Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

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.

The Franco-British painter Alfred Sisley lived in France for most of his life; punctuated by some brief spells dwelling, and painting, in Britain: one in Molesey in 1874, another a couple of decades later in South Wales, including a sojourn in Penarth, South Glamorgan.


(Observation re entry above -- my bolding of "Hal": with my not being in any depth, "into" any of the relevant topics; "Our Lady of Hal" was intriguingly baffling to me. First entering head, was Henry VIII -- but no, that "didn't compute". Wiki to the rescue: I learn that -- via the mentioned Belgian connection -- the H-word refers to a town in Belgium: Flemish Hal, French Halle. I'd never before heard of said settlement -- which turns out to be located pretty well dead-central in Belgium. Feel that it can't have been a place of much railway or tramway note !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Darlington in County Durham also has a church that is dedicated to St Augustine.

 

[Calthrop]

Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, was uncomplimentary about Darlington in his book A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain -- writing of it, "nothing remarkable but dirt". He also seems to have had very much of a "down" on Deal, Kent -- as per a reference in another book of his, The Storm -- thereby upsetting the locals.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hull also has a maritime museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Granby, Nottinghamshire (near Bingham) also has a namesake settlement in Quebec Province, Canada -- maybe these places are where the English-speaking minority live ?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Musselburgh in East Lothian is another settlement where Roman altar stones have been discovered.

 

[DerekC]

Prue Leith, the well known restaurateur and a judge in the TV programme "Great British Bakeoff" is the principal of Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh. Previously she was chair of Ashridge Management College near Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uppingham in Rutland also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[Springs Branch]

Giggleswick in North Yorks. is also the location of an independent day and boarding school.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Giggleswick's parish church is dedicated to St Alkelda, an obscure Anglo-Saxon saint associated with the North Yorkshire town of Middleham. The church was restored between 1890 and 1892 by the Lancaster architects Paley, Austin and Paley, and included replacing the roof, removing the gallery, rebuilding the vestry, and reseating, replastering and reflooring the church. The company was also involved in designing new churches in the first half of the 1890s, and these include St Johns in the village of Crawshawbooth near Rawtenstall, Lancashire, also between1890 and 1892.

 

[Calthrop]

Devizes, Wiltshire, also has an award-winning butcher's shop.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hungerford in Berkshire also lies on the line of the Kennet and Avon Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Ripley, Derbyshire, is also twinned with a town in the departement of Indre-et-Loire in France. Hungerford's "twin" is Ligueil; Ripley's, Chateau-Renault.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

All Saints’ Church, Ripley, contains an organ by Robert Postill of York dating from 1846. Another of his organs can be found in the Church of St Helen, St Helen Auckland, County Durham.

 

[Calthrop]

Spennymoor, County Durham, also lies on the A688 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitehaven in Cumbria also has a mining museum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The term "jam eater" is often used by the people of neighbouring Workington to refer to the people of Whitehaven, or more generally to people from West Cumbria. When the Financial Times ran a lighthearted article on famous feuds in September 2008 featuring this, the local Whitehaven News published its own complementary feature, reporting that: "The common view is that the term is insulting because it implies people could not afford to buy meat for their sandwiches, so they had to eat jam instead."

The original article had summed up the situation in terms of the long-term rivalry between Whitehaven and nearby Workington: "Legend has it that one town's miners had jam on their sandwiches and the other did not, but no one agrees on which town it was or whether they did it because they were snobs or peasants." A reader from Maryport, a few miles further up the Cumbrian coast (which, as occasionally mentioned in discussions on the topic, used to have a jam factory) reported that he had understood the term originally referred to people from Whitehaven, and this was echoed in the comments on the Whitehaven News article, suggesting that a former distinction between the Whitehaven "jam eaters" and Workington "high siders" had gradually been lost in the trading of insults across the rugby pitch.

Every day's a school day .... !

 

[Calthrop]

Maryport's name is not of immense age -- dating from the 18th century, prior to which this settlement was a village called Ellenfoot: the entrepreneur Humphrey Senhouse developed the place as a significant town and port, and -- with official blessing -- changed the name to Maryport, after his wife. Another settlement featuring name-fluctuation including a (non-religion-related) "Mary" one, has been Fort William; town as opposed to actual fort, was for a while called Maryburgh, after Queen Mary II (of William and Mary).


(Re the "jam" lore -- truly a "tangled tale": as bad as the Cornwall-versus-Devon scone thing -- jam first, or cream first ? )

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Fort William is the start / end of the West Highland Way, with the other end being Milngavie in East Dumbartonshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Milngavie is one of Scotland's notorious "pronunciation bogeys" for non-Scots -- correct rendering if I'm right, something like "Mull-guy". The toughest such which I have yet encountered, is Kilncadzow (South Lanarkshire): pronounced, it seems, "Kill-cay-geh". This place-name was discussed at some length in a thread on "General Discussion" here, a few years ago; with many posters asserting that a settlement with a name spelt like that, ought to be in Poland, not Scotland.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Carluke is also on the A721 road.

 

[Calthrop]

With jam seeming to have become a theme for this afternoon: one of Carluke's biggest employers is the jam company Renishaw Scott; who have recently added a chocolate refinery to their plant there. Way southward, but also prominent on the jam scene, is Tiptree, Essex: where the stuff is produced by Wilkin & Sons.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Tiptree parish church of Saint Luke's; within the Church of England, it is part of the United Benefice of Tolleshunt Knights with Tiptree and Great Braxted.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontesbury in Shropshire also has an Orthodox Monastery within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

The author Mary Webb, chronicler-in-fiction of -- especially Shropshire -- rural life (Stella Gibbons's celebrated Cold Comfort Farm reckoned a -- basically affectionate -- mickey-take of her work) dwelt for a while in Pontesbury. She died in St. Leonards, East Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ore in East Sussex also has a church that is called Christ Church.

 

[DerekC]

Ore has a nature reserve called "Speckled Wood", which is also the name of a butterfly. Here's a picture of one at Sapcote taken by Graham Callow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby Mallory in Leicestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Sparkenhoe.

 

[johnnychips]

Mallory Park is a race circuit in the above settlement. Snetterton in Norfolk also has a racetrack.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mundford in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Thetford Poor Law Union.