Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolverhampton was also the site of a battle between Anglo-Saxons and Danish Vikings.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Guy Wulfrunian* bus was introduced in 1959 as a joint development between Guy Motors, based in Wolverhampton, and the West Riding Automobile Company, based in Wakefield.

(* Wolverhampton having been originally founded by Lady Wulfruna)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flockton also was once under the jurisdiction of the Wakefield Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Britain's first automatic traffic lights were installed at Princes Square, Wolverhampton, in 1927. The country's first traffic roundabout was built in Letchworth Garden City circa 1909.

 

[John Griffiths]

St Albans also has a pub which dates back to 1485.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Albans was once the home of Samuel Ryder, the founder of the Ryder Cup. He was born at Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire in 1858.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ribchester also lies on the River Ribble.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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[AndyPJG]

Gisburn also has a White Bull PH which is Grade II listed.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The ancient parish church at Gisburn is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. It is thought, however, that at one time it also had a dedication to St Andrew, and it is thought that a likely explanation lies with the one time patrons of the living, the prioress and nuns from Stainfield Nunnery in Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goltho was also once administered by the ancient Wapentake of Wraggoe.

 

[High Dyke]

Goltho Hall was the ancestral seat of the Grantham family. Thomas Grantham (1612 - 1655) raised a regiment of foot soldiers that fought at the Battle of Aylesbury (1642).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Watford was another settlement on the line of the Sparrows Herne turnpike.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Watford FC play at Vicarage Road, Watford and, between 1997 and 2013, shared it with Saracens RFC. Saracens RFC now play at Copthall Stadium in Hendon, which is in the London Borough of Barnet.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tulliallan in Perthshire also has a police training college.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The A977 runs between the M90 (Junction 6) and a roundabout at the southern end of the Kincardine Bridge; as well as Tulliallan, it passes through the village of Crook of Devon in Kinross-shire before reaching the M90.

 

[John Griffiths]

Lancaster was also a location for trials of women alleged to be witches in the seventeenth century.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Lancaster Friends Meeting House dates from 1708 and is the longest continual Quaker meeting site in the world, with the original building built in 1677. George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, was near the site on several occasions in the 1660s and spent two years imprisoned in Lancaster Castle. He was born in 1624 in the strongly Puritan village of Drayton-in-the-Clay, Leicestershire, England, which is now known as Fenny Drayton.

 

[AndyPJG]

The Ordnance Survey have stated that Lindley Hall Farm on the outskirts of Fenny Drayton is the geographical centre of Britain, however the furthest point from the coast is at Church Flatts Farm in Coton in the Elms.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The present church of St Mary, Coton in the Elms was built in 1844-7 by Henry Isaac Stevens, who is also responsible for the design of Christ Church, a Grade II listed parish church in Belper, Derbyshire between 1846 and 1850.

 

[AndyPJG]

The MP for Belper for many years was George Brown, who when elevated to the Peerage took the title of Lord George-Brown of Jevington, (E Sussex) having lived in that area for many years.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Folkington was also once under the jurisdiction of the Eastbourne Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Folkington is a parish church dating from the 13th century. Another Church dedicated to the saint is at Coggeshall, Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hardham also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Stane Street.

 

[DJ_K666]

Hardham also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Stane Street.

Nice little vllage. There's a disused canal tunnel nearby and a great village pub

 

[John Griffiths]

Boston also has a church dedicated to St Botolph (its tower is the famed 'Boston Stump'), and the town is named after him.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Easton in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Witham.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Easton has no church, but is part of the North and South Stoke with Easton Parish, which contains the church of St Andrew and St Mary at Stoke Rochford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Allington in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the ancient Wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Allington, belongs to the Saxonwell Group of Churches. It is one of four churches in the group, the others being at Long Bennington, Foston and Sedgebrook.