Settlement Association

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Sir Henry Percy KG (1364 – 1403), commonly known as Sir Harry Hotspur, or simply Hotspur, was a late-medieval English nobleman who led successive rebellions against King Henry IV and was slain at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 at the height of his career. He was born at either Alnwick Castle or at Warkworth Castle in Warkworth, Northumberland.

 

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Felton in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Coquet.

 

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Alnmouth is also a medieval borough situated at the mouth of a Northumbrian river.

 

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Whickham, Tyne & Wear, is also named in the title of a folk song collected in the 1882 Northumbrian Minstrelsy.

 

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Guildford has also been an Outright National Winner in the small city/large town category of the RHS Britain in Bloom competition.

 

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Chigwell in Essex is also within the Greater London Built-up Area, as defined by the Office for National Statistics at the time of the 2011 Census.

 

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Beauchamp Roding was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ongar.

 

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The B184 road passes through Beauchamp Roding en-route to its southern terminus at Chipping Ongar.

 

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Redbridge also lies on the line of the River Roding.

 

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The local football team is Redbridge FC, who play in the Essex Senior League Premier Division. One of their opponents during the current season were Sporting Bengal United FC, who play in Mile End in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

 

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Bury also has a church that is dedicated to Guardian Angels.

 

[John Griffiths]

Stornoway is also associated with the manufacture of black pudding.

 

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Clachan Sands in North Uist also has connections to seaweed processing.

 

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The main settlement on the island of Uist is Lochmaddy, from where Caledonian MacBrayne ferries sail from the village to Uig on Skye.

 

[John Griffiths]

The name of Wick also derives from the Old Norse vik, 'bay'.

 

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The royal burgh and parish of Tain in the County of Ross also has a Sheriff's Court.

 

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Dalwhinnie also has a distillery that produces a noted Highland single malt whisky.

 

[John Griffiths]

Leadgate, County Durham, also lies on Sustrans National Cycle Route 7.

 

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Corbridge in Northumberland also lies on the line of the Roman road known as Dere Street.

 

[John Griffiths]

Catherine Cookson lived some years in later life in Corbridge; she was born in Tyne Dock, South Shields.

 

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Barry in South Wales was another port historically involved in large-scale exports of coal.

 

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Worth in West Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

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Despite their names, neither Worth Abbey, an English Benedictine Monastery, nor Worth School are located in Worth Civil Parish. They are located in Turners Hill Village and Civil Parish.

 

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The stained glass windows of St Leonard's, Turners Hill, are by C E Kempe, who lived not far away in Lindfield.

 

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Lindfield was once part of the thriving Wealden iron industry; as early as 1539, William Levett of Buxted, a county curate with a thriving sideline in iron and armaments, was recorded as extracting iron ore there.

 

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Framfield was also once under the jurisdiction of the Uckfield Poor Law Union.

 

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Like Framfield, Herstmonceux is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex.

 

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Wartling was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Foxearle.

 

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The citizens of Wartling are represented in Parliament by Huw Merriman, the MP for Bexhill and Battle.
The same Honourable Gentleman also represents constituents living in Pevensey.

 

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Pevensey hosted Spike Milligan and other trainee soldiers during the Second World War, and is featured in Milligan's book Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall. He was born in India and died at Rye, East Sussex in 2002.