Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Cockermouth, Cumbria, also has a pub called the Bush.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Workington in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Derwent.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Workington AFC play at in the town and are in the Northern Premier League Division One West. It was one of the first clubs managed by Bill Shankly, who did the job between January 1954 and December 1955. Bill Shankly was born in 1913 in the small Scottish coal mining village of Glenbuck, Ayreshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Catrine in Ayrshire also lies on the line of the River Ayr.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Nether Catrine House was the country seat of the philosopher Dugald Stewart FRSE FRS, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1785 and is located on the south bank of the River Ayr. It was here that the poet, Robert Burns, famously "dinner'd wi a lord".
Burns, his friend and fellow Freemason, made him an honorary member of Lodge St David, Tarbolton, No. 133, on 25th July 1787.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oldmeldrum in Aberdeenshire was also created a Burgh of Barony in the 17th century.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

William Forsyth (1737 – 1804) was a Scottish botanist, a royal head gardener and a founding member of the Royal Horticultural Society. He was born in Oldmeldrum, and a genus of flowering plants, Forsythia, is named in his honour. His great-grandson was the gardener and landscape architect Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840–1906), who was was in turn the great-grandfather of the entertainer Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson CBE (1928 – 2017) who was born in Edmonton, then part of Middlesex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

South Mimms in Hertfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Edmonton.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Giles' Church, South Mimms has a square baptismal font dating from the 13th century which has 14th-century panelling on the pier. Its cover was designed by Sir John Ninian Comper (1864 – 1960) in 1938, and is supported on four gilt pillars. Another St Giles' Church with which he was involved was at Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, which he completely restored and partially redesigned after it had suffered near total destruction following a fire in 1908.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sixpenny Handley in Dorset was also once under the jurisdiction of the Cranbourne Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The parish church of St Mary, Sixpenny Handley dates from the 14th century and is designated a Grade II* listed building. The church is in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shaftesbury in Dorset also has a church that is dedicated to St Rumbold.

 

[John Griffiths]

Actor Robert Newton, whose west country accent led to the convention of pirates talking in an "oo-arr" way after his film portrayal of Long John Silver, was born in Shaftesbury but lived from the ages of seven to thirteen at Lamorna, near Penzance, Cornwall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tolgarrick in Cornwall is another settlement where tin streaming was carried out.

 

[Calthrop]

Tolgarrick is in the parish of Kea, a little way south-west of Truro: church of said parish is -- uniquely, it seems -- dedicated to the 5th-century Saint Kea. At Landkey just east of Barnstaple, the original church was reputedly founded by St. Kea -- hence the village's name -- but Landkey's church is now dedicated to St. Paul.

Never mind saints and the West Country -- "Kea" had meant to me till a very little time ago, a rather pest-like kind of New Zealand parrot !

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chittlehampton in Devon was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of South Molton.

 

[Calthrop]

A big landowner at Chittlehampton was the wondrously-named Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton (1863 -- 1957). While studying at Oxford, this worthy was in the University polo team -- leading them to victory against Cambridge in the 1883 Varsity Match in that sport.

 

[D6130]

21st Baron Clinton

I bet he was a bit of a card!

Oxford has the oldest university in England....and the oldest in Great Britain. The oldest university in Scotland is at St Andrews in Fife.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Albans, Hertfordshire -- also has (with apostrophe-type give-and-take: both non-British towns end their names in " 's", whereas the British ones are apostrophe-less) a namesake settlement in Newfoundland, Canada.

 

[Springs Branch]

Fishbourne in West Sussex also has a museum dedicated to the Roman settlement of Britain.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stowmarket in Suffolk also has a church that is jointly dedicated to St Peter and St Mary.

 

[Calthrop]

Museums on seemingly highly-basic themes: at Stowmarket there is the Food Museum (formerly the Museum of East Anglian Life). If Stowmarket has a museum devoted to food; Dudley (West Midlands) which could be (mis)construed as being devoted to living -- the Black Country Living Museum. (We know that the meaning is not really "about living, full stop" -- but, in order to make an association ...)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Havercroft in West Yorkshire also has a Living Hope church.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Fitzwilliam is also a village on the B6428 in West Yorkshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Clare, Suffolk: also bears the same name as a college of Cambridge University (in both cases, one suspects, no connection between the colleges and the settlements).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bures in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The medieval-core church of St Mary the Virgin, Bures had a ring of six bells which were augmented to eight bells in 1951 by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon, a clockmaker and bell foundary from 1844 until 1957. A successor company continues operation in Bletchingley (historically "Blechingley"), Surrey, under the Gillett & Johnston name, engaged in clock-making and clock and carillon repair.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tatsfield in Surrey was also once administered by the Anglo-Saxon Hundred of Tandridge.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Mary's Church, Tatsfield has -- I initially misread -- "for many years ... played host to a dull congregation of Roman Catholics and Anglicans". The word is of course "dual" -- sorry, everyone... Cholsey, Oxfordshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Winterbrook House, Cholsey was one of the two main homes of the late author Dame Agatha Christie; the other one was Greenway House in the village of Galmpton South Devon.