Here at Biddulph Nub News we post around 25 articles a week all about lovely Biddulph.

But did you know there is another Biddulph located over 3,500 miles away across the Atlantic ocean?

Lucan Biddulph is a town of around 4,700 people in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It was formed in 1999 by amalgamating the village of Lucan with the neighbouring town of Biddulph. The population is split roughly half and half between Lucan and Biddulph.

So what is life like in the other Biddulph?

Lucan Biddulph is an agricultural community with fertile soils used for growing crops and raising livestock, and many of the township's residents are employed in the agricultural sector.

The town took its name from a man called John Biddulph, who was one of the earliest directors of the Canada Company, a large British land development company which was created to aid in the colonisation of Upper Canada.

The town began to prosper in the 1850s when an important railway line opened which passed through the area. The opening attracted more settlers and a post office opened soon after.

The town is known for being the site of the brutal Donnelly Massacre in 1880, where five members of an immigrant Irish family caught up in a long-standing local feud were killed. Nobody was convicted of their murders, although the crime has been noted as being one of the most horrific in the history of Canada.

The area experienced a record snowfall known as "snowmaggedon" in 2010, when almost two metres of snow fell within around 100 hours.

Lucan Biddulph is also known for its "Baconfest", a festival which celebrates bacon, motorcycles, and live music. It was started in 2014 by local businesses and residents and is held every July, now attracting around 30,000 people every year.

The town is home to a number of sports teams including the Lucan Irish, a junior hockey team that plays in the Provincial Junior Hockey League, and the Lucan FC football team (or soccer, as they would call it).

One of the town's greatest ever athletes is Alexander Noble Garrett, who excelled at a number of different sports. In particular, he was the goalkeeper on the Canadian soccer teams that toured Britain in 1888 and 1891. Later he was the sports editor of the Toronto World newspaper for many years.

So that's what life is like in a town thousands of miles away that happens to share a name with us here in Biddulph! Do we share many similarities other than the name? Possibly not, but perhaps they would also be interested to learn about their namesake over in Staffordshire, England.