Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Elstow in Bedfordshire is another settlement where an early community of Benedictine Nuns was established.

 

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Moot Hall (or "The Green House") stands in isolation on Elstow village green. This Tudor timber-framed building was built in the 15th century, possibly by Elstow Abbey's carpenter William Arnold, to provide both a courtroom and a market house. Similar late-medieval market houses, with a long chamber on the upper floor, are rare. Two others survive in Buckinghamshire, at Long Crendon and West Wycombe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nether Alderley in Cheshire East also has a National Trust building.

 

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St Mary's Church, Nether Alderley dates from the 14th century, with later additions and a major restoration in the late 19th century; it is a designated Grade I listed building. It is an active parish church in the diocese of Chester; its benefice is combined with that of St Catherine's Church, Over Alderley (also known as St Catherine's Church, Birtles).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Biddulph in Staffordshire also has a noted National Trust garden site.

 

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The aforementioned noted National Trust garden site is Biddulph Grange, which was developed by James Bateman (1811–1897), the accomplished horticulturist and landowner. He moved to Biddulph Grange around 1840, although he was born at Redvales, a residential district to the south of Bury in Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bacup in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

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Hinckley in Leicestershire was also once a traditional centre of the hosiery industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Snarestone in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the Ashby Canal.

 

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The Church of St Bartholomew, Snarestone is within the Church of England parish of Appleby Magna and Swepstone with Snarestone and
Norton-juxta-Twycross.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abergavenny in Monmouthshire also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, was a captive at Mytchett Place at Mytchett, Surrey, before being transferred to Maindiff Court Hospital in Abergavenny after a suicide attempt.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Finchampstead in Berkshire also lies on the line of the River Blackwater.

 

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California is a village in the north of the civil parish of Finchampstead, Berkshire; it is situated approximately 1.9 miles south of Wokingham.

 

[John Griffiths]

Eston on Teesside also has a district named California.

 

[Calthrop]

Eston features centrally in the acclaimed documentary film, released 2004, by Craig Harnby, A Century in Stone: on how the mid-19th-century discovery of ironstone at Eston, led to the growth of the Teesside iron-and-steel complex. Another settlement strongly associated with a (much earlier) cinematic documentary of renown, is Inishmore: biggest of the Aran Islands, at the mouth of Galway Bay -- where was made, Robert J. Flaherty's Man of Aran of 1934 (some doubt nowadays, as to whether this latter film is fully authentic for its period).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lettermore in County Galway is also an inhabited island off the coast of the Republic of Ireland.

 

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Lettermore is on the R374 regional road, which runs from it's junction with the R343 at Doire an Fhéich to it's terminal point at the junction with the local road 5234 at Lettermullen.

 

[Calthrop]

Settlements with names commencing "Letter..." (from the Irish-language word for "hillside") are quite numerous in Ireland -- usually in the remoter western parts. The closest "Letter..." place to civilisation , which I can find in Ireland: is Letterbreen (meaning, "Bruin's hillside"), Co. Fermanagh; a little way south-west of Enniskillen.

 

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Letterbreen is a request stop on the Bus Éireann Sligo - Manorhamilton - Enniskillen Expressway route 66. Manorhamilton is the second-largest town in County Leitrim.

 

[John Griffiths]

Letterbreen has a pub called The Half Way Inn; there is a Halfway Inn at Wareham in Dorset

 

[John Griffiths]

Gordon Wilson (1927-1995) became a campaigner for peace and forgiveness after he was injured and his daughter Marie killed in the IRA bombing of a Remembrance Day parade at Enniskillen on 8 November 1987. He was a native of Manorhamilton.

 

[Calthrop]

Oscar Wilde attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen. One of his best-loved plays, The Importance of Being Earnest, has as a prominent character the magnificently supercilious Lady Bracknell -- name borrowed from the Berkshire town.

 

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Bracknell was used in the filming TV detective series Pie in the Sky, albeit given the name 'Laxton'. The main character was Inspector Henry Crabbe, a disillusioned policeman and pie chef extraordinaire, played by Richard Griffiths OBE (1947 – 2013), a role which was created for him. He was born in Thornaby-on-Tees, commonly referred to as Thornaby, North Yorkshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Met Office was based on Bracknell until 2003, when it moved to Exeter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bracknell was used in the filming TV detective series Pie in the Sky, albeit given the name 'Laxton'. The main character was Inspector Henry Crabbe, a disillusioned policeman and pie chef extraordinaire, played by Richard Griffiths OBE (1947 – 2013), a role which was created for him. He was born in Thornaby-on-Tees, commonly referred to as Thornaby, North Yorkshire.

Cotherstone in County Durham also lies on the line of the River Tees.

 

[Calthrop]

Alston, Cumbria, also lies on the B6277 road -- at its northernmost end.

 

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Alston shares the title of the 'highest market town in England', at about 1,000 feet above sea level, with Buxton, Derbyshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Buxton, Derbyshire: has a much smaller namesake in Norfolk -- Buxton, four miles approximately-south of Aylsham.

 

[John Griffiths]

Builder Thomas Cubitt was born in Buxton in 1788. He was responsible for the construction of large parts of Belgravia, Pimlico and Bloomsbury in London and Kemp Town in Brighton, and much else besides.