Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

The church of St Hugh at Charterhouse was designed by the prolific ecclesiastical architect WD Caroe, who was also responsible for the 1930s rebuilding (after mining subsidence damage to the original) of St Michael and All Angels, Sunderland (Sunderland Minster).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Berwick upon Tweed is another North-East area where the iconic artist L.S.Lowry made a number of paintings.

 

[John Griffiths]

Byker in Newcastle upon Tyne also has a renowned pub called the Free Trade.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wymondham in Norfolk is another settlement that has had a brush factory.

 

[Calthrop]

As we know, "they pronounce things funny in Norfolk"; the above-bolded settlement is pronounced "Windum". I understand that the considerably smaller Wymondham in Leicestershire, a few miles east of Melton Mowbray, is pronounced approx. as spelt: "Wye-m'nd-um".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire also has a hostelry called The Berkeley Arms.

 

[Calthrop]

Hastings also holds an annual commemoration, with medieval-battle re-enactors taking the central role, of the prominent historical battle which took place at / near the (respective) town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hythe is another of the towns in the second group of settlements to have joined the Cinque Ports Confederation.

 

[Calthrop]

Hungerford, Berkshire, also has antique shops in profusion. (I liked the name of one in Hythe -- "Den of Antiquity".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Devizes in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the Kennet and Avon Canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

Shire horses of the Wadsworth brewery in Devizes still pull traditional drays to deliver beer to local pubs. This practice was also followed by Youngs brewery in Wandsworth, south London, until in 2006 they (very regrettably) upped sticks and moved production to Bedford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barnes in Surrey was also once administered by the Hundred of Brixton.

 

[Calthrop]

The composer Gustav Holst lived for a while in Barnes; also for a while, in Thaxted (Essex).

 

[Springs Branch]

Chipping Campden also has an active group of Morris Dancers.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Almondbury in West Yorkshire is another settlement with historical medieval connections as a Wool Trading Centre.

 

[Calthrop]

Knaresborough also has a school -- long of the "grammar" variety -- initiated via a charter from King James I. (We also had "Mr. Slobber" only yesterday -- I seem to have got him rather on the brain at the moment.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ramsgill in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Nidd.

 

[Calthrop]

Eugene Aram (1714 - 1759), of some notoriety as a philological scholar and also a murderer, was born in Ramsgill. After killing a friend in 1744 -- the crime initially undetected -- he left his native Yorkshire and worked in various parts further south: finally in King's Lynn, where justice at last caught up with him.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln also had anti-Semetic riots in the year 1190.

 

[Calthrop]

William Byrd -- organist and composer "by appointment to" Queen Elizabeth I -- was earlier in his life, organist and master of the choristers of Lincoln Cathedral. He lived for the last years of his life at Stondon Massey, near Brentwood, Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Crosby in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[Calthrop]

Edward Smith, captain of the ill-fated Titanic, resided for a while in the above-bolded settlement. He was born in Hanley, Staffordshire.

 

[DerekC]

Hanley Deep Pit, at approximately 500 yards, was the deepest in the North Staffordshire Coalfield. For comparison the deepest in South Wales was Nantgarw, at 856 yards

 

[Calthrop]

Nantgarw is the location -- in an area developed on the site of the one-time colliery and coking works -- of the headquarters of Cadw, Wales's equivalent of English Heritage: the HQ of which is in Swindon, Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Draycot Foliat in Wiltshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Highworth & Swindon Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

During World War 2 there was a U.S. Army Base at Draycot Foliat.
The first contingent of U.S. Army troops to arrive in the European Theatre of War landed in January 1942 at Belfast.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dundee was another settlement in which linen manufacturing was quite a major industry.

 

[Calthrop]

Prominent figures in Scotland's part in the politico / religious "disagreements big-time" of the 17th century -- and who shared the same surname -- were John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee; and James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Inverbervie also has historical connections to the trade of flax spinning.

 

[Calthrop]

The Bervie Chipper in Inverbervie won the title of Fish and Chip Shop of the Year in 1997. A lot further south: Trip Advisor speaks well of The Fish Dish fish-and-chips restaurant in Felixstowe.