Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Sutton Green has a Par 71 golf course which was co-designed by former world No.1 Laura Davies, who currently lives in Ottershaw, Surrey.

I think that's a different Sutton. Isleworth Hundred is in Middlesex.

 

[hst43102]

Clackmannan is also a former Scottish county town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hounslow in west London also has a Coptic Orthodox church.

To keep matters moving, let the above posting be the one from which this thread should be continued.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Dermot Morgan, who played Father Ted Crilley in Father Ted lived in Hounslow at the time of his death in 1998. He was born on 3rd March 1952 in Dublin, and was educated at Oatlands College, which is in the Dublin suburb of Stillorgan.

 

[John Griffiths]

He died in the hospital I was born in.**

Stillorgan has what is claimed to be the first shopping centre* (presumably traffic free) in Ireland. The first large enclosed shopping centre* in Britain was Brent Cross in Hendon, north London.

*it all depends on how you define these things, of course.
** He lived on Amyand Park Road Twickenham

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Omeath in County Louth also has a church that is dedicated to St Laurence.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There is also an RAF Museum at Cosford, Shropshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Broxton also lies on the route of the A41 road.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Bolesworth Estate at Broxton includes a sandstone garden temple containing a statue of the Roman goddess Diana, which was designed by notable architect Clough Williams-Ellis.

Other examples of Williams-Ellis's work are cottages in the Warwickshire village of Bishop's Itchington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Long Itchington also lies on the line of the River Itchen.

 

[John Griffiths]

Whitwell in Hertfordshire once had seven pubs (and was known as 'drunken Whitwell') as Long Itchington does (if Wikipedia is to be taken on trust).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Codicote also lies on the line of the River Mimran.

 

[John Griffiths]

Kim Wilde,born in Chiswick, west London, was married in Codicote parish church in 1996.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shadwell was also once administered by the Hundred of Ossulstone.

 

[Springs Branch]

Connah's Quay also has a thoroughfare named Cable Street.

 

[AndyPJG]

Corby was (albeit some steel industry still remains) also the site of a steel works.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swinstead was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bourne Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Boothby Pagnell is also on the B1176 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stroxton was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Lord of the Manor of Stroxton in the mid 19th century was Sir Glynne Welby-Gregory Bt (1806-75), born in Denton, Lincs. He was MP for Grantham (as had been his father, and as his oldest son would also be)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire is another settlement where Bronze Age artifacts have been unearthed.

 

[Springs Branch]

The London Brick Company has brick manufacturing facilities in Whittlesey
In East Lancashire, several different sites were involved in production of the characteristic red Accrington Bricks, including the Redac factory at Huncoat.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tockholes was also once administered by the Hundred of Blackburn(shire).

 

[Springs Branch]

Another moorland settlement with a pub named The Rock Inn is the Dartmoor village of Haytor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coffinswell was also once administered by the Hundred of Haytor.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The botanist and illustrator Rev. W Keble Martin was the Rector of Coffinswell in the 1920s, and studied the local flora. He died in 1969 at the age of 92 at Woodbury, East Devon.

 

[John Griffiths]

Rotherfield Greys in Oxfordshire also has a pub named The Maltsters Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portsmouth also has a church that is dedicated to St Swithun.

Foiled....this was supposed to follow on after Woodbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rotherfield Greys in Oxfordshire also has a pub named The Maltsters Arms.

Rotherfield Peppard was also once administered by the Hundred of Binfield.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Between 1872 and 1878, Wyfield Court, Rotherfield Peppard was designed by the architect George Somers Clarke (1841 – 1926). In 1889, he was also
responsible for the design of St Mary's Church, Potton, Bedfordshire.