Settlement Association

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William Lever bought the Rivington Hall Estate at the turn of the 20th century and used his wealth to renovate the old barns and create a large public park. He is better known as Lord Leverhulme, the creator of Port Sunlight, where he built his works and a model village to house its employees.

 

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Saltaire is another settlement where a philanthropic employer built both housing of better quality than the norm at that time and also social premises for his workforce in the area of the manufactory.

 

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Lathom in Lancashire is also on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

 

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Pemberton also has a place of worship dedicated to St John the Divine.

 

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Steve Pemberton is one of creators of The League of Gentlemen, set in a town called Royston Vasey.

We'll go with the southern Royston.

 

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We'll go with the southern Royston.

Ancaster also lies on the line of the Roman road known as Ermine Street.

 

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Broughtown on the Orcadian island of Sanday has also seen archaelogical excavations by Time Team.

 

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Creetown is another settlement where a chambered cairn was constructed.

 

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Creetown Football Club play in the South of Scotland Football League, as do Lochar Thistle Football Club, who play at Maxwelltown High School, Dumfries.

 

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Edinburgh also has a camera obscura.

 

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Dublin is another city served by long-haul airline Emirates.

 

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Thurles in County Tipperary also has a Gaelic Football stadium.

 

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The Irish singer-songwriter, musician (The Saturdays) and television presenter Una Theresa Imogene Foden (née Healy) was born in Thurles on 10th October 1981).

She is married to the International Rugby Union Full Back Ben Foden, who has played for [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton_Saints']Northampton Saints RFC, although it's been confirmed that he will be leaving the club at the end of the 2017/18 season.[/URL]

 

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Maybole in South Ayrshire also has had connections to the boot and shoe manufacturing trade.

 

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Norris McWhirter, the co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records, is descended from the McWhirters of Maybole. He died from a heart attack at his home in Kington Langley, Wiltshire, on 19th April 2004, aged 78.

 

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Sutton Benger also lies on the line of the B4069 road.

 

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Melksham is another community served by Wiltshire bus operator Faresaver Buses

 

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Tilshead (similarly to the southern part of Melksham) was also once administered by the Hundred of Whorwellsdown.

 

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Pucklechurch also has a church dedicated to St Thomas a Becket.

 

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Greywell in Hampshire is another settlement that once had an Anglo-Saxon royal hunting lodge.

 

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Greywell is situated on the west bank of the River Whitewater, 6 miles east of Basingstoke and 1.5 miles west of Odiham.

 

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Dunsfold also has an Air Show.

 

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Final assembly of the Hawker Harrier and the Hawker Siddeley Hawk trainer took place at Dunsfold from the early 1960s. In June 1999, British Aerospace announced the closure of Dunsfold as part of a restructuring; Hthe awk final assembly had been transferred to Warton in 1988 and Harrier production finished in 1998.

 

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Tatham is another settlement that once was administered by the Hundred of Lonsdale (South of the Sands)

 

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Further along the course of the River Wenning is the North Yorkshire village of Clapham.

 

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The traveller and plant collector[Reginald John Farrer (born in Marylebone, London in 1880) travelled to Asia in search of a variety of plants, many of which he brought back to England and planted near his home village of Clapham, North Yorkshire.

 

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Wigan, amongst its historical areas, also once had a district called Marylebone.

 

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The annual World Pie Eating Championship is usually held at Harry's Bar on Wallgate, Wigan. In December 2005, controversy was caused when pies were imported from nearby Farnworth, Bolton. The local Wigan pies were sidelined as it was believed they were substandard.

 

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Little Lever also lies on the line of the River Croal.

 

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Thomas Lever (1521–1577) was from Little Lever, and was an English Protestant reformer and Marian exile, one of the founders of the Puritan tendency in the Church of England. He was Rector and Archdeacon of Coventry from 1559 until his death in July 1577.