Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Romford was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Becontree.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Romford FC, who currently play in the North Division of the Isthmian League, is the local football team. One of their opponents this year was Great Wakering Rovers FC, who are located in Great Wakering in Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Jaywick is another Essex settlement that was badly hit by the storm surge of the 1953 North Sea Flood.

 

[AndyPJG]

Filey was also home to a former Butlins holiday camp.

 

[John Griffiths]

Beverley also suffered some damage during the Dogger Bank Earthquake of 7 June 1931.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Market Rasen also has a racecourse.

 

[Springs Branch]

Aficionados of traditional British takeaway food can visit the Union Jack Fish Bar in Market Rasen.
Another chippy trading under the name Union Jack Fish & Chips operates in Chesterfield.

 

[John Griffiths]

George Stephenson, who died at his home in Chesterfield, was born in Wylam, Northumberland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whittonstall in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hexham Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The B6309 runs through Whittonstall; it starts on the A696 to the west of Belsay and ends just outside the village of Leadgate, at a roundabout on the current A692 bypass.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dacre in Cumbria also had a castle erected in the 14th century.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In William of Malmesbury's account of the Treaty of Eastmont Bridge (a village in Cumbria), he states that the meeting of the kings took place in Dacre ('ad locum qui Dacor uocatur'), but historians doubt the accuracy of his statement.

 

[John Griffiths]

Has predictive text been up to its nasty tricks here? Did you mean Eamont Bridge, Ebbw?

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Yes, I did ... it was probably my fingers, though - sorry!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alford in Aberdeenshire is another settlement to have an ancient henge within its locality.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Alford is the birthplace of the renowned poet, Charles Murray, who wrote in the Doric dialect of Scots. After he retired in 1924, he settled in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, not far from where he was brought up, and died there in 1941.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brechin also has an example of an early Christian carved cross-slab.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt KCB FRS FRAeS was born in Brechin on 13th April 1892. One of his inventions was the Chain Home (CH) ring of coastal Early Warning Radar stations built by the RAF before and during the Second World War to detect and track aircraft. One of these sites was at the village of Dunkirk, in Kent.

 

[AndyPJG]

Crayford is also on the Roman road from Canterbury to London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Paul's Cray also lies on the line of the River Cray.

 

[johnnychips]

Sir Simon de Cray, who held the manor there, became Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1275. Hastings is one of the Cinque Ports.

 

[AndyPJG]

Stamford Bridge was also the scene of a battle in 1066.

 

[johnnychips]

Stamford Bridge is on the River Derwent in Yorkshire. But Darley Bridge is on the different River Derwent in Derbyshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glaisdale in North Yorkshire also has a packhorse bridge.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The bridge in question is known as Beggar's Bridge, and was built by Thomas Ferris in 1619. Ferris was a poor man who hoped to wed the daughter of a wealthy local squire. In order to win her hand, he planned to set sail from Whitby to make his fortune. On the night that he left, the Esk was swollen with rainfall and he was unable to make a last visit to his intended. He eventually returned from his travels a rich man and, after marrying the squire's daughter, built Beggar's Bridge so that no other lovers would be separated as they were. The bridge is now Grade II* listed.

 

[AndyPJG]

In his early life, Capt James Cook was a resident of Whitby; previously he lived in Staithes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is another coastal settlement to have used boats called cobles.

 

[John Griffiths]

There are also sculptures by artist Sean Henry in his home town of Woking, Surrey.

 

[AndyPJG]

F1 team McLaren are based in Woking, another team is Williams, based at Grove, Oxfordshire.

Edit: Historic note, Woking was also the location of the first crematorium, at St Johns.

 

[John Griffiths]

Melksham, Wiltshire, was also served by the Wilts & Berks Canal.