Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Auldhame in East Lothian is another settlement where its monastic house was sacked by the Vikings,

The hamlets of Auldhame and Scoughall are, effectively, one and the same settlement. Wiki tells us that the poet John Taylor visited Scoughall in 1617, and was regaled with locally-caught gannet. Port of Ness, on the Isle of Lewis, is the centre of the district of Ness; whose inhabitants have special permission for an expedition each summer to nearby islets: to harvest for salting-down and eating, a quota of young gannets.

 

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Port of Ness is within the parish of Barvas, and is situated at the end of the A857, which runs from Stornoway.

 

[John Griffiths]

Stornoway, with the rest of Lewis and Harris, was bought by William Lever (Lord Leverhulme) in 1918-19; but finding the local people reluctant to fall in with his economic plans for the island, in 1923 he donated Stornoway to a trust representing the town's people. He had had a happier urban experience building and peopling his own town from scratch: that was Port Sunlight, on the Wirral peninsula.

 

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Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight was the venue for drummer Ringo Starr's official debut as a member of The Beatles on 18th August 1962. He was born as Richard Starkey on 7th July 1940 at 9 Madryn Street, Dingle, Liverpool.

 

[Calthrop]

Also born in Dingle, Liverpool, was the comedian Arthur Askey (in his case, born 1900); who appeared frequently during the 1930s, in Powis Pinder's comedy shows at Shanklin, Isle of Wight.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Totland is another Isle of Wight settlement with a chine.

 

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The pipe organ at Christ Church, Totland dates from 1911, and was built by Norman and Beard Limited, who were pipe organ manufacturers based in Norwich from 1887 to 1916. The origins of the company, though, are from a business founded in Diss, South Norfolk in 1870 by Ernest William Norman (1851–1927).

 

[Calthrop]

The late Allan Smethurst, dubbed "The Singing Postman" -- largely humorous singer "in the folk idiom"; in the main, specialised in making up his own songs, in Norfolk dialect -- one of his better-known such was called A Miss From Diss; another includes a reference to the Norfolk seaside settlement of Mundesley.

 

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Mundesley sits astride the B1159 coast road that links Cromer and Caister-on-Sea.

 

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Mundesley sits astride the B1159 coast road that links Cromer and Caister-on-Sea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldeburgh is another settlement who suffered from a lifeboat disaster.

 

[David Goddard]

Aldeburgh is famous for the life and work of Benjamin Britten, who died there in 1976. Britten was born in 1913 in nearby Lowestoft

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Deal also has a maritime museum.

 

[Calthrop]

According to convention, Deal marks the meeting-point of the North Sea and the English Channel. St. Just in Penwith, Cornwall, has a similar distinction -- nearest significant settlement to Cape Cornwall, where Atlantic currents divide -- one way into the Irish Sea and Bristol Channel, the other way into the English Channel.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Towednack was also once under the jurisdiction of the Penzance Poor Law Union.

 

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Towednack Church is claimed to be the last Church in which services were conducted in the Cornish language, in 1678, although the same claim is made for Ludgvan Church in the late 17th Century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gulval also lies on the route of the St Michael's Way long-distance footpath.

 

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The graveyard of Gulval Church is home to the remains of local pirate and smuggler John 'Eyebrows' Thomas of Marazion, who died on 16th December 1753.

 

[Calthrop]

Towednack Church is claimed to be the last Church in which services were conducted in the Cornish language, in 1678, although the same claim is made for Ludgvan Church in the late 17th Century.

The graveyard of Gulval Church is home to the remains of local pirate and smuggler John 'Eyebrows' Thomas of Marazion, who died on 16th December 1753.

Further things related to the Cornish language, involving Marazion and its alias Market Jew -- despite appearances, reckoned nothing to do with any Judaeo-Christian matters; but corruptions of, respectively, the Cornish Marghasbighan = "small market-place", and Marghasewe = "Thursday Market". Similarly, the name of Sixpenny Handley in Dorset is considered to be nothing to do with half-shilling sums of money: the "sixpenny" part comes from older tongues: Seaxe (Old English) = "Saxon", and penn (Brythonic) = "hill" -- "Hill of the Saxons".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Melbury Abbas in Dorset was also once administered by the Hundred of Sixpenny Handley.

 

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Melbury Abbas village is on an unclassified road (called Dinah's Hollow) that follows a hilltop route roughly parallel to the A350. This becomes the B3081 and joins the A350 at Shaftesbury.

 

[Calthrop]

Unsurprisingly, the above-bolded settlement features pseudonymically in Thomas Hardy's novels, under the names of Shaston or Paladore. Wantage, Berkshire, is similarly honoured by Hardy, under the name of Alfredston.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Hanney also lies on the line of the Letcombe Brook.

 

[Springs Branch]

The OX12 Postcode District covers the Vale of White Horse, including the villages of East Hanney and West Challow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ludlow also has a church that is dedicated to St Laurence.

 

[Springs Branch]

Former poet laureate Sir John Betjeman described Ludlow as "the loveliest town in England".
Another of Betjeman's favourite towns....

Gothic or Classic, terrace or hotel,
Here does the backbone of old England dwell.

was Sidmouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sidbury also lies on the line of the River Sid.

 

[Springs Branch]

Helsby is also the site of an Iron Age hill fort.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maryport is also a settlement where a Roman altar was discovered.

 

[Calthrop]

Medomsley, County Durham, also saw in the latter part of the 19th century, a well-known colliery strike in which passions ran high.