Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Great Ayton was the location of a Quaker school until 1997. There is still a Quaker school at Lisburn, Co Antrim

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dromara in County Down also lies on the line of the River Lagan.

 

[Calthrop]

Dromara lies in the Barony (historical Irish administrative division) of Iveagh Lower, Lower Half. The aristocratic Iveagh family have long been closely involved with the brewing firm of Guinness; a major and long-standing brewery of which is situated at St. James's Gate, Dublin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Athgarvan in County Kildare also lies on the line of the River Liffey.

 

[Calthrop]

Athgarvan lies adjacent to the large plainland area called the Curragh. "Way back" -- flourishing a century-plus ago, and later -- there was a lengthy motor-racing circuit, along public roads, in that area; passing through, among various other settlements: Stradbally (Co. Laois).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harold's Cross in another settlement in the Irish Republic that has a Russian Orthodox church.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Mother Mary Frances Aikenhead was born in Daunt's Square off Grand Parade, Cork in 1787. She was the founder of the Cathoilic religious institute, the Religious Sisters of Charity and of St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin. She died at Our Lady's Mount, Harold's Cross, Dublin in 1858.

 

[Calthrop]

45% of the world's Tic Tac sweets are made at the Ferrero factory in Cork. Ferrero also have an establishment in Greenford, London Borough of Ealing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ickenham was also once administered by the Hundred of Elthorne.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiki says of Ickenham -- IMO rather delightfully -- that "no major historical events have taken place" there. Again per Wiki, the same would seem to be true (despite the settlement's proximity to the Welsh border) of Clun, Shropshire: the town and its neighbouring "Clun**** " villages being commemorated in the rhyme, as "the quietest places under the sun".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clunbury in Shropshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Purslow.

 

[Calthrop]

Clunbury in Shropshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Purslow.

Appropriately, Purslow's pub is called the Hundred House. There is another hostelry of the same name, in a less remote part of Shropshire: at Norton, between Telford and Bridgnorth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hanmer in North Wales also has a church that is dedicated to St Chad.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Until the reorganisation of Welsh local government on 1st April 1974, Hanmer was in the detached part of the historic county of Flintshire known as English Maelor, whose market town and administrative centre was Overton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eglwys Cross was also once administered by the Hundred of Maelor.

 

[Calthrop]

Marchwiel also lies on the A525 road between Wrexham and Whitchurch.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Styal in Cheshire East also has a National Trust property and grounds contained within its environs.

 

[py_megapixel]

Styal is one of a number of villages which are located a very short distance from the perimeter fence of Manchester Airport. Another such village, on the other side of the Airport, is Hale Barns.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hoar Cross in East Staffordshire also has a church that is dedicated to Holy Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

At Hoar Cross is an 80-acre tract of woodland; a remnant of the former Needwood Forest which used to cover this area. There is another and larger surviving forested tract a few miles away, near Abbots Bromley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Somersal Herbert in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Uttoxeter Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Parish Church of St Peter and St Blaise is, apart from a village hall dating from 1905, the only significant public building in Somersal Herbert. It is basically medieval and, before the Reformation, was dedicated to St Blaise. It was rebuilt in 1836 and again in 1874 by a local architect, C J Neale of Mansfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Snowdown in Kent is another settlement with historical links to coal mining.

 

[Calthrop]

Snowdown is too small to feature on the maps of, or in the index of, the AA Great Britain Road Atlas. The same is true of the wondrously-named Goitre, near Newtown, Powys.

 

[DerekC]

Goitre (which seems to be spelled Goetre as well) is a scattered series of individual farms in the parish of Llanmerewig

 

[Springs Branch]

Llanmerewig is in the 01686 dialling code, which is based in Llanidloes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Atcham in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Severn.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There is a public house in Atcham called the Mytton & Mermaid; it was owned at one time by Clough Williams-Ellis as a staging post on the way to his iconic Italianate village of Portmeirion.

 

[Calthrop]

Maentwrog is also situated on the line of the River / Afon Dwyryd.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Maentwrog hydro-electric power station was opened in 1928, and still produces electricity today. It is supplied by water from Llyn Trawsfynydd, a large man-made reservoir located near the village of Trawsfynydd.