Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

There is a district of Chelsea named 'World's End' after a local pub; there is also a pub of that name in Tilbury, Essex.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Tilbury FC are currently members of the Isthmian League North Division and play at Chadfields in the town. Another member of the same League is Hashtag United FC, who play at the Len Salmon Stadium, Pitsea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ingrave in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Billericay Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ralph Vaughan Williams in December 1903 met an old Ingrave resident named Potiphar who sang the song 'Bushes and Briars' to the composer. Williams was captivated and spent the next few months cycling around Ingrave and district collecting folk songs. Vaughan Williams had been born in 1872 in Down Ampney in Gloucestershire.

 

[Calthrop]

Down Ampney is one of England's many settlements which are not pronounced-as-spelt; the locals say "Amney". Another such -- which re various attributes, seems to occur quite often in the game -- is Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire: pronounced "Cook-nor".

How did the old fellow come to be called Potiphar, I wonder? I thought the bearer of that name, was a bad guy in the Old Testament ...

 

[John Griffiths]

Emeritus Blue Peter presenter Peter Purves lived in Cogenhoe for some time, but now lives in Sibton, Suffolk.

 

[Calthrop]

Buried at St. Peter's Church, Sibton: is a gentleman who bore a splendidly lengthy and complicated, classically English-patrician name: Egerton Bagot Byrd Levett-Scrivener (admittedly he acquired the final "Scrivener" bit, only after inheriting the Sibton Abbey estate from an aunt, of that name). E.B.B.L-S (1857 -- 1954) was like many of his family, a long-serving naval officer. The family had links, including some by marriage, with those of other naval "greats"; including Lord Nelson; and William Bligh, of Bounty fame / notoriety. Bligh -- outstandingly brave and competent, but very definitely not a "people person" -- was born in 1754, reckoned most likely in Plymouth.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Plymouth is famous for the public open space called The Hoe. There is also a village in Norfolk called Hoe. There doesn't seem to be a connection between the two other than the name, as the village's name means 'Hill-spur', and the open space's name derives from the Anglo Saxon word hoh, a sloping ridge shaped like an inverted foot and heel.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caerphilly in Caerphilly County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[Calthrop]

Caerphilly -- with its eponymous type of cheese -- holds an annual event called the Big Cheese Festival (groan): celebrating Caerphilly cheese, but also featuring other culinary matters. Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire -- another renowned cheese venue -- does similarly annually, with the Artisan Cheese Fair -- "the UK's largest dedicated cheese fair".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goadby Marwood in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Melton Mowbray Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Goadby Marwood's village church is dedicated to St. Denys and dates from the 1200s. It is part of the circuit of villages that also includes Chadwell, Eastwell, Eaton, Scalford and Wycomb.

 

[Calthrop]

Scalford used to have a pub called the Plough. Shustoke, Warwickshire -- not very far north-east of Birmingham -- has a pub of that name, still in business.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Churchtown in the north area of Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.

 

[John Griffiths]

Churchtown is believed to be the first place in Britain to grow potatoes, after some were recovered from a 1575 shipwreck. Another potato-associated location is Scotter in the Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, where the King Edward potato was first grown on a commercial scale in 1902 by a farmer called John Butler. The variety had been developed in Northumberland and initially named 'Fellside Hero'

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[John Griffiths]

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[Calthrop]

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

Saxilby, Lincolnshire -- some 7 miles south of Kexby -- also lies on the B1241 road: Saxilby being where said road ends, feeding into an A road running westward from Lincoln.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Torksey in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the Foss Dyke Navigation.

 

[Calthrop]

Carlops. a good way south-west of Edinburgh; has in common with Torksey, that both are only just in one county -- on the border of another. The respective relationships are -- Carlops: Scottish Borders / Midlothian; Torksey: Lincolnshire / Nottinghamshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Strathaven in Lanarkshire also has historical connections to the weaving of cotton cloth.

 

[Calthrop]

Strathaven lies close by the Avon Water -- the "Strath" concerned, referring to the valley of said stream, which ultimately flows into the River Clyde. On the Avon Water, some miles upstream from Strathaven: is the village of Drumclog, South Lanarkshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

James McLellan Fairley, architect of Drumclog Memorial Church, also designed the public library in Brechin, Angus.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Banchory in Aberdeenshire also has an example of an early Christian carved cross-slab.

 

[Calthrop]

Banchory has Scotland's only rum distillery -- Dark Matter Distillers. There is an establishment performing the same function, in Salford, Greater Manchester: with the irresistible name of The Dirty Old Town Distillery -- from the words of the much-loved song about Salford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster also has a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Prestigne in Powys also has a tourist attraction called The Judges' Lodgings.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bodenham in Herefordshire also lies on the line of the River Lugg.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Anne Devereux, Countess of Pembroke was born in Bodenham in or around 1430. She was an English noblewoman, who was Countess of Pembroke during the 15th century by virtue of marriage to William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke.

Following William Herbert's support for the Lancastrian cause during the War of the Roses, the five-year-old nephew of Jasper Tudor, Henry, Earl of Richmond, became the ward of the Earl, who planned a marriage between Tudor and his eldest daughter, Maud. Herbert's court was at Raglan Castle in Monmouthshire, where the young Henry Tudor spent his childhood, under the supervision of Anne Devereux, who ensured that young Henry was well cared for.

(That's enough of the history lesson for one day!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to St Cadoc.