Settlement Association

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Lord John Hunt, who led the first successful Mount Everest expedition in 1953, lived in Disley. He was born on 22nd June 1910 in Simla, India and died on 7th November 1998 (aged 88) in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

 

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Marlow is also on the Thames.

 

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Warrington also has a rowing club.

 

[John Griffiths]

Warrington was known for its widely-advertised vodka ("Vladivar - Vodka from Varrington"), but the brand was sold to Glasgow-based Whyte & Mackay in 1990 and Vladivar vodka is now made in Invergordon, Ross and Cromarty.

 

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Inverary in Argyll and Bute also has a Pipe Band,

 

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The above-bolded settlement's coat of arms depicts a net with five herrings entangled in it; with a Latin motto translated as "may a herring always hang to thee". Great Yarmouth also has a coat of arms featuring a fish-related motif: with the Norfolk town, it's a fish-and-lions combination.

 

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Blackpool also has a Pleasure Beach.

 

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Bury also features in a fanciful Stanley Holloway monologue.

 

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Mile End in the London area also has a church that is dedicated to Guardian Angels.

 

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The British illustrator and comics artist Mabel Lucie Attwell was born in Mile End on 4th June 1879; she was known for her cute, nostalgic drawings of children, She died at her home in Fowey, Cornwall, on 5th November 1964.

 

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Near Fowey there is a stone cross -- one such, having stood in that spot since ancient times -- called "Punches Cross": the name supposedly (and probably erroneously) derived from Pontius Pilate. There is a tradition according to which, that Biblical personage was born at Fortingall, Perth & Kinross: a legend which is reckoned demonstrably untrue.

 

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The village of Fortingall, with its large hotel adjoining the churchyard, was built in 1890 - 1891 by shipowner Sir Donald Currie, who bought the Glenlyon Estate, including the village in 1885. It was designed by the architect James M MacLaren who, prior to this (in 1888 - 1889) had designed an artist's house for the sculptor H R Pinkes at Nos. 22 and 22A Avonmore Road in Fulham, south west London.

 

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Fulham has a pub called The Durrell. The name also occurs notably in Trinity parish, Jersey; having come into use as a place-name for the area there, centred on the Jersey Zoo -- founded by the naturalist / conservationist / author Gerald Durrell (1925 - 1995).

 

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The broadcaster Alan Whicker lived in Trinity from the 1960s until his death in 2013. He was born to British parents in Cairo, Egypt, in 1921; the family moved to Richmond in Surrey, and he attended Haberdasher's Aske's Boys School in Elstree, Hertfordshire.

 

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Shepperton was also chosen as a site for a film studios complex.

 

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J.M.W. Turner painted some pictures of River Thames scenes at Shepperton; a more-favoured haunt of his, inspiring a good many pictures, was near Otley (West Yorkshire).

 

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The cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale was born in Otley in June 1718, and died in Hoxton, in the London Borough of Hackney, in November 1779.

 

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Stoke Newington was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ossulstone.

 

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The English actress and writer Jean Marsh OBE was born in Stoke Newington on 1st July 1934. In 1976, she played Joanna Grey in The Eagle has Landed. The majority of the film, set in the fictional village of Studley Constable, was filmed at Mapledurham in Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altrincham also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret.

 

[johnnychips]

Stiffkey in Norfolk is also not pronounced like its literal reading. Altrincham is pronounced ‘Altringham’ and Stiffkey is pronounced ‘Stew-key’.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Snoring in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Stiffkey.

 

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Historically, Little Snoring was named according to its Latinised form as Snoring Parva.
A settlement which still retains a Latinised suffix is the Leicestershire village of Ashby Parva.

 

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Blaenavon also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

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The Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenafon is an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH), which is a tourism industry information initiative to present a network of industrial heritage sites across Europe. The – virtual – main route is built by the so-called Anchor Points; these are Industrial Heritage sites which are the historically most important and most attractive for visitors. One of the categories is Mining, and another UK site is the Elsecar Heritage Centre, a living history centre in Elsecar, Barnsley, Yorkshire.

 

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Worsbrough in South Yorkshire is another settlement to be served by a branch of the Dearne and Dove Canal.

 

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Worsbrough used to have a pub called The Wharf -- now metamorphosed into an Indian restaurant and renamed accordingly. Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, still has a pub called The Wharf.

 

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The 19th century British architect Edmund Francis Law, usually referred to as 'E. F. Law', (1810 – 1882) was responsible for two buildings in Bugbrooke - a row of yellow-brick cottages east of the chapel (1844) and a manor house at the north-east end of the village which was restored by him in 1881. He was also responsible for the nave and chancel, and the bellcote at the east end of the nave at the Church of St Leonard, Yardley Gobion, Northamptonshire in 1864.

 

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Grafton Regis in Northamptonshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Potterspury Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of Edward IV, was born in Grafton. She died in Bermondsey.