Settlement Association

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The Church of St Mary Magdalene, Medomsley was completed in the 13th century. In 1878 it was restored to designs by the architects H J Austin, R J Johnson and W S Hicks. Another Church that was rebuilt to the designs of Messrs Austin and Hicks is St Michael's Church in the village of Grimsargh, Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hothersall was also once administered by the Hundred of Amounderness.

 

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There are two Grade II listed buildings in Hotherstall; they consist of a pair of gate piers and a house. Another Grade II listed house in Lancashire is Huntroyde Hall, which is in the civil parish of Simonstone in the Borough of Ribble Valley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hazel Grove also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

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Hazel Grove is the southern terminus for the Stagecoach Manchester 192 bus service, which runs along the A6 to Manchester via Stockport and Ardwick.

 

[John Griffiths]

Victoria Park was also a prosperous mid nineteenth century suburb of Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Everton also has a church that is dedicated to St John Chrysostom.

 

[Calthrop]

Everton also has a church that is dedicated to St John Chrysostom.

Posting as someone with a total lack of interest in / knowledge about sport in any way or shape -- from Googling, I get the impression that (churches and dedication thereof, apart): the only feature of any kind, of Everton, is its football side. Use of Google gives me -- rightly or wrongly -- a similar feeling about Millwall (London Borough of Tower Hamlets).

 

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Millwall is located on the the A1206, which begins in Limehouse and ends in Poplar.

 

[John Griffiths]

Richard Spratly, a sea captain, was born in Poplar. He gave his name to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, the ownership of which is disputed by China and several of its neighbours. After a long career at sea, he died in Ealing in west London in 1870

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walthamstow also had film studios.

 

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Squadron Leader Geoffrey Wellum DFC (1921 – 2018) was an RAF Fighter Pilot and author, best known for his participation in the Battle of Britain. He was born in Walthamstow and served in the RAF until 1961. In the mid-1980s he retired and moved to Mullion, Cornwall, where he wrote down his wartime memoirs. In 2002 these were published as First Light (and an excellent book it is, too!).

 

[Nick_C]

Mullion is home to the most southerly golf course in the UK. At the opposite extreme, the most northerly is in Whalsay, in the Shetland Isles

 

[Calthrop]

Mullion is home to the most southerly golf course in the UK. At the opposite extreme, the most northerly is in Whalsay, in the Shetland Isles

Whalsay (settlement thereon -- population a little over a thousand) is the sixth-largest of the Shetland Isles. Sixth-largest of the Orkney ditto (with a much smaller population) is Rousay .

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holwick in Co Durham also has Bronze Age burnt mounds within its environs.

 

[Springs Branch]

Slaidburn is another settlement which migrated from Yorkshire to an adjacent county in 1974 as part of local government reorganisations.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby Malham was also once administered by the west division of the Staincliffe Wapentake.

 

[Springs Branch]

Kirkby Malham is near the source of the River Aire.
Further downstream, not far from the river's confluence with the River Ouse is Snaith.

 

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The priory church of St Lawrence, Snaith contains a notable monument to Viscount Downe by Francis Chantrey, who was a prolific English Sculptor. Born in 1781, he died in London on 25th November 1841; he is buried in a tomb constructed by himself in the churchyard of his native village, Norton, then in Derbyshire but now in Sheffield.

 

[Calthrop]

At a bit of a stretch: Hesketh Bank (Lancashire) also coincidentally shares (part of) its name, with that of a British motorcycle manufacturer.

 

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Hesketh Bank

Isn't it closed?

 

[Calthrop]

Isn't it closed?

Er... unless I'm going gaga, or "humour-challenged": this game is about settlements, not railway stations. Google will confirm, I think, that there is a community south-west of Preston called Hesketh Bank.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buckie (the one near to the Moray Firth) also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Er... unless I'm going gaga, or "humour-challenged": this game is about settlements, not railway stations. Google will confirm, I think, that there is a community south-west of Preston called Hesketh Bank.

Sorry .... my mistake!!

 

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Buckie Thistle FC (known as The Jags) currently play in Scotland's Highland Football League and are based at Victoria park, Buckie. One of their opponents are Deveronvale FC, who play at the Princess Royal Park, Banff, Aberdeenshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Sorry .... my mistake!!

Buckie Thistle FC (known as The Jags) currently play in Scotland's Highland Football League and are based at Victoria park, Buckie. One of their opponents are Deveronvale FC, who play at the Princess Royal Park, Banff, Aberdeenshire.

Seeming new computer set-up which, Colonel Blimp that I am, I have trouble making sense of -- earlier quote: no worries, sport !

Later quote: Sudbury, Suffolk, also has a seemingly directly-derived Canadian namesake -- this one, in Ontario.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wokingham also had medieval links to the silk trade.

 

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Wokingham means 'Wocca's people's home'; Wocca was apparently a Saxon chieftain who may also have owned lands at Wokefield in Berkshire and Woking in Surrey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grazeley Green also lies on the line of the Lockram Brook.

 

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The village of Grazeley Green (also known as Grazeley) has never had a village shop or post office. In the early 20th century, letters were received via Reading with collection boxes outside the church and outside Grazeley Court farm. Money orders could be sent from the nearest office in the village of Three Mile Cross and the nearest Telegraph Office was at the village of Spencers Wood.