Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Like Wardour, Carlisle shares its name with a street in Soho, central London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Botchergate in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Carlisle Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I assume that you mean Botchergate in Carlisle?

If so, let me offer this: The J D Wetherspoon pub "The William Rufus" is to be found on Botchergate in Carlisle, one of two in the city. Another JDW pub in the area, albeit nearly 22 miles away, is The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, which can be found in Keswick.

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[Xenophon PCDGS]

OBSERVATION : Botchergate was an area as well as a road

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Havannah in Cheshire East also has historical connections to the brass-working industry.

 

[Calthrop]

"West Indian name-likenesses" -- as well as the Cheshire Havannah (so named, I understand, in commemoration of the capture by British forces, in the war of the time, of the capital of Cuba in 1762); there is in Cornwall, the venerable Jamaica Inn -- former coaching inn, nearest settlement Bolventor -- a very much factually existing hostelry, but perhaps owing its greatest fame to the novel by Daphne du Maurier.

 

[DerekC]

Bolventor is thought to take its name from the nearby "Bold Adventure" tin mining area. There is an ancient copper mine of the same name near Slaggyford in Northumberland

 

[Calthrop]

Malham, North Yorkshire, also lies on the Pennine Way long-distance footpath.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grasmere in Cumbria also holds an annual fell-running event.

 

[Calthrop]

William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived long, and happily, at Grasmere. The humorous author Sue Limb (born 1946 at Hitchin, Hertfordshire) has written an affectionate satire on same, titled The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hexton in Hertfordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hitchin Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

OBSERVATION : Botchergate was an area as well as a road

Yes, I thought so ... but thanks for clarifying this.

Hexton parish church is dedicated to St Faith or Saint Faith of Conques, who is said to have been a girl or young woman of Agen in Aquitaine, France. Horsham St Faith is a village in Norfolk, which takes its name from the River Hor, which runs through it on its way from Horsford to Horstead; and a Benedictine Priory, founded in honour of St Faith that, until the dissolution of the monasteries, stood there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whittlesford in Cambridgeshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary and St Andrew.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Whittlesford has a King George's Field as a memorial to King George V, known locally as 'The Lawn'. Another one is in the village of Papworth Everard.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Caxton Gibbet, on Ermine Street / old Great North Road on the outskirts of Papworth Everard is a reminder gruesome execution practices of old.

Another gibbet was located opposite the Busby Stoop Inn, on the main A61 road approaching Thirsk North Yorks.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Reading in Berkshire also has a Quaker School.

 

[Calthrop]

Dreadful-and-feeble-wordplay department: the riddle -- "Which is the most studious county in England?" -- "Berkshire; because there is one town in it which is always 'Reading'. "

Moving a little westwards: "Why don't they have French-fried potatoes in Wiltshire?" -- "Because there are no Devizes for Chippenham." (The D-place, as opposed to the C-place, randomly selected for bolding.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Hungerford Town FC is affiliated to the Berks & Bucks FA and are currently members of the National League South and play at Bulpit Lane in the town. Ebbsfleet United FC are in the same League, and play at Stonebridge Road, Northfleet, Kent.

 

[John Griffiths]

Northfleet was the location of the Rosherville Gardens, an amusement park with music, dancing, refreshments, fireworks and illumination, entertainers and more, opened in a disused chalk pit in 1837. They closed in 1901. Such gardens were popular from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, the most famous, perhaps, being at Vauxhall in SW London.

 

[341o2]

Wimborne Minster also has a model village

 

[DerekC]

Grantham in Lincolnshire also has a chained library. (The Grantham one has a claim to have been the first public library in Britain).

 

[High Dyke]

Ovingdean in East Sussex also has a church dedicated to St Wulfram.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rottingdean in East Sussex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Brighton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Rottingdean's Black Horse pub is thought to be the settlement's oldest entire building. It used to be called, more interestingly, the Black Hole. There is a B & B in Winchester called the Black Hole: an "advertising pitch" for which, describes it as adjacent to the Black Boy pub -- re which one reads, "famously quirky ... think stuffed donkeys, baboons, and church pews, Agas ..." Enquiring minds wish to know more ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Reigate in Surrey is another settlement on the pilgrimage route known as The Pilgrims Way.

 

[Springs Branch]

Reigate is home to Britain's first purpose-built road tunnel. The tunnel opened in 1823, paid for and built by Earl Sommers who lived in the splendid house on a hilltop by the town centre. His estate stood between the town and the road north to London, meaning traffic had to divert around the outside. He built the tunnel through his grounds so his estate could remain peaceful and locals could directly access the London Road.

Another early road tunnel, constructed between 1830 and 1832, is the 345-foot-long Beaminster Tunnel or Horn Hill Tunnel on the present-day A3066 road between Mosterton and Beaminster in Dorset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Netherbury in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Brit.

 

[Calthrop]

The novelist Mary Anna Needell (wrote under the name of "Mrs. J.H. Needell"), 1830 -- 1922 (of whom I admit never having heard, before Googling a few minutes ago) lived for a time with her family in Netherbury. She was born in Blackheath (now Boroughs of Greenwich, and Lewisham). I gather that some regard this lady as a sort of poor man's Charlotte Bronte.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chislehurst in Greater London was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Blackheath.

 

[Calthrop]

Richmal Crompton, teacher and author -- best known for her humorous tales of the mischievous schoolboy William Brown and his colourful assortment of pals -- lived for a time in Chislehurst. I seem to recall from the books that the Browns lived somewhere in the Home Counties, and that their two nearest towns were called Marleigh, and Hadley. So far as I can ascertain, Marleigh is a total invention; but there is a real settlement called Hadley -- in Shropshire, now encompassed by Telford New Town.