Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Hogben's Hill may have nothing to do with hogs, or bens, but it does have to do with Hogbens, one of whom runs the Hogben Pottery in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire

The late Nicholas Parsons lived for a long while in Princes Risborough. Like Margaret Thatcher and Sir Isaac Newton: he was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cropwell Bishop was also on the line of the Grantham Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Cropwell Bishop has one of a select six creameries that produce Stilton Cheese; another is the village of Colston Bassett, also in the Vale of Belvoir.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flawborough was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bingham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Aslockton, Nottinghamshire, is also situated on the River Smite.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penycae also has a church that is dedicated to St Thomas.

 

[Calthrop]

Porthcawl also has a pub called the Ancient Briton.

 

[Springs Branch]

Matlock Bath also has an entertainment venue named The Grand Pavilion.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bamford also lies on the line of the River Derwent.

 

[johnnychips]

Rowsley also has a well-dressing event.

 

[Calthrop]

Rowsley also has a well-dressing event.

There was published in 1869, a work by John Joseph Briggs titled The Peacock [Inn] at Rowsley; charmingly described by Wiki as "a gossiping book about fishing and country life". Another writer on fishing matters, a couple of centuries previously -- Izaak Walton (1593 -- 1683), author of The Compleat Angler -- also did some of his fishing in the Peak District; he was born in Stafford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wednesbury was another of the five towns chosen by Ethelfleda, daughter of Alfred the Great, to receive much greater defensive fortifications against incursions of the Danes.

 

[John Griffiths]

Malmesbury in Wiltshire also became a municipal borough in 1886.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Malmesbury Cricket Club are an ECB Clubmark accredited sports club who play at The Wortheys Sports Ground, with adult and junior teams playing in the Wiltshire Leagues. The club used to play in the Famous Grouse Western Cricket League, as did Midsomer Norton Cricket Club, who still play at Withies Lane, Midsomer Norton, Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chilcompton also lies on the line of the River Somer.

 

[Calthrop]

Chilcompton also lies on the line of the River Somer.

Ipswich also has a pub named after a Crimean War engagement -- the Inkerman (at Chilcompton, it's the Redan).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sir Alf Ramsey was Manager of Ipswich Town FC between 1955 and 1963; he was born on 22nd January 1920 in Dagenham, which was then an agrarian village in Essex

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hornchurch also lies on the line of the River Beam.

 

[Calthrop]

Hornchurch also lies on the line of the River Beam.

Owing to doings involving Chancellor William of Wykeham (1320s -- 1404); the church lands and buildings in Hornchurch belong to New College, Oxford.

 

[Springs Branch]

Durham's university also has a St. John College.

 

[johnnychips]

Roger Whittaker had a hit with I’m Going to Leave Old Durham Town. Notwithstanding it’s a city, he also sang he was ‘sitting by the banks of the River Tyne’. As any fule kno, Durham is on the Wear. Newcastle is on the Tyne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolverhampton also hosts an annual Vegan festival.

 

[johnnychips]

Wolverhampton Wanderers play in yellow and black, the same colours as Stockport Grammar School, which is situated in Davenport.

 

[Springs Branch]

Nantwich also has a cafe trading as the Funky Monkey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caerphilly has also hosted a chesse festival.

 

[Calthrop]

In the pleasingly daft local song Crawshay Bailey, another settlement named is, oddly, Norwich (the improbable given name of the eponymous Mr. Bailey's brother: one suspects that the song-maker was stuck for a rhyme for "porridge").

 

[Calthrop]

Roger Whittaker had a hit with I’m Going to Leave Old Durham Town. Notwithstanding it’s a city, he also sang he was ‘sitting by the banks of the River Tyne’. As any fule kno, Durham is on the Wear. Newcastle is on the Tyne.

Just random thoughts, not a game entry -- that reference in the song has always intensely annoyed me, too (one can even, easily think of a variant which would rhyme with "Wear"). I'm not a music fan: tend to confuse the Rogers Whittaker, and Miller -- when I can get them straight, recall that the latter is a Yank, and quite witty; whereas the former is neither -- is for my money, totally wet and awful.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Norwich (the improbable given name of the eponymous Mr. Bailey's brother: one suspects that the song-maker was stuck for a rhyme for "porridge").

Sculthorpe also lies on the line of the River Wensum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sculthorpe is on the B1355 minor road, which joins the A148 just outside the village. The A148 runs between King's Lynn and Cromer in Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandudno also has a pier.