Settlement Association

[EbbwJunction1]

Finbar Patrick 'Barry' McGuigan MBE was born in Clones on 28th February 1961. During his fighting career, he was nicknamed The Clones Cyclone and became the WBA and lineal World Featherweight champion. He currently lives near Whitstable, Kent with his wife and children and currently works as a boxing pundit for Sky TV.

 

[Calthrop]

Frampton-on-Severn, south-west of Gloucester; and Whitstable; would seem to be rivals for the distinction of having England's largest village green (Whitstable's title thereto maybe debatable, re -- village, or town?).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quedgeley in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.

 

[Springs Branch]

During WW2, a substantial number of RAF Stations was established around Britain.
Many closed immediately after the war, with the remaining number gradually diminishing over subsequent years.
RAF Quedgeley was one station which closed in 1995 with the land sold off for housing and commercial development.
A similar fate befell RAF Locking in 1998, at the Somerset village of Locking.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Augustine.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

One of the major literary locations in Manchester is the John Rylands Research Institute and Library on Deansgate. The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, the English entrepreneur and philanthropist John Rylands. He was born in Parr, St Helens on 7th February 1801 and died in Stretford on 11th December 1888 aged 87.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Calthrop]

John Basil Grindrod (1919 -- 2009) British-born Primate, in the 1980s, of the Anglican Church of Australia: was born in Aughton; educated at Repton (Derbyshire) School.

 

[John Griffiths]

Two Mercian kings, Aethelbald and Wiglaf, are buried in the church of St Wystan at Repton. A later de facto monarch of Mercia, Aethelflead, Lady of the Mercians, is buried at St Oswald's priory in Gloucester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northampton also has a Guildhall.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Albans was also the site of two medieval battles -- admittedly Northampton's were further apart time-wise (1264; and 1461 [Wars of the Roses]); the St. Albans affrays, 1455 and '61, were both "Roses" stuff.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Exeter is also a cathedral city with a long history that goes back to Roman times.

 

[Calthrop]

Falmouth also has a namesake settlement in Jamaica.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Royal Tunbridge Wells also has a church that is dedicated to King Charles the Martyr.

 

[Calthrop]

One of the very few other British towns to enjoy officially, the "Royal" prefix: is Royal Leamington Spa.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Royal Leamington Spa is named after the River Leam, which flows through the town. The River Leam rises at Heillidon Hill in the village and civil parish of Heillidon in Northamptonshire.

 

[Calthrop]

The Jurassic Way long-distance footpath, Banbury -- Stamford: also passes through Welford, also in Northamptonshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whaley Bridge also has a marina that is visited by narrowboats.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Whaley Bridge, in common with many other places, has a Well Dressing Weekend, although the origins of the tradition are obscure. The location identified most closely with well dressing is Tissington, Derbyshire, where six wells (Children's Well, Coffin Well, Hall Well, Hands Well, Town Well and Yew Tree Well) are decorated during the week of Ascension Sunday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flagg in Derbyshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

 

[Calthrop]

I can't resist this -- Wiki says approximately of Flagg, "halfway between the small market town of Bakewell, and the spa town of Buxton". Thoughts prompted of John Ruskin, some century-and-a-half ago, raging against the Midland Railway's ruining the Peak District landscape to build its line so as to enable rapid and convenient mutual visiting between fools resident in those respective towns... Ruskin died in 1900 at his country house a couple of miles from Coniston, Cumbria -- at a fairly decent distance from any loathsome railway...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beddgelert in Gwynedd also has historical links to copper mining.

 

[Calthrop]

An unlikely connection between Beddgelert and Canterbury -- via the long-lasting and much-loved strip-cartoon (dignified as such things go) with as hero, Rupert Bear. An earlier writer-and-illustrator thereof, lived in Beddgelert and "did much Rupert" there; his successor lived in Canterbury -- whence the one-time Canterbury Heritage Museum (now closed) having had a "Rupert" section.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chichester was also targeted by the Luftwaffe during the Baedeker blitz of 1942.

 

[Calthrop]

Shippams fish and meat pastes are manufactured in Chichester. The "top-drawer" equivalent -- Gentleman's Relish aka Patum Peperium -- is manufactured in Elsenham, Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wicken Bonhunt in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Uttlesford.

 

[DerekC]

Wicken Bonhunt ran a virtual balloon race last Easter on behalf of Clavering Benefice. This idea seems to have been quite popular over the last year. Royston Rotary Club held one in September, starting in Red Square, Moscow!

 

[Calthrop]

Harston near Cambridge, is another of quite a number of settlements which are humorously "badmouthed" in Rupert Brooke's poem Grantchester.

 

[Springs Branch]

Harston is on the A10 trunk road, which also passes the much more densely-settled London district of Stoke Newington

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chipping Barnet in Hertfordshire is another settlement that once was administered by the ancient and extensive area Hundred of Ossulstone.