Settlement Association

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The Green Howards (now known as the 2nd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) was a British Army infantry regiment very strongly associated with Middlesbrough and the area south of the River Tees.

However, their Regimental Museum is located in the old Trinity Church in the centre of the market place in Richmond, North Yorkshire. (And very good it is, too!)

 

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Thrintoft also lies on the line of the River Swale.

 

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The chapel of St Mary Magdalen in Thrintoft was built during the 13th to 15th centuries. It was endowed in 1253 as a chantry chapel connected to Jervaulx Abbey, which is in the village of East Witton, near Ripon.

 

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Agglethorpe in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Cover.

 

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Brough with St Giles is also to be found in Richmondshire.

 

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Guisborough is another settlement where a church dedicated to St Paulinus was built,

 

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The jockey Robert "Bob" Champion MBE was born in Guisborough on 4 June 1948, but had his moment of glory when winning the 1981 Grand National on Aldaniti at Aintree.

 

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Cheltenham also has a racecourse that hosts steeolechase horse races

 

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Reading also hosts a music festival

 

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Kelvedon also has links to the trade of commercial seed growing.

 

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Stratford, in East London, is also on the route of the A12 road.

 

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Stanford-le-Hope was where Henry Wye, a brewer, was employed. Henry was one of the Stratford Martyrs that were burned at the stake for their protestant beliefs.

The Stratford Martyrs were eleven men and two women who were burned at the stake together for their Protestant beliefs, either at Stratford-le-Bow, Middlesex or Stratford, Essex, both near London, on 27 June 1556 during the Marian persecutions.

info: http://www.eastlondonhistory.co.uk/stratford-martyrs-executed/

 

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Joseph Conrad also lived in Stanford-le-Hope, but died in Bishopsbourne, Kent.

 

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Barham in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Kinghamford

 

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Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener lived the last few years of his life at Broome Park, Barham. His early military education was at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

 

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Harwich also once had a Royal Naval Dockyard that closed in the 19th century.

 

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Felixstowe is also one of the Haven Ports on the eastern coast of England.

 

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Felixstowe is nowhere near STOWE ON THE WOLD

 

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Stow-on-the-Wold, surely...

Cirencester also lies on the Roman road called Fosse Way

 

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The village of Hartpury in Gloucestershire is also the home of a further education college with a large agricultural element to it's courses. It's called, unsurprisingly, Hartpury College.

 

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Down Hatherley was also once administered by the Hundred of Dudstone and King's Barton.

 

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The village of Down Hatherley was recorded (combined with Up Hatherley) as Hegberleo in 1022.

 

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Whitton (in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames) also has a church that is dedicated to St Philip and St James.

 

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There is also a Whitton (or, in Welsh, Llanddewi-yn-Hwytyn) in Powys. It is located on the B4356 road 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Knighton.

 

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Clevedon in Somerset also has a clock tower.

 

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And Southend also has a pier, rather longer than Clevedon's.

 

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Babbacombe also has a cliff railway

 

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Bourton-on-the-Water also has a Model Village.

 

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Witney in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Windrush.

 

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Robert Llewellyn, Red Dwarf actor and author, attended Henry Box School, Witney (he was expelled) but he was born on 10th March 1956 in Northampton.