Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

The above-bolded community was formerly part of a parish which also included Cratloe, Co. Clare; whose adjacent ancient Garannon Wood provided oak for the timbers of Westminster Hall, Westminster (London)

 

[John Griffiths]

Westminster Abbey was built on an island in the Thamesside marshes called Thorney Island, a name it shares with an island in Chichester Harbour which is in the parish of, and contains the settlement of West Thorney

 

[Calthrop]

Westminster Abbey was built on an island in the Thamesside marshes called Thorney Island, a name it shares with an island in Chichester Harbour which is in the parish of, and contains the settlement of West Thorney

(As the rather confused American kid put it: "London has West Mr. Albee and a big clock called Bob or Bill".)

Amble, Northumberland, also has just off its shore, an island which is an RSPB reserve.

 

[John Griffiths]

Indeed it does (Coquet Island, the pronunciation of which would baffle more than just American kids).

West Hartlepool was also a port created specifically to export coal from the coalfield of NE England.

 

[johnnychips]

In his excellent book You are Awful but I like you - Travels through Unloved Britain, the author Tim Moore identified Jutland Road, Hartlepool, as the roughest street. When he visited, two men were having a fight there with homemade maces. His travels began at Leysdown-on-Sea, a rundown resort in Kent.

(JG - how do you pronounce Coquest Island?)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ardeer in North Ayrshire also has an accredited naturist beach.

 

[John Griffiths]

(JG - how do you pronounce Coquest Island?)

It's pronounced Coke-ut, emphasis on the Coke.

Margate is also a settlement located on a former island.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheddar also has a shell grotto.

 

[Calthrop]

Falmouth also has among its attractions, a flight of steps called "Jacob's Ladder". (Falmouth's, very relatively modern -- about two centuries old -- inauguarated by a local businessman called Jacob Hamblen.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Gluvias was also once under the jurisdiction of the Falmouth Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

St Gluvias was also once under the jurisdiction of the Falmouth Poor Law Union.

Samuel Argall -- naval officer who played an important role in the early days (early 17th century) of England's colony in Virginia -- is buried in the above-bolded's church. He was born at East Sutton, Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Styal in Cheshire East also has a woman's prison.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Styal is dominated by Quarry Bank Mill, and much of its housing is the mill's estate; the mill and the surrounding country park are owned by The National Trust. Quarry Bank Mill was established by Samuel Greg (1758 – 1834), who was born in Belfast.

 

[johnnychips]

The disco group Boney M had a hit entitled ‘Belfast’. A revised line up of the group played at Watchet music festival in August 2014.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lisburn also has historical connections to the manufacture of linen cloth.

 

[Calthrop]

The disco group Boney M had a hit entitled ‘Belfast’. A revised line up of the group played at Watchet music festival in August 2014.

The Wyndham family were the above-bolded locality's lords of the manor: their most celebrated member seemingly Sir John Wyndham (1558 -- 1645) who played an important part in the defences of the West Country against the threat of the Spanish Armada; and is much commemorated in the parish church. A probably generally better-known John Wyndham, some three centuries later and presumably no relation: was the science-fiction writer, reckonably most renowned for The Day of the Triffids, and born in Dorridge, West Midlands. (Re the writer, "John Wyndham" actually a pseudonym: just the first two of his several Christian names.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackpool also has a Christadelphian place of worship.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The English comic entertainer James Robinson Clitheroe, popularly known as Jimmy Clitheroe, is best remembered for his long running BBC Radio programme, The Clitheroe Kid, which ran between 1956 and 1972. He was born in Clitheroe (yes, honestly!) on 24th December 1921 and died in Blackpool on 6th June 1973.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wilton in Wiltshire was also the scene of a battle during the 12th century period English Civil War known as The Anarchy.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Wilton, Southampton had a county named after it but is not the county town (Wiltshire and Hampshire respectively; the county towns being Trowbridge and Winchester).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hound in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the South Stoneham Poor Law Union, prior to its being absorbed by the Southampton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Hound in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the South Stoneham Poor Law Union, prior to its being absorbed by the Southampton Poor Law Union.

"Reaching" here -- but... guessing that the derivation of the above-bolded, is nothing to do with hunting dogs; however -- suggested by a favourite alliterative pairing in English lore: the mind goes to Hawk Green, a suburb of Marple, Greater Manchester (which name is likely enough, nothing to do with birds of prey...)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Hound is medieval; the stained glass East window portrays the Virgin and Child flanked by two angels and was designed by Patrick Reyntiens in 1958 / 1959. Another of his solo works is a window for Christ Church, Flackwell Heath, Buckinghamshire in 1961.

Curses .... foiled again!

Hawk Green is on the Macclesfield Canal, which runs from a junction with the Peak Forest Canal at Marple in the north, in a generally southerly direction, through the towns of Macclesfield and Congleton to an end-on junction with the Hall Green Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal at Hall Green.

 

[Calthrop]

The parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Hound is medieval; the stained glass East window portrays the Virgin and Child flanked by two angels and was designed by Patrick Reyntiens in 1958 / 1959. Another of his solo works is a window for Christ Church, Flackwell Heath, Buckinghamshire in 1961.

Curses .... foiled again!

Hawk Green is on the Macclesfield Canal, which runs from a junction with the Peak Forest Canal at Marple in the north, in a generally southerly direction, through the towns of Macclesfield and Congleton to an end-on junction with the Hall Green Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal at Hall Green.

(I nearly posted, for Hound, this [culled from Wiki] church stained-glass window data; but what with being a Philistine and never having heard of the Patrick Reyntiens bloke, I chose to go another way.)

Can find essentially no mention elsewhere, of the Trent & Mersey Canal Hall Green (not that I'm doubting the veracity of your info !); but there is another Midlands settlement of that name: Hall Green, a southern suburb of Birmingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

HOLD

Am I right in thinking there has been two consecutive postings that have Hall Green shown as the association?

 

[Calthrop]

HOLD

Am I right in thinking there has been two consecutive postings that have Hall Green shown as the association?

My perception was: two different "Hall Green"s -- that of @Ebbw Junction's post #18,502 -- seemingly, not far from Derby; and my other place of the same name -- a Birmingham suburb. If this is judged inadmissible, I will apologise and strike out my post.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I think that the mistake is mine, actually. I read that the Macclesfield Canal ran from a junction with the Peak Forest Canal at Marple in the north to an end-on junction with the Hall Green Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal at Hall Green, which it does .... the problem is that there's no settlement called "Hall Green" at the junction! Apologies!

So, I'm I'm allowed, I'll rewrite my posting to read
"Hawk Green is on the the Macclesfield Canal, which runs from a junction with the Peak Forest Canal at Marple in the north through the towns of Macclesfield and Congleton to an end-on junction with the Hall Green Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal at Hall Green."

Will this be okay, please?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

......but there is another Midlands settlement of that name: Hall Green, a southern suburb of Birmingham.

Now that the matter is resolved, I will now follow on from the posting extract above.....

Lower Broughton also has a place of worship called the Church of the Ascension.

 

[John Griffiths]

Maurice Cohen (1887-1970) died at his sister's house on Broughton Lane in Lower Broughton. He was better known as General 'Two Gun' Cohen, who had become involved in Chinese revolutionary circles in early twentieth century Canada, moved to China after service in WWI, served as a bodyguard to Sun Yat-sen and then as an arms dealer and general fixer to China's nationalist government. In the 1950s he switched his allegiance to the People's Republic. He was born in Radzanow, Russian Poland; the family, fleeing pogroms, ended up in London's East End. Young Maurice, before being sent to relatives in Canada in disgrace, had 'done time' in the Hayes Industrial School for Jewish Boys at Hayes, Middlesex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swanmore was also a centre in the brickmaking industry.