Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eastwood in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Calder.

 

[D6130]

Eastwood in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Calder.

Unfortunately, Luddenden doesn't lie on the line of the River Calder, although the village of Luddendenfoot, a couple of miles away, does....as indeed does Eastwood. However, I think we can let it go on this occasion, unless anyone else has any objections?

 

[Calthrop]

Might I carry on from Eastwood? (I was having an awful time with Luddenden .)

Eastwood lies close by a small "wilderness" stretch with the marvellous name of Jumble Hole Clough. Said name is reminiscent of Boggart Hole Clough -- park-and-garden area in Blackley, Greater Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bobbing in Kent also has a crematorium.

 

[D6130]

Might I carry on from Eastwood? (I was having an awful time with Luddenden

That's fine by me!

Ripponden in West Yorkshire also has a church dedicated to St Bartholomew.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

That's fine by me!

Thanks for your forbearance. On another quiz, that concerns itself with closed railway stations, in past years, Luddenden has been nominated when the station was that of Luddendenfoot. A note of interest being that Branwell Bronte, the brother of the Bronte sisters had a post of assistant clerk at the Manchester and Leeds Railway station there, but a sum of money was not found at audit time and although it was most likely that a porter was the offender, Branwell Bronte was deemed to be in a supervisory position and was summarily dismissed from his post there.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The strange career of Titus Oates, the inventor of the Popish Plot, included a brief period as Vicar of Bobbing. He was presented with the living by the local squire, Sir George Moore (who had recently purchased Bobbing Court) in 1673, but his drunkenness and blasphemy so horrified his parishioners that they ejected him before the end of the year. He was born in 1649 at Oakham in Rutland, and died in London in 1705, by then an obscure and largely forgotten figure.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Egleton in Rutland was also once administered by the Soke of Oakham.

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks for your forbearance. On another quiz, that concerns itself with closed railway stations, in past years, Luddenden has been nominated when the station was that of Luddendenfoot. A note of interest being that Branwell Bronte, the brother of the Bronte sisters had a post of assistant clerk at the Manchester and Leeds Railway station there, but a sum of money was not found at audit time and although it was most likely that a porter was the offender, Branwell Bronte was deemed to be in a supervisory position and was summarily dismissed from his post there.

Concerning Branwell: Wiki mentions that during his time in those parts, the Lord Nelson pub -- mentioned by @D6130 in post #25,259 -- was a favourite drinking hang-out of his.

Egleton in Rutland was also once administered by the Soke of Oakham.

Kielder, Northumberland, also lies close by a large man-made, reservoir-type, lake (Rutland Water, and Kielder Water, respectively).

 

[DerekC]

As well as a water, Kielder lends its name to a forest, the second largest in the UK. The largest is Galloway Forest, to which the town of Newton Stewart claims to be the gateway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Minnigaff in Dumfries and Galloway also lies on the line of the River Cree.

 

[Calthrop]

Cowshill, County Durham -- near Wearhead -- was also in times past, a venue for lead mining.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doogort on Achill Island in County Mayo also has a church that is dedicated to St Thomas.

 

[Calthrop]

Doogort, and Knockloughrim in Co. Londonderry, have in common: that both were founded, as villages, relatively recently (within the past couple of hundred years); and that both have in their time been, regrettably, scenes of pronounced Protestant / Catholic dissension.

 

[Springs Branch]

Building and construction materials firm FP McCann has pre-cast concrete manufacturing facilities around the UK, including at Knockloughrim and the Derbyshire village of Weston Underwood.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

A notable resident of the village for many years was the English poet and hymnwriter William Cowper (1731 – 1800). He was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, where his father John Cowper was rector of the Church of St Peter. One of the most notable quotations from his work is:
"God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm."
(From "Light Shining out of Darkness", Olney Hymns, 1779)
William Cowper died in the Spring of 1800, and is buried in the Chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury, St Nicholas's Church in East Dereham, Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oughtmama in County Clare also has a holy well.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Oughtmama lies near to the L1014 road, which runs from the N67 to the R480, passing through the village of Carron, County Clare on the way.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballyvaughan in County Clare also has a prehistoric wedge tomb within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Ballyvaughan was in an officially recognised Irish-speaking area until a few decades ago. Kilnamartyra, Co. Cork (west of Macroom) still has that distinction today.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Freshford in County Kilkenny also has a church that is dedicated to St Lachtain.

 

[Calthrop]

The great house of Uppercourt Manor is situated at Freshford. From the mid-16th to mid-17th Centuries, the house belonged to the Shee family. In 1653, Captain Sir George Ayscue, in the service of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate; was given the house in settlement of a debt of £200; the Shees were forced to leave. Capt. Sir G.A. (1616 -- 1672) was born and died in Westminster, London.

 

[D6130]

Selby in North Yorkshire also has an abbey church.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Selby's major sporting team is Selby Town FC ('the Robins'), who play in the Northern Counties East Division One and are based at the Flaxley Road Stadium in the town. One of their League opponents in the current season are Swallownest FC, who are based at the Miners Welfare Ground, Swallownest, Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moorgate in South Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Rotherham Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Moorgate in South Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Rotherham Poor Law Union.

I can find a Moorgate Road in Rotherham, but no mention of a settlement by that name?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I can find a Moorgate Road in Rotherham, but no mention of a settlement by that name?

I was informed that there was a secondary workhouse in the district of that name quite some time ago, but I cannot vouch for the veracity of this information, so I suggest the best action to take is for me to strike-through that particular posting and to leave Swallownest as the area from which the quiz should be continued.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Thanks ... as that was my contribution, I'll leave it to someone else to follow it.

 

[Calthrop]

I was informed that there was a secondary workhouse in the district of that name quite some time ago, but I cannot vouch for the veracity of this information, so I suggest the best action to take is for me to strike-through that particular posting and to leave Swallownest as the area from which the quiz should be continued.

Thanks ... as that was my contribution, I'll leave it to someone else to follow it.

Always happy to oblige... it would appear that a couple of centuries ago, in this location Swallows Nest was the name of the local toll bar and public house; the village subsequently grew up around same. There is also in Halesowen, West Midlands, a pub called the Swallow's Nest.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dryburgh in Berwickshire is another settlement chosen in which to establish a medieval Premonstratensian Abbey.