-
Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
Settlement Association
- Thread starter Ivo
- Start date
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R
RailUK Forums
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Tattingstone in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Samford.
Thought for the day
Thank Heaven for the Wapentakes, Hundreds and Poor Law Unions.
Thought for the day
Thank Heaven for the Wapentakes, Hundreds and Poor Law Unions.
In the 1970s, the village of Tattingstone was split in two, when the valley was flooded to make a fair-sized reservoir. In somewhat similar case, is Upper Hambleton, Rutland: which has come to be on a narrow peninsula stretching out into the very large reservoir of Rutland Water, also created in the 1970s.
I have rather a fondness for "commotes"; which at any rate used to obtain in Wales, as local-government divisions.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Redruth in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew,
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Truro in Cornwall also has an Anglican cathedral.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Wakefield in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.
The rhyme, known to everyone, about the Grand Old Duke of York and his inconclusive manoeuvre; has several different suggested origins. Per one theory, it refers to Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and his Wars of the Roses doings at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460, in which he was in fact killed. The most-favoured attribution, though, would seem to involve the second son of King George III, Frederick Duke of York and Albany (1763 -- 1827); and military action on his part in the Low Countries in the late 18th / early 19th-century wars against France. Frederick had an estate -- though he spent little time there -- at Oatlands near Weybridge, Surrey.
Last edited:
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Cobham in Surrey was also once administered by the Hundred of Elmbridge.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Shrewsbury also has an Emmanuel Church.
Springs Branch
Established Member
Worcester also has a thoroughfare named Fish Street.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Boscobel in Shropshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Monarch's Way.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Thirsk in North Yorkshire also has a Quaker School.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Fewston in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Claro Wapentake.
Fewston was in the one-time Forest of Knaresborough; Sheriff Hutton, North Yorkshire, was in the not-far-away, once-fearsome, Forest of Galtres, which more or less surrounded York. Both Forests were, in different sections, royal hunting preserves, not necessarily wall-to-wall trees; and, decidedly tree-bearing. Both were done away with as forests, centuries ago; only remnants, if anything, remain.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
York also has a church that is dedicated to St Helen and the Holy Cross.
The USA has a city of great renown, called New York -- essentially, after England's York. Cheating a bit now: but Belfast has a suburb, east side of the city in Co. Down, called Bloomfield. There are two US settlements called New Bloomfield -- one in Pennsylvania -- there's definitely another derivation for this one's name, i.e. nothing to do with the Northern Irish venue. The other New Bloomfield is in Missouri: Wiki doesn't speculate on where this one's name came from -- possibly the place in Co. Down?
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
The A20 road runs through Bloomfield; at the western end is Belfast and at the Eastern end is Newtownards.
Newtownards lies at the northern end of an inlet of the Irish Sea, called after a settlement thereon: Strangford Lough. Further south in County Down, Warrenpoint lies correspondingly at the northern end of another such inlet of the same sea, and similarly titled: Carlingford Lough.
D6130
Established Member
Back in the days when licensed premises in Northern Ireland were not permitted to open on Sundays, many residents of Warrenpoint used to row across Carlingford Lough to have a pint or three in Omeath in Co Louth, on the Irish Republic side of the lough. One assumes that the return journey took longer and was somewhat less direct than the outward. 
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Carlingford in County Louth also lies on the route of the R173 regional road,
Springs Branch
Established Member
Great Yarmouth was also once a base for herring fishing boats.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Blackpool also has a Pleasure Beach.
Jordan Wylie -- adventurer, author, television personality, and former soldier -- was born in Blackpool; he later lived for a time in Andover, Hampshire. (I've recently read Wylie's book Citadel, about his experiences protecting ships in the piracy-danger-zone off Somalia -- gripping and fascinating; and he comes across as surprisingly compassionate toward the pirate rank-and-file -- whom he sees as doing their stuff not from original sin, but out of desperation because of the plight their country is in, through no fault of their own.)
Last edited:
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
The weekly newspaper for the town and the surrounding area is the Andover Advertiser, founded in 1858 and now owned by Newsquest. Another weekly newspaper bearing the same suffix is the Tivy-Side Advertiser, which serves (amongst other places) Newcastle Emlyn in Ceredigion.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Pontrhydfendigaid in Ceredigion also lies on the line of the River Teifi