Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Moor Park in Preston is the oldest park to be laid out by a local authority In the early 1830s, but the oldest public park was slightly earlier, set up by a private company in the late 1820s - Victoria Park in Bath.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stevenage in Hertfordshire is another settlement where a hoard of Roman silver coinage was discovered.

 

[Calthrop]

Stevenage has some renown in the field of the making of motorcycles: the HRD company, makers of same, were active there for approximately the second quarter of the 20th century. Also featuring on that scene: the perhaps more famous Norton firm, based in Solihull, West Midlands.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitstable in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Alphage.

 

[D6130]

Brightlingsea in Essex is also a noted centre for oyster cultivation and harvesting.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ormesby St Michael in Norfolk is another settlement in which pieces of Neolithic period pottery have been unearthed.

 

[Calthrop]

Ormesby St. Michael's church is dedicated to St. Michael ("colour me unsurprised", as they say). The town of Tipperary has a church with the same dedicatee.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bansha in Conty Tipperary also lies on the line of the River Ara.

 

[D6130]

Frank Baker (1889-1961) - Anglo-Irish Royal Navy Officer and first class cricketer - was born in Bansha. He died at Witley in Surrey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Loxhill in Surrey was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Godalming.

 

[Calthrop]

On a break in the country in 1915, near Loxhill, Winston Churchill learnt to paint -- this was a valued recreation for him for the rest of his life. The country house of Chartwell -- near Westerham, Kent -- which he subsequently bought; afforded inspiration for many of his paintings.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Horton Kirby in Kent also lies on the line of the River Darent.

 

[D6130]

Guard Bridge in Fife was also the site of a large paper mill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Strathmiglo also lies on the line of the River Eden.

 

[D6130]

Aberlemno in Angus is also a location in which Pictish carved stones can be found.

 

[Calthrop]

Lunanhead also in Angus, also lies on the B9134 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Canterbury also had a medieval period plague hospital.

 

[D6130]

York is also the seat of a Church of England archdiocese.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crayke in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Foss.

 

[Calthrop]

Shrewley, Warwickshire -- about five miles west of Warwick -- also has a pub called the Durham Ox (seemingly, pretty well England's most southerly pub bearing that name).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Macclesfield in Cheshire East also has a canal boat marina.

 

[D6130]

Kendal in Furness & Westmorland was also once a major centre for the manufacture of silk cloth.

 

[Calthrop]

The historian, radio and television presenter, and controversialist David Starkey, was born in Kendal. His parents were originally from Oldham, Greater Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Downpatrick in County Down also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Patrick.

 

[Calthrop]

Born in Downpatrick, was the journalist, broadcaster, and humorist Miles Kington (1941 -- 2008) -- of Anglo-Welsh parents: his father, an Army officer, was stationed in Northern Ireland at the time of Miles's birth. M.K. lived for his later years -- and is buried -- at Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire. (That settlement was of course one extremity of an unfortunate, but celebrated, Great Western branch line.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Broughton Gifford in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Bradford.

 

[Calthrop]

Hubberholme, North Yorkshire -- in Upper Wharfedale -- also has a packhorse bridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bramhall in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

Tiverton, Cheshire (some seven miles north-west of Nantwich, and not to be confused with the much bigger Tiverton in Devon) also has a pub called the Shady Oak.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coole Pilate in Cheshire East was also once under the jurisdiction of the Nantwich Poor Law Union.

(Contributors to the Closed Stations Journey quiz will be aware of the name of this settlement)