Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fermoy in County Cork also lies on the line of the River Blackwater.

 

[Calthrop]

The name of Hammerwich (Staffordshire) also features in the title of a traditional folk dance tune (respectively, The Fermoy Lasses; and Vandals of Hammerwich.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uddingston in South Lanarkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Uddingston was the birthplace of James W Black, (1924 – 2010) the Scottish doctor and pharmacologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988. He was born as the fourth of five sons of a Baptist family which traced its origins to Balquhidder, Perthshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Strathyre also lies on the line of the River Balvaig.

 

[Calthrop]

William Wordsworth visited Strathyre in 1803; he is thought to have written there, his poem about the solitary Highland lass, reaping. He was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huntingdon is another settlement chosen by the Normans in which to erect a castle after their 11th century invasion of England.

 

[Calthrop]

Huntingdon is another settlement chosen by the Normans in which to erect a castle after their 11th century invasion of England.

Bath also has a twin town in Provence, France (Salon-de-Provence and Aix-en-Provence respectively).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton is also a spa town with a noted crescent building.

 

[Calthrop]

Buxton lies on the Derbyshire River Wye; Builth Wells is another spa town on another River Wye.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhayader in Powys also lies on the route of National Cycle Route 8.

 

[Calthrop]

Around Princes Risborough (Buckinghamshire) is also a good place to see red kites (Milvus milvus). This is as of fairly recent date; for the majority of the 20th century, Rhayader was the centre of the one remaining small area of Britain where this species survived.

 

[DerekC]

Amy Johnson, pioneer female pilot, lived in Princes Risborough in the 1930s. She died tragically whilst piloting an Airspeed Oxford on an ATA ferry flight in 1941. Her aircraft crashed into the Thames estuary. She baled out but a rescue attempt by HMS Haslemere failed due to the weather conditions. Walter Fletcher, the commander of the warship, died also after he dived in to help her.

 

[Calthrop]

Haslemere is the western extremity of the Greensand Way long-distance path. Its eastern ditto is Hamstreet (Kent), south of Ashford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bobbing is another Kent settlement with an illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

That colourful character Titus Oates, of "Popish Plot" notoriety -- whom I've used in this game before -- features here: he spent a brief period as Vicar of Bobbing. Wiki often seems to tell of absurd stuff in a delightfully solemn way; making verbatim quoting for me, irresistible. As here: "[Oates] was presented with the living by the local squire... in 1673, but his drunkenness and blasphemy so horrified his parishioners that they ejected him by the end of the year." Mr. Oates was born in Oakham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barleythorpe in Rutland was also once administered by the Hundred of Oakham.

 

[341o2]

Barleythorpe hall became a retirement home until sold for redevelopment. In Southgate London likewise Osidge house, the former residence of Sir Thomas Lipton, grocer and sailor, became a home for retired nurses

 

[Springs Branch]

Between 1984 and 1997, Michael Portillo, the former Cabinet Minister and Techicolour-attired TV broadcaster, served as M.P. for Enfield Southgate.
Portillo was born in the Hertfordshire town of Bushey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saffron Waldon in Essex is another settlement where artifacts from the Stone Age have been discovered.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Richard Austen Butler, also known as Rab Butler, (1902–1982), was MP for Saffron Walden between 1929 and 1965, before being created Baron Butler of Saffron Walden. He died of colon cancer in March 1982 in Great Yeldham, Essex, and is buried in the churchyard of the parish church of St Mary the Virgin in Saffron Walden.

 

[Calthrop]

Richard Austen Butler, also known as Rab Butler, (1902–1982), was MP for Saffron Walden between 1929 and 1965, before being created Baron Butler of Saffron Walden. He died of colon cancer in March 1982 in Great Yeldham, Essex, and is buried in the churchyard of the parish church of St Mary the Virgin in Saffron Walden.

The above-bolded settlement is situated on the River Colne, near its source: two lesser tributaries join the river in the vicinity of the village. Fordstreet, Essex, lies on the same river, considerably further down its course.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lexden in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Colchester Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

An ancient mound in Lexden is reputed to be the burial place of Cunobelinus aka Cymbeline: a king in pre-Roman Britain from about AD 9 to AD 40. King C. is known to have minted coins from both Camulodunum (modern Colchester, of which Lexden is now a suburb); and Verulamium (modern St. Albans).

 

[John Griffiths]

St Albans was named for the British protomartyr Alban, executed for refusing to renounce his Chritianity. A similar fate fell to Edmund, King of East Anglia, at the hands (or, rather, arrows) of the Great Heathen Army of Vikings. He too had a settlement named after him: Bury St Edmunds.

 

[DerekC]

Wissington in Norfolk, like Bury St Edmunds, is the site of a British Sugar beet processing plant.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Norfolk settlement of Wissington apparently no-longer exists except as the location of the previously-mentioned sugar beet factory.

This probably avoids confusion with the separate village of the same name in neighbouring Suffolk, now part of the settlement of Nayland-with-Wissington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dedham in Essex also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[Springs Branch]

Dedham Lock and Mill is the subject of a painting by famous landscape artist John Constable.
Constable also produced a couple of noted paintings (outside his normal "Constable Country" orbit) of the cathedral at Salisbury.

 

[341o2]

The construction of Salisbury cathedral, with a new bridge over the Avon led to the decline of Wilton, which formerly was the principal town in the county