Settlement Association

[EbbwJunction1]

Danby Wiske is the lowest point on the 192-mile Coast to Coast Walk. This was originated and is described by Alfred Wainwright, who recommended that walkers dip their booted feet in the Irish Sea at St Bees and in the North Sea at Robin Hood's Bay.

 

[John Griffiths]

Robin Hood's Bay had an academic marine research laboratory; Cullercoats, Tyne & Wear, still has one.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newlyn in Cornwall is another settlement where an artists colony was established.

 

[Springs Branch]

Keen students of Ordnance Survey Maps may be familiar with the phrase "Mean Sea Level at Newlyn", which refers to the datum for heights shown on OS maps covering all of Great Britain.
The Newlyn sea level datum point was recorded at the tidal station which is part of the National Tidal and Sea Level Facility's network of stations.
Another of the NTSLF's tide gauges is located on the Isle of Man at Port Erin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lerwick is also on another offshore island with a church that is dedicated to St Columba.

 

[Calthrop]

Burghead, Moray, also holds an annual winter celebration involving -- among other things -- fire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhynie in Aberdeenshire also has the site of a Pictish hill fort within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Turriff (also in Aberdeenshire) is also mentioned in one of those folk ditties called "bothy ballads" -- speciality of that part of the world.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Turriff has a primary school and a secondary school. People from the surrounding areas, including the villages of Cuminestown, Fyvie and the small village, parish and former feudal barony of King Edward attend the secondary school.

 

[Calthrop]

Another "royalty-type-noun-related-name-wise" settlement, at the opposite end of the country: Indian Queens, Cornwall.

 

[DerekC]

There are various tales as to how the original "Indian Queens" pub got its name. One is that it is named after Pocohontas, a Native American woman brought to England in the 17th Century. She is buried at St George's Church, Gravesend.

 

[Calthrop]

Major-General Charles George Gordon, the hero of Khartoum, was stationed at Gravesend 1865 -- 71; supervising construction of forts, and in his spare time doing charitable work with street kids. He was born not far away, at Woolwich.

There are various tales as to how the original "Indian Queens" pub got its name. One is that it is named after Pocahontas, a Native American woman brought to England in the 17th Century. She is buried at St George's Church, Gravesend.

(My italics) -- she showed up in this game a short while ago: see my post #19,666. (Never thought of her as a possible source of the name of the Cornish place -- mind running totally on lines of Indians from India !)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The free Woolwich Foot Tunnel runs underneath the River Thames to North Woolwich in the London Borough of Newham, and is available for use by pedestrians (and cyclists pushing their cycles) at any time. It is, thankfully, served by lifts during traditional shopping hours.

 

[Calthrop]

North Woolwich -- now in the London Borough of Newham -- was until a century-plus ago, in the county of Kent: a small enclave thereof, north of the Thames. Another settlement which has undergone a counties-swap, is Hopton-on-Sea, between Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft and now -- just -- in Norfolk; until 1974's reorganisations, it was in Suffolk.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The current St Margaret's Church, Hopton-on-Sea replaced the 14th century original after it burned down in 1865. The new church of the same name was built the following year in Early English style on a new site; designed by Samuel Sanders Teulon, it contains stained glass by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. The same partnership were responsible for windows at All Saints Church in Wilden, Worcestershire in 1871.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Acton Trussell also lies on the line of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Acton Trussell has a large pub / hotel called the Moat House: a "stand-alone" undertaking, nothing to do with the once prominent, now defunct Queens Moat Houses hotel chain: one of whose hotels, now under other ownership, is in Harrogate.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southport also hosts a noted Flower Show.

 

[Springs Branch]

Vintage lawnmower aficionados will enjoy visiting both the National Lawnmower Museum in Southport and the curated selection of old mowers at the Budding Museum at the South Dwns Heritage Centre in Hassocks.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Hassocks FC play at the Beacon Ground with the first team playing in the Southern Combination Football League Division One. Peacehaven & Telscombe FC are based in Peacehaven, East Sussex, and also play in the same League.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Morecambe is another settlement where a Bronze Age barrow was constructed within its environs.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The 1960 film The Entertainer, co-starring Morecambe-born actress Thora Hird, was filmed on location in the town. She was born on 28th May 1911, and died in Twickenham, London on 15th March 2003, aged 91.

 

[Springs Branch]

Twickenham Stadium has the highest seating capacity of any Rugby Union stadium in the UK at 82,000.
The second-highest capacity (74,500) is at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

 

[Calthrop]

According to Wiki, Cardiff claims to have the largest concentration of castles (applying the term broadly) of any city in the world. Carlingford, County Louth, can rival that claim only very feebly; but, though only a small town, it contains two structures to which "castle" is officially applied.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Daniel Joseph Anthony "Tony" Meehan (1943 – 2005) was born to Irish parents at New End Hospital, Hampstead. He was a founder member of The Shadows (along with Jet Harris, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch), and played the drums on all the early Cliff Richard and The Shadows hits; he buried in Carlingford cemetery.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Royal Tunbridge Wells also has natural chalybeate waters within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Tunbridge Wells has borne since 1909, the appellation "Royal Tunbridge Wells". A town a good way to the north, styles itself -- at least semi-officially -- the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cannock is also a settlement where Bronze Age burnt moungs have been found and studied.

 

[Calthrop]

Castletown, Sunderland, also has a cemetery for German dead from the World Wars.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The A1231 Wessington Way passes along the southern boundary of Castletown; after a number of name changes and becoming the A1290, the road ends at Monkwearmouth.