Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

The Roman Catholic Church of St George, Taunton dates from the mid-19th Century. It was designed in 1860 by the English Gothic Revival architect Benjamin Bucknall (1833 – 1895), who was also responsible for Saint Wulstan's RC Church, Little Malvern, Worcestershire in 1862.

The composer Edward Elgar is buried in that same Saint Wulstan's Church as above. He was born in Lower Broadheath, near Worcester.

 

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As you say, Broadheath is the birthplace of the English composer Edward Elgar; the cottage in which he was born is now a museum. Another composer, Gustav Holst, was born in Cheltenham, and his birthplace is also a museum.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cambridge also hosts a folk festival.

 

[Calthrop]

Cambridge also hosts a folk festival.

One of my favourite kinds of get-out-of-jail ploy: the U.S. state of Nebraska has a town called Cambridge; and another called Bloomfield (the British one thereof, a suburb on the east side of Belfast).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Upper Newtownards Road runs from the centre of Belfast and ends, unsurprisingly, in Newtownards. As well as passing through Bloomfield, it passes through Knock.

 

[Calthrop]

The Upper Newtownards Road runs from the centre of Belfast and ends, unsurprisingly, in Newtownards. As well as passing through Bloomfield, it passes through Knock.

(Not game-relevant: but Bloomfield and Knock used to have stations on the Belfast & County Down Railway's Downpatrick main line.)

Continuing the game: there are several settlements called Knock, this side of the Irish Sea too. One is Knock, Cumbria: a little way north of Appleby.

 

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Knock, Cumbria once had a Methodist Chapel, but that was closed and the chapel in the nearby village of Dufton was renamed "Dufton with Knock Methodist Church".

 

[Calthrop]

Dufton lies on the route of the Pennine Way; the village has a Youth Hostel, popular for overnighting for walkers along the Way. Hawes, North Yorkshire, is also a favourite Pennine Way staging-point.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chapel-le-Dale in North Yorkshire also lies on the route taken by the Richmond to Lancaster turnpike.

 

[Calthrop]

Slightly, counsels of despair: Chapel-le-Dale's pub is called the Old Hill Inn. There's a West Midlands community by the name of Old Hill, which does not have a pub of that name -- in consolation perhaps, it has one called the Waterfall: which is regularly praised by CAMRA.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes.

 

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East Kilbride was also designated Scotland's first new town in May 1947. It was one six new towns in Scotland designated between 1947 and 1973, although the last one (Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire), which was designated in July 1973, was never completed, as it's development was be halted in 1976 after just 96 houses had been constructed.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Rex Cinema in Stonehouse was lavishly decorated with doors, staircase, and other fixtures and fittings from the White Star liner RMS Homeric, launched in Danzig as the Columbus in 1913 and handed over to British hands as postwar reparations. It was broken up in 1935 at Inverkeithing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders was also created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century.

 

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Jedburgh is the home of one of the most famous and oldest Rugby Clubs in Scotland, Jedforest RFC, who are based at Riverside Park. They currently play the Scottish Premiership, where one of their rival clubs is Glasgow Hutchesons Aloysians (GHA), who play at Braidholm, Giffnock, East Renfrewshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burntisland in Fife is another Scottish settlement that has historical connections with the quarrying of sandstone.

 

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The A921 coast road runs through the towns of Aberdour and Burntisland and connects to the M90 at Inverkeithing in the west and the A92 at Kirkcaldy in the east.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crieff in Perth and Kinross also has a church that is dedicated to St Fillan.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

It may or may not be to it's credit, but Crieff was praised by the poetaster William McGonagall his poem in "Crieff":
"Ye lovers of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief,
Take my advice, and visit the ancient town of Crieff."

McGonagall is much more famous (or infamous) for his poem "The Tay Bridge Disaster" written in 1880 after the collapse of the bridge. It, and it's successor, carries the railway across the Firth of Tay between Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife.

 

[John Griffiths]

The name of Wormit is supposed (according to Wikipedia) to derive from the plant wormwood. This is not the case with Wormwood Scrubs, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, where 'wormwood' derives from 'worm holt', woodland or scrubland infested by snakes.

 

[Calthrop]

Coventry also has a prominent Polish community.

 

[Springs Branch]

Coventry has had a long association with Jaguar cars (and is the site of the headquarters of today's Jaguar Land Rover Automotive plc).
Some Jaguar cars are now manufactured at the company's Castle Bromwich Assembly Plant.

 

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The original use of the Castle Bromwich Assembly Plant was as a "shadow factory" to disperse production and move vital resources that lay within easy range of German bombers. One of the aircraft built there was the Vickers Supermarine Spitfire, as it's original factory at Woolston, Southampton had been devastated by enemy bombers just as Castle Bromwich came into production in 1940.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheriton in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Itchen

 

[John Griffiths]

Cropredy, Oxfordshire, was also the location of a Civil War battle in 1644.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Banbury in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the Oxford Canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

Chelsea also lends its name to a/ popular baked delicacy.

 

[Calthrop]

Chelsea has a certain long-lasting fame for its Royal Hospital, for elderly Army veterans. Greenwich long had parallel associations, "on the Naval side of the business".

 

[John Griffiths]

In the nineteenth century the well-to-do of London would travel downriver to Greenwich to eat whitebait dinners. The cockneys would take steamers upriver to eat eel pies at Twickenham.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

All Hallows Church, Twickenham is a Grade I Listed Church, designed by Robert Atkinson and built in 1939 / 1940. Robert Atkinson had also been responsible for the design of the Town Hall at Wallington in 1934.