Settlement Association

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Cruden Bay has a long, unspoiled, beach, which was made famous by the Norwegian aviator Tryggve Gran who made the first solo flight across the North Sea from there to Jaeren, near Stavanger, Norway, on 30th July 1914. During the First World War, Tryggve Gran was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps and was posted to 70 Squadron in March 1917. The squadron had been formed on 22nd April 1916 at Farnborough, and was equipped with the Sopwith Camel when it was posted to France in 1917.

 

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Southend also hosts an airshow.

 

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As well as Southend (Essex -- of the airshow) above; there is another settlement of that name in Great Britain: Southend (Argyll & Bute) near the very southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula -- presumably, hence its name.

 

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Southend is the main settlement at the southern end of the Kintyre peninsula in Argyll and Bute; it lies eight miles south of Campbeltown, which is the main town in the area.

 

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Ullapool also hosts an annual music festival.

 

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Thanks to the effect of the Gulf Stream, "palm trees" (actually their equivalent from New Zealand, cabbage trees) are able to grow around Ullapool. The same rather unexpected phenomenon occurs, for the same reason, at Mullaghmore (Co. Sligo).

 

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Rossnowlagh in County Donegal also is popular for surfing.

 

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There is also a Franciscan Friary at Hilfield, Dorset.

 

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Blakeney in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

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The Norfolk Coast Path also passes through Caister-on-Sea.

 

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Caister is sadly known for the 1901 lifeboat disaster in which nine crew of the RNLB Beauchamp lost their lives. In the previous year eight crew of the Padstow lifeboats James Stevens and Arab II were drowned in an attempt to rescue the crew of a trawler.

 

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Lanivet in Cornwall also lies of the route of the long-distance footpath known as The Saints' Way.

 

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Near Lanivet is a poem written by the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.

Another of Hardy's poems with a Cornish connection is At Castle Boterel, based on the settlement of Boscastle.

 

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Leading to "further poem stuff": Boscastle's harbour is a natural inlet protected by two stone harbour walls; building of which was commissioned in 1584 by the eminent naval man Sir Richard Grenville -- who, in command of the ship Revenge, was killed in action seven years later in an engagement against a tremendously greater force of Spanish ships. This event has been celebrated in the poem The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; who was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire.

 

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Hagworthingham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.

 

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Marston's brewery own the George and Dragon in Hagworthingham.
Another George and Dragon within Marston's stable of boozers is located in the Staffordshire village of Alrewas.

 

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Wheelock in Cheshire East also lies on the line of the Trent and Mersey Canal.

 

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Wheelock is a large village in the civil parish of Sandbach; it was named after the River Wheelock, which joins the River Dane at Middlewich, Cheshire.

 

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The town of Middlewich is reckoned to have been largely destroyed in William the Conqueror's campaign in winter 1069 / 70 against rebellious elements in the north of England. In that same episode, very great damage was done to the city of York.

 

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Yearsley in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Foss.

 

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Yearsley was also the site of the pottery of William Wedgewood, a relation of the famous Staffordshire Wedgewood family of potters. The factory of the current Wedgewood Pottery business is in Barlaston, Staffordshire.

 

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Tixall was also once administered by the South Division of the ancient Hundred of Pirehill.

 

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Tixall was a strongly Catholic community in the 17th century: some of its more prominent inhabitants fell heavily under suspicion in the episode, circa 1778 -- 1780, of the so-called "Popish Plot" (to kill King Charles II). The leading figure concerned with the "Plot", the colourful and decidedly "dodgy" character Titus Oates: was born in Oakham, Rutland.

 

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Oakham School was founded in 1584, the same year as Uppingham School; they're both in the County of Rutland.

 

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Algakirk in Lincolnshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

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The above-bolded settlement was the last place in Britain where woad was grown on any conventionally commercial scale -- this came to an end in 1932. There is nowadays an establishment at Beetley, Norfolk -- a little way north of Dereham -- which on a small scale grows, and dyes with, woad: catering thus to craftspersons.

 

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Oxwick in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Launditch.

 

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Attlebridge, Norfolk, also lies on the River Wensum.

 

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East Horndon in Essex also has a church that has Grade II* listed status.

 

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Clayton-le-Woods in Lancashire also has a Travelodge.