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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scarrington in Nottinghamshire was also once under jurisdiction of the Bingham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Scarrington in Nottinghamshire was also once under jurisdiction of the Bingham Poor Law Union.

Harpham, East Riding of Yorkshire (between Bridlington and Driffield), also has a church dedicated to St. John of Beverley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ruston Parva in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Dickering Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

I usually know nothing, and care less, about popular music; but learn that the Leeds-based ensemble for same, the Kaiser Chiefs: chose previously for a while, to name themselves "Runston Parva" -- after the abovementioned East Riding settlement; whether the interpolated "n" was deliberate -- or was a genuine mistake on those guys' part -- who knows?

 

[DerekC]

Leeds has a claim to be the location where Joseph Priestley first created artificially carbonated water. However it seems that in fact William Brownrigg created the product nearly thirty years earlier in Whitehaven, Cumbria. Both men were awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lamplugh in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Whitehaven Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

Seaton in Cumbria is also in the CA14 postcode district.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colwyn Bay in Conwy County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to St Paul.

 

[Calthrop]

Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884 -- 1971), architect acclaimed for his designs of buildings at various locations in North Wales, and reckoned one of the first industrial landscape architects in Britain: was born, and lived for most of his life, in Colwyn Bay. In World War I, he was in the Royal Naval Air Service -- was a Chief Petty Officer in the Aircraft Design Department at Crystal Palace, South London (no dangerous stuff in France for our Sidney).

 

[DerekC]

The Great North Wood once covered the area of South London in which Crystal Palace lies. It extended south almost as far as Croydon and north as far as Deptford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peckham in south-east London also lies on the surface water line of the River Peck.

 

[johnnychips]

Peckham was the domain of Rodney and DelBoy in Only Fools and Horses. The principal actor, David Jason, also appeared in Open All Hours, whose outside shop scenes were filmed in Balby, Doncaster.

 

[Calthrop]

The south Dublin suburb of Saggart also has a pub called the Maple Tree.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clondalkin in south Dublin also lies on the line of the River Camac.

 

[Calthrop]

Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, also has an admired example of that uniquely Irish historical / architectural feature, the isolated round tower. That at Clondalkin is reckoned to date from the 8th century; Roscrea's, from the 12th ditto.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Roscrea brooch, a 9th-century silver Celtic brooch, was found in the town around 1829.

Modern interpretations of celtic jewellery are still produced and sold. One modern-day manufacturer is Celtic Art Ltd, located in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

South Blantyre in South Lanarkshire also lies on the line of the waterway, quaintly named Rotton Calder Water

 

[Calthrop]

While I'm no scholar of languages: it would appear likely that, via "old tongues of Britain", the names of Blantyre, and Blaengarw (County Borough of Bridgend) come from related roots: respectively, blaen tir = "top of the land"; and Blaengarw = "rugged front or head of the valley" (of the River Garw).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangeinor in Bridgend County Borough also lies on the line of the River Garw.

 

[Calthrop]

Llangeinor was the home of Richard Price (1723 -- 1791): an economist and mathematician of international renown -- including expertise on bayesian probability: he having edited and published the writings concerning same, of Thomas Bayes (1701 -- 1761) -- an Englishman, who died in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. (I am one who has trouble even with simple arithmetic: had come across the word "bayesian", and was aware that it was to do with "highly advanced sums"; but the rest of the stuff here, I have just got from Wiki.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire is another settlement that had the prefix "Royal" added to the name of the settlemet.

 

[341o2]

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[Calthrop]

Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire is another settlement that had the prefix "Royal" added to the name of the settlemet.

A thoroughly silly one: late relatives of mine, lived north of Bristol -- so, not hugely far away from the above-bolded. They used to say jocularly that in a situation of their owning two basset hounds (they had no actual intention of having even one), they would call them Wootton; and Compton, after the village of Compton Bassett, Wiltshire -- six or seven miles south-west of its larger "Wootton" counterpart.

 

[341o2]

Whitwell also has a White Horse Inn, reputed to be one of the oldest in England

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ault Hucknall in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Scarsdale.

 

[341o2]

I was referring to Whitwell Isle of Wight, maybe I should have made that clearer

 

[John Griffiths]

Grayingham, Lincolnshire also has a church dedicated to the sixth century Thuringian princess and Frankish queen St Radegund.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

On the smaller settlements, you will note that most postings also include the county name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grayingham, Lincolnshire also has a church dedicated to the sixth century Thuringian princess and Frankish queen St Radegund.

Kettlethorpe in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Kettlethorpe in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.

"Church of England administrative jargon" -- which to me (not into this stuff) often feels highly arcane and sonorous and more than a bit "Harry Potter" (inappropriate allusion, I know !): we learn that the above-bolded's ecclesiastical parish is Kettlethorpe with Fenton [nearby village -- the parish church is that of Kettlethorpe]: part of the Saxilby Group of the Deanery of Corringham. The Corringham here concerned, is a tiny place east of Gainsborough. There is a larger and better-known (certainly to railway enthusiasts) Corringham in Essex: near Basildon.