Settlement Association

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Sir Geoff Hurst, the only county cricketer to win a football world cup medal, lives in Cheltenham. He was, however, born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, on 8th December 1941.

 

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Whaley Bridge is at the opposite end of the Peak Forest canal.

 

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The actress and author Betty Driver MBE, most famous for her role as Betty Williams in Coronation Street, was once the landlady of Whaley Bridge's Cock Inn. She died on 15th October 2011, aged 91 in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheadle,_Greater_Manchester']Cheadle, Cheshire. [/URL]

Despite her character being well known for her Lancashire Hotpot, in real life she was a vegetarian who seldom cooked, describing herself as a poor cook.

 

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During the Jacobite Rising of 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie marched his troops through Cheadle en-route to Swarkestone Bridge in Derbyshire.

 

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Great Haywood in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Trent.

 

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The English sculptor and painter Samuel Peploe Wood was born in Great Haywood on 17th February 1827. He died on 30th July 1873 and was buried at Colwich, Staffordshire.

 

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Stratton-on-the-Fosse is another settlement which was chosen to be the site of a Benedictine monastery.

 

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Stratton-on-the-Fosse straddles the Fosse Way, an ancient Roman road which linked the cities of Lincoln and Exeter. It lies between the parish of Westfield, Somerset and the village of Oakhill.

 

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Lamyat in Somerset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Whitstone.

 

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Whitstone I do not know but I do know
Whetstone in North London which is just a vowel away from it

 

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Alconbury is another settlement on the line of the Great North Road.

 

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Nearby, but to the east along the A14, are The Stukeleys: Great Stukeley and Little Stukeley.

 

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Great Sampford in Essex also has an illustrated village sign.

 

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Great Sampford also stands at the junction of the B1053 and B1051 roads in the north-west of the county of Essex. The former road begins at Saffron Walden and ends when it joins the A131 road just north of Braintree.

 

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Sudbury was also once settled by Flemish silk weavers.

 

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The artist Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury in 1727. In 1759, he and his family moved to Bath, living at Number 17 The Circus. There, he studied portraits by van Dyck and was eventually able to attract a fashionable clientele.

 

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North Ferriby also has associations with Bronze Age settlers.

 

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The English ballet dancer Xander Parish was born in 1986 in North Ferriby. He began dancing at the age of 8, at the Skelton-Hooper School of Dance in Kingston upon Hull.

 

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Bradford was also honoured with city status on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

 

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Harry Corbett OBE was born in Bradford on 28th January 1918 and died in Weymouth, Dorset on 17th August 1989. He was a puppeteer, magician and television and stage presenter, and is best known as the creator of the glove puppet character Sooty in 1948.

 

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Holyhead is also a ferry port.

 

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Although Holyhead is largest town in Anglesey, it isn't the county town or, in fact, on the island of Anglesey, being on Holy Island. This is Llangefni, which is in the centre of the island.

 

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Corwen was the location of the first Urdd National Eisteddfod. The Urdd National Eisteddfod (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Urdd Gobaith Cymru or Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd) is an annual Welsh-language youth festival of literature, music and performing arts organised by Urdd Gobaith Cymru

 

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The novelist John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) lived in Corwen with his common-law wife Phyllis Playter from 1935 until 1955, when they moved to Blaenau Ffestiniog.

 

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Llanberis also has historical links to the slate quarrying industry.

 

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The ruins of Dolbadarn Castle, which were famously painted by Richard Wilson and J.M.W. Turner, stand above the village of Llanberis. The 13th century fortress was built by Llywelyn the Great and is a Grade I listed building. Richard Wilson [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Academy']RA (1714 – 1782) was born in the village of Penegoes, Montgomeryshire, and died in Colomendy, Denbighshire and is buried in the grounds of St Mary's Church, Mold, Flintshire.[/URL]

 

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Cardiff also has a Crown Court.

 

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Cardiff also has a Crown Court.

there is an area of Inverness which is known as The Crown

 

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Wells in Somerset was also chosen as the site to build a lunatic asylum.

 

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Sir Roger Hollis, KBE, CB (1905 – 1973), Director General of MI5 from 1956 to 1965, was born in Wells, and died in Catcott, near Bridgwater, Somerset.