Rhynie's most famous son is probably Alexander Murdoch Mackay (1849 -- 90), who served as a missionary in Uganda from 1876 to 1890: had some difficult times there, but short of actual martyrdom for his faith -- his death, aged 40, was from malaria. Another 19th-century missionary stalwart in the -- broadly speaking -- African realm, was David Griffiths (1792 -- 1863): his missionary activity was in Madagascar, 1821 -- 42 --with some interruption owing to (as befell Mackay in Uganda) un-keen-ness on Christianity on the part of local rulers. Griffiths translated the Bible into the Malagasy language; after returning to Britain, he continued with Malagasy-language-related work. Griffiths was born near Llangadog, Carmarthenshire.
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D6130
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Littleborough in Greater Manchester also has a pub named the Red Lion.
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Sharples in Greater Manchester was also once administered by the Hundred of Salford.
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Barlow, near Selby in North Yorkshire, also gave its name to a character in the television series 'Coronation Street'.
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Grantham in Lincolnshire also has a canal society.
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Edinburgh also has a modern tram system.
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Cardiff is also the capital of a UK nation with a devolved political assembly.
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Galway in County Galway also has a rowing club.
Well-known (on that particular scene) fox-hunts -- "what pursued", nowadays varying according to nation -- bearing the name of the settlement at which they are or were based: the "Galway Blazers"; and the Pytchley Hunt -- formerly based at Pytchley, Northamptonshire (just south of Kettering) -- headquarters shifted northward in the 1960s, but name retained. (According to one account, the Blazers got their name from an incident long ago when, in a hard-drinking celebration after a hunt, they managed to burn down the hotel where they were staying.)
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Scaldwell in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Orlingbury.
There seems to be a shortage of things findable about Scaldwell -- other than voluminous stuff about industrial railways, which of course "won't wash" here. I'm reduced to: Tring, Hertfordshire, also has a church dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul.
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Perpetuating one of my regular themes, Cross Hills in North Yorkshire also has a microbrewery.
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Gargrave in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Aire.
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Barnoldswick (pronounced 'Barlick') in Lancashire (but pre-1975 in the West Riding of Yorkshire) also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal).
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Dunsop Bridge is also a settlement that was moved from Yorkshire to Lancashire.
A general theme which I have mentioned before -- though not, I think, re the above "Yorks. / Lancs." settlement -- Dunsop Bridge, and Haltwhistle, Northumberland: are rival claimants for the status of geographic centre of Great Britain. Vague feeling which I -- admittedly not a scholar of such matters -- get: is that this entire thing is a bit suspect -- assorted elaborate and rather dubious arguments can be dreamt up, for one's favoured settlement being thus, the geographic centre !
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Coanwood in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Haltwhistle Poor Law Union.
We learn that Coanwood was "anciently written" as "Collingwood", meaning "hazel trees / wood". Brings to mind (though it would seem, no direct link between the settlement and the gentleman concerned), Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, First Baron Collingwood (1748 -- 1810): a Northumbrian, and by all accounts a thoroughly "good egg", concerned re humane and just treatment of the ordinary R.N. sailor. When not at sea, the Admiral lived at Morpeth, Northumberland -- was wont to go walking in the neighbouring hills, bringing with him a pocketful of acorns: which he planted at suitable spots, with view to helping there to be, far into the future, a continuing supply of oak trees for the construction of warships.
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Kirkwhelpington in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Wansbeck.
The engineer and inventor Sir Charles Parsons (1854 -- 1931) -- best-known for invention of the compound steam turbine -- is buried, with his wife, at the parish church of Kirkwhelpington (wife's home town). He came from the Anglo-Irish "Ascendancy" Parsons family; their family seat, the castle of Birr, Co. Offaly (that settlement known 1620 -- 1901, from the family name, as Parsonstown).
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Sharavogue in County Offaly also lies on the line of the Little Brosna River.