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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yaddlethorpe in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Glanford Brigg Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Yaddlethorpe is in the civil parish of Bottesford. There is another Bottesford some forty miles to the south, in Leicestershire -- some way west of Grantham. (The Leicestershire Bottesford has, incidentally, a degree of railway significance.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knipton in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Devon.

 

[Calthrop]

Knipton in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Devon.

Northallerton, North Yorkshire, also has a church dedicated to All Saints. (I used to have relatives -- a rather remote connection -- in Knipton; old ladies, visits to whom I remember from childhood.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York also has a branch of the iconic Betty's Tea Rooms.

 

[D6130]

Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has a minster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blacktoft in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Howdenshire Wapentake.

 

[John Griffiths]

I was once challenged by a passer by in Blacktoft who asked me if I was carrying a gun. The same thing, bizarrely, happened to me a year or two previously in my home town of Twickenham, west London. On neither occasion was I tooled up; indeed, I have never haf anything to do with firearms of any kind. I must just look suspicious.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Charterhouse is Somerset was another settlement used by the Romans for lead mining during their occupation of Britain.

 

[John Griffiths]

Lead mining in Twickenham?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lead mining in Twickenham?

It was something that was told to me in the 1960s by a Professor at Manchester University that I still remember to this day, so I thought it was worth a mention for auld lang syne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It was something that was told to me in the 1960s by a Professor at Manchester University that I still remember to this day, so I thought it was worth a mention for auld lang syne.

He did qualify his comment, by saying that the Romans did mine lead in the environs of Cromford in Derbyshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Mary's Church, Cromford, was built between 1792 and 1797 by Richard Arkwright. The church is in a joint parish with Holy Trinity Church, Matlock Bath.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Calver in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the River Derwent.

 

[Calthrop]

Calver is described as being "intersected" by the A623 trunk road. Some ten miles further west, this road runs through Sparrowpit, Derbyshire.

 

[D6130]

Another settlement whose name includes that of a type of bird is Finchampstead in Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ruscombe in Berkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wokingham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Louth in Lincolnshire also has a church dedicated to St. James.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Utterby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Louth Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Near to the village of Utterby is the site of a former Priory of the Gilbertine Order, which came to an end in the 16th century at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Another now demolished Priory in the Order was at Sempringham in Lincolnshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Utterby's name is a linguistic "hybrid": of Old English uttera = outer / remote; and the Scandinavian -by = village. Thus, "the remote village". A similar derivation is seen as possible, for Itteringham, Norfolk (some five miles north-west of Aylsham): in "the old tongues" -- the homestead / village of the Ytteringas = "those dwelling outside".

 

[Calthrop]

(My struck-out one above -- "pipped at the post", as it were.)

Following on from #34,550 re Sempringham: Corbridge, Northumberland, also has a church dedicated to St. Andrew. (Relevant to @EbbwJunction1's material re the Gilbertines: with the order's having been founded by St. Gilbert of Sempringham; one might expect Sempringham's church, to be St. Gilbert's -- but life is not always that "tidy" !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whittonstall in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hexham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Whittonstall is giving me trouble; am going to yield to the temptation to be really "cheaty" -- should this be considered as my "taking the proverbial": please indicate so, and I'll scrap it.

The name Whittonstall looks / sounds a good deal like one component of the name of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall -- a figure described as a "celebrity chef, television personality, journalist, food writer, and campaigner on food and environmental issues". Mr. F-W, long based at a place which became a household name: his "River Cottage", located near Uplyme, East Devon.

 

[John Griffiths]

Pontyclun in Glamorgan also has a pub called the Talbot Arms.

 

[Calthrop]

Waterford also has a church dedicated to St. Paul.

 

[John Griffiths]

St Helens, Merseyside, is also noted for the manufacture of glass.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ticehurst in East Sussex also has a Horological Society.

 

[Calthrop]

Ticehurst has a Bell Inn Hotel. Britain must have many hundreds of hostelries named with permutations of "the Bell": there is one such in Stlton, Cambridgeshire (renowned "cheese-pseudo-venue").

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Stilton, the district of Millfield in Sunderland has a church - High Anglican alias Anglo-Catholic - dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.