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Topic Started: Jul 5 2013, 02:30 PM (10,212 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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ROMFORD
In The County Of Essex

The latest place in then UK to be declared a CITY
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Drove to Essex yesterday Norm...to have a recce around Chelmsford and a possible school @ Boreham for my god-daughter...ended up by the sea at Leigh having wonderful seafood culminating in a Rossi's ninety-niner along Southend's seafront!


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Doddington

...is village and civil parish in the borough of Swale in Kent, England. The Syndale Valley shelters the central part in the Kent Downs Area of outstanding natural beauty. Today the village is notable for Doddington Place Gardens, and Sharsted Court, where earthworks excavated were believed to be remains of an Iron Age Belgic Fort (100-43BC).
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NASEBY
in the County of Northamptonshire


The Battle of Naseby took place on 14 June 1645, during the English Civil War. In the area called Broad Moor a small distance north of the village the Royalist forces, commanded by King Charles I, battled the Roundhead army commanded by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron. The battle resulted in a decisive Royalist defeat.
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YARDLEY

A district of Birmingham, formerly home to the longest public house bar in the world at The Swan.
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I would not be surprised if the Swan in Yardley, had now been converted to a mosque with the longest prayer-mat facility in the Western world!
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YONKERS ...

Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of New York, behind New York City, Buffalo, and Rochester... An inner suburb of New York City, Yonkers directly borders the Bronx and is located two miles (3 km) north of Manhattan at the municipalities' closest points. The land on which the city is built was once part of a 24,000 acre land grant called Colen Donck that ran from the current Manhattan-Bronx border at Marble Hill northwards for 12 miles and from the Hudson River eastwards to the Bronx River. This grant was purchased in July 1645 by Adriaen van der Donck, the first man to practice law in what is now New York City. Van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer or Jonker (etymologically, "young gentleman," derivation of old Dutch jong (young) and heer ("lord"); in effect, "Esquire"), a word from which the name "Yonkers" is directly derived. Van der Donck built a saw mill near where the Nepperhan Creek met the Hudson; the Nepperhan is now also known as the Saw Mill River. Van der Donck was killed in the Peach War.


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Saltaire is a Victorian model village within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, West Yorkshire, England, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

It was founded in 1851 by Sir Titus Salt, a leading industrialist in the Yorkshire woollen industry. The name of the village is a combination of the founder's surname and the name of the river. Salt built neat stone houses for his workers (much better than the slums of Bradford), wash-houses with tap water, bath-houses, a hospital and an institute for recreation and education, with a library, a reading room, a concert hall, billiard room, science laboratory and a gymnasium. The village had a school for the children of the workers, almshouses, allotments, a park and a boathouse.

Because of this combination of houses, employment and social services the original town is often seen as an important development in the history of 19th century urban planning. UNESCO has designated the village as a World Heritage Site.


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St Albans
In the County of Hertfordshire






Is a city in southern Hertfordshire, England, around 19 miles (31 km) north of central London. It forms the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans. It was the first major town on the old Roman road of Watling Street for travellers heading north and became the Roman city of Verulamium. It is a historic market town and is now a dormitory town within the London commuter belt.



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Surbiton, is a suburban area of south-west London within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.
Surbiton's main claim to popular fame is as an icon of up market suburbia in such British television programmes as The Good Life. A 1972 episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus featured a mock documentary which investigated whether the residents of Hounslow, another London area suburb, had long ago been descendants of the people of Surbiton "who had made the great trek north."
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NEATH

In The County Of Glamorgan



Birthplace of many professional entertainers including:-
Richard Burton, Ivor Emanuel, Ray Milland, Katherine Jenkins, Bonnie Tyler and others
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HUSBANDS BOSWORTH

In The County Of Leicestershire





A BRIEF HISTORY OF BOSWORTH...from the village's website







The area around Husbands Bosworth was probably first settled soon after the departure of the Romans in 409AD. when the whole of the country was in a state of flux. The Saxons invaded Britain from northern Germany and pushed far inland.

This area would have been viewed as prime agricultural land with it's rich, loamy, free-draining soil, gently rolling countryside and plentiful water supplies.

The word "worth" derives from the Saxon word for farm or clearing, and Baresworde, the earliest recorded name for the settlement possibly denotes Bar's farm or settlement. Likewise Theoda settled land to the east which became Theddingworth, and Cyfel went west to settle Kilworth.

When the Danes invaded in the 800's they too came to the local area, and settled close to the established Anglo-Saxon villages. From the place-name endings we know that the Danes were at Shearsby, Arnesby, Lubenham, Bruntingthorpe and Walton.

All these settlements were well established at the time the Normans invaded and over-ran the country in 1066. William the Conqueror divided his new territory up into easily controlled estates by giving lands to his faithful knights. We know from Bosworth's entry in the Domesday survey commissioned by William in 1086 that manors or fees in Bosworth, along with lands in other areas were allocated to four of William's trusted knights.

By 1130 much of the Bosworth lands had passed to one Robert Fitz Ansketil, a Norman lord, who had established a holding big enough to justify living on-site! With the permanency afforded to the settlement at this time came the building of the first church. By 1220 the village had expanded to such a degree that it could afford to build and support a stone church, and parts of the present church date back to this time. The body of the church was altered and rebuilt in the 1300's and the existing church tower dates from this time.

There is evidence in field marks and earthworks to suggest that the original settlement, or possibly a parallel settlement, existed to the west of the present village to the north of the Kilworth Road. That there are no solid remains apart from the undulations in the pasture would suggest that this settlement was abandoned at a time before substantial buildings were being constructed. The site may have been superseded by a better plot, amalgamated by marriage or ownership, or abandoned as unclean after the Plague in the mid 1300's.

By 1531 parts of Bosworth had passed into the hands of the Dixie family who also owned land in another place called Bosworth some 30 miles to the west. It was possibly at this time that the need arose to differentiate between the two places. The larger market town became known as Market Bosworth while the smaller farming village became Husbandmen's Bosworth; the farmer's Bosworth.


The articles on this page are based on research by members of the Husbands Bosworth Historical Society.



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HARTLIP ...

...is a village and civil parish in the borough of Swale, in the county of Kent. The name Hartlip derives from the Old English hliep, which meant a gate or fence. In combination with heorot (hart or stag), the name therefore means a "gate over which harts leap". The first recorded version of the name was Heordlyp in the 11th century. The population estimate was 680 in 1991, and in 2001 there were 566 registered voters. The village covers 1422.547 acres (5.8 km²) and is in an agricultural region of high quality fruit farming, hops and grain.
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PONTEFRACT
In the County of Yorkshire



Home of the delectable liquorice confectionary..."Pontefract Cakes"
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Tamworth is a large market town and local government district in Staffordshire.

It is the home of the historic Tamworth Castle and Moat House. The town was the ancient capital of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia.The Victorian Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel served as the town's Member of Parliament from 1830 until his death in 1850. He lived at the nearby Drayton Manor. It was in Tamworth that Robert Peel unveiled his Tamworth Manifesto in 1834 which created what is now the modern Conservative Party.

The Tamworth is a breed of domestic pig originating in Tamworth. It is among the oldest of pig breeds but as with many older breeds of livestock it is not well suited to modern production methods and is listed as "Vulnerable" in the UK by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust.
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Tamworth to a NZer means Tamworth, New South Wales. Wikipedia says, "The city is known as the "First City of Lights", being the first place in Australia to use electric street lights in 1888.[3] Tamworth is also famous as the "Country Music Capital of Australia", annually hosting the Tamworth Country Music Festival in late January; the second biggest country music festival in the world. The city is recognised as the "National Equine Capital of Australia"[4] because of the high volume of equine events held in the city and the construction of the world class Australian Equine and Livestock Events Centre, the biggest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere." It is an honour for young singers to go to Tamworth.

HELSINKI - capital of Finland and its chief seaport. Founded in 1550 and becoming the capital while Finland was under Russian rule in 1812. Very modern looking city and chosen as the World Design Capital in 2012. It is the most northernmost city to have over a million inhabitants.
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Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey. It is a transcontinental city, straddling the Bosphorus—one of the world's busiest waterways—in northwestern Turkey, between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its commercial and historical centre lies in Europe, while a third of its population lives in Asia. Founded on the Sarayburnu promontory around 660 BC as Byzantium, the city now known as Istanbul developed to become one of the most significant cities in history

For nearly sixteen centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in 330 AD, it served as the capital of four empires: the Roman Empire (330–395), the Byzantine Empire (395–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922).[

Although the Republic of Turkey established its capital in Ankara, palaces and imperial mosques still line Istanbul's hills as visible reminders of the city's previous central role.
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LETCHWORTH

In the County of Hertfordshire



Designed by Ebenezer Howard, this is the World's first "Garden City" and also the place where the UK's first roundabout was built in 1909
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Caro

1909! That's very early, Norm. I have often wondered who had the bright idea of roundabouts. I had assumed they must have been an American idea, but apparently America doesn't use roundabouts. Wonderful, if rather frightening things when you aren't sure of where you are going. We had episodes of driving round them three times deciding where to go.

HANMER SPRINGS

A small town in the South Island of NZ. It has natural hot springs which have been made a tourist attraction. It is a beautiful alpine town so you can be in the hot pools surrounded by snow, certainly by hills and trees.
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Caro,
The village in which I live, borders the new town of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. They call that "the town of a thousand roundabouts" and that is a pretty true description. They even have roundabouts with traffic lights on them, which, to me, totally defeats the whole concept of roundabouts.
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Skipton...

is a market town and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is located on the course of the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to the south of the Yorkshire Dales; recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, it played roles in history during the English Civil War and as the site of a prisoner of war camp during the First World War.

Home to one of the oldest mills in North Yorkshire, historical documents indicate High Corn Mill dates to 1310 when it was owned by Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, at this point it was transferred to the powerful Clifford family by the then King Edward II. The mill as it appears today is only half of what used to exist when two mills were in operation to produce corn for the whole of Skipton. It has been completely redesigned, from the mill grounds to the buildings themselves. The outside walls of the mill have been sandblasted and the two main buildings of the old mill have been turned into flats. Chocolatier Whittakers, now based in the town, were established in 1889 in nearby Cross Hills. Ida Whittaker began making chocolates there in 1903, taught by the wife of the vicar of Kildwick.
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THE NEEDLES
Alum Bay, Isle Of Wight


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The Needles is a row of three distinctive stacks of chalk that rise out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, UK, close to Alum Bay. The Needles Lighthouse stands at the outer, western end of the formation. Built in 1859, it has been automated since 1994.

The formation takes its name from a fourth needle-shaped pillar called Lot's Wife that collapsed in a storm in 1764.[3] The remaining rocks are not at all needle-like, but the name has stuck
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Scarborough...

Delightful Victorian-style seaside town on the north sea coast of North Yorkshire...deep sandy beaches, accessed via a vernacular built into St Nicholas Cliff...take a visit to Scalby Mills on an open top bus, stop off for a Guinness, sausages embraced in huge Yorkshire puddings and a lovely view of Scarborough Castle; then alight the tiny steam train for a trip around Peasholm Park's landscaped gardens. The Castle itself offers fantastic views of the Yorkshire coast and expansive castle grounds. Whilst up there, it's worth a look at Anne Bronte's grave at St Mary's Church off the Castle Road, after she died there in 1849, although in April last year she has been given a new gravestone after 164 years to correct an error on the original which still stands there...it was refaced three years after her death, when Charlotte returned to discover five errors on it. The other mistakes were corrected but the age was not...it gave her age as 28 whereas she was actually 29 (a lady would not mind that error in the slightest!) <happy>

You can stand on the jetty and watch fishermen like Andy Scarboro' alight with a trio of lobsters like my friend did last week, although I doubt whether he will make a generous gift of them to you like he did to my friend!...or eat glorious fish and chips (cooked in beef dripping) sitting on the sea wall in the moonlight...or walking along the promenade and into the ice cream parlour for the best ever knickerbocker glory. Going up at the weekend..
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Herbert

is a small town in North Otago, NZ on the main arterial route, State Highway One. It originally had the Maori name of Otepopo but is called Herbert after Sidney Herbert, British Secretary of War during the Crimean War and confidante of Florence Nightingale. Herbert has three churches and a few houses; its school closed in 2010 when the pupils numbered 4. Herbert is near a large forest plantation which is a drawcard for hunters and trampers. Close to Herbert, Waianakarua is home to the oldest stone bridge still used on a New Zealand highway. Its main industry is a poultry farm.


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TREHERBERT
In the county of Glamorgan


Treherbert is a village and community situated at the head of the Rhondda Fawr valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Treherbert is a former industrial coal mining village which was at its economic peak between 1850 and 1920. Treherbert is the upper most community of the Rhondda Fawr.
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Thames

Town of around 8000 people in the Coromandel, a peninsula across from Auckland, NZ. Thames was settled by Maori in the 15th century and when gold was discovered the population boomed so it become one of the largest towns in NZ. It also was a place where kauri trees were milled. In later times it became a service town for farming families, and in recent years the Coromandel generally has become a tourist destination with warm weather and plenty of historical attractions.
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Shepperton

.... is a town in the borough of Spelthorne, Surrey. To the South it is bounded by the river Thames at Desborough Island and is bisected by the M3 motorway. It is equidistant between the north Surrey towns of Chertsey to the west and Sunbury-on-Thames to the east. The name is derived from 'Shepherd's Town' and the name of one of the older streets, Sheep Walk, still reflects that origin. Shepperton Studios are located here. Many films were made here such as Carol Reed's The Third Man, Harry Enfield's Kevin and Perry Go Large, Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein and John Huston's "The African Queen".
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Ngaruawahia

a town in the Waikato, the home of the Maori king and the main marae (Maori meeting house) in NZ, Turangawaewae
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Ayr

"Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses
For honest men and bonie lasses."
Robert Burns

I was born and grew up a few yards from a stone tower which is all that remains of the parish church where Robert the Bruce once held a parliament.

As this church lay within the bounds of the citadel which Oliver Cromwell built, he took it over for stabling and storage and paid for the building of the present Auld Kirk.
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Rotorua ~ town in the North Island of New Zealand, known for its hot mud pools and natural bubbling boiling mud coming out of the ground and smell of sulphur. A Maori community - I remember going there in the company of Maori people and having a swim naked in one of the hot pools. (Though they wore towels to the water's edge and then the discoloured water kept you out of sight.) A major tourism centre.
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Abersoch ~ is a village in the community of Llanengan in Gwynedd, Wales. It is a popular coastal seaside resort with about 1,000 inhabitants, on the east-facing south coast of the Llŷn Peninsula at the southern terminus of the A499. Stayed there two years ago in July...busy, busy, busy with four-wheel drivers!
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Holt ~ is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk. The town is 22.8 miles north of the city of Norwich, 9.5 miles west of Cromer and 35 miles east of King's Lynn....or according to the Guardian "It's a vintage town for those who want to look like George Orwell." .... Visited this bank holiday weekend...can confirm it's still there!
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Tarbolton

A few years before his first collection of poems was published, Robert Burns co-founded the Tarbolton Bachelors' Club in this curious red-shuttered, thatched 17th-century house. It was here that he learned to dance, became a Freemason and created a men-only debating society.

Bachelors' Club is a must-see for Burns fans and gives a rare insight into the secrets of male social life of the age. Downstairs is an 18th-century living space, while upstairs are the meeting rooms once used by Burns and his friends. In 1937 the house faced demolition, but it was rescued for the nation by the Burns Federation and the National Trust for Scotland, opening to the public in 1971.
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Nether Wallop is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire. It is located approximately 3.7 miles northwest of Stockbridge, and approximately 7 miles southwest of Andover.

It is one of a trio of villages known as 'The Wallops' - the other two being Over Wallop and Middle Wallop. The name "Wallop" derives from the Old English words waella and hop, which taken together roughly mean "the valley of springing water".

The village was used as the setting for St. Mary Mead, the fictional home of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
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Palmerston North ~ a town in the North Island of NZ, not very imaginatively named since there is a smaller one called Palmerston in the South Island. PN is affectionately known as Palmy. Both these Palmerstons are named after the 19th century British PM, Lord Palmerston. It was named in a list of Towns that get a bad rap and why you should give them a chance. https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/96350236/new-zealand-cities-that-get-a-bad-rap--and-why-you-should-give-them-a-chance. PN's apparent charms include Victoria Esplanade, a Rugby Museum, rose gardens, good restaurants and a craft brewer.
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Hell is a village in the Lånke area of the municipality of Stjørdal in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It often freezes over.

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a village in Anglesey noted only for the length of its name.
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Henley ~ a town in both England and New Zealand, both associated with water. Henley-on-Thames is the site of the Henley Regatta, and Henley in NZ is prone to flooding and just recently was quite cut off by floods.

I am away for the next few days, so won't be posting till I am back on Wednesday.
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Yeovilton Home of the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
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Nailsworth is a town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, lying in one of the Stroud Valleys in the Cotswolds.

It holds a farmers' market every fourth Saturday in the month. Local events such as the market and the Nailsworth Festival are announced by the town crier.

It has a good assortment of independent shops , including a bakery, a delicatessen, (sells excellent cheeses) a fishmonger, a hardware store, a butchers, craft shops and bookshops and art galleries.







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Helensburgh situated on the north bank of the upper Firth of Clyde.

Here Henry Bell introduced the paddle steamer "Comet", the first commercial steamship in Europe.
Also noted for The Hill House, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
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A well-known reply by residents of Hove when asked if they live in Brighton is "Hove, actually" thus maintaining a distinction with their less genteel neighbour.

As part of local government reform, Brighton and Hove were merged, to form the borough of Brighton and Hove in 1997. In 2000, the new borough officially attained city status
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The historic Scottish town of Eyemouth, 5 miles north of the border with England, boasts a natural harbour and fine coastal scenery.
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Hay-on-Wye, is a small market town in the county of Powys in Wales

With over twenty bookshops, it is often described as "the town of books", and is both the National Book Town of Wales and the site of the annual Hay Literary Festival.
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The village of Edenfield lies in East Lancashire between Ramsbottom and Rawtenstall.

The only notable thing about it for me is that I used to pass through it frequently when I spent a few years in Rawtenstall many years ago.
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Denniston ~ we have had enough towns ending in 'n' but Denniston is one I have very strong memories of. Denniston is a place on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It was and still is known as a coal-mining town, and is up a high hill, so the coal had to be carted down in a train. Some women went up to be with their husbands and never left the very small township because they would have had to come down on a pulley type of thing. When I was first married I went there one day while my husband was on a teaching course. I bought a book of things to do in the South Island by road, and it mentioned Denniston, but I didn't read it throughly enough and didn't notice the part about high winding road. Not only that - in those days it had coal trucks coming down on blind bends. By the time I got to the top I was so terrified I just had a quick look and came straight down again!

Some years later a book was written called The Denniston Rose, which was a best-seller in NZ.
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Naseby is a village in the District of Daventry in Northamptonshire, England. nearby was fought, in 1645, the decisive battle of the English Civil War.
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Naseby is also a town in NZ, known for its curling and gold-mining and bracing air. My grandfather, gassed in the war and suffering from the after-effects of TB, used to spent his winters there.

Yeovil ~ probably best known for its football cllub
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Largs - a coastal town in the north of Ayrshire.
The Battle of Largs (2 October 1263) began the decline of Norwegian occupation of the Western Isles.



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Settle, Yorkshire. Framed by stunning countryside and iconic landmarks, the quaint town of Settle is an ideal stop for walkers, outdoor lovers and those looking for peace and quiet. Nestled in the shadow of the striking Castleberg Crag, this sleepy town is famous for its lively outdoor market, breathtaking railway line and Victoria Hall. (The Settle to Carlisle Railway was the last great mainline railway to be built in this country. Completed for passenger travel in 1876 by the Midland Railway Company, it had taken six years to build. For the 19th century engineers, the landscape presented a tremendous challenge to their ingenuity, skills and abilities.)

Caro, I'm not sure Yeovil Town FC is quite as famous as it was in the days of the sloping pitch. I think Yeovil might be better known these days for its association with the aircraft and defence industries (and the resignation of Michael Heseltine over the Westland affair). I was surprised, though, that Dai didn't mention Nailsworth's football team, Forest Green Rovers, the only vegan football club in the land.

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Emsworth is a small town in Hampshire on the south coast of England, near the border of West Sussex. It lies at the north end of an arm of Chichester Harbour, a large and shallow inlet from the English Channel. It has been a port since the 14th Century. In the 18th and 19th Centuries it was a centre for shipbuilding, boat building and rope making. Cricket in Emsworth has been played at the same ground, Cold Harbour Lawn, since 1761. (ticks please note)

The connection with P.G.Wodehouse is his character Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, owner of the fabled pig. Empress of Blandings.
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Despite it being an island, there aren't actually many beaches in Ireland. The coast is too rugged.

But SANDYMOUNT Strand, south of Dublin, is close to me in location and close to my heart.
I often make wee Sunday morning trips to that strange little beach and that lovely little town.

In Joyce's "Ulysses", Leopold Bloom gets a certain pleasure on that beach, involving wee Gertie...
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The subject should begin with the the last letter of the previous post's subject - sorry to be pedantic[/i]
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dai Cottomy
Feb 10 2018, 12:11 PM
The subject should begin with the the last letter of the previous post's subject - sorry to be pedantic

I think she was taking 'Blandings' to have been the subject.
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Heckmondwike is a town in Weest Yorkshire of which I know little.

I first came across it many years ago in a magazine for Boy Scouts where the contributor of a regular feature conflated its name with those of the neighboring towns of Cleckheaton and Liversadge to name a fictitious town Cleckliversedgemondwike.
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Easingwold is a small market town, electoral ward and a civil parish in North Yorkshire. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire. It is located about 12 miles north of York, at the foot of the Howardian Hills.

Easingwold is a picturesque Georgian Town with the reputation of being "an essential foodie pit stop"due to its abundance of good eating places.
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Dunure is a fishing village about 8 miles south of Ayr. It has the ruins of one of the castles the Kennedys built on the edge of cliffs on the South Ayrshire coast.

If I could remember how to post photos here, I could have shown you some.
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Feb 8 2018, 09:21 PM
Despite it being an island, there aren't actually many beaches in Ireland. The coast is too rugged.

But SANDYMOUNT Strand, south of Dublin, is close to me in location and close to my heart.
I often make wee Sunday morning trips to that strange little beach and that lovely little town.

In Joyce's "Ulysses", Leopold Bloom gets a certain pleasure on that beach, involving wee Gertie...
I know this is out of sync, but I've only just seen May-Cee's post!

There is a wonderful beach nr Cork at Clonakilty and nestled on it is the Inchydonney Island Lodge & Spa****, where I stayed specifically for recuperation & hydrotherapy treatment, taking long walks on the sandy beach...found masses of razor clams...have kept their shells as a memento in a special glass pot in my kiTchen to this day... stayed there for a week and visited many interesting places around West Cork's 'Michael Collins county' and historic sites such as Timoleague Abbey where I noticed many ancient headstones with 'Margaret' on them...Mrs Thatcher would be pleased...and the Drombeg stone circle at Glandore. The high point (of many) was a special trip involving car and boat all to spend a day with friends whose family house is on Sherkin Island, off the main coast and accessible by ferry from Baltimore via Skibbereen, another beautiful part of the country. No traffic allowed on Sherkin so we were picked up and taken to the house, and later after a delicious home-cooked Irish lunch accompanied by an especially fine malt whiskey, hic! 😉, given a tour of the island balancing in a trailer on the back of a tractor!
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Feb 10 2018, 03:00 PM
dai Cottomy
Feb 10 2018, 12:11 PM
The subject should begin with the the last letter of the previous post's subject - sorry to be pedantic

I think she was taking 'Blandings' to have been the subject.
I think rather that May-Cee meant Sandymount to be the subject which is why she put it in caps! 😉 Either way it didn't follow on!
Edited by Mobson, Feb 16 2018, 05:05 PM.
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Feb 16 2018, 05:02 PM
Douglas
Feb 10 2018, 03:00 PM
dai Cottomy
Feb 10 2018, 12:11 PM
The subject should begin with the the last letter of the previous post's subject - sorry to be pedantic

I think she was taking 'Blandings' to have been the subject.
I think rather that May-Cee meant Sandymount to be the subject which is why she put it in caps! 😉 Either way it didn't follow on!
Dai and I were both referring to the previous post's subject.
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East Kilbride ~ town near Glasgow. I was a bit surprised when wikipedia told me that it was designed in 1947, since my grandmother used to talk about it in her letters written during the first world war. But I see this is the new East Kilbride, inside which is situated the old East Kilbride. It is apparently named for an Irish saint, a fact that I find hard to reconcile with my grandmother's strict Protestantism. The nearest town to the south is Strathaven (pronounced Straven) which is where my grandmother lived as a child and young woman.
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Ecclefechan - a small village about 8 miles NW of Gretna.
It is famous for being the birthplace of poet and author Thomas Carlyle.
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Norwich ~ England's Norfolk County. Northeast of the centre, medieval Norwich Cathedral is a Romanesque building with ornate cloisters. Two imposing gates, St. Ethelbert’s and Erpingham, lead to the Tombland area, once a Saxon marketplace. Nearby, the Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell traces local history, including a re-created old pharmacy and exhibits on the textile industry. The formerly named Norwich Union Pension trust building is worth a visit by appointment of course!

I'm rather fond of this city which I love visiting since one of my dearest friends moved there...I've been so often that nowadays we usually take the bus from Norwich to Cromer...eat fish and chips high on the cliffs on a bench overlooking the North Sea, pop into a nearby hotel for a pee and a hot water handwash and then visit the best wet fishmongers in Cromer to buy crab and indecently cheap lobster!!! 😜 🦀 👏
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Haslingden ~ A village south of Accrington in Lancs.
As far as I am concerned, it's main claim to fame is having given its name to the nearby Haslingden Tunnel of Manchester's Haweswater Aqueduct. I spent some time on it as a site engineer in the early fifties.
One night, the Briton's Protection pub on Lower Moseley Street in Manchester was packed with a mixture of civvies and American servicemen who werewaiting for a bus back to Burtonwood from the nearby bus-station. One of the Americans, thinking he had plenty of support, picked a fight with one of the civvies. What he didn't know was that all the civvies were Polish tunnel miners from that job waiting for their bus back to Rawtenstall.
Result:- Poland 1 USA Nil.
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Nightcaps ~ a small town in Southland near where I was brought up. It is a coal-mining town and like those everywhere (I presume) has a reputation of roughness and toughness. When I was young our families were reluctant to let us go to the dances around for young people, since the "Nightcaps boys" might attend (they didn't always, and when they did you knew!) and that was undesirable for parents. Not that they did anything much, apart from be noisy.
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Saltcoats ~ A small town in North Ayrshire where my mother was born.

It got its name from the salt panning that once was carried out there.
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May-Cee

Actually, I just glanced at the thread for the first time ever and didn't know there was a rule! I only read the few threads I join in with, so
Wordsnake was no use to me - never once seen it!
Incidentally, I noticed Tick has changed the rules of Don't Let Me Drown...

Nice wee post, Mobs, enjoyed that. You know my land better than I do!
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Well spotted May-Cee. Blame it on senile dementia - or the fact that I've been posting on a similarly named thread on another board where the rules are as for 'change a letter'.

Nice place, Norwich. I worked there for several months about 20 years ago and recently went back to meet up with an old work colleague. We had lunch at the cafe attached to the prison, which serves great value food, provides employment opportunities for some of the inmates and commands a fantastic view across the city.

Sandhurst ~ a small town in south-east Berkshire, bordering Hampshire and Surrey, and best known for - and more or less synonymous with - the Royal Military Academy. Sandhurst has a strong tug of war team which has(have?) been national champions 8 times, world club champions 3 times and European club champions twice. If you happen to be in Sandhurst at ten o'clock of a Monday morning, you'll be able to hear the siren being tested at Broadmoor high security hospital in neighbouring Crowthorne.

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Totnes is a market town at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, and within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is about 22 miles south-west of Exeter.

The town is a thriving centre for music, art, theatre and natural health. It has a sizeable alternative community, and is known as a place in which to live a bohemian lifestyle.

In 2007 Totnes was the first town in Britain to introduce its own local alternative currency, the Totnes pound, to support the local economy of the town. Fourteen months later, 70 businesses within the town were trading in the "Totnes Pound," accepting them as payment and offering them to shoppers as change from their purchases.
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Ahh Totnes! What memories I have when in my late teens my boyfriend and I were on our summer 'Lambretta and One Tent' tour of Devon and Cornwall and visited his great Aunt Marjorie and Uncle Douglas, who lived in a beautiful old house at Totnes overlooking the Dart, for traditional afternoon tea at which we had to concoct a 'porky pie' about our living conditions! We were as free as the birds, living on love and local mackerel that my own beloved fisherman caught; Boy, he was such a gifted fisherman and the parable of the feeding of 5,000 from five loaves and two small fish came to mind one summery evening when he fed virtually a whole campsite with his abundant catch!

Shetland...Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago that lies northeast of the island of Great Britain and forms part of Scotland in the United Kingdom, its a unique place of peace, pure air and wide open spaces. I've a desire to go visit it someday perhaps because I'm currently watching a series of the same name on BBC tv!
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Dunedin ~ my university city. A lovely little city, full of big old (by NZ standards) buildings. Dunedin is very reliant on the students for its liveliness and is known as the student party town (although now in this more puritan age the authorities have come down quite hard on drinking and bad behaviour. Especially since students at an impromptu concert held at one of the student flats came through the balcony and someone was badly injured). Students come from all over NZ for its atmosphere.
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Newton Stewart
This picturesque and friendly market town was founded in the mid 17th century by William Stewart, youngest son of the 2nd Earl of Galloway. The "New Town of Stewart" was granted Burgh status by charter from King Charles II, allowing a weekly market and two annual fairs to be held.
Sited on the banks of the River Cree, the town has prospered and may be regarded as a gateway for the Galloway Hills to the north and east, and to the historically important area known as the Machars to the south & west.
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Tonbridge is a market town in the county of Kent. It is located upon the River Medway, approximately 4 miles north of Royal Tunbridge Wells

The town has largely retained its market town atmosphere and has many attractions to visitors and residents alike, including the well-maintained Castle Gatehouse, a large country park and activities based around the river. Tonbridge School, founded in 1553 by Sir Andrew Judde, is a major independent school for boys, which is in the centre of the town.

The United Kingdom's first speeding fine was handed out by Tonbridge Petty Sessions court in 1896. The guilty driver was a Mr Walter Arnold of East Peckham, who was fined one shilling for speeding at 8 miles per hour in a 2 mph zone in Paddock Wood, in his Karl Benz powered car. Mr Arnold was apprehended by a policeman who had given chase on his bicycle.



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Eastwood is a former coal mining town in the Broxtowe district of Nottinghamshire, England, 8 miles northwest of Nottingham and 10 miles northeast of Derby on the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Mentioned in Domesday Book, it expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution and is the birthplace of D. H. Lawrence, who mentioned the area in many of his novels, especially "The White Peacock", against a backdrop of industrialisation. There were ten coal mines, or "pits", within easy walking distance of Lawrence's home, and the overwhelming majority of the local male population were colliers. Although the coal boom ended during Lawrence's childhood, the local Moorgreen Colliery still produced one million tons of coal in 1963, and the last coal mine in the area did not close until 1985.

In recent years, tourism has become increasingly important. Lawrence's birthplace is now a museum, and a painted line on the pavement, called the "Blue Line Trail," guides visitors around eleven sites of local interest including three of Lawrence's homes. The trail was the first of its kind in England, the concept being based on the Freedom Trail in Boston, USA.

(With acknowledgement to Wikipedia.)

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Dorchester is the county town of Dorset. It is situated between Poole and Bridport.
on the banks of the River Frome to the south of the Dorset Downs.

Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy based the fictional market town of Casterbridge on Dorchester, and his novel The Mayor of Casterbridge is set there.

The land immediately south and west of the town is part of the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is traversed by the South Dorset Ridgeway, part of the South West Coast Path. There are over five hundred ancient monuments along the chalk hills that form the ridgeway, including barrows, stone circles and hillforts; many archaeological finds from the area are on view at the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester.
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Coincidentally, Dai, I am just now reading Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (it is our bookclub book this month).

Rotherham is a mining town in South Yorkshire, famous for steel, iron and coal. We were in Sheffield in 2007 when there was a big flood which affected Rochester and nearby Doncaster, on a day when my husband went to pick my uncle from the train there in flooded waters. We weren't at all sure they would get back that day, but they did. We enjoyed the Magna Science Centre there. I see it has the Catcliffe Glass Cone, the oldest structure of its kind in Western Europe and I wonder why we didn't visit that.
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Maybole in South Ayrshie is the 'Ancient Capital of Carrick', situated about eight miles south of Ayr.
I was looking to see what I could say about it, other than my father had been its Postmaster before he retired in the early sixties, when I came across this video.
https://vimeo.com/244471723
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Ettrick ~ there's probably a few Ettricks in the world but the one I am thinking of is a small town in Central Otago quite near where I live and on the road to Queenstown which you may have heard of. This area is known for its summer fruit, and Ettrick was the first place in NZ to grow apples commercially. It was also on the gold trail in Otago, which brought wealth to the area in the early days.
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Kirkoswald is a village located 4 miles south-west of Maybole.
The National Trust for Scotland maintain here the cottage of Souter Johnnie,
Tam o' Shanter's "ancient, trusty, drouthy crony;
Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither;
They had been fou for weeks thegither."
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Doddington is a village and civil parish in the district of Swale in Kent. The Syndale Valley shelters the central part in the Kent Downs Area of outstanding natural beauty. Of note is Doddington Place Gardens*...the lovely landscaped gardens, recognised of being of historical importance by English Heritage, are set in the grounds of an imposing Victorian mansion and cover ten acres. They've been open in aid of the National Gardens Scheme for more than fifty years. http://www.doddingtonplacegardens.co.uk

p.s. *I got my Guider Leader badge whilst camping out in the grounds way back when! <cool>
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Noirmoutier ~ town in France where my husband's Uncle George has a Commonwealth gravestone. We were always under the understanding that he was killed at Dunkirk but it now seems he may have been on the Lancastria. Neither of the dates quite fit with his date of death which was in August, not May or June. The town was accessible only at certain times of the day when the tide was low and the bridge or causeway or whatever it was called not submerged.
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Rutherglen, pronounced Ruglen, was until 1975 a Royal Burgh contiguous with the City of Glasgow. It was then swallowed up by the City of Glasgow District Council until, in1996, it was spewed out into the South Lanarkshire council area.
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Napier, a small city in New Zealand, most famous for its Art Deco buildings built after the 1931 earthquake which left it in ruins.
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