Settlement Association

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The first person to receive the Freedom of the City of Manchester was the English banker and philanthropist Oliver Heywood (1825 – 1892), who received it in 1888. He was born in Irlam, Lancashire.

 

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Latchford also lies on the line of the Manchester Ship Canal.

 

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Latchford has a green / recreational area called Black Bear Park -- formerly a shortish canal, now filled-in ! Moreton-in-Marsh has a Black Bear Inn.

 

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Prestbury also has a set of stocks in the town centre.

 

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Coventry has also been in times past, a centre of the silk industry.

 

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Ipswich also has a transport museum.

 

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The comedian / actor / film director / television presenter Richard Ayoade -- featuring in, among much else, the entertaining TV series Travel Man -- was brought up in Ipswich: but he was born in Hammersmith (London Borough of H. and Fulham).

 

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During the Second World War, Waring & Gillow's furniture factory, in Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith produced parts for gliders and the de Haviland Mosquito aircraft. One of the assembly factories for the latter was at the Percival Aircraft Company, Luton.

 

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Stockport has also been prominent in the past, for hat-making.

 

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Ledbury also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

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Titchfield also has an elevated market house.

 

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Ballyjamesduff in County Cavan was also chosen as a site for an abbey for the order of the Premonstratensian Canons.

 

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Until the unprecedented times of late, Ballyjamesduff hosted an annual Pork Festival - promoted by the local pork-rendering factory, according to WP.

A Cider and Pork* Festival has also taken place at Lowestoft.

(* Not such a bad combination, now I think about it.)

 

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Deal also has a maritime museum.

 

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William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides, comments most unfavourably on Deal and its inhabitants -- one feels that if there had been an 1820s book of "cr*p towns of England", Deal would have featured prominently therein. Cobbett did, however, like Warminster (Wiltshire).

 

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Upton Scudmore in Wiltshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Warminster Poor Law Union.

 

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The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Upton Scudmore has 12th-century origins and stands on the site of a smaller Saxon church. A tower was added in 1750 and the church was largely rebuilt in 1855 by George Edmund Street. One of his major complete works is Ripon College, which is a Church of England Theological College in Cuddesdon, South Oxfordshire.

 

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Chiselhampton also lies on the line of the River Thame.

 

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Chiselhampton also lies on the line of the River Thame.

The "Chisel" in this settlement's name derives from the Old English ceosel or cisel = gravel / shingle; owing to the shingle by the River Thame on which some of the village is built. Chiselborough (Somerset)'s name comes from the same root.

 

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Chilton Cantelo in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Houndsborough.

 

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Tunstead Milton in Derbyshire is also the home of a Screaming Skull.

 

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Kettleshulme also lies on the route of the B5470 road.

 

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A bus service from Disley in Cheshire goes through Kettleshulme to Macclesfield.

 

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Astbury was also once administered by the Hundred of Macclesfield.

 

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Astbury is just off the A34 trunk road, which runs from near Winchester in the south to near Salford in the north. After passing Astbury northwards, it goes through Congleton in Cheshire.

 

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Astbury is just off the A34 trunk road, which runs from near Winchester in the south to near Salford in the north. After passing Astbury northwards, it goes through Congleton in Cheshire.

Congleton and its inhabitants are reputedly obsessed with bears: the town is, one gathers, full of effigies and pictures of them. This dates -- one is given to understand -- at least from some centuries ago, when -- according to the local rhyme:

Congleton rare, Congleton rare:
They sold the church Bible to buy a new bear (as a bear-baiting target and / or pet)...

Another settlement with a particular-animal-related folk tradition from long ago, is Zennor, Cornwall; where supposedly and treasured-ly once in the distant past, a cow -- lacking grass -- ate the church bell-rope, made of straw.

 

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The British Intelligence Officer Vera Atkins CBE (born in Romania on 16th June 1908) worked in the France Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War. She died in hospital at Hastings, East Sussex on 24th June 2000, aged 92.

Her memorial plaque, which is shared with her brother Guy, is in the northern wall at St Senara's churchyard in Zennor where her ashes were scattered. The inscription reads "Vera May Atkins, CBE Legion D'Honneur Croix de Guerre".

 

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Charlestown in Cornwall also has a museum that focuses on shipwrecks.

 

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In the film The Eagle Has Landed: sequences which per the film's narrative took place in St. Anne, the chief settlement of Alderney; were filmed in Charlestown.

 

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Residents of St Anne are known as ‘les vaches’, which is French for cows. Westhoughton in Greater Manchester is known as ‘Keaw-yed city’ because of a legend that a farmer’s cow got stuck in a gate, so he sawed the cow’s head off as it was worth less than the gate.