Settlement Association

[Welshman]

Stands the Church clock at ten to three,
And is there honey still for tea?

Well-known lines from "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester" by Rupert Brooke, who was born in Rugby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harrow also has a noted public school

 

[cjp]

Harrow's elevation is due to its Hill and Wanlochhead's elevation makes it the highest village in Scotland

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Matlock Bath also has a museum that celebrates past lead mining in the area.

 

[High Dyke]

Due to the alpine style landscape around Matlock Bath the area has been nicknamed Little Switzerland. Another settlement to be given that title is Whitfield, Northumberland

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thornhill in Dumfries and Galloway also hosts a game bird shoot in its environs,,,,The Drumlanrig Estate shoot

 

[cjp]

Geroge Galloway is MP for Bradford

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leeds was another settlement in the Brythonic Kingdom of Elmet

 

[backontrack]

York is also a town in God's Own County, and a very nice one at that.

(Where am I from, you wonder?)

 

[Gathursty]

York Minster.

 

[cjp]

York Minster.

Buckminster has a Gliding club renowned for aerobatics

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eccles also has a Grade I listed church.

 

[Welshman]

Chorley also gave its name to a cake [although I'm not sure whether either are now made where their name suggests!]

 

[High Dyke]

Buslingthorpe in Lincolnshire is also the home of a Round Barrow or Tumulus. Round Loaf is a Neolithic or Bronze Age tumulus on Anglezarke Moor (part of the West Pennine Moors) near Chorley

 

[Welshman]

What is it about poor St Michael?
The church dedicated to him in Buslingthorpe, Lincs, is now closed and demolished, as is the former church of St Michael at:

Buslingthorpe, Leeds.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Miles Platting in Manchester is another area to have much of its housing demolished in the mid-1950's as part of a slum clearance scheme.

 

[cjp]

Keeping a distance theme I offer Mile End but not in London - in Gloucestershire,

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dodleston in Cheshire is another settlement where a Primitive Methodist chapel was built.

 

[cjp]

Dodleston in Cheshire is another settlement where a Primitive Methodist chapel was built.

Epworth is where John Wesley, founder of Methodism, was born

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wroot is another settlement on the land area known as the Isle of Axholme

 

[Welshman]

Samuel Wesley [the father of John & Charles [+ others], was, during his career, Rector of Wroot.
He was also Rector of Epworth, but as this has been mentioned only a couple of posts back, I shall post one of his later livings - that of
South Ormesby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Louth is another settlement with a hostelry called the Massingberd Arms

 

[Welshman]

The current Rector of Louth, the Revd Nick Brown, was, before ordination, the General Manager of the Heritage Railway at Swanage.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uttoxeter is another settlement where Bronze Age axe heads have been excavated.

 

[High Dyke]

Ashton Under Lyne was the home of Gartsides Brewery. It subsequently merged with Bents Brewery of Stone, Staffs. Eventually it was taken over by Bass; as was Bunting's Brewery in Uttoxeter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stretford lies at the other end of the early Middle Ages earthworks known as the Nico Ditch

 

[cjp]

Stretford lies at the other end of the early Middle Ages earthworks known as the Nico Ditch

There are interesting eathworks to be seen on Caer Caradoc Hill the nearest settlement to which is probably Willstone

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ratlinghope is another remote rural Shropshire settlement with a very small population.

 

[Welshman]

Smethcott

is also in the foothills of the Long Mynd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanddewi Ystradenny in Powys is another settlement where the Normans chose to build a motte-and-bailey castle ... Buddugre Castle