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Topic Started: Jul 5 2013, 02:30 PM (10,211 Views)
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A new game!

Similar to the Wordsnake thread only this one is comprised of the names of Towns/Cities only.

We can also put some information about said town etc. to make it a little more interesting

I'll start us off with

Edinburgh

From its prehistoric beginning as a hillfort, following periods of Celtic and Germanic influence, Edinburgh became part of the Kingdom of Scotland during the 10th century. With burgh charters granted by David I and Robert the Bruce, Edinburgh grew through the Middle Ages as Scotland’s biggest merchant town. By the time of the European Renaissance and the reign of James IV it was well established as Scotland's capital.
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Hitchin








Hitchin is notable for St. Mary’s Church, which is remarkably large for a town of its size. The size of the church is evidence of how Hitchin prospered from the wool trade. It is the largest parish church in Hertfordshire[citation needed]. Most of the church dates from the 15th century, with its tower dating from around 1190. During the laying of a new floor in the church in 1911, foundations of a more ancient church building were found. In form, they appear to be a basilican church of a 7th-century type, with a later enlarged chancel and transepts, perhaps added in the 10th century. This makes the church older than the story (not recorded before the 15th century) that the church was founded by Offa, king of Mercia 757-796.
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Nether Wallop


Dane Cottage in Five Bells Lane, Nether Wallop was used as Miss Marple's home in the village of St. Mary Mead for the BBC adaptations, played by British actress Joan Hickson of the Agatha Christie Miss Marple novels. The house and many of the surrounding lanes within the village were used as the setting and are commonly seen throughout many of the Miss Marple films (where Joan Hickson played Miss Marple.
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Pickering

Pickering is an ancient market town in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, on the border of the North York Moors National Park...and home of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway where a ride on a magnificent steam engine takes you back to a time gone by; the North Yorkshire Pullman has a wonderful dining car...It's also the perfect starting point for a day out whether travelling between the rugged Yorkshire villages, hiking on the wind-swept moors or spending a day by the seaside at nearby Whitby. There's a splendid 13th century castle which was used as a royal hunting lodge, holiday home and stud farm by a succession of medieval kings.
Edited by Mobson, Jul 6 2013, 08:23 AM.
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Greenwich

Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude) and Greenwich Mean Time. Birthplace of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The maritime connections of Greenwich were celebrated in the 20th century, with the siting of the Cutty Sark and Gipsy Moth IV next to the river front, and the National Maritime Museum in the former buildings of the Royal Hospital School in 1934.

(I am not quite sure what constitutes a town or city, but we might have to be a bit liberal about this, anyway. We were amused at Greenwich when we had to queue to get a ticket to get in free! Pickering has all those things you mentioned, Mobson, but when we visited it also had a great second-hand bookshop, whose owner wasn't prepared to let anyone go past without coming in. He told us (his once-only customers) to keep watch that people didn't escape while he went upstairs to get the books my son requested. I loved Pickering, not least for this shop.)

Now we have another 'h' but there must be a few.


Edited by Caro, Jul 6 2013, 06:51 AM.
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Havana

The capital of Cuba, famous for cigars...but you know all this. I like the reference to it in Bill Danoff's song, "Readjustment Blues", about a Vietnam veteran returning from his tour of duty:
Just out of the infantry this morning,
I had to pay my dues across the sea,
But no one back in boot camp ever warned me,
What the readjustment blues would do to me.
"Welcome to Havana", said the pilot,
"We must have made a wrong turn on the way."
"Let's buy some cigars and keep it quiet,
If they don't know we're here we'll get away."


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Auckland. Largest city in NZ, once the capital, in early days a rather lawless place. It has the greatest number of Polynesians living there of any city. It is to the rest of the country what London is to Britain (ie powerful, rich, superior, and not much liked by the rest of us).

I tend to think of April Sun in Cuba when Cuba is mentioned. It is a song by a well-known NZ band, Dragon, now in the music Hall of Fame here. They were never able to crack the American market, I think partly because of this song, very popular here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE7RJuR9dj0

This wiki site says they have had at least 35 members! Closer to an army than a band! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_%28band%29
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Denham Bucks




Famous in the mid 20th century for the making of many top British films among which were such epics as:-
Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, Pimpernel Smith, Goodbye Mr Chips and many others.
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Staré Hamry


(A tiny village near the Czech-Slovak border where I stayed for about a month in the early 1990s.)
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Jul 6 2013, 09:35 AM
The capital of Cuba, famous for cigars..
Embargo on Cuban Cigars
On February 7 1962 President John F. Kennedy extended the trade embargo against Cuba, and the tobacco from the island was banned. The story goes that president Kennedy asked Pierre Salinger one of his assistants to buy 1000 Cuban cigars before the embargo became effective.


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Yarmouth

A town and fishing port located on the Gulf of Maine in rural southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada.


A popular but unsupported cultural belief in Yarmouth holds that the American composer Meredith Willson wrote his well-known song "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" while staying in Yarmouth's Grand Hotel.
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Jul 6 2013, 12:25 PM
Staré Hamry

(A tiny village near the Czech-Slovak border where I stayed for about a month in the early 1990s.)
do tell more taf.....
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Honolulu

In the Hawaiian language, Honolulu means "sheltered bay" or "place of shelter". The city has been the capital of the Hawaiian islands since 1845 and gained historical recognition following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour near the city on December 7, 1941.
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Upminster



A town in the London Borough Of Havering in North-East London
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Rangoon.

Now called Yangon, the capital of Burma, now called Myanmar. Why do they keep changing the names of places? I'm sure they only do it to annoy us.
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No, political, nationalistic or first-nation reasons. Our North and South Islands are about to be gazetted for the first time; they are to become the North Island or Te Ika a Maui (the fish of Maui, who mythically fished up the NI) and the South Island or Te Waipounamu (water of the pounamu or greenstone or jade). Most people know those names to some degree, but of course we will all still call them the South and the North Islands. I don't know if the gazetted names are to include 'the' which everyone here automatically adds, but which writers from other countries sometimes leave out.

Nelson

Town at the top of the South Island, NZ. Nicely situated with a lovely climate. Called after Admiral Nelson, of course. It is the only city in NZ which has city status because of its cathedral and not because of its population numbers. There are nearly 43,000 and I think a city here usually has 50,000. I don't know what happens to a city whose population drops below 50,000.
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Northampton




One time mainstay of the British shoemaking industry
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What a load of cobblers!

Nottingham

My home town. <ok> Also home to the oldest professional football league club in the world, Notts County, who have played more Footbal League matches than any other club, and Nottm Forest, the only English football team, other than Liverpool, to have won the European Cup in consecutive seasons (those were the days :( ). Nottingham is also home to Trent Bridge cricket ground (much changed since I squandered my youthful summers there) which is the venue for this year's first Ashes Test, beginning on Wednesday.



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Morecambe

Morecambe is primarily a seaside resort with a large proportion of the local economy based on tourism, hospitality and catering located along the seafront. It is also situated at the foot of the Lake District National Park.

Morecambe Bay potted shrimps are a famous local delicacy.
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Esher



A very posh, upmarket town in Surrey
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Richmond (North Yorkshire)


A Norman castle, Georgian architecture, large cobbled market place, monuments and abbeys, the fast flowing river Swale, and breathtaking scenery. Situated on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Richmond is a town that inspires painters and poets. The Georgian Theatre Royal is the oldest working theatre in the UK
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Posted at the same time as you,dai...will change mine. :)

Denbigh

A market town and community in Denbighshire, Wales.


During the Wars of the Roses, the town was largely destroyed, subsequently moving from the hilltop to the area of the present town market.[2] In 1643, Denbigh became a refuge for a Royalist garrison during the English Civil War. Surrendering in 1646, the castle and town walls eventually fell into ruin.

Edited by becky sharp, Jul 7 2013, 10:39 PM.
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High Wycombe









One time centre of the furniture industry
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Mobson
Jul 6 2013, 01:26 PM
tafkaj
Jul 6 2013, 12:25 PM
Staré Hamry

(A tiny village near the Czech-Slovak border where I stayed for about a month in the early 1990s.)
do tell more taf.....
In the middle of nowhere, the sort of place where (at the time) the local smallholders still harvested their crops with scythes and sickles. I taught English and drama for a private school there (the Havířov Soukromé Gymnasium), swam naked in the Ostravice river, and loved the place.

East Coker

A Somerset village most famous for its T.S. Eliot connections - it's the title of the second of his Four Quartets, the place where his ancestors came from and where his ashes are now buried.
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Rye (East Sussex)

Originally a sea port notorious for smuggling. It is now mainly a tourist destination, and has a thriving fishing industry. Rye has a well-established reputation as a centre for shops trading antiques, collectors' books and records, and has many art galleries selling works by local artists and potters with changing exhibitions throughout the year.
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Not too far from Rye

Eastbourne



God's waiting room on the coast in East Sussex
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Jul 8 2013, 12:38 PM
Rye (East Sussex)

Originally a sea port notorious for smuggling. It is now mainly a tourist destination, and has a thriving fishing industry. Rye has a well-established reputation as a centre for shops trading antiques, collectors' books and records, and has many art galleries selling works by local artists and potters with changing exhibitions throughout the year.
Also where my son got married ;)

Eccles.

A town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester.

Eccles cakes, made from flaky pastry, butter, nutmeg, candied peel, sugar and currants, were first produced and sold in the town in 1793, and are now exported across the world.
Eccles' other claim to fame is its involvement in one of the world's first railway accidents when in 1830 William Huskisson, the Member of Parliament for Liverpool, was seriou He was taken to the vicarage in Eccles fosly injured by an approaching locomotive.r treatment, but died of his injuries.
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Southend-on-Sea.

In the days when most of us were less affluent and before world travel was popularised, Southend was a great favourite among London holidaymakers.
Famous for having the longest pleasure pier in the world
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Strathaven

Little town near Glasgow from whence my grandparents left (separately) to come to NZ. He came with his brothers and mother in 1909 and she had to wait till the end of the war and came via Canada in 1919. I have her letters she wrote to him in the meantime. In 1820 the Radical War or Scottish Insurrection had Strathaven connections when a small group from the town marched to join another but dispersed when they heard of a planned ambush. Leader James Wilson of Strathaven was executed. In one of those coincidences that make people talk of small worlds, a NZer I know from another board had relatives involved in this riot who came from Strathaven. (Although in my head I pronounce this as spelt, it is really pronounced Straven.)
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Your town should have started with 'A' Caro, But I'm sure we will all forgive you. Would you like to do another?
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Oh, I see what happened. Takes me so long to look things up and type them that someone else (you!) have popped something in before me. Sometimes I think to check that when it's taken me a while - at other times I decide it's before the time anyone will be around.

Alice Springs

In the centre of Australia. For some reason as a child I thought I would like to go specially to the outbacks of Australia and to India. They are now both places I would stay well away from, loathing and not coping in the heat. The site and surrounding area has been occupied for thousands of years by the Arrernde Aboriginal people and they still live there. The settlement was optimistically named Alice Springs after the wife of the former Postmaster General of South Australia, Sir Charles Todd. Wikipedia says it is the only town in Australia named after an Australian woman. In Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice, the eponymous Alice is Alice Springs.
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Suez

a seaport city (population ca. 497,000) in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez (a branch of the Red Sea), near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same boundaries as Suez governorate.
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Zabol

Zabol is a city in and the capital of Zabol County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. Zabol lies on the border with both Afghanistan and Pakistan. At the 2006 census, its population was 130,642, in 27,867 families.

The Zabol area is well known for its "120 day wind" (bād-e sad-o-bist-roz), a highly persistent dust storm in the summer which blows from north to south
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Lladiloes

In Mid-Wales, a gorgeous little market town, one of my favourite towns of all. I remember going into a shoe shop there and they still had shoes in boxes all up the walls as I remember from my childhood. And the town hall was beautiful and used for so many different activities, including council meetings and market days.
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Stroud Gloucestershire

In former days was a cloth town; woollen mills were powered by the small rivers which surge through the five valleys, and supplied by Cotswold sheep which grazed on the hills above

Stroud has a significant artistic community that dates back to the early part of the twentieth century. Jasper Conran called Stroud 'the Covent Garden of the Cotswolds. The Daily Telegraph referred to it as 'the artistic equivalent of bookish Hay-on-Wye, while the London Evening Standard likened the town to 'Notting Hill with wellies'
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Daventry




During the English Civil War, the army of King Charles I stayed at Daventry in 1645 after storming the Parliamentary garrison at Leicester and on its way to relieve the siege of Oxford. The Royalist army, made up of 5,000 foot and as many horse, camped on Borough Hill (then spelt Burrow Hill) while Charles went hunting in the nearby forests
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Yonkers

Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of New York, and the most populous city in Westchester County, with a population of 195,976...Yonkers borders the New York City borough of the Bronx and is located two miles north of Manhattan at the cities' closest points.

The city is home to several attractions, the Hudson River Museum, the Sherwood House, the Science Barge and Yonkers Raceway, a harness racing track that has renovated its grounds and clubhouse and added legalized video slot machine gambling in a "racino" called Empire City. There are also many large shopping areas along Central Park Avenue (NY 100), informally called "Central Ave" by area residents, a name it takes officially a few miles north in White Plains.
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Shoreham Kent


Shoreham is a village in the valley of the River Darent and is a part of the Sevenoaks District of Kent.

The Duck Race is a long-running event in the village. It is held each year, on the May Day bank holiday. Entrants pay a small fee (usually £1) to enter their 'duck' into the race. The duck has to travel along the river Darent from the war memorial in the village, to the bridge before the old Mill. A 'duck' can be anything from a shop-bought rubber duck to a model made by the entrant.

London-born artist Samuel Palmer, (1805–1881) lived in the village from 1826 to 1835
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Milton Keynes


The town of a thousand roundabouts
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St Mawes.

A small town opposite Falmouth, on the Roseland Peninsula on the south coast of Cornwall.

There have been frequent private visits to St Mawes by members of the Royal Family including HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, HRH Princess Margaret and more recently the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall who ended their stay in July 2008 by naming the new St Mawes ferry The Duchess of Cornwall. HM The Queen visited St Mawes in 1977 during her Silver Jubilee Tour.[5] In June 2002 for The Queen's Golden Jubilee and, with a brand new cast in June 2012 for the Diamond Jubilee, The Queen's Coronation was re-enacted in great detail by the young people of the village in a ceremony entitled "The Children's Coronation".
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Quote:
 
The town of a thousand roundabouts


I heard the other day that in my wider area, which has I think the second highest roading network in the country, there is no roundabout, no traffic lights, and no parking metres. (Biggest town has about 4500, and the surrounding area amounts to about 15,000.)

Sheffield


Where my two sons now live. A lovely city, rejuvenated since its days of industrialism, but now making more steel products than ever before. The Winter Gardens are a wonderful centrepiece though sadly some idiots gave permission for a large hotel complex to be built in front of them. Close to the beautiful Peak District. At Sheffield's Manor House Lodge Mary Queen of Scots was held for some years. I like going here, but my son and dil think it is in an unsavoury part of town and aren't keen on visits there.
Edited by Caro, Jul 12 2013, 01:24 AM.
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Damascus Syria

In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major cultural and religious centre of the Levant. The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Grand Mosque of Damascus, is one of the largest mosques in the world and also one of the oldest sites of continuous prayer since the rise of Islam. A shrine in the mosque is said to contain the body of St. John the Baptist. The mausoleum where Saladin was buried is located in the gardens just outside the mosque.

At this moment, Damascus and the rest of the country is in the throes of civil war.
Edited by dai Cottomy, Jul 12 2013, 03:10 PM.
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Southall





Once a quiet residential town on the outskirts of W. London.
Nowadays a thriving commercial town, part of the London Borough of Ealing, mainly occupied by the Asian community where seeing a white face or a shop not owned by an Asian is rare.
Edited by Norm Deplume, Jul 12 2013, 01:49 PM.
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Leighton Buzzard.

A town in Bedfordshire, England near the Chiltern Hills and lying between Luton and Milton Keynes

There are a number of theories concerning the derivation of the town's name, but the most likely is that "Leighton" came from Old English language Lēah-tūn, meaning 'farm in a clearing in the woods'. The "Buzzard" was added by the Dean of Lincoln, in whose diocese the town lay in the 12th century. Having two communities called "Leighton" and seeking some means of differentiating them, he added the name of his local Prebendary or representative to that of the town. At that time it was a Theobald de Busar and so over the years the town became known as Leighton Buzzard. The other Leighton became Leighton Bromswold.

Leighton Buzzard is also famous as the Grand Union Canal was opened there. More recently, Leighton Buzzard station was the location for part of the film Robbery, based on the so-called "Great Train Robbery" (1963), while the actual robbery took place just outside of the town, at Bridego bridge, Ledburn. In the Domesday Book, Leighton Buzzard and Linslade were both called Leestone.
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Dunstable





The Dunstable Priory was founded in 1131 by the King Henry1 and was later used for the divorce between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, which led to the establishment of the Church of England in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church. The same year the town granted a town charter to the power of the priors.

In 1290 Dunstable was one of twelve sites to erect an Eleanor cross recognising Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I, whose coffin was laid close to the crossroads for the local people to mourn the dead Queen. The coffin was then guarded inside the priory by the canons overnight before continuing on to St. Albans. The original wooden cross has long since perished but a modern memorial remains.

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Evesham

Market town in Worchestershire (I have to sound Worchestershire out in my head the way it is spelt to know how it is spelt!)
The Battle of Evesham in the 13th century brought victory to the future Edward 1. (My father used to test me with when battles were but Evesham wasn't one of these - Crecy, Hastings, Agincourt etc were, though none of WWII where he fought, and these quizzes came with no context.) Evesham had a very large abbey built in the 8th C but it became a victim of the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII.
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Merthyr Tydvil


Famous in it's heyday for the production of Iron products for use by the royal navy for cannon balls and also use by the up and coming railway companies across the UK
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Lima

The capital and the largest city of Peru. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima Metropolitan Area. With a population approaching 9 million, Lima is the most populous metropolitan area of Peru and the eighth largest in the Americas. (As defined by "city proper", it is the fifth largest city in the Americas.)
Lima was founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535, as Ciudad de los Reyes. It became the capital and most important city in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. Following the Peruvian War of Independence, it became the capital of the Republic of Peru. Today, around one-third of the Peruvian population lives in the metropolitan area.
Lima is home to one of the oldest higher learning institutions in the New World. The National University of San Marcos, founded on May 12, 1551 during Spanish colonial regime, is the oldest continuously functioning university in the Americas.

It is also home to Lima Cricket Club, which has an excellent bowling green - or did in 1984 when I played there.

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Ashton in the Water

A very pretty Derbyshire village, with traditions of well dressing around Trinity Sunday. [When is Trinity Sunday - despite a childhood spent in church and at assemblies in school, these dates didn't seem a strong part of a Presbyterian upbringing; I manage Good Friday and Christmas.] The bridge and river we walked over had been used till recently for washing sheep before shearing.

(I have the name on the photo a bit wrong.)
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Rouen, in northern France on the River Seine, is the capital of the Haute-Normandie region and the historic capital city of Normandy. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th to the 15th centuries. It was here that Joan of Arc was executed in 1431.
Rouen Cathedral is the subject of a series of paintings by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet, who painted the same scene at different times of the day.
Rouen was the birthplace of::
Edward IV (1442–1483), king of England
Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), painter of The Raft of the Medusa
François Hollande (born 1953), 24th President of the French Republic

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Nantes...

The city is the 6th largest in France, located on the Loire River, 50 km from the Atlantic coast, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with nearly 900,000 inhabitants. Nantes, labeled art and history city, is the capital city of the Pays de la Loire region; the largest city in the Grand-Ouest, it was one of the major cities of the historic province of Brittany, and the ancient Duchy of Brittany. Though officially separated from Brittany in 1789, Nantes is culturally Breton and still widely regarded as its capital city.

In 2010, Nantes was named a hub city for innovation in the Innovation Cities Index by innovation agency, 2thinknow. The city was ranked 36th globally from 289 cities and 4th overall in France, behind Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg for innovation across multiple sectors of the economy. As of 2013, Nantes holds the title of European Green Capital awarded by the European Commission for its efforts to reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions, for its high quality and well-managed public transport system and for its biodiversity with 3,366 hectares of green spaces and several Natura 2000 zones which guarantee a protection of nature in the area. A good reason, among many, to visit this city....n'est ce pas?
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Salem...

A city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States.

Featured notably in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, much of the city's cultural identity is reflective of its role as the location of the Salem witch trials of 1692: Police cars are adorned with witch logos, a local public school is known as the Witchcraft Heights Elementary School, the Salem High School athletic teams are named the Witches; and Gallows Hill, a site of numerous public hangings, is currently used as a playing field for various sports. Tourists know Salem as a mix of important historical sites, New Age and Wiccan boutiques, kitschy Halloween, witch-themed attractions and a vibrant downtown that has more than 60 restaurants, cafes and coffee shops.The 15th Annual Retailers Association of Massachusetts awarded Salem as the best place to shop in 2012. President Barack Obama on January 10, 2013 signed executive order HR1339 "which designates the City of Salem, Mass., as the birthplace of the U.S. National Guard.
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Maldon


A town in Essex, England.



Famous for its sea salt which has graced many an elegant table
Edited by Norm Deplume, Jul 15 2013, 06:33 PM.
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Nuremberg

City in Bavaria, Germany. Now famous for the Nuremberg Trial after the second world war, but with a long history of administrative, legal and religious importance. Jews were subject to various massacres here, rulers had their first Diets, and it was the site of Nazi rallies and organisation during the war.

Also known for its gingerbread and other foods.
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Jul 15 2013, 06:31 PM
Maldon


A town in Essex, England.



Famous for its sea salt which has graced many an elegant table
<ok> and kitchen .... Use nothing else Norm....
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Goathland

Goathland is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire. It is in the North York Moors national park due north of Pickering, off the A169 to Whitby. It has a station on the steam-operated North Yorkshire Moors Railway line. The village was a spa town in the 19th century. There are many hotels and guest houses in the village, the largest, the Mallyan Spout Hotel, is named after a nearby waterfall.
According to the 2011 UK census, Goathland parish had a population of 438,an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 407.

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Maldon


A town in Essex, England.



Famous for its sea salt which has graced many an elegant table
Surely even more famous for The Battle of Maldon of 991 and the Old English poem describing the Viking attack ... ? No? Just me then ... :$

Dorridge:

A comparatively new village near Solihull (near Birmingham ... Near London, for Caro <laugh> ). The area was originally called Derrech, this being the name of the stretch of land connecting it with nearby Knowle. Many famous musicians and football-type people live in the area.
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<star> Goathland .... that sounds lovely - and I've put it on the list to visit on my trip to Scarborough....
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Maldon
A town in Essex, England.

Famous for its sea salt which has graced many an elegant table
Surely even more famous for The Battle of Maldon of 991 and the Old English poem describing the Viking attack ... ? No? Just me then ... :$
Yep looks like Salt takes precedence taf; y5edufvygku = blocks of salt! - I did visit the Maldon Sea Salt company's processing plant - fascinating to see!±
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Emsworth...

...is a small town on the south coast of England, situated on the Hampshire side of the border between Hampshire and West Sussex. The village lies at the north end of an arm of Chichester Harbour, a large but shallow inlet of the English Channel...it has a population of approximately 10,000 people.

In the 19th century Emsworth had as many as 30 pubs and beer houses, probably to do with the fact that Emsworth was a fishing village. In some places the old oyster-beds can still be seen at low tide. The village has a basin for small yachts and a few fishing boats opposite the millpond, an artificial lake which fills at high tide can be emptied through a sluice at low tide. The River Ems, which is named after the village (not, as often believed, the town named after the river) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices. Emsworth is twinned with Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer in Normandy, France...famous residents include/d P.G. Wodehouse, Sir Peter Blake - Yachtsman; Sub-Lieutenant Peter Danckwerts GC, MBE, FRS, Royal Navy bomb disposal officer awarded the George Cross in 1940; William Whitcher - Cricketer; Albert Finney & Nicholas Lyndhurst - Actors....
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Harefield

in the London borough of Hillingdon


Famous for its hospital which pioneered early heart transplant surgery...do you remember Dr Sir Magdi Yacoub?
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A month or so ago I bought a second-hand copy of The Battle of Maldon which my husband thought I would struggle to translate, but the actual poem is considerably shorter than the analysis and discussion around it. I haven't actually tried to read it yet, but did read it at university.

Goathland is lovely, and very much associated with various television series. Heartbeat, which we seem to have found a new-found affection for and watch weekly now - series written in 2004 - was set there, the Harry Potter train is the one there, and in many programmes my husband says, "There. That's the Harry Potter train used again."

I have driven round Birmingham, Tafkaj - shudders. I didn't like Birmingham but think it might have been updated since our day there. I often don't remember cities fondly, because we have to do more walking in them than I enjoy, and so it was in Birmingham, where I remember arguing with my husband about getting on a bus, any bus would do for me, but he wanted to know which bus and where would it be going. The discussion was fraught enough for an Englishman to actually come and help us with the buses.

Dunedin

My lovely city, 110 kms from here, so not a daily visit for us. Old, by NZ standards, buildings built with money gained from the goldrush. It was to be New Edinburgh but some very foresighted councillors decided the Gaelic for Edinburgh would be a better idea, and so it is. Not the most go-ahead place in the world, it is kept alive by a university known throughout NZ as the party university, though sadly alcohol is going through similar condemnations to what cigarette smoking went through thirty years ago, and there are now all sorts of rules, and the student pubs I remember have all gone. Dunedin now has a new covered stadium which our family loves, though rate-payers of Dunedin tend to be less enthusiastic.
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Newport Pagnell

An historic town which is now in the Borough Of Milton Keynes but separated from it by the M1. The 1st UK motorway service station is nearby and was named after the town


Newport Pagnell's Tickford Bridge, over the River Ouzel (or Lovat), was built in 1810 and is the only iron bridge in Britain that still carries main road traffic and is the oldest iron bridge in the world that is still in constant use
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Nothing more to be said.
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With the nickname of Dai, you should be able to pronounce this, Can you?

I can!


Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.



Hemel Hempstead



One of the first London Overspill, New Towns and where two of my children were born
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I thought of putting that up once before, but it's a bit like hard work. A school mate told me how to pronounce this when I was about ten and I have never forgotten, though I say it in bits of English soundbites. Lan - fire - pu -gwin -gi -goch- gayrick - acquin - disill'eeo - wog -gog - gog

There is a place name in NZ which has a longer Maori name.

Hamilton

A city in NZ quite close to Auckland. It is a rather lovely city with a river running through it, and some wonderful gardens which have various international sections - an Italian one, a Maori one, Chinese scholars garden, Indian char bagh garden, Waikato River, etc. I have a rose called Hamilton Gardens, which is a nice creamy-pink colour, but hasn't grown as well as I would have liked. http://www.worldrose.org/trials/2011/hamilton/hamilton2.asp
Hamilton is invariably called 'boring' but it isn't - it's just close to a major city and doesn't have the same nightlife and pulse about it as such a city has.


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With the nickname of Dai, you should be able to pronounce this, Can you?

I can!


I've never felt the need, Norm
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Naples


The capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy, after Rome and Milan

Naples was the most-bombed Italian city during World War II.Much of the city's 20th-century periphery was constructed under Benito Mussolini's fascist government, and during reconstruction efforts after World War II. In recent decades, Naples has constructed a large business district, the Centro Direzionale, and has developed an advanced transport infrastructure, including an Alta Velocità high-speed rail link to Rome and Salerno, and an expanded subway network, which is planned to eventually cover half of the region. The city has experienced significant economic growth in recent decades, and unemployment levels in the city and surrounding Campania have decreased since 1999.However, Naples still suffers from political and economic corruption,and unemployment levels remain high
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Sausalito is a San Francisco Bay Area city in Marin County,California, U.S.A The community is situated near the northern end of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Developed rapidly as a shipbuilding centre in World War II, the city's industrial character gave way in postwar years to a reputation as a wealthy and artistic enclave, a picturesque residential community (incorporating large numbers of houseboats), and a tourist destination. It is adjacent to, and largely bounded by, the protected spaces of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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Olney


Another old town that is now within the boundaries of the Borough of Milton Keynes.

Olney is famous for its Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race.

It is also where the town's curate, John Newton, wrote The popular song/hymn, "Amazing Grace"
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Yuma.

A city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States.


The area's first settlers were Native American tribes whose descendants now occupy the Cocopah and Quechan reservations. In 1540, expeditions under Hernando de Alarcon and Melchior Diaz visited the area and immediately saw the natural crossing of the Colorado River as an ideal spot for a city, as the Colorado River narrows to slightly under 1,000 feet wide in one small point. Later military expeditions that crossed the Colorado River at the Yuma Crossing include Juan Bautista de Anza (1774), the Mormon Battalion (1848) and the California Column (1862).



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Amarillo

I only know this through Tony Christie's song Is This The Way To Amarillo (and I didn't know Christie was a Yorkshireman), but there seems to be a great deal to Amarillo, Texas including that it is pronounced in the Spanish way. It has the only nuclear assembly and disassembly plant in the USA, was a very busy cattle marketing and shipping place in the 19th century, is a major tourist spot with Route 66 going through it, the American Quarter Horse Association has its headquarters there, and Oprah Winfrey based herself there for a year while a court case suing her (unsuccessfully) for linking American beef and mad cow disease was being held.

(Why when Route 66 is American is the pronunciation in the song for root instead of the usual American rowt?)
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Yes - Amarillo was often mentioned in those westerns in which herders had to take their cattle to the Amarillo market and kill lots of natives on the way ... But I thought Route 66 had been renamed to discourage dropouts from just 'taking' the route ... ?

OSTRAVA

The Czech Republic's fourth largest city. It's in Moravia, near the border with Slovakia and Poland - about 40 miles from Auschwitz. A bit of a hole, but with lovely (if somewhat melancholy) people, birthplace of Ivan Lendl and home to a very friendly arm of Český Rozhlas (Czech national radio service), with whom I worked happily for a while in the early 90s. Very dirty river - don't swim in it (unless you want to see your own skeleton when you get out!).
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Aachen


One of the most western towns in Germany close to the Dutch and Belgian borders. Aachen Cathedral was built by Emperor Charlemagne and has been designated a World Heritage Site. It has a most beautiful Christmas Market
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Napier

A small city in the North Island of New Zealand, it was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in 1931 which killed 256 people. More would have been killed but a navy ship was in port and helped rescue people. As ever there are interesting stories with this, including the prisoners who were working away from the prison. Four of them were buried in a landslide, and two died. The other prisoners then took themselves back to prison. Napier was redeveloped using Art Deco styles and is quite lovely. The building code was strengthened after this (and now after Christchurch, buildings have to be built to a stricter standard again, which may leave many buildings empty or without insurance).


Route 66 might well have been renamed, but not in my mind.
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Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century and is a member of the ancient confederation of Cinque Ports. It has a population of around 40,000. Ramsgate’s main attraction is its coastline and its main industries are tourism and fishing. The town has one of the largest marinas on the English south coast and Port of Ramsgate has provided cross channel ferries for many years
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My husband was born in Ramsgate. We watched some of the Tour de France near Canterbury and the man sitting next to me was also born in the Ramsgate Hospital.

Elsinore - where Shakespeare set Hamlet. On our honeymoon nearly 40 years ago I wrote a long letter about our travels and while we were in Denmark we went to Elsinore and I wrote: "One other day we made a trip to Elsinore - just opposite Sweden, which we could see quite clearly in the distance. It was bitterly cold - with icy sea breezes. We had to walk quite a long way from the railway to the castle and we got quite frozen. The castle itself was quite stark on the outside - no pretty gardens, or such things. There were a few soldiers around who had their barracks on the site of the castle. We had a tour through the castle itself - some of the rooms had antique furniture, etc. in them, but some were undecorated. We started to go on a tour round the dungeon underneath, by torchlight, but fortunately just as I was beginning to think I couldn’t possibly manage it (claustrophobia - well, fear of dark undergrounds, anyway. Imagine if you got locked in, or they fell down!), my husband decided we didn’t have time, so we slipped away back."

Elsinore (Helsingor) had a toll on ships passing so they used the town for provisioning and it did well from this. Now Swedish tourists make the day trip and enjoy shopping for much cheaper alcohol.

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Evesham






England's Orchard
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Madrid

The capital of Spain and its largest city.

While Madrid possesses a modern infrastructure, it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighbourhoods and streets. Its landmarks include the Royal Palace of Madrid; the Royal Theatre with its restored 1850 Opera House; the Buen Retiro Park, founded in 1631; the 19th-century National Library building (founded in 1712) containing some of Spain's historical archives; a large number of National museums,and the Golden Triangle of Art, located along the Paseo del Prado and comprising three art museums: Prado Museum, the Reina Sofía Museum, a museum of modern art, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, which completes the shortcomings of the other two museums. Cibeles Palace and Fountain have become the monument symbol of the city
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Derby


As home to the first factory in the world, Derby is considered the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. With the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, and due to its strategic central location, the town grew to become the foremost centre of the British rail industry.

Today, Derby is an internationally renowned centre for advanced transport manufacturing, home to the world’s second largest aero-engine manufacturer, Rolls-Royce, and the UK's only train manufacturer.
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Yarmouth

I see this is really Greater Yarmouth but for the purposes of our game it is more useful as a "Y' name. One the Norfolk broads, known earlier for it herring fishing industry. When my husband came out to NZ the menu (which was amazingly varied considering how much people mock British food of the 50s) included Grilled Yarmouth Bloaters.
Yarmouth was the first British place attacked by air in WWI with Zeppelins and in WWII it was the last place the Luffwaffe could reach before having to return to Germany.

Oil, wind farms and its birdlife are modern aspects of life in Yarmouth.
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Hartlepool

A town in the ceremonial county of County Durham.

The place name derives from Old English *heort-ieg "hart island", referring to stags seen, and pol, "pool". Records of the place-name from early sources confirm this:

649: Heretu, or Hereteu
1017: Herterpol, or Hertelpolle
1182: Hierdepol

Hart is the Old English name for a stag or deer which appears on the town's crest and le pool meant by the sea, people moved here to hunt where there were deer by the sea and eventually settled there. The petrified forest below the sea provides proof that hart (deer) did once live in a forest by the sea.
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Letchworth

A town of some 34,000 population in North Hertfordshire, built at the beginning of the 20th century.




Properly called Letchworth Garden City, it being the first town to be designed rather than just happening and a forerunner of modern New Towns.
It has the distinction of having the World's first roundabout.
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Hastings

Known most in the term Battle of Hastings even though the battle wasn't actually particularly close. Hastings was one of the Cinque Ports, and has the largest beach-based fishing fleet in England. There is also a Hastings in NZ, and it is much the same size in population as the English one. It was destroyed by the same earthquake that hit Napier (which I mentioned earlier) and that killed 93 people in Hastings. The area around it is known as The Fruit Bowl of New Zealand and has orchards and wineries.
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Letchworth

A town of some 34,000 population in North Hertfordshire, built at the beginning of the 20th century.

Properly called Letchworth Garden City, it being the first town to be designed rather than just happening and a forerunner of modern New Towns.
It has the distinction of having the World's first roundabout.
By co-incidence, in the first of the new series of 'Who Do You Think You Are' on BBC1 last night, actress Una Stubbs told us her great-grandfather, on her mother's side, was Sir Ebenezer Howard, the great town planner, who started out life in 1850 as the son of a baker in Fore Street in the City of London, a lowly shorthand writer/clerk who whilst working at the Houses of Parliament in 1881 @ 31, became interested in city reform. He laid out his vision in a book which he struggled to get published; his original draft manuscript, his designs, drawings and diagrammes are shown in the programme...the book was published in 1898 "To-Morrow - A Peaceful Path to Real Reform"... he had to advertise to get sponsorship for the movement and investors to build the first city in Letchworth, after he became founder of the Garden City Movement and an honoured son of the City of London...a second city had to be built and Una goes on a quest to find out how that came about...and the story of Welwyn Garden City is just as incredible!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b037lfg6/hd/Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are_Series_10_Una_Stubbs/

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I saw the programme last night and had no idea that Howard was Una Stubbs great granddad I also had no idea that any of last night's prog would bring the subject up when I posted No82 in this thread. Pure coincidence!
Having lived in Hertfordshire for 25 years in my other life, I know both of these towns well and indeed, they are a credit to their founder, Ebenezer Howard.
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Salisbury.

A cathedral city in Wiltshire, England.

Salisbury is located in a valley. The geology of the area, like much of South Wiltshire and Hampshire, is largely chalk. The rivers which flow through the city have been redirected, and along with landscaping, have been used to feed into public gardens. They are popular in the summer, particularly the Queen Elizabeth Gardens, as the water there is shallow and slow-flowing enough to enter safely. Close to Queen Elizabeth Gardens are water-meadows, where the water is controlled by weirs. Because of the low-lying land, the rivers are prone to flooding particularly during the winter months. The Town Path, a walkway that links Harnham with the rest of the city, is at times impassable.

A cause of concern to the people of Salisbury is the lack of adequate roads. There is no motorway that links the ports of Southampton and Bristol, so all traffic between those points must pass through the city.
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Ystrad,


A small town in the Rhondda Valley, where my Dad was born. Primarily inhabited in it's heyday by the coal mining community. Nowadays the working population tend to use it as a commuting town for places like Cardiff, Bridgend, Neath and other more lucrative industrial areas.
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Dursley is a market town in Gloucestershire, England. The town sits on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment where it drops off towards the Severn Vale and the River Severn. Dursley's main watercourse is the River Cam, and the town is surrounded by beautiful woodland and countryside. The Cotswold Way long distance trail passes through Dursley. A range of markets are held at the Market Place in the centre of the town and a Farmers Market is held there on the second Saturday of every month. Continuing urban sprawl now joins Dursley and the near-by village of Cam.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling, born in nearby Yate, named the Dursley family in the Potter books after the town.

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Yalding ...is a small village about five miles from Maidstone....the name is recorded in the Domesday book as the Saxon manor of Hallinges owned by Aldret, and that it was given to Richard de Tonbridge by William the Conqueror. The name had changed to Yaldinge by the time of the civil war (1642 - 1648). It has the longest medieval stone crossing bridge in Kent...450 ft long, constructed in the 1400's probably on the site of an old wooden structure. The hop growing industry was also within the area, but declined in the early 1900's.
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Glossop

Derbyshire..."Gateway to the High Peaks"
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Portmeirion is a popular tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. It was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975. allegedly inspired by the Italian town of Portofino.

Portmeirion's exotic architecture has inspired writers and producers of films and television programmes, the most notable being The Prisoner, the 1960s surreal spy-drama.
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Nottingham


Famous for its lace and for Trent Bridge Cricket Ground where England knocks six bells out of the Aussies!
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Mandalay.

The second-largest city and the last royal capital of Burma


Like most former (and present) capitals of Burma, Mandalay was founded on the wishes of the ruler of the day. On 13 February 1857, King Mindon founded a new royal capital at the foot of Mandalay Hill, ostensibly to fulfil a prophecy on the founding of a metropolis of Buddhism in that exact place on the occasion of the 2,400th jubilee of Buddhism.
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Ystrad Mynach

A town near Caerphilly in Glamorgan. The name apparently means something like 'the marshy flood plain in a wide valley.' The second word is the Welsh for 'monk' but this isn't the derivation of the the place name, which is actually a corruption of manach, meaning 'marshy place.' Its railway station is the last in an alphabetical list of British railway stations.
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It's odd that Portmeirion and Glossop should have been mentioned here in sequence. Portmeirion is perhaps my husband's favourite place and we go there most times we are in Britain and enjoy it so much. Glossop is one of my least favourite places; travelling through it from Sheffield to Manchester is a nightmare - it has been known to take the best part of 45 minutes to go the couple of miles through it.

Hyde - a little town in Otago, NZ. In 1943 (and just recently the subject of a documentary for its 70th anniversary) a train derailed there and killed 21 people, and injured almost 50 more. The documentary used a survivor, very young at the time and making her first trip on her own to Dunedin, and thinking that she had died and gone to hell, but puzzled about what she had done to deserve hell! The driver was speeding, shades of present-day disasters, and had been drinking. The whole business caused a lot of bitterness and irony that so many people were killed in a civilian disaster during wartime. It wasn't particularly publicised at the time (obviously the local and surrounding areas were well aware of it) because of the war, morale, other concerns, etc.
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Ealing



On the western side of Greater London.
It is known as "Queen of The Suburbs"
It is also where I lived as a child until my teens
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I can never thing of Ealing without thinking Ladykiller, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Passport to Pimlico, The Ladykillers and The Lavender Hill Mob. :)

Garden City.

A city in and the county seat of Finney County, Kansas, United States.


The first issue of "The Garden City Newspaper" appeared April 3, 1879. Three months after the paper was established, the editor stated, "There are now forty buildings in town." When the first telephone line was built, trees were growing on both sides of Main Street. These interfered with the wires, but local residents knew the value of trees in Western Kansas would not allow them to be cut, and the telephone poles were set down the center of the street. The first long distance telephone service from Garden City was a line nine miles (14 km) long, built in 1902.
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EalingOn the western side of Greater London.
It is known as "Queen of The Suburbs"
It is also where I lived as a child until my teens
Just want to let Norm know that Ealing is, and has been for quite a while, on the UP!...Two separate couples of friends bought properties there in '05/06, so have visited quite regularly, and seen continuing improvements... <star>
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...following on from Garden City

Yealand Conyers....is a village and civil parish in the English county of Lancashire.

The civil parish also includes the hamlet of Yealand Storrs. The village borders Yealand Conyers and the villages share their facilities. The shared history of the Yealands goes back to at least the Norman invasion and they are recorded in the Doomsday Book as Jalant (this is presumed to include the area that became Silverdale). The local district also has a strong Viking history as seen in many of the names of geographical features and nearby place names as well as the recent discovery of the Silverdale Hoard. Today, Yealand Redmayne is still the biggest village by area but has a smaller population than Silverdale.

The village contains a busy transport corridor as the A6 and M6 roads as well as the West Coast Mainline and the Lancaster canal all pass through the parish. There is a miniature railway track near the A6 called Cinderbarrow.
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Sevenoaks,,, is a commuter town on the edge of the Kentish Weald.The frequent train service takes 25 minutes to get to London Bridge.

In the centre of the town is Knowle House. Surrounded by a 1000 acre deer park, it is the seat of the Sackville family. The National Trust own the house and part of the grounds, but the family still live on the estate.The house appeared in the 2008 film " The Other Boleyn Girl."

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