Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wiggenhall St Germans was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Freebridge.

 

[kevconnor]

Appointment to the office of the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham is used as a legal tool to effect a resignation of an MP from the House of Commons.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The ancient title of the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead has also been used since the 19th century as a sinecure post which plays the same role.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The ancient title of the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead has also been used since the 19th century as a sinecure post which plays the same role.

I have a feeling that the named Manor of Northstead is no longer in existence as such with its buildings demolished and its lands made subject to development. The land area now is part of Scalby.

 

[Springs Branch]

Cirencester also hosts an annual fair.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abingdon in Oxfordshire also has the remains of an Iron Age oppidum within its environs.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

John Spiers is an English melodeon, concertina and bandoneon player, best known for his work with the duo Spiers and Boden, the band Bellowhead, and The Ratcatchers. He is currently focusing on solo performance.

He was born in 1975 in Birmingham but moved to Abingdon at an early age, where he attended John Mason School. He then went on to study genetics at King's College, Cambridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beccles in Suffolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Benet.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck GCB GCIE CSI DSO OBE was a resident of Beccles between 1960 and 1967, when he emigrated to Marrakesh, Morrocco. He was born on 21st June 1884 in
Aldershot, Hampshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Catterick is also a major garrison town.

 

[Springs Branch]

Richmond, North Yorkshire, is also served by Arriva North East's X26 bus route.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Romaldkirk is another settlement that was once administered by the Wapentake of Gilling-West.

 

[johnnychips]

Strixton in Northamptonshire has a church dedicated to St Rumwold, after whom Romaldkirk was named.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Easton Maudit was also once administered by the Hundred of Higham Ferrers.

 

[johnnychips]

Derek Nimmo, the actor, is buried in the churchyard. He got an honorary degree from the University of Leicester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derby also lends its name to a type of cheese.

 

[johnnychips]

Baslow is also on the River Derwent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Over Haddon also holds an annual well-dressing ceremony.

 

[johnnychips]

The car park at Ashbourne has a public toilet, as does the car park at Over Haddon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newton under Roseberry also has a church that is dedicated to St Oswald.

 

[Springs Branch]

Hartest in Suffolk also has a village green.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whepstead in Suffolk also lies on the line of the B1066 road.

 

[Springs Branch]

The church at Whepstead is the only one in England to be dedicated to St Petronilla.
Another parish church with a unique dedication is to St Urith (latinised to St Hieritha) at Chittlehampton in Devon.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The parish of Chittlehampton originally included the exclaves of Chittlehamholt to the south; it is now a parish in itself.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belstone also lies on the line of the River Taw.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Agatha Christie's 1931 novel The Sittaford Mystery would appear to use Belstone as the location of the fictional settlement of Sittaford. Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, Devon in 1890.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Settle is another settlement with a cave within its environs where the bones of prehistoric animals were found.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bradford-on-Avon also has a Shambles in its historic town centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Devizes also lies on the line of the Kennet & Avon Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Devizes born Assistant Surgeon William Sylvester VC (16 April 1831 – 13 March 1920) was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 8th September 1855 during the Crimean War at Sebastopol, Crimea. He died on 13th March 1920, aged 88, in Paignton, Devon.