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Somewhere in Lancashire?

Right county.
Need town

Well it would be rather embarrassing if I didn't get this. It's Preston, just down the road from where I live. The viking silver is the Cuerdale Horde. I did vaguely remember about KFC but not the phone boxes or Burch Cassidy's parents.

Well done Jill.
I try to find obscure facts about the places when I can.
Next stop is next Thursday.

After reading Jil's post on the horde, I learned a new obscure word, numismatics. I should have known this one- I have a small, unspectacular coin collection. Now, how to get this new word into the Scrabble page!

This is a two-caisson lift lock in North West England. It provides a 50-foot (15.2 m) vertical link between two navigable waterways: the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal.
What is it?

This place has the Oldest radio astronomy observatory in the world still in existence.
Where am I?

Built in the year 1795 is still in use and a well-liked tourist destination in the twenty-first century, but that is exactly the case with this amazing structure which connects England and Wales.
Tip. Water is involved.
What is it and where is it?

How about Anderton Boat Lift for the first?

Oh, my dad loves watching narrowboating shows so I feel like the phrase "Trent and Mersey Canal" is burned into my brain.

For the second, is it the Reber?

No the second is Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope originally built by people from Manchester University. It now has a large data processing centre, a couple of historic radio telescopes and an exhibition. As a bonus it also has an aboretum. I watched the Mark II telescope dish being finished from my school formroom.
My great grandmother lived in the salt works which used to be at the top of the Anderton Lift and my grandfather planned a lot of the shipping movements in that section of what became ICI.Not a fair question for me!!

For the third one Llangollen Canal?

I've been on the section that includes the Pontcysylite Aquaduct - amazing! (Just don't ask me to pronounce it)

Well done all.
I stayed that night in the town where Charles Darwin went to school
What town did I stay in?
Bonus if you can pick the pub I stayed in
It's name refers to a posting house for horse-drawn carriages.



Next days stops.
Looking for an area name this time. If you can answer the questions as well, thats good.

The anchor for the Titanic was made in this area in 1911.
Town and manufactures name. They have a replica in a town park.

What was the animal name given to the very first steam locomotive to run in the USA? (which came from this area)

The world’s first successful steam engine was built in this area.
By whom and where?

There is a very good Living museum that I visited in this area
Which town is it in?

Tonight I am in which
It was was a medieval town and its Abbey is bigger than many cathedrals also it's Norman tower is one of the largest surviving in England.
It way mentioned in a Shakespeare play "wit as thick as xxxx mustard "

Anchor:
How about Noah Hingley & Sons Ltd in Netherton, near Dudley, Black Country, United Kingdom?
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/t ... chors.html

Stourbridge Lion, built in Stourbridge.

Stuart, you stayed in Shrewsbury, where Charles Darwin went to school, I think.

The first Newcomen steam engine, used to pump water from the mines of the Lord Dudley's estates, was installed at the Conygree coal works a mile east of Dudley Castle in 1712, though this is challenged by Wolverhampton, which also claims to have been the location of the first working Newcomen engine.[20]

Is the living museum Ironbridge?

Tewkesbury is the place with the abbey and mustard