Settlement Association

[DerekC]

Anne Lucinda Hartley Rice, best known for Challenge Anneka, was born in Cowbridge. In one of the best known episodes of the programme, her team constructed a 60-yard footbridge over the River Camel at Wadebridge. It is apparently still known locally as Anneka's Bridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alwinton in Northumberland also hosts an agricultural show.

 

[Springs Branch]

Prestbury in Cheshire is also located at longitude 2° 8' W

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Noting that our village has made an appearance above on this quiz and I decided not to use the fact that the stocks are still there and to look instead for a church-based association.........

Mickle Trafford also has a Grade I listed parish church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[John Griffiths]

On high ground just outside the village of Mickle Trafford (and within the parish) dwelt a hermit named Plegmund, who went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York also has an archbishop.

 

[John Griffiths]

The family home of Robert Aske, executed in York in the aftermath of the Pilgrimage of Grace, was at Aughton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altcar in West Lancashire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of West Derby.

 

[John Griffiths]

This Aughton is in Yorks ER. Apologies for not making that clear.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fordham in Essex also has a Grade 1 listed church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Springs Branch]

Fordham lies on the course of the Essex River Colne.
A different River Colne flows through West Yorkshire, passing the settlement of Slaithwaite.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Diggle also lies on the line of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.

 

[Springs Branch]

Several Pennine settlements were transferred out of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire during the 1974 Local Government reorganisation.
Greater Manchester gained Diggle, and Lancashire gained Barnoldswick.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saltaire also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bromborough Pool is also a 'model village' designed in the nineteenth century for workers at a nearby industrial plant (Price's candle factory).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Whereas Bromborough Pool was for the makers of candles, Port Sunlight was for the makers of soap.

 

[John Griffiths]

Compton in Surrey also has a noteworthy art gallery (the Watts Gallery).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Watts Gallery, Compton is named after and a memorial to George Frederic Watts, OM RA (1817 – 1904) was an English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. During the 1870s and 1880s, he lived and worked in Freshwater, Isle of Wight.

 

[John Griffiths]

Freshwater was the birthplace of scientist Robert Hooke, who studied at Wadham College in Oxford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Summertown also once came under the jurisdiction of the Oxford Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Iris Murdoch, a Summertown resident, was born in Phibsborough, Dublin.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Bohemian FC are the local League of Ireland football club, playing at Dalymount Park. One of the teams that they play are Finn Harps FC, whose home ground is Finn Park, Balleybofey, Donegal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Killygordon in County Donegal also lies on the line of the River Finn.

 

[johnnychips]

Hugh McLaughlin, born in Killygordon, published Kavanagh’s Weekly featuring the poet Patrick Kavanagh, who died in Dublin.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Originally distilled in Dublin until 1975, Jameson Whiskey is now distilled at the Midleton Distilleries complex, situated in Midleton, County Cork.

 

[John Griffiths]

Reginald Dyer, who ordered the shooting known as the Amritsar Massacre in 1919, was a student at Midleton College; he died at Long Ashton in Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barrow Gurney was also once administered by the Hundred of Hartcliffe.

 

[John Griffiths]

Colney Hatch was also the location of a psychiatric hospital..

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Colney Hatch is the historical name for a small district within the London Borough of Barnet in London, and it refers to a loosely defined area centred on the northern end of Colney Hatch Lane (B550), which connects Friern Barnet with Muswell Hill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tottenham also lies of the line of the River Moselle.