Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bembridge is another settlement on the Isle of Wight that was involved with the smuggling of French goods in the 18th century.

 

[Calthrop]

Moulton, Lincolnshire -- east of Spalding -- also has a preserved windmill. (Bembridge's is the only preserved windmill on the Isle of Wight; Moulton's is claimed to be the tallest in the country.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowbit in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Elloe wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

The parish church of Warwick is also dedicated to St. Mary. (Cowbit is pronounced "Cubbit" by those who live there. I have a friend who dogmatically believes that English spelling / pronunciation are strictly phonetic; he has been heard to assert that "It's got to be be pronounced 'Cow-bit' [as in bovine savaging-with-teeth] -- I don't care what the local fools might say".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Offchurch in Warwickshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Warwick Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Offchurch is reckoned (likely apocryphally) to have links with Offa, King of Mercia in the later 8th century -- hence the name. Offa is of course famous for his Dyke between England and Wales. Knighton, on the Shropshire / Powys border, is situated on Offa's Dyke. (There is apparently a legend in Offchurch that if you jump off the top of the parish church, King Offa will arise from the ground and catch you.)

 

[D6130]

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[341o2]

About 30 years ago, I arrived at Presteigne, intending to then go to Knighton, but took a wrong turn and ended up in Kington instead

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yarpole in Herefordshire also lies on the route of the Black and White Village Trail.

 

[Springs Branch]

Long Marston in Warwickshire (there are at least three settlements with this name in different counties) also has a church with a listed timber-framed bell tower.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birlingham in Worcestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St James the Great.

 

[Calthrop]

Birlingham lies within a loop of the (Stratford) River Avon. Melverley (Shropshire -- on the Welsh border) lies within a loop of the River Severn.

 

[Springs Branch]

Melverley lies on National Cycle Route 81, which runs (albeit discontinuously in parts) between Wolverhampton and Aberystwyth.

 

[D6130]

St Andrews in Scotland also has a university.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birkdale in Merseyside also has a noted golf course.

 

[Calthrop]

Albert Pierrepoint, the famed executioner, lived in later life in, and had a tobacconist's shop in, Birkdale (he seems to have played various roles in his life, besides hanging people -- also spent a considerable time as a publican). He was born in Clayton, West Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cleckheaton in West Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bradford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Manufacture of the much-liked variety of sweets, Midget Gems: was inaugurated by Lion Confectionery in Cleckheaton in 1903 (I'd had no idea that M.G.s were so venerable). Pretty much "of an age" with them, are Wine Gums -- introduced in 1909 by Charles Gordon Maynard: whose father / mother / uncle started up the family confectionery business in 1880 as a "cottage industry" in Stamford Hill, now in the London Borough of Hackney.

 

[johnnychips]

Stamford Hill was on the Roman Road Ermine Street, which ran to Lincoln.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Louth in Lincolnshire also has an Antiochian Orthodox Church.

 

[DerekC]

The Louth Navigation was a canalisation of the River Lud. It was built between 1763 and 1770 and connected Louth with the sea at Tetney. It was formally abandoned as a navigation in 1924 and now serves as a drainage channel.

 

[Calthrop]

Blakeney in Norfolk also has also near to it, an RSPB reserve which is a good site for the rather scarce Little Tern.

 

[Springs Branch]

There's also a Grade II listed windmill in Lancashire, at Lytham St Annes.

As an eager child with bucket & spade, this windmill was always one of our key landmarks on a Lancashire United coach journey from Wigan to Blackpool. I'm not sure whether the windmill came before or after the first sighting of Blackpool Tower.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chipping in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Amounderness.

 

[Calthrop]

Slaidburn, Lancashire; also lies in the -- scenic, if a bit tamely so by some Northern English standards -- Forest of Bowland (by some pronounced -- so I gather -- "Bolland").

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wheatley Lane in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Blackburn.

 

[Springs Branch]

Roughlee in Lancashire was also associated with the 17th Century Pendle Witches.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Twiston in Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Clitheroe Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Near Twiston is the village of Downham; in whose parish the population of Twiston is now included. There are other Downhams in England; including the village of Downham, Essex (near Billericay).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhyl also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret.