Settlement Association

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Llandudno is the largest seaside resort in Wales, and as early as 1861 was being called 'the Queen of the Welsh Watering Places'. This is a phrase later also used in connection with Tenby and Aberystwyth; the word 'resort' came a little later.

 

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Llandudno is the largest seaside resort in Wales, and as early as 1861 was being called 'the Queen of the Welsh Watering Places'. This is a phrase later also used in connection with Tenby and Aberystwyth; the word 'resort' came a little later.

There is a series by Malcolm Pryce, of detective novels -- the kind tending to focus on dark and ugly doings -- all with their titles including the name Aberystwyth. Colin Watson has also written a "whodunit" series -- "cosy" and humorous in comparison -- set in the town of Flaxborough, which is reckoned closely based on Boston, Lincolnshire.

 

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Boston Rowing Club hosts the annual Boston Rowing Marathon each year in mid-September. Crews from throughout the world compete on a 33 miles long course along the River Witham, starting at Brayford Pool in Lincoln, and finishing in times from three to six hours.

 

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Colchester also has a functioning military barracks named after a location in India. Colchester's is Goojerat (actual spelling) Barracks; Lincoln's, Sobraon.

 

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Hexham also has historical medieval links to the leather trade.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hexham Old Gaol, built by the Archbishop of York 1330-1333, is the oldest purpose-built prison in Britain. The newest, when it opens next year (possibly) will be the replacement prison at Glen Parva in Leicestershire (on the site of a former HMYOI).

 

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Shackerstone in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Sense.

 

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Shackerstone in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Sense.

At the risk of getting more railway-related than is acceptable: in the Civil-War-and-immediately-after era, Shackerstone's vicar, the Rev. John Hodges -- a jolly and convivial gentleman -- got into trouble with the Parliamentarian authorities for being generally too jolly and convivial; and for aiding the Royalist cause in the war. He had an apparent clerical successor as regards general approach to life, a very few miles away and a few centuries later, in the shape of someone well known and loved by such as us -- the Rev. Teddy Boston, incumbent of Cadeby.

 

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Kirkby Mallory in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Market Bosworth Poor Law Union.

 

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Silverstone, Northamptonshire, is also the location of a motor-racing circuit.

 

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The original Church at Silverstone was demolished in the 1880s and replaced by the present Church of England Parish Church of Saint Michael, which is a Gothic Revival building designed by James Piers St Aubyn (1815 – 1895) and completed in 1884. J P St Aubyn was also responsible for the restoration in the 1880s of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire.

 

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Hatley St George was also once administered by the Hundred of Longstow.

 

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Hatley St George was also once administered by the Hundred of Longstow.

"All about Hatleys" -- the above-bolded village is, with its neighbour East Hatley, in the Cambridgeshire parish of Hatley. Just a couple of miles away, across the county boundary in Bedfordshire, is the in my opinion wonderfully-named Cockayne Hatley; which, in Wiki's rather enigmatic words, "is said to be unconnected to the Cambridgeshire Hatleys".

 

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Forming a boundary of Cockayne Hatley Hall with Home Farm is a Grade II listed, late 18th century Crinkle Crankle Wall, which is the only known example in Bedfordshire. The seven foot high and 197 foot long angular wall consists of ten zigzags of red brick laid in Flemish bond, with plain brick coping. Another example is in Bramfield, Suffolk - and for those of you (and I!) who don't know what one is, here's a picture:

 

[John Griffiths]

There is also a crinkle crankle wall at Easton in Suffolk.

 

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Forming a boundary of Cockayne Hatley Hall with Home Farm is a Grade II listed, late 18th century Crinkle Crankle Wall, which is the only known example in Bedfordshire. The seven foot high and 197 foot long angular wall consists of ten zigzags of red brick laid in Flemish bond, with plain brick coping. Another example is in Bramfield, Suffolk - and for those of you (and I!) who don't know what one is, here's a picture:

Crinkle Crankle doings aside -- a resident in the latter years of his life (the early ones of the present century) in the above-bolded settlement, was the late poet Roger Langley: one of his more praised poems, titled To a Nightingale. Another and better-known poet, active a couple of centuries previously -- one of his best-known pieces also addressing and acclaiming a member of that bird species -- was John Keats; who dwelt for a considerable while in Hampstead, north London.

 

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Tunbridge Wells was also made famous by the quality of the chalybeate water found within its environs.

 

[John Griffiths]

Tunbridge Wells received its 'Royal' prefix in 1909. Another resort of SE England was similarly honoured twenty years later, albeit suffixed and in Latin: Bognor Regis.

 

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Bognor Regis Town FC are playing Thame United FC in the FA Trophy tomorrow.

 

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Dunbrody in County Wexford is another settlement that was chosen to build a Cistercian Abbey.

 

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At the above-bolded settlement is a well-regarded cookery school based on Dunbrody House Hotel, run by one Kevin Dundon -- apparently a celebrated TV chef, of whom I'd never heard till some quarter of an hour ago; but it's ignorant I am... there flourishes some dozens of miles further west: another, yet better-known cookery school, presided over by Darina Allen -- at Ballymaloe, near Shanagarry on the coast a little way east of Cork city.

 

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Glin in County Limerick also has a church called the Church of the Immaculate Conception.

 

[John Griffiths]

Glin gave its name to the hereditary title 'Knight of Glin', held by members of the Fitzgerald family from the turn of the fourteenth century until the title became extinct with the death of the 29th Knight of Glin, Desmond Fitzgerald, in 2011; he was born in 1949 in Paddington, west London

 

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Glin gave its name to the hereditary title 'Knight of Glin', held by members of the Fitzgerald family from the turn of the fourteenth century until the title became extinct with the death of the 29th Knight of Glin, Desmond Fitzgerald, in 2011; he was born in 1949 in Paddington, west London

Thomas Michael Bond, creator of the much-loved Peruvian ursine marmalade fan going by the above-bolded name; was born in Newbury, Berkshire.

 

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Gosport also had a Mesolithic period settlement in its environs, in which hunting camps were incorporated.

 

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The Royal Marines were awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Gosport on 10th November 2005. Much of the selection and training of potential Marines takes place at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (CTCRM) in Lympstone, Devon.

 

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Exwick also lies on the line of the River Exe.

 

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Exwick was often used as a location for artists to look back at Exeter. One such was J M W Turner, who in 1811 drew "Exeter from Exwick". Probably his most famous painting, though is "The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up". The painting depicts the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, one of the last second rate ships of the line to have played a role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, being towed up the River Thames by a paddle-wheel steam tug in 1838, towards its final berth in Rotherhithe to be broken up for scrap.

 

[John Griffiths]

Before the creation of the County of London in 1889, Rotherhithe was the northernmost point in Surrey. The southernmost settlement, then as now, is Haslemere.

 

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Peper Harow was also once administered by the Hundred of Godalming.