawe, Argyll and Bute.
 
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In Kilchrenan's churchyard is the supposed tomb of Sir Colin More Campbell, killed in a battle between clans in the last years of the 13th century. A much later martial Colin Campbell was the Field-Marshal of that name, 1st Baron Clyde, 1792 -- 1863: who took part in sundry conflicts from the Napoleonic Wars, to the Crimea and the Indian Mutiny. (He was born Colin MacIver -- there are various explanations for his name-change.) His military career began as a cadet at the then Royal Military and Naval Academy at Gosport, Hampshire.
 
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Duddo had formerly, a church dedicated to St. James the Great; now a private house, having been superseded by the settlement's present church of All Saints. From point of view of the game, St. J. the G. is more fun than the ubiquitous All Saints: I'm therefore going for the former, not the latter. Long Marston, Warwickshire, (near Stratford-upon-Avon) has a -- still functioning -- church dedicated to St. James the Great.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Pebworth in Worcestershire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Cefledetorn.
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(My italics -- looks like a fictional country in Gulliver's Travels !)

Pebworth is one of the eight villages featuring -- with an adjective apiece -- in the little rhyme, attributed to Shakespeare, re villages round and about Stratford-upon-Avon. Another of these is Exhall, Warwickshire -- a couple of miles "per crow", south-east of Alcester. The rhyme calls it "dodging Exhall" -- this generally reckoned not an aspersion cast on the inhabitants' honesty; but to refer to the circumstance that, at any rate in Shakespeare's time, roads / tracks were such that access to the village was difficult either from Alcester or from Stratford.
 
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Elgin's War Memorial -- inaugurated 1921 -- was designed by Percy Portsmouth, an English-born "adopted Scot". It would be nicely symmetrical if at least one of the several war memorials in Portsmouth, had been designed by one Euan Elgin; but alas, it isn't so.
 
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Another settlement whose name features this particular mineral, is Iron Acton, South Gloucestershire -- some way north-east of Bristol; re the Gloucestershire settlement, iron used to be mined in the locality.
 
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Wiki tells us that "for much of 1940, an address in Marshfield was home to several well-known cultural figures who were trying to escape the effects of the war". A list of these characters is then given -- nobody I'd ever heard of, except for Dylan Thomas and his wife. Another "cultural figure" who did similarly at that time was T.H. White, best known for his idiosyncratic take on the Arthurian legends -- his The Sword in the Stone novel series. White handled the matter by going and dwelling in the neutral Irish Free State throughout the war -- he lived near Trim, Co. Meath. (I'm not a very brave sort -- find it hard to blame these folk for doing as they did.)
 
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Another Irish settlement in a county which happens to have the same name as an English country town; is Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare (coincidental namesake is Clare, Suffolk).
 
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Blantyre is bounded by various watercourses: two of them unattractively named -- the Rotten Calder and the Rotten Burn. I have no explanation for the "Rotten" name -- per Wiki, the little Rotten Calder river looks quite rural, through pretty scenes, and is in fact, at least clean enough to have fish in it ! Far to the south, there is another watercourse which is seemingly more pleasant than its name might suggest: in the Norfolk Broads area, the Muck Fleet -- a very shallow and totally un-navigable tributary of the River Bure, draining several "lesser" broads. Chief settlement of this "patch" of the region, is Fleggburgh -- aka (same village, different names) Burgh St. Margaret, Norfolk.
 
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