Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Olney also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse

 

[Darren R]

The words of "Amazing Grace" were written by John Newton whilst he was curate in Olney. He was born in Wapping.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Limehouse is another settlement with a great river trade tradition.

 

[Darren R]

From 1906 - 9, Clement Attlee worked as manager of Haileybury House, a club for working class boys in Limehouse. Shocked by the poverty he saw, he became a socialist and joined the Independent Labour Party in 1908, eventually being elected as MP for Limehouse in 1922. He was born in Putney.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walworth was also once administered by the Hundred of Brixton

 

[cjp]

Labour's HQ used to be on the Walworth Road in Southwark but Blair moved it to Millbank

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rotherhithe was also affected by the 1928 flooding disaster of the River Thames

 

[cjp]

From Rotherhithe one can get a ferry across the Thames to the area of London now known as Canary Wharf

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackwall is also situated on the Isle of Dogs

 

[Darren R]

One Canada Square (the building popularly known as Canary Wharf, despite the name actually referring to the area) was constructed by Canadian property developers Olympia & York.

Damn - too slow!

 

[cjp]

rubbish post by me!

There is a Poplar Blackwall & District Rowing Club

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harrow has the church of St Joseph as being the work of Adrian Gilbert Scott, who was also responsible for the church of Saint Mary and St Joseph in Poplar

 

[cjp]

There is a Harrow Inn at Lidsing

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Taunton also has a place of worship dedicated to St Mary Magdalene

 

[High Dyke]

Wallingford was also another Burh town. The burhs origin was in military defence. The Old English name for a fortified dwelling place belonging to a king or noble or a prehistoric fort was burh

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Watford also had a pre-Roman ancient trackway within its environs

 

[cjp]

Reading also hosts a popular half marathon

 

[Darren R]

Blackpool is another unitary authority town.

 

[cjp]

Cromer also has a RNLI lifeboat station

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandudno also has a pier.

 

[Welshman]

Llandudno is named after St Tudno [pronounced Tidno], who entered a Monastery at Bangor is Coed [Bangor-on-Dee]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fakenham also has a racecourse that holds National Hunt races.

 

[cjp]

The A1067 in Sparham is known as the Fakenham Road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kelvedon also has a Grade I listed church that is dedicated to St Mary

 

[cjp]

Feering merges into Kelvedon quite seemlessly as is epitomised by the Kelvedon and Feering cricket club

 

[Welshman]

The parish church at Long Whatton [Leics] is also dedicated to All Saints.

 

[backontrack]

Cockermouth also has an All Saints church.

 

[cjp]

Ilfracombe, again built at the confluence of two rivers, has also suffered flooding in recent years

 

[High Dyke]

Exeter was another location settled by the Dumnoni tribe

 

[cjp]

Derry City also has a Cathedral