Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanhope in County Durham is another settlement where a medieval-period Pele Tower was constructed.

 

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The village of Stanhope lies on the main A689 road over the Pennines. Another village on the same road is Ireshopeburn (local pronunciation "Eye-ssup-burn") to the west.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newtonmore in the Highlands region of Scotland also has a noted folk museum.

 

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Newtonmore is renowned for having a shinty team, Newtonmore Camanachd Club, which plays at The Eilan, next to the River Calder. It is historically the game's most successful side, having won the Camanachd Cup a record 33 times; they are the present holders, having beaten Oban Camanachd Club in the most recent final in 2019. The Oban Club play at Mossfield Park, Oban, Argyll and Bute.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mallaig also has ferry services to the Scottish offshore islands.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Mallaig is linked to Fort William by the A830 road, which is known as the "Road to the Isles". It passes through several small settlements, including Corpach.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tongue in the Scottish Highlands region also had a 15th century Scottish clan battle fought within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

You guys are too fast for me ! I'm reduced to doing it "quick and dirty" -- a resembling / associative name, far to the south: is the hamlet of Tongue End, Lincolnshire -- between Spalding and Bourne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aunby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bourne Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Aunby lies very close to the River Glen; which, some way down its course, runs through Surfleet, Lincolnshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Saint Laurence Church, Surfleet is part of the Glen Group of Churches, which also includes St Bartholomew's Church, West Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire.

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[Calthrop]

Saint Laurence Church, Surfleet is part of the Glen Group of Churches, which also includes St Bartholomew's Church, West Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire.

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This immediate area would seem well-supplied with settlements with odd and off-beat-sounding names; what with the recently-mentioned Tongue End; and Pode Hole, a couple of miles south-east of West Pinchbeck.

 

[341o2]

"Beck" reminds me of the Lake District, one of its most famous inhabitants was the children's authour Beatrix Potter, who also became an expert in farming, particularly the Herdwick sheep. After a visit to the Lakes, my mother knitted me a jersey of Herdwick wool, and didn't it keep out the cold. she lived at Near Sawrey near Coniston

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Near Sawrey and Far Sawrey are two neighbouring villages in the Furness area of Cumbria. They are located in the Lake District between the village of Hawkshead and the Lake Windermere.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Urswick in Cumbria was also once administered by the Hundred of Lonsdale (North of the Sands)

 

[Calthrop]

Little Urswick and its near neighbour Great Urswick appear to come in almost all respects, as a "package deal". The Urswicks are among various places claiming to be the birthplace of St. Patrick; another -- rather marginal -- contender, is Norton, Northamptonshire (near Daventry), site of the Romano-British settlement of Bannaventa.

 

[DerekC]

Norton has a pub called the "White Horse". However this is nowhere near as old or as famous as the white horse figure carved into the chalk downs at Uffington in Wiltshire which has been dated scientifically to between 1380 and 550 BC. It's one of those things that gives me goose pimples, just to look at it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Hendred in Oxfordshire also lies on the route of the ancient trackway known as The Ridgeway.

 

[Springs Branch]

Featherbed Lane is an unusually-named minor road which links East Hendred with the nearby town of Steventon.
There is another Featherbed Lane in Devon, at Exmouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fleetwood also has a cross-river ferry.

 

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Fleetwood's parish church, St Peter's, was designed by Decimus Burton in 1841; it formerly had a spire, but this was demolished in 1904. Another church designed by Decimus Burton is St Augustine's Church in Flimwell, in the Rother district of East Sussex. This church originally did not have had a spire but had one added afterwards.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashburnham in East Sussex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Battle Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Harry H. Corbett ("Young Steptoe" in the television comedy series) is buried in the churchyard of Ashburnham-with-Penhurst. Much of his childhood and youth spent in Wythenshawe, Manchester.

 

[johnnychips]

Hattersley is/was also an overspill settlement for Manchester.

 

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Rickey Hatton, the former two-weight world champion boxer, grew up on the estate, but was based at a gym in Hyde during his career.

 

[Calthrop]

Hyde (Greater Manchester) has in great contrast with it, two namesake small rural villages (both in Gloucestershire). Denton in Greater Manchester is in similar case; but with approaching-ten rural namesake settlements, in various parts of England.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burnage in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of very early Medieval period linear defensive earthwork known as the Nico Ditch.

 

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Although she was born in Cheetham, Manchester, the British novelist and playwright Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 – 1924) who wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy and two other novels, spent most of her early childhood in Burnage.

 

[Calthrop]

Manchester's Jewish Museum is in Cheetham; its London counterpart is in Camden Town, London Borough of Camden.

 

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Our Lady of Hal is the Catholic parish church for the Camden Town area of London. Designed by the architect (1884-1968), it was commissioned by The Missionary Fathers of Scheut, also known as the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM), and was originally intended to be a church for the many Belgian refugees who were living in London. It replaced smaller chapel on the opposite side of the road from the present church, which had begun to minister to the needs of the local Catholic community in 1922. The foundation stone was laid on 17th July 1932, and the church was blessed and opened on 18th March 1933. Wilfred Clarence Mangan designed many Catholic churches, and another was St Barnabus' Church, Molesley in Surrey, which was built in 1931 and also replaced a smaller church in the same area.