Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

Buxton also lends its name to a brand of bottled mineral water.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cork also has an opera house.

 

[Calthrop]

Cork lies on the River Lee. England has a homophonous River Lea, flowing southward to meet the Thames at Bow Creek in the London conurbation. The Lea is occasionally also spelt "Lee": as in the River Lee Country Park (official name) in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, through which it flows.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Cheshunt, as with much of the UK, experiences a Maritime climate*. Cheshunt's closest weather station is in Waltham Cross.

* Meanwhile, in the "Every Day's a School Day" Department: According to Mr W Pedia,
"An oceanic climate, also known as a maritime climate, marine climate is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features mild summers (relative to their latitude) and cool but not cold winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature."
Well, I never knew that!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Geddington in Northamptonshire also has another of the twelve 13th century Eleanor Crosses that commemorate the wife of an English monarch.

 

[Calthrop]

@Xenophon PCDGS -- you just beat me to it, re Eleanor Crosses !

Geddington lies on the River Ise: whose source is in a field which is part of the site of the 1645 Civil War battle of Naseby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bristol also suffered a 14th century outbreak of the Black Death.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

It appears, according to Mr W Pedia, that the first to receive the Freedom of the City of Bristol was William Morris (Billy) Hughes, the Australian politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923. His award was made on 20th May 1916, and was one of fifteen similar awards – more than any other Prime Minister of Australia. Billy Hughes was born in Pimlico, London on 25 September 1862 and died on 28th October 1952 (aged 90) in Sydney, New South Wales.

 

[John Griffiths]

'Passport to Pimlico' was a 1949 comedy film made by Ealing Studios.

 

[Calthrop]

Ealing has a pub called The Old Hats. Preston Bissett near Buckingham used to have a pub (long defunct) called The Old Hat (singular).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tingewick in Buckinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Buckingham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

At Oxford, the University / Radcliffe Infirmary are graced by a society, named "Tingewick", of medical students who are comedians in their spare time: they put on various shows for charity, including a famously scurrilous annual pantomime.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Oxford University Rowing Club compete in the world-famous Boat Race each year; since 2007 the club has been based at a training facility and boathouse in Wallingford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Watford also was on the route of a pre-Roman trackway.

 

[John Griffiths]

Watford Gap, Northants, is also popularly supposed to denote the boundary between northern and southern England.

 

[341o2]

Watford Gap has railway and motorway alongside as occurs at Shap

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cirencester was also chosen as a site for an open-air swimming pool.

 

[Calthrop]

There is also a degree of confusion / controversy concerning the name's pronunciation; re the London district of Marylebone.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

An area of Marylebone is Baker Street, which gave it's name to the song by Gerry Rafferty. Released in 1978, it became a major worldwide hit, reaching Number 3 in the UK and Number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Gerry Rafferty was born on 16th April 1947 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, and died on 4th January 2011 (aged 63) in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

 

[Calthrop]

Stroud comes across as having been much favoured in recent decades, as the residence of a goodly number of authors (of varying degrees of intellectual and artistic "wattage"). The same applied for a while -- about a century ago, and more narrowly specialising in serious poets -- to Dymock, not very far to the north. (Examples likely to please such as us are, re Stroud, the Rev. W. Awdry; and re Dymock, Edward Thomas.)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Daffodil Way is a circular walk through the ′Golden Triangle', best in late February and March when wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonnarcissus) are flowering in the fields around Dymock and Kempley.

 

[Calthrop]

Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire, is another village which boasts two venerable churches of considerable note to students of those matters. (Such things seem wildly "surplus to requirements" in practical terms: but happily, this scene is not about "practical".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dagnall in Buckinghamshire also has a post-supported illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Grindley Brook (Shropshire) also lies very near the meeting-point of three administrative areas. For Dagnall -- Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Hertfordshire. For G.B. -- Shropshire, Cheshire, and Wrexham County Borough.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Grindley Brook is the starting point for four long-distance footpaths. One of these is the South Cheshire Way, which runs for 32 miles east–west mainly through Cheshire, though parts lie in Shropshire and Staffordshire. Part of the route runs through Mow Cop, Staffordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stonehouse in Gloucestershire also has a Players Theatre Company.

 

[John Griffiths]

Listowel also shares its name with a holder of the government office of Postmaster General (the Earl of Listowel 1945-47; John Stonehouse 1968-69).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In July 2000, Listowel was officially designated as one of Ireland's 26 "Heritage Towns"; another one is Athenry in County Galway.
(We know a song about there, don't we children?)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In July 2000, Listowel was officially designated as one of Ireland's 26 "Heritage Towns"; another one is Athenry in County Galway.
(We know a song about there, don't we children?)

"He stole Trevellyn's corn, so the young might see the dawn,
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay"

Paddy Reilly gave a good rendition of The Fields of Athenry on the 40th Dubliner's anniversary concert.

 

[Calthrop]

In July 2000, Listowel was officially designated as one of Ireland's 26 "Heritage Towns"; another one is Athenry in County Galway.
(We know a song about there, don't we children?)

Hoping not to weary people with "trivial autobiography": like, I suspect, a number of British railway enthusiasts of my generation: I read of places in Ireland in railway literature, long before I ever heard their names spoken by anyone Irish -- which led to a number of mental-transliteration howlers. The above-bolded Co. Galway town, I rendered to myself as "At-Henry"; and the settlement just on the Republic side of the border -- a Great Northern Railway four-way junction until 1957 -- as "Clones, as in 'multiple Dolly-the-sheep's' "; whereas correct pronunciation, I now understand, is "Cloh-ness".