Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Ramsgate was also bombed by aircraft of the Corpo Aereo Italiano in 1940

 

[Calthrop]

In 1876, Vincent Van Gogh lived and worked for a while in England; first in Ramsgate, subsequently in Isleworth (London Borough of Hounslow).

 

[John Griffiths]

The Mogden Sewage Treatment Works in Isleworth was, when constructed in 1931-36, the largest in the UK and western Europe. Today it is the third largest in the UK, the largest being at Beckton, east London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peterborough is also home to a Lithuanian community.

 

[Springs Branch]

Peterborough was one of the Third Wave of New Towns designated in 1967, the same year as the sprawling new settlement of Milton Keynes, which incorporated the existing town of Bletchley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woughton-on-the-Green was also once administered by the ancient Buckinghamshire Hundred of Newport.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The current Woughton-on-the-Green is now part of the parish of Old Woughton, having been created in 2012 as the result of local requests. According to legend, Woughton-on-the-Green was one of the bases of the highwayman Dick Turpin (1705 - 1739). His ghost, and that of his mare Black Bess, have occasionally been reported in the area. Richard (Dick) Turpin was born at the Blue Bell Inn (later the Rose and Crown) in Hempstead, Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Killyman also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Killyman is a small village and also a civil parish in Northern Ireland, situated on the eastern boundary of County Tyrone and extending into County Armagh. The civil parish also contains the village of Tamnamore in County Tyrone.

 

[Calthrop]

Randalstown, Co. Antrim, also lies very close to Lough Neagh.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Tudor style gateway to the Shane's Castle estate is in the town. The castle has been used as a filming location (the tourney grounds) for the HBO television series Game of Thrones, as has Castle Ward (Winterfell), an 18th Century National Trust property located near the village of Strangford in County Down.

 

[Calthrop]

The Tudor style gateway to the Shane's Castle estate is in the town. The castle has been used as a filming location (the tourney grounds) for the HBO television series Game of Thrones, as has Castle Ward (Winterfell), an 18th Century National Trust property located near the village of Strangford in County Down.

Tarbert (Argyll & Bute) is, like Strangford, one terminal of a vehicle ferry which saves a very long journey round by road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Machrihanish also lies on the route of the Kintyre Way waymarked footpath.

 

[DerekC]

Westward Ho! has a golf course (the Royal North Devon) designed, like one at Machrihanish, by "Old Tom Morris"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clovelly also lies on the route of the South West Coast Path.

 

[Calthrop]

There is an 18th-century crudely ghoulish work of fiction about a "tribe of cannibalistic bandits" living in Clovelly. An account of a similar phenomenon, with more likelihood of being true (it's apparently not certain) is set near Ballantrae, South Ayrshire -- the tale of Sawney Bean and his cohorts.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Claverhouse is another settlement where Conventicles of Covenantors were held prior to the pre-Restoration period.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Dighty Burn, also known as Dighty Water or Dichty Water, forms to the west of Dundee as the Lundie Burn in the Sidlaw Hills. It then runs north of Piperdam and then into the northwest of Dundee through (amongst other places) Bridgefoot and Claverhouse until it flows into the Firth of Tay.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Montrose is another Scottish settlement that once had a "hospital for imbecile children".

 

[DerekC]

Berwick upon Tweed, like Montrose, was a Royal Burgh created by King David I of Scotland in the 12th Century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sunderland has also been the scene of L S Lowry paintings.

 

[Calthrop]

James Alfred Wight -- better known under his pseudonym James Herriot, author of All Creatures Great and Small and other works -- was born in Sunderland. "Darrowby", location in his books of his veterinary practice, is generally reckoned to be a fictionalised version of Thirsk (North Yorkshire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontefract also has a racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Leamington Spa also features by name, in a poem by John Betjeman (the poem about the Warwickshire town, gently melancholy; that about the Yorkshire one, on the whimsical-and-jolly side).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alperton also lies on the line of the Grand Union Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Ealing Road (A4089) and Bridgewater Road (A4005) are the two major roads that run through Alperton. The former, however, doesn't seem to run to or from Ealing; it begins in Wembley and begins as Hangar Lane, the A406 North Circular Road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Easingwold in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Minster church at Howden in the East Riding also has a parish coffin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bellasize was also once administered by the Wapentake of Howdenshire.

 

[Calthrop]

The name of Belsize Park (London Borough of Camden) is also derived from the French bel assis = well, or beautifully, situated.