High Dyke
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Bladnoch, Wigtownshire was also the location of a Co-op creamery.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Kirkgunzeon in Dumfries and Galloway also has a Tower House within its environs.
John Griffiths
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The lands of Kirkgunzeon were in pre-Reformation times rented by the monks of Holmcultram Abbey in Abbeytown, Cumbria.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Boxley in Kent was also chosen as a site for a Cistercian Abbey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aldringham in Suffolk also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.
John Griffiths
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Aldringham has a pub traditionally called The Parrot and Punchbowl, a name too interesting for recent owners who have simplified it to The Parrot.
There is another pub of this name (truncated version) in Forest Green, Surrey.
There is another pub of this name (truncated version) in Forest Green, Surrey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bolton by Bowland in Lancashire also has a church that is jointly dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.
Bolton by Bowland lies on a constituent (Skirden Beck) of an intricate network of tributaries and sub-tributaries of the River Ribble -- some of these, bearing wondrous names such as Grunsagill Beck, Monubent [not a typo!] Beck, Hungrill Beck, and Sandy Syke: which last, rises in Gisburn Forest -- name congruent with Gisburn, Lancashire (three miles east of Bolton by B.).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Slaidburn in Lancashire was also once administered by the West Division of the Staincliffe Wapentake.
Thomas Sanderson (1793 -- 1878), farmer, and prominent citizen, of Slaidburn: emigrated to the USA with his family, in 1850. One of his sons, Jonathan Sanderson (1837 -- 1914) -- 6ft. 9in. tall, known as "the Pioneer Giant of Nebraska" -- was a friend and associate of "Buffalo Bill" Cody. The just-named gentleman made a number of tours in Britain with his celebrated Wild West Show; including Wales, early in the decade of the 1900s -- one place of performance thereof, then: being Porthmadog, Gwynedd.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Nefyn in Gwynedd also has a maritime museum.
High Dyke
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Worth Matravers, Dorset was also the site of a Chain Home radar station during World War II.
The compass -- generally, the "geometry" kind -- is an artefact which for some reason features; often coupled with, varied, other nouns; in a fair number of English pub names. There is a Square and Compass pub in Worth Matravers. England has a few pubs, called the Goat and Compass, or Compasses -- there is a Goat and Compasses in Kingston upon Hull. Have seen it suggested that "Goat and Compasses" is a corruption of the words "God encompasseth us" -- anything's possible, I suppose ...
Xenophon PCDGS
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Newquay in Cornwall also has a noted aquarium.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Leckford in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of King's Somborne.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sydmonton in Hampshire was also once administered by the Kinclere Division of the ancient Hundred of Upper Evingar.
DerekC
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Watership Down, long term home of rabbits in Richard Adams' novel of the same name, is in the parish of Sydmonton. In Richard Adams' novel The Plague Dogs the action is spread widely over a large part of the Lake District but starts at the farm of Lawson Park (converted to an animal research station in the story), about two miles from Grizedale, Cumbria.
The spacious mansion of Grizedale Hall -- demolished in 1957 -- was used during World War II, as a camp for German officer prisoners of war. There was also a WWII prisoner-of-war camp at Watten, Highland -- between Wick and Thurso. (The camp at Watten was designated as accommodation for particularly hard-line Nazi prisoners -- one imagines those guys holding forth post-war, on theme of, "you lot licked Tommy's boots, to get a reasonably cushy imprisonment; we took it like men, and got sent to Watten in the frozen north 
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Haster in Highland also lies on the route of the A882 road.
Tetragon213
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In Haster, there is a memorial to Henry Horne, who was born in Wick
Old Pulteney whisky is distilled in the Pulteneytown district of Wick. Old Perth whisky is distilled, if I have this rightly, in various Speyside locations; but blended in -- would you believe it -- Perth.
I wondered whether this chap was any relation to the super-snob Godolphin Horne, in Belloc's "Cautionary Tale" -- looking up, disclosed that he was an Army guy; b. 1863, d. 1929: a big cheese in World War I.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway also hosts an arts and music festival.
Tetragon213
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Leo Varadkar (former PM of Ireland) grew up in Blanchardstown. His predecessor, successor, and current incumbent grew up in Cork
Cue, I feel, for the utterly dreadful riddle which I used in this game about four years ago --
Q: Who are the lightest men in the British Isles?
A: The men of Cork are light;
The men of Ayr are lighter;
But there are lighter men (lightermen -- those whose trade is operating the river craft called lighters) yet, on the Thames.
Q: Who are the lightest men in the British Isles?
A: The men of Cork are light;
The men of Ayr are lighter;
But there are lighter men (lightermen -- those whose trade is operating the river craft called lighters) yet, on the Thames.