Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southend is also a seaside resort with an airport.

 

[Springs Branch]

Walsall also once had a trolleybus system.

 

[Calthrop]

There is in Walsall a locally much-loved concrete statue of a cartoon-ish hippopotamus, which has occupied more than one site in the town-centre area. Concrete animal statues probably more to the fore in the general consciousness, are the celebrated "cow" ones of Milton Keynes.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Four individuals have received the Freedom of the Borough of Milton Keynes since it's creation in 1982. The third person to be so honoured was Dame Cleo Laine OBE in 2011; she was born as Clementine Dinah Bullock in Uxbridge, Middlesex on 28th October 1927.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Staines also lies on the line of the River Colne.

 

[Calthrop]

Iffley -- suburb of Oxford -- also features in Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

A notable feature of Iffley is its largely unchanged Norman Church, St Mary the Virgin, which has a window designed by the poet and artist Roger Wagner. In 2014 he painted the first portrait of the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, which now hangs in Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, County Durham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

West Auckland also lies on the line of the River Gaunless.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

West Auckland Town FC is famously the 'Home of the First World Cup', as its football team were the winners of the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy, one of the first international footballing competitions, in its two initial years (1909 and 1911) and were therefore, by the rules of the competition, awarded the trophy to keep in perpetuity. The Trophy was initiated by businessman and sporting enthusiast Sir Thomas Lipton, who wished to see a competition between the leading football clubs of Europe. Sir Thomas Lipton was born in Glasgow on 10th May 1848, and died at Osidge in the London Borough of Barnet on 2nd October 1931.

 

[Calthrop]

Quoting Wiki: "Osidge Primary School made the news in 2005 when chef Francois Nouaillat, horrified by the quality of the school meals given to his sons, took over the school kitchen." Jamie Oliver -- more widely celebrated, for larger-scale activities along those general lines -- was born and spent his early life in Clavering, Essex.

 

[John Griffiths]

Southend has an amusement park called The 'Kursaal'. The Royal Hall in Harrogate was opened as the Kursaal in 1903, but patriotically renamed during WWI.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quoting Wiki: "Osidge Primary School made the news in 2005 when chef Francois Nouaillat, horrified by the quality of the school meals given to his sons, took over the school kitchen." Jamie Oliver -- more widely celebrated, for larger-scale activities along those general lines -- was born and spent his early life in Clavering, Essex.

Manuden in Essex also lies on the line of the River Stort.

 

[DerekC]

Lower Wield in Hampshire also has a pub called "The Yew Tree".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dogmersfield was also once administered by the Hundred of Odiham.

 

[John Griffiths]

Woking also lies on the Basingstoke Canal

 

[Calthrop]

H.G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in Woking; which also features as the home of the story's first-person narrator. Among the places through which the narrator and his companions, during the Martian invasion, pass though and have things happen to them: is Chelmsford, Essex.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Chelmsford (now Chelmsford Cathedral) was probably first built along with the town eight hundred years ago. The nave partially collapsed in 1800, and was rebuilt by the County architect John Johnson between 1801 and 1803; during this period, he also rebuilt the south aisle at St Andrew's Church, Hornchurch, Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dagenham also lies of the line of the River Beam

 

[DerekC]

A WWII prisoner of war camp was located at Dagenham, as also at Glenbranter, Argyll & Bute

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sir Harry Lauder owned a house at Glenbranter, which was demolished in the 1960s; he was born on 4th August 1870 in his maternal grandfather's house in Portobello, Edinburgh.

 

[Calthrop]

Sir Harry Lauder owned a house at Glenbranter, which was demolished in the 1960s; he was born on 4th August 1870 in his maternal grandfather's house in Portobello, Edinburgh.

Portobello is called -- or became so, by devious ways -- after the engagement in 1739 in which British forces captured the Spanish settlement of Portobello, on Panama's Caribbean coast. Also with a name deriving from an 18th-century British success in war, is the civil parish of Blenheim, Oxfordshire; centring on Blenheim Palace, which was constructed and named in honour of the Duke of Marlborough's 1704 victory at Blenheim, Bavaria.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Portobello is called -- or became so, by devious ways -- after the engagement in 1739 in which British forces captured the Spanish settlement of Portobello, on Panama's Caribbean coast. Also with a name deriving from an 18th-century British success in war, is the civil parish of Blenheim, Oxfordshire; centring on Blenheim Palace, which was constructed and named in honour of the Duke of Marlborough's 1704 victory at Blenheim, Bavaria.

The name of the dukedom refers to Marlborough in Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harrow also has a noted Public School.

 

[Calthrop]

What is thought to have been Britain's first fatal road motor accident occurred in Harrow in 1899. There took place four years previously, the first journey of a motor car in Britain: to Datchet, from unloading from rail at Micheldever station, Hampshire -- at which is now located the actual village of Micheldever Station: two and a half miles north of the much older village of Micheldever "proper".

 

[Springs Branch]

The Hampshire County Highways Laboratory, located in the village of Micheldever Station, provides consultancy and testing services for construction materials.
Derbyshire County Council have a similar facility, the Derbyshire Highways Laboratory, which is located in Ambergate.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pentrich in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the River Amber.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Matthew's Church, Pentrich contains a stained glass window on the north wall of the Chancel by Christopher Whall, created in 1915. In the same year, he created a two-light window in the South Aisle at St Laurence's Church, Corringham, Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Torksey in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Sharpness in Gloucestershire is also the junction-point between an artificial waterway and a major river.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goole is also an inland port.