Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Ovingham Bridge was fabricated by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough, who also made the New Tyne Bridge between Newcastle and Gateshead.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crawcrook in Tyne and Wear was also once under the jurisdiction of the Gateshead Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

Aficionados of Indian food can visit the Jubilee Tandoori in Crawcrook.
There's a similarly named Indian restaurant, the Jubilee House, in the West Midlands town of Willenhall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wrexham also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles.

 

[Calthrop]

In the 17th century, Wrexham would appear to have been very much on those times' politico-religious "left-wing" equivalent -- Wiki describes it as having been then, a "Puritan metropolis". The same seems to apply to Coventry: the saying about "being sent" there, reckoned to refer to its being in the Civil War, a favourite place for confinement of recalcitrant Royalist prisoners.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kew in the south-west area of London is another settlement where a Carthusian religious house was established.

 

[Springs Branch]

A number of River Bus and River Tour scheduled boat services operate on the Thames upstream and downstream from Central London.
One of the piers for these services is at Kew, another is at Woolwich.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harwich also had a naval dockyard that closed in the 19th century.

 

[Calthrop]

The ballad Collier Brig recounts the unhappy final voyage of probably the most ramshackle and ill-appointed vessel of the entire Merchant Marine: starting from Harwich, and proceeding via assorted misadventures, up the east coast and into the Humber and Trent, finishing at Keadby, North Lincolnshire -- where the wretched craft is relieved of her cargo; and essentially, disintegrates.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tickhill in South Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Torne.

 

[Calthrop]

Tickhill was the birthplace of Gervase Phinn, educator and prolific author; best known for his semi-autobiographical "...in the Dales" books -- a la James Herriot, but about schools and kids, rather than "critters". Phinn has been Professor of Education at the University of Teesside, based in Middlesbrough.

 

[John Griffiths]

Seaham was also founded as a coal port in the late Georgian era (Middlesbrough went on to become more associated with a different line of business)

 

[Calthrop]

The poet Lord George Gordon Byron lived briefly at Seaham -- an episode connected with his short and unhappy marriage -- one gathers, regrettably, that he found the place boring. He died in Greece; but is buried at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.

 

[DerekC]

St Teilo's church at Llantilio Crossenny, like St Mary Magdalene Hucknall, has a stained glass window by Charles Eamer Kempe.

 

[Calthrop]

The Offa's Dyke Path also passes through Buttington, Powys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanymynech in Powys is also on the line of the Montgomery Canal.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Wales/England border passes through the village of Llanymynech. This caused some interesting anomalies regarding opening of the village's pubs on Sundays in the past, and more recently differing COVID travel and lockdown directives applicable within the one village.

A similarly situation with COVID restrictions has occurred in the North Wales / Chester area at Saltney.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bretton in Flintshire also lies on the line of Sir John Glynne's Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Bretton has a closely-neighboring village, with a similar-looking-and-sounding name: Broughton. The same might be said of Upwell and Outwell (Norfolk) -- near Wisbech.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Both Upwell and Outwell villages are on the A1101 road, which is the lowest road in Great Britain; along its length of approx. 53 miles , it rarely rises above sea level. It runs from Bury St Edmunds north west to its end at the A17 in Long Sutton, although it disappears for approximately 2 miles at Littleport in East Cambridgeshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Truro also has a church that is dedicated to St George.

 

[Calthrop]

Enfield (London Borough of...) also has a town in Nova Scotia, Canada, which shares its name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Monken Hadley was also once administered by the Hundred of Edmonton.

 

[Calthrop]

The Battle of Barnet in 1471, took place in the parish of Monken Hadley. Another important military engagement in the Wars of the Roses, in the same year, was fought at Tewkesbury.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Worcester also has a cricket ground that has been badly affected by floods over the years.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woodstock in Oxfordshire also has historical connections to the trade of glove-making.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

By 1626 James Keene, who had a bell foundry in Bedford, had started one in Woodstock. His son, Richard Keene, apparently closed the Woodstock foundry in the 1680s, but continued casting bells at Royston, Hertfordshire until 1703.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton in Derbyshire also hosts an annual arts festival.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Tim Brooke-Taylor OBE was born on 17th July 1940 in Buxton, and died on 12th April 2020 in Cookham, Berkshire, aged 79.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Silchester in Hampshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Camlet Way.