Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haggerston was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ossulstone.

 

[High Dyke]

The Grade II listed Haggerston Pool was designed by Alfred Cross. He also designed the Vicarage at Easton-in-Gordano.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sampford Brett is another settlement in Somerset with a Grade II* listed church that is dedicated to St George

 

[DerekC]

Richard LeBreton, one of the four assassins of Archbishop Thomas Becket, was born in Sampford Brett. After the attack all four fled to Knaresborough and hid in the castle for a year.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hampsthwaite also lies on the line of the River Nidd.

 

[DerekC]

Quarndon also has a pub called The Joiners Arms

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Royal Tunbridge Wells also has chalybeate springs.

 

[DerekC]

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, architect of the air defence system which won the Battle of Britain, lived at Tunbridge Wells. he was born at Moffat, Dumfriesshire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lockerbie also lies on the line of the River Annan

 

[DerekC]

Lockerbie town hall is built of old red sandstone. So is St Magnus' Cathedral in Kirkwall

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wasdale Head in Cumbria also has a church dedicated to St Olaf.

 

[DerekC]

Will Ritson was landlord of the Wasdale Head Inn. He claimed to be the world's biggest liar. A competitition for this title is still held every year at Santon Bridge

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holmrook in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Irt.

 

[DerekC]

Holmrook Hall was used for naval bomb disposal training during WWII and christened "HMS Volcano" for the purpose. The previous HMS Volcano was launched at Portsmouth on 1st July 1836. She was a wooden paddle-sloop fitted out as a factory ship.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool also has Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Liverpool also has Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals.

And if you want a cathedral we've got one to spare, in our Liverpool Homes - the RC cathedral is usually known as Paddy's Wigwam

 

[High Dyke]

The first lifeboat station in Britain was at Formby beach, established in 1776 by William Hutchinson, Dock Master for the Liverpool Common Council.


The first non-submersible ('unimmergible') lifeboat is credited to Lionel Lukin, who, in 1784, modified and patented a 20-foot (6.1 m) Norwegian yawl, fitting it with water-tight cork-filled chambers for additional buoyancy and a cast iron keelto keep the boat upright.

Lionel Lukin was born in Great Dunmow.

 

[johnnychips]

Dunmow is famous for giving away a ‘flitch’ of bacon as a prize to happily married couples, so I suppose the winners are Hamworthy.

I’ll get me coat ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newmill, near to Penzance, was also the site of an Iron Age settlement.

 

[DerekC]

Newmill stands on the Trevaylor Stream which runs into the sea at Chyandour

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Copperhouse is another Cornish settlement where tin smelting was carried out.

 

[DerekC]

The largest working beam engine in the world is at Kew Bridge. It was built in 1846 by Sandys, Carne & Vivian of Copperhouse Foundry, Hayle, Cornwall.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Swindon also has a Steam museum - in this case, devoted to "God's Wonderful Railway".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cricklade was also served by the North Wilts Canal.

 

[DerekC]

Cricklade is the first town reached by the Thames. The last is Southend on Sea

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eastbourne also hosts a seafront airshow.

 

[High Dyke]

Eastbourne was developed at the direction of the Duke of Devenshire from 1859 from four separate hamlets. The traditional burial place of the Dukes of Devonshire is at Edensor, Derbyshire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Church Broughton is another Derbyshire settlement with a Grade I listed church.

 

[DerekC]

The 229 bus runs on schooldays only from Church Broughton to Etwall

 

[High Dyke]

Flash in Staffordshire is another location where the art of Well Dressing takes place.
http://www.thepeakdistrict.info/well-dressing.php