Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

Yeovil also had historical associations with leathermaking industries.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beckfoot in Cumbria is another settlement in which a Roman coin hoard was discovered.

 

[Springs Branch]

Beckfoot is believed to be the site of one of the mileforts built by the Romans to protect the Solway coast, effectively as a western extension of Hadrian's Wall.

Across the country on the east coast, Hadrian's Wall terminated, surprisingly enough, at Wallsend.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Dr Sheldon Hall is a film historian based in the Humanities department of Sheffield Hallam University, and was born in Wallsend on 8th November 1964. His books include "Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It", about the 1964 film, which is the story of the defence of Rorke's Drift by the 24th Regiment of Foot, which was based in Brecon, Powys.

 

[Calthrop]

The jazz musician and author George Melly (1926 - 2007) had a part in setting up the Brecon Jazz Festival (he had a country retreat near the town). He was born in Toxteth, Liverpool.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Toxteth is famous for the "Welsh Streets", which were built by Welsh builders for Welsh migrants and named after Welsh towns, valleys and villages. They were designed by Richard Owens, who was born at Plas Bell, Y Ffor, Pwllheli, Gwynedd, and built by David Roberts, Son and Co.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llwyndyrys in Gwynedd also lies on the line of the River Erch.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Llwyndyrys is on an unmarked road which leads to the A499; this runs from a junction with the A487 south of Caernarfon to Pwllheli.

 

[Calthrop]

Pwllheli was developed as a holiday resort by the entrepreneur Solomon Andrews, who based his business and lived for most of his life in Cardiff; but was born in Trowbridge , Wiltshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The developer of the most widely used system of shorthand, Sir Isaac Pitman was born in Trowbridge on 4th January 1813. In 1839 he moved to Bath, where he opened a small school. In the 1851 census he appears in Bath, aged 38, living with his wife, Mary, aged 58, who was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire in 1793.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunfermline also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Dunfermline Carnegie Library was opened on 29th August 1883 and was the world's first Carnegie Library, funded by the Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Another one was opened in Burntisland, Fife.

 

[Calthrop]

Burntisland is home to Scotland's second-oldest Highland Games; the oldest, are those of Ceres, also in Fife -- initial dates 1652 and 1314, respectively. (I can't help wondering, why this in Fife of all places -- a long way from the Highlands? Am sure that to Scots folk, this will make sense in a way that eludes me.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wycoller in Lancashire also has an ancient packhorse bridge.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

'Ferndean Manor' in Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre is thought to be based on Wycoller Hall. The Bronte Way, a waymarked long-distance footpath linking places that have strong associations with the writings of the Bronte family passes through here, leading to the family home in nearby Haworth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Steeton was also once under the jurisdiction of the Keighley Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Horsey, Norfolk, also has a surviving World War II "pillbox". (The one in Steeton was to defend the Royal Ordnance Factory situated in the village during that war.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bruisyard in Suffolk also has an example of a round-tower church.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Bruisyard, Newcastle upon Tyne had a religious house of the Poor Clares order of nuns - Newcastle's being the earliest in England.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fenham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newcastle upon Tyne Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Fenham was developed after 1898 by a company set up by members of the Northern Allotment Society, a body which also founded (among other places) the settlement of Westerhope.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woodhorn in Northumberland also once had a colliery on the Great Northern Coalfield.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The site of the former Woodhorn Colliery is now the location for the Northumberland Record Office, a purpose-built building having been constructed to replace the two previous buildings at Morpeth and Gosforth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Linton in North Yorkshire also has stepping stones across the local river.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The river in question is the Wharfe, and its valley is known as Wharfedale; the river's source is at the hamlet of Beckermonds in Langstrothdale.

 

[Calthrop]

Cheating a bit, perhaps; but -- another Yorkshire Dale not directly named after a river (there's no River Langstroth): is Wensleydale, the valley of the River Ure; though there is in / on the relevant Dale / river, the village of Wensley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hardraw in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bainbridge Gilbert Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

In the TV series All Creatures Great and Small: Hardraw's church was used in filming, for the church of the fictional Darrowby. In Heartbeat -- another much-loved rural-Yorkshire-set television series -- Goathland in the North York Moors saw much use for filming purposes.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Mary's Church, Goathland was designed by Walter Henry Brierley (1862 – 1926) between 1894 and 1896. He was a York based architect who practised in the city for 40 years, and is known as "the Yorkshire Lutyens" or the "Lutyens of the North". In 1913, he designed Sion Hill Hall and Lodge, a private residence in Kirkby Wiske, near Thirsk.

 

[Calthrop]

Re the above-bolded settlement (as perceived by me, first word alternatively and more frequently spelt "Kirby") -- had long idly wondered about where the "Wiske" suffix of this one, and of Danby Wiske some ten miles to the north, came from. Would you believe it : it's because they both lie on the River Wiske -- tributary of the Swale.