Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lyddington on the Rutland border area was also once administered by the Hundred of Kingsbridge.

 

[Calthrop]

Lyddington on the Rutland border area was also once administered by the Hundred of Kingsbridge.

Genuinely puzzled -- could you please elucidate? Hundred of Kingsbridge, around Swindon; Rutland is some hundred miles north-east thereof. Was this some strange extra-territorial anomaly?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Genuinely puzzled -- could you please elucidate? Hundred of Kingsbridge, around Swindon; Rutland is some hundred miles north-east thereof. Was this some strange extra-territorial anomaly?

I have been in touch with the contact I know, about what you have reported and he was very embarrassed, as it was he himself who caused a mixture of two different hundreds information to be entered into two wrong sections. He assured me both matters would be corrected this evening and he passes on his thanks to you for noticing the error in question.

With regards to the quiz, I shall now strike-through the incorrect posting.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Middle Wallop is suspected to have been the site of a battle in ? 437 AD, between the forces of two rival British leaders, Vortigern and Aurelius Ambrosius. There are traditions of another battle, likely most of a hundred years later -- between Britons (including King Arthur??), and invading Anglo-Saxons -- at "Badon": various sites suggested, one of the preferred ones being Badbury, Wiltshire (just south of Swindon).

Stratton St Margaret in Wiltshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Highworth and Swindon Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of England parish church of Saint Margaret dates from the 13th century, with numerous later additions in 1840s and partial rebuilding in the middle of the 20th century; a Norman door remains. Amongst the notable churchyard tombs is one to Sir William Hedges who was President of the Est India Company in the 17th century. Born in Coole in County Cork, he died in London on 5th August 1701, and was buried, as directed in his will, with his first wife at Stratton St Margaret.

 

[Calthrop]

There are several settlements with the name Coole, in the island of Ireland -- that in Co. Cork, just one. I'm going to jump to Coole in Westmeath -- near the point where Counties Westmeath, Longford, and Cavan, join. This Coole is in the midst of an area which is big for commercial / governmental peat extraction.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Coole, Westmeath is stretched over a series of junctions and cross-roads which, amongst other places, connect to Castlepollard to the east.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Graiguenamanagh in County Kilkenny was another settlement affected by the Tithe War (1831-1836)

 

[Calthrop]

Portarlington, Co. Laois, also lies on the River Barrow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Youghal in County Cork is another settlement where Huguenot Protestants sought refuge.

 

[johnnychips]

Youghal looks like an amazing place to visit. However, Florence Newton was ‘the witch of Youghal’ in the 17th century; another famous witch was Mother Shipton, who lived in a cave in Knaresborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nun Monkton in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Nidd.

 

[Calthrop]

There are only six settlements in England, which feature a permanent maypole. Nun Monkton is one; Offenham, Worcestershire (near Evesham) is another.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolston in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the River Avon.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

A named, but unclassified, road passes through Wolston and joins the A45 near to Ryton on Dunsmore.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Horsham in West Sussex also has a public house called the Malt Shovel.

 

[Calthrop]

Steyning, West Sussex, also lies in the one-time Norman administrative area called the Rape of Bramber (I've had that name on the brain, since discovering it via this game !).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

A notable resident of Steyning is Sally Gunnell, the gold medal winner in the 1992 Summer Olympic Games; she was born in Chigwell, Essex on 29th July 1966.

 

[Calthrop]

Charles Dickens had a fondness for Chigwell; much of his novel Barnaby Rudge is set there. While the overall majority of the content of his works is set in London; another part of the country outside of the metropolis featuring noticeably in settings for him, is Rochester (also neighbouring Chatham).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yalding in Kent also lies on the line of the River Medway.

 

[Calthrop]

Edmund Blunden (1896 -- 1974), author and poet, lived in Yalding during his childhood -- it inspired many of his poems. In later life he lived in Long Melford, Suffolk; where he died and is buried.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Westbury-on-Trym in the Bristol region also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

The eponymous short River Trym -- tributary of the Bristol Avon -- rises in Filton, South Gloucestershire.

 

[johnnychips]

Woodford near Stockport was also the site of an aircraft manufacturer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stocksbridge in South Yorkshire also has a church that is named Christ Church.

 

[nw1]

Stocksbridge in South Yorkshire also has a church that is named Christ Church.

Carshalton in south London is also in a constituency which (disclaimer: unfortunately IMO) the Tories gained in the last election, after a long period in the hands of another party.

 

[Calthrop]

A local folk rhyme "from way back when", says of various settlements in the area:

Sutton for mutton,
Carshalton for beeves,
Epsom for whores,
And Ewell for thieves.

I'm going for Sutton (Surrey), in the above -- it fares better there, than poor old Epsom and Ewell.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Just to the north of Sutton town centre is All Saints Church, which was designed in the Gothic Revival style in 1863 by Samuel Sanders Teulon. In the same year, he was responsible for the design of St Mary's Parish Church, Woodchester, Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fishbourne in West Sussex is another settlement where the remains of a Roman villa were discovered.

 

[nw1]

Fishbourne in West Sussex is another settlement where the remains of a Roman villa were discovered.

... as was Bignor in the same county.

Sorry, that's the same link so probably doesn't count.

How about Warblington, Hants, another small station on the West Coastway adjacent to a large town and major station.