Settlement Association

[DerekC]

The resident population of the City of London is about 9,400, approximately equal to Caernarfon

PS - the HQ of the City of London is actually the Guildhall, which is right in the middle of the City. City Hall, just the other side of Tower Bridge, is actually the HQ of the Greater London Authority.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mold is another Crown Court site in North Wales.

 

[Springs Branch]

Between 1974 and 1996 Mold was the county town of what is now the preserved Welsh county of Clwyd.
During that period, immediately south of Clwyd was the county of Powys, whose county town was Llandrindod Wells.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tenbury Wells also has spa town association.

 

[LUYMun]

Archer Baldwin (1889-1966) was an MP for Leominster between 1945 until 1959. He died at Tenbury Wells in 1966.

 

[DerekC]

Pinsley Mill in Leominster was one of the first four mechanised cotton mills in the world, set up by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt in the 1740s. Another was Marvell's Mill in Northampton.

 

[cjp]

If one goes to Northampton Trip Advisor suggests a visit to Stanwick lakes

 

[johnnychips]

Deleted. You just beat me to it!

 

[cjp]

Deleted. You just beat me to it!

happens to me quite often - thank goodness, I say, for the Edit option

 

[DerekC]

If one goes to Northampton Trip Advisor suggests a visit to Stanwick lakes

Stanwick holds an annual teddy bears' parachute jump from the top of the church tower in aid of church funds. A similar event but from the top of a West Midlands Fire Service ladder was held this year in Pelsall in aid of Action for Children.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Atherton also suffered a colliery disaster with fatalities in 1872.

 

[Springs Branch]

Atherton was the HQ and main depot for the South Lancashire Transport trolleybus system.
Another settlement which formerly operated a trolleybus system was Walsall.

 

[cjp]

Walsall football club play at the Banks stadium named after the brewers who have their brewery in Wolverhampton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brentford was also the scene of a battle between Danish Vikings and Anglo-Saxons.

 

[cjp]

Brentford is where the Grand Union Canal joins the Thames . Another arm of the canal went to Paddington basin which has now been gentrified with shops and offices.

 

[DerekC]

Paddington is famous around the world as the adopted name of a small bear from Darkest Peru. His author, Michael Bond, was born in Newbury, Berkshire

 

[cjp]

Newbury has a race course and is an area where horses are trained as is Newmarket

 

[LUYMun]

The Newmarket sausage is a pork sausage made to a traditional recipe originated from Newmarket. There are three varieties of this sausage: Musk, Powters and Eric Tennant Butchers. Musk sausages originate from Stechworth, but began selling them in Newmarket.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burrough Green in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Radfield.

 

[cjp]

There is also a hosteley called The Bull in Corringham

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Escomb in Co. Durham also has a Saxon parish church.

 

[DerekC]

Escomb and Child Okeford both have pubs called "The Saxon Inn"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fifehead Neville also once came under the jurisdiction of the Sturminster Poor Law Union.

 

[cjp]

Another settlement within the Blackmore Vale area is Shillingstone .

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The hymn writer Edward Arthur Dayman (1807 – 1890) was appointed Rector of Shillingstone in 1842. He was born at Padstow in Cornwall.

 

[cjp]

On the other side of the Camel estuary is the pithily named Rock

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knott End-0n-Sea also has a river ferry service.

 

[LUYMun]

The seasonal three-minute ferry crossing goes to Fleetwood.

 

[cjp]

The seasonal three-minute ferry crossing goes to Fleetwood.

I immediately thought of Fleetwood Mac and their hit Albatross. Mike Fleetwood who who lent his name to the group's was the drummer and he was born in Cornwall at Redruth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lelant also has a church that is dedicated to St Uny.