Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flaxley in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of St Briavels.

 

[Calthrop]

Place-name derivations are often not-simple-as-one-might-imagine; sometimes, though, "it is what it says on the tin". This is true of Flaxley -- combination of Old English leah, and fleax (the other way round) = "place where flax is grown". Also of Flaxton, North Yorkshire (between York and Malton) -- Old English-derived, "settlement where flax is made". (Does one then grow, or make, this stuff? -- but really, that's by the way.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lillings Ambo in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the York Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Another "Ambo" settlement -- as it happens, only a very few miles east of Lillings Ambo: is Huttons Ambo, also in North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

West Ayton in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Derwent.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a similarly-named settlement (although just plain Ayton) in Scottish Borders: formerly on the A1 main-road route (now by-passed): not many miles into Scotland, beyond the Border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grantshouse in Berwickshire also lies on the line of the Eye Water.

 

[John Griffiths]

The 253 bus route, between Berwick and Edinburgh, runs through Grantshouse and through Cockburnspath, Scottish Borders

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Abbs in Scottish Borders also lies on the route of the walking route known as the Berwickshire Coastal Path.

 

[John Griffiths]

St Abbs was named after the abbess St Aebbe, sister of the Bernician/Northumbrian king Oswald; she founded religious houses at Coldingham and at Ebchester, County Durham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beadnell in Northumberland also has a church that is dedicated to St Ebba.

 

[John Griffiths]

Beadnell has the only west-facing harbour entrance on the east coast of England; Hunstanton in Norfolk ('Sunny Hunny') is the only west-facing seaside resort on the east coast of England.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Jaywick in Essex also suffered a death count of over 30 caused by the North Sea flood of 1953.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Martello Tower at Jaywick is one of forty-seven to have have survived in England. Many of them are vacant, but some have been restored and transformed into museums. Jaywick's tower (it now functions as an arts, heritage and community venue) is one of them, as is the tower at St Osyth, Essex, which is a war museum.

 

[John Griffiths]

St Osyth is said to be the driest place in Britain (average annual rainfall 507 mm). The wettest, with 2612.18 mm, is Capel Curig, Conwy County Borough

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lanteglos-by-Camelford in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Julitta.

 

[Calthrop]

Lanteglos-by-Camelford in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Julitta.

This would seem to be a bit of a "toughie". In -- or closely abutting on -- the parish of Lanteglos-by-Camelford, is the hamlet of Helstone; which lies on the A39 road. A long way north-east on the same road, is Walton, Somerset: a couple of miles west of Glastonbury, and Street.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Asney in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Whitley.

 

[Calthrop]

Asney in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Whitley.

Verily, Messire Xenophon PCDGS, thou settest some mighty posers for thy fellow-gamesters. Asney would appear to be a tiny hamlet near Walton, not shown on the road atlases, nor with anything told of it by Wiki. However -- are we downhearted? The only other place in Britain which I can find in the gazetteer, whose name begins with [a vowel]-S-N: is Osnaburgh alias Dairsie, in Fife: three miles north-east of Cupar.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Orphir in Orkney is another settlement with long historical links to flax coarse-weave cloth manufacture.

 

[John Griffiths]

Orphir is connected by ferry to the island and community of Flotta.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Delting in Shetland also has an oil terminal situated within its environs.

 

[John Griffiths]

Delting suffered a disaster on 21 December 1900 when 22 local fishermen were lost in a storm. An even worse disaster hit the fishing port of Eyemouth, Berwickshire, on 14 October 1881, when a storm claimed the lives of 189 fishermen, most of whom were from Eyemouth.

 

[DerekC]

In the 16th Century Eyemouth was the location of a French garrison put there by the Scottish Regent Mary of Guise, widow of James V and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots. The garrisons were, of course, for protection against English incursions. There was another at Leith, City of Edinburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salford in Greater Manchester is another settlement with redeveloped docklands.

 

[John Griffiths]

Coulby Newham in Middlesbrough is also the location of a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Linthorpe in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Stockton Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Middlesbrough Theatre (formerly the Little Theatre) is in the Linthorpe area of Middlesbrough and was designed by architects Elder & De Pierro. It was the first purpose designed theatre to be erected in post-war England when it was opened on 22nd October 1957 by Sir John Gielgud (who is reported to have asked, when invited to open the theatre, “Where’s Middlesbrough?”). The architects seem to have a very limited body of work, and I can only find one other public building designed by them. This is the Technical College in Poole, Dorset, which is now part of the Bournemouth and Poole College, which they designed in 1951.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Exeter was also a noted settlement of the Celtic tribal people known as the Durotiges.

 

[John Griffiths]

The town planner Thomas Sharp drew up a postwar reconstruction plan for Exeter, a city that suffered damage in the 1942 Baedeker raids. Among many other works, Sharp was also the chief planner for the new town of Crawley, but walked out in a huff early in his tenure (huffs and resignations were something of a Sharp speciality).