Settlement Association

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St Augustine's Church, Coatbridge was designed and built in 1873 by the Scottish Architect Rowand Anderson. Among others, he had previously been responsible for the design of St John's Church, Alloa in 1866.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penicuik in Midlothian also has a church that is dedicated to St Mungo.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 1830, Alexander Cowan erected a monument to the memory of 309 prisoners who died in the prisoner of war camps centred around the current site of Glencorse Barracks, Penicuik (then known as then known as Greenlaw Military Prison). This was designed by Thomas Hamilton, who was also responsible for the design in 1828 of Cumstoun House, near Kirkbcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway.

 

[Calthrop]

Taking it that Kirkcudbright is the operative settlement: the poet, scriptwriter and comedian (and half-brother of Edgar Wallace) Marriott Edgar (1880 -- 1951); who wrote many of the comic monologues performed by Stanley Holloway, including such gems as Albert and the Lion and Three 'alfpence a Foot; was born in Kirkcudbright. He died at Battle, East Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penhurst in East Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Netherfield.

 

[Calthrop]

Penhurst means, in our pre-Norman "old tongues" -- "Pena's wooded hill". In contrast: in Welsh, "pen" -- names of many settlements in Wales commence thus -- means "end", or "head" in that particular sense. An example is Penygroes, Gwynedd -- "end of the crossroads".

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Taking it that Kirkcudbright is the operative settlement: the poet, scriptwriter and comedian (and half-brother of Edgar Wallace) Marriott Edgar (1880 -- 1951); who wrote many of the comic monologues performed by Stanley Holloway, including such gems as Albert and the Lion and Three 'alfpence a Foot; was born in Kirkcudbright. He died at Battle, East Sussex.

Yes, it was - my apologies for not bolding it.

The Welsh Football Club Nantlle Vale FC are based in Penygroes, and play in the Ardal Leagues North West at tier three of the Welsh football pyramid. The club used to be managed by the professional wrestler and promoter Orig Williams, who was better known by his ring name of "El Bandito". The club, under his mentoring, became known as a very dirty and overly violent team, with Williams himself being one of the worst members, often being sent off for his repeated fouling. He was born in the small village of Ysbyty Ifan (often formerly anglicised as Yspytty Ifan - either version can be used for future postings), a small, historic village and community in North Wales.

 

[Calthrop]

There is in the parish church at Ysbyty Ifan, an effigy of the local nobleman Rhys Fawr ap Maredudd: who served Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth (yah boo sucks -- I'm a bit of a Ricardian), and survived said engagement. On the other and losing side at Bosworth, was Richard III's strong protagonist and power in his government, Francis Lovell, Lord of Longdendale (1454 -- 87). There is a plaque commemorating this gentleman, in Mottram in Longdendale, Tameside, Greater Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Astbury in Cheshire East was also once administered by the Hundred of Macclesfield.

 

[John Griffiths]

Astbury has a pub called The Egerton Arms. There appear to be plenty of these in Cheshire, including the one at Saughall, just West of Chester.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

One of the two local schools in the village of Saughall was at one time called the Thomas Wedge Church of England Junior School. This was was built and endowed by Thomas Wedge of Sealand, Flintshire, at his own expense in 1852 as a gift to the people of Saughall and Sealand.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Higher Kinnerton in Flintshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Great Boughton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Higher Kinnerton's church (dedicated to All Saints -- and according to stuff on Wiki which I find less than crystal-clear, seemingly a C of E Anglican church [not said denomination's Welsh variant], and belonging to the parish of Dodleston, which village is a couple of miles to the east, and in Cheshire and thus England -- ?? ) has an organ which until 1980 featured a Tuba Mirabilis stop -- unusual, we learn, for an organ of this small size. The organ of Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) Cathedral, still possesses this Tuba Mirabilis fitment.

 

[D6130]

Newark-on-Trent also has a floating pub in a converted Dutch barge on its eponymous river....that at Peterborough being on the River Nene.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Warmingham in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Leonard.

 

[Calthrop]

There was also a World War II P.O.W. camp at Watten, Highland (between Wick and Thurso).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Westerdale in Highland also lies on the route of the B870 road.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The villages of Westerdale and Halkirk both lie on the River Thurso.

 

[Calthrop]

There were highly-gruesome doings -- much slaughter and deliberate mutilation -- in and around Halkirk in 1222, attendant on King Alexander II of Scotland's strengthening his country's claims in the area, as against those of the Scandinavian Jarls of Orkney. A not totally dissimilar episode (large-scale indiscriminate butchery by one side against the other, in a politics / statecraft / warfare context) occurred a few centuries later, in 1575, on Rathlin Island, Co. Antrim (chief settlement, Church Bay): in Elizabeth I's wars in Ireland -- in the Rathlin happening, the English forces were the perpetrators.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitehall on Stronsay Island, Orkney, also has historical connections to the kelp-burning industry.

 

[Calthrop]

As well as kelp: Whitehall, and Stronsay generally, in former times played a big role in the herring fishery. A good deal further south, the same used to be true of North Shields (North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corbridge in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Tyne.

 

[D6130]

Gilsland in Northumberland also lies close to the line of Hadrian's Wall.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

One of the main landmarks in the village is Gilsland Spa, a hotel named from the sulphurous spring which issues from a cliff below the hotel. It has a sister hotel (they are both owned by the same organisation, Northern Powerhouse Developments) called The Esplanade, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salcombe in Devon also hosts an annual yacht club regatta.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Due to its unspoilt beauty, sandy beaches and harbour facilitating sailing and yachting, Salcombe has one of the highest average property prices in the UK, soaring above Sandbanks, Poole in recent years.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Torpoint in Cornwall is also served by a chain ferry.

 

[Calthrop]

John Langdon Down (1828 -- 96) -- physician active re the humane care of mentally disabled patients; humanitarian, and seemingly all-round "good egg" -- best known for first describing / classifying the eponymous Down's Syndrome -- was born in Torpoint. He died in Teddington, now in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upper Halliford in Surrey was also once administered by the Hundred of Spelthorne.

 

[Calthrop]

Sheerness, Kent (Isle of Sheppey) also has a pub called the Goat.