Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitstable in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Alphege.

 

[D6130]

Maldon in Essex is also a noted centre for the gathering, processing and selling of oysters.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Baddow in Essex also lies on the line of the River Chelmer.

 

[Springs Branch]

The north side of the Church of St Mary the Virgin at Little Baddow features a 14th-century Devil's Door.

Another Devil's Door can be found at St Margaret's Church in Ditchling, East Sussex.

 

[Calthrop]

Ditchling has links with Rowland Emett -- who tends to be most loved by the likes of us, for his (as Wiki rather delightfully puts it) "unique concept of bumbling trains with excessively tall chimneys and silly names". There is a permanent exhibition of representative examples of Emett's work at Stoneywish Nature Reserve in Ditchling. The Victoria Centre, Nottingham, holds an elaborate -- working -- water-powered clock designed by Emett.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also has a modern tramway system.

 

[341o2]

Edinburgh has an old town, as does Harlow

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Harlow RFC play on Howard Way, Latton Bush, Harlow, and are in the London 3 Essex Division; one of their opponents are East London RFC, who play at Holland Road, West Ham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walthamstow was also once under the jurisdiction of the West Ham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Ken Russell, the controversial film director, studied at Walthamstow Technical College. He died at Lymington, Hampshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portsmouth also has a ferry service to the Isle of Wight.

 

[D6130]

The car ferry service from Portsmouth lands at Fishbourne on the IW.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wootton on the Isle of Wight also lies on the line of the Wootton Creek.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St. Edmund's Church, Wootton, has a pipe organ which dates from 1869. It was originally installed in St Andrew's Church, Norton Green, near Freshwater and was moved to St Edmund's in the early 1980s when St Andrew's became redundant.

 

[Calthrop]

There is another Norton Green -- also in itself, a very small settlement -- situated in Stoke-on-Trent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gateshead is another settlement to have hosted the National Garden Festival.

 

[Calthrop]

An association which is "reaching" to a rather extreme degree: one of North-East England's best-known and -loved folk songs is Cushie Butterfield: concerning the not-very-hopeful love of a River Tyne boatman, for a young lady, name as in song title, resident in Gateshead and whose occupation is the selling of yellow clay. The surname -- if no other characteristics whatever -- is shared by the present-day Butterfield Bank: headquarters in St. Peter Port, Guernsey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides also has a Severn class lifeboat in its RNLI station.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Stornoway Town Hall is a former municipal building on South Beach in the town. It is a Category B listed building, and was designed by John Robertson of Inverness in the Gothic Revival style. Another building designed by John Robertson is Tobermory Parish Church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glastonbury in Somerset also hosts an annual music festival.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Glastonbury is one of the venues for the annual West Country Carnival Circuit, which includes events at seven locations in Somerset, including North Petherton.

 

[Calthrop]

In the late 20th century, North Petherton officially became a town; having previously claimed to be the largest village in England. There are now several claimants for that status; one of them being Broughton Astley, Leicestershire -- between Leicester and Loughborough.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The English snooker player William Joseph (Willie) Thorne lived in Broughton Astley. He was born on 4th March 1954, at the family home in Anstey, Leicestershire and died in Torrevieja, Spain on 17th June 2020, aged 66.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wycoller in Lancashire also has a packhorse bridge.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

'Ferndean Manor' in Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre is thought to be based on Wycoller Hall. The Bronte Way passes through Wycoller and also through Thornton, where the Brontë children were born, and Haworth where the family lived.

 

[D6130]

Cullingworth, West Yorkshire, also lies on the 'Great Northern Railway Trail' long distance footpath.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birstall in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Morley Division of the Agbrigg and Morley Wapentake.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Black Bull Inn is situated behind St Peter's Church on Kirkgate. Its upstairs room was once used as a magistrate's court for Birstall and Gomersal, and is now Grade 2 listed. Another Black Bull Inn can be visited at Lowick, Northumberland.

 

[Calthrop]

The route of the south-to-north Roman road called the Devil's Causeway (now largely obliterated) passes also through Hartburn, Northumberland (west of Morpeth).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arnside in Cumbria is another settlement where a pele tower was erected.