Settlement Association

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Talybont-on-Usk is also situated on the line of the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sennybridge in Powys also lies on the line of the River Usk.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

An extensive area of land to the north of Sennybridge is used by the Ministry of Defence for military training purposes. Sennybridge Training Area (SENTA) is one of the major bases for Infantry Warfare Training by the British Army in the UK. Officers conduct their initial training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS or RMA Sandhurst) before also completing their specialist trade-training for their specific Regiment or Corps (Phase 2 Training) at multiple different locations.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Binfield in Berkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Easthampstead Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Wokingham also has an All Saint's Church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Tetragon213]

Steventon (Oxf'shire) is also passed but not served by the GWML

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tubney in Berkshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ock.

 

[Tetragon213]

The University of Oxford has a Wildlife Conservation Research Unit in Tubney

 

[High Dyke]

We seemed to have made a quick return to the city of dreaming spires.

Colin Dexter (1930–2017), wrote and set his Inspector Morse detective novels in Oxford. Dexter was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire.

 

[Tetragon213]

Danbury, Essex also shares a name with a settlement in the US state of Connecticut.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Andover in Hampshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[DerekC]

Andover was the centre of the 1830 "Swing Riots" against the beginnings of mechanisation of farming and the cutting back of poor relief by Parish Councils. Following the riots a Special Commission of Assize with no jury and with a panel of magistrates, many of whom were landowners affected by the riots, sentenced twelve men to death. Two of the men were executed in front of the others, who were then told that their sentence had been commuted to transportation to Australia. The public uproar created led ultimately to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and the creation of Workhouses.

Andover again became the centre of disquiet in 1845 when the Master of the Andover Workhouse was found to be embezzling the funds intended for food for the inmates for his own profit. The inmates had been reduced to gnawing the bones they were given to crush to make bonemeal. That and a similar case in Huddersfield in 1848 resulted in public pressure for further reform.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worcester also has a Meeting House of the Society of Friends.

 

[Tetragon213]

Belfast also shares its name with a Light Cruiser (USS Worcester and HMS Belfast respectively)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newcastle-upon-Tyne also has "heraldic" seahorses on its coat of arms.

 

[DerekC]

Hadrian's Wall once extended from Wallsend in Newcastle to near Bowness on Solway in Cumbria.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uldale in Cumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of thr Wigton Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Little Cockup and its neighbour Great Cockup are the rather amusing names of hills in the Uldale fells. A name that I found most amusing at the age of about six was Trotters Bottom, near Dancer's Hill in Hertfordshire. It formed part of my father's off-main-road route to see my grandparents. At the end of Trotter's Bottom was a dangerous crossroad across the Barnet Bypass at which I once recall seeing a car upside down in the ditch. The crossroads is long gone, the minor road severed for the dualling of the A1, which is probably just as well!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sarratt in Hertfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Cashio.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sarratt has the only commercially operating watercress farm in Hertfordshire; New Alresford or simply Alresford in Hampshire is considered to be the nation's watercress capital.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bishop's Sutton in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Aire.

 

[Tetragon213]

Bus 64 takes you from Bishop's Sutton to Alton (Hants)

 

[DerekC]

The northern branch of the River Wey is a chalk stream rising at springs in Alton. The southern branch rises on the slopes of Blackdown, near Fernhurst in West Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bepton in West Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Easebourne.

 

[DerekC]

Bepton parish incudes the site of the lost village of Linch which gave its name to the hill Linch Ball, one of the highest points in the South Downs. However the ancient parish had detached outlier in the Weald seven miles to the north which survives and still bears the name Linch, West Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lodsworth in West Sussex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Midhurst Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Lodsworth lies within the South Downs National Park, just to the north of the valley of the River Rother; a tributary stream, the River Lod, runs close to the east end of the village. The main source is on the Greensand Ridge at Marley Heights near Haslemere.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huddersield in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes.

 

[DerekC]

Westminster in London, like Huddersfield, has a Victoria Tower.