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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Calverley in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Morley Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Calverley in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Morley Wapentake.

Coincidentally I think: the above-bolded settlement shares its name with the Victorian-era writer of humorous verse, C.S. Calverley. Another 19th-century comic versifier happening to have the same name as a settlement, is the Rev. R.H. Barham: chiefly known for his Ingoldsby Legends -- long, improbable but entertaining tales, couched in ingenious verse. Barham as in the reverend gent's name (nothing actually to do with him, as far as is known) is in Kent, near Canterbury.

 

[John Griffiths]

Historian and controversialist David Starkey lives (or lived) in Barham. He is often described as 'The rudest man in Britain', a soubriquet which was also attached to the broadcaster Gilbert Harding (1907-1960), who was born in Hereford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trefriw in Conwy County Borough also has a pedestrian suspension bridge.

 

[DerekC]

Trefriw is half in and half out of the Snowdonia National Park. The same applies to the village of Upper Farringdon in Hampshire, in relation to the South Downs National Park.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

West Worldham in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Alton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

West Worldham is mentioned to a significant extent, in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White, 18th-century naturalist and vicar of nearby Selborne. Another keen amateur naturalist of that approximate era -- coming just a little later therein -- was the peasant-poet John Clare, who was born and lived in Helpston -- now in Cambridgeshire; in Clare's time, in Northamptonshire (Soke of Peterborough).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maxey in Cambridgeshire was also once under the jurisdiction extensive area remit of the Peterborough Poor Law Union

 

[John Griffiths]

Maxey has a henge; Thornborough in North Yorkshire has three, on a slightly wobbly alignment.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

An unmarked, although named, road leads from Thornborough to the B6267 minor road; going westerly, it becomes the A6108 and passes through Masham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Appersett in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Ure.

 

[Springs Branch]

Cheadle in Greater Manchester is also located at longitude 2° 13' W

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hyde was also once under the jurisdiction of the Stockport Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Marple also lies on the Peak Forest Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Taxal in the northern reaches of Derbyshire also lies on the line of the River Goyt.

 

[Calthrop]

We learn that a donkey called Moses is a resident as it were, at Taxal parish church; his job being to keep the grass in the churchyard down, by grazing. Another location likely to give pleasure to donkey-lovers is the small donkey sanctuary in Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cruester in the Shetland Isles is another location where Bronze Age burnt mounds have been discovered.

 

[Calthrop]

"Desperation City", more than a little -- Cruester is on the island of Bressay, which is the fifth-largest island in the Shetland group. As best as I can figure out from the map (Google seems not very helpful in this particular matter): the fifth-largest island in the Outer Hebrides, is Barra -- that island's chief settlement being Castlebay.

 

[John Griffiths]

According to the Caledonian MacBrayne website, Castlebay currently has a ferry link to (or with) Oban

 

[DerekC]

In WWII Oban was the site of a submarine indicator loop, intended to detect U-boats in the adjacent channel by the small voltage they induced in cable as they passed over it. A similar loop was set up from Portballintrae in Northern Ireland, to protect the approach to Lough Foyle

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Streedagh in County Sligo is another coastal settlement in which Spanish Armada ships were shipwrecked on their attempted return to Spain.

 

[Springs Branch]

There is also a megalithic tomb (King Orry's Grave) on the Isle of Man at Laxey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Perranzabuloe in Cornwall is another settlement where silver once was mined.

 

[DerekC]

In mediaeval times the church of St Piran at Perranzabuloe was a peculiar of Exeter. The church of St Mary the Virgin at Hornby, North Yorkshire, was and still is a peculiar of York.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Assynt in Sutherland also has a noted waterfall within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

According to a local legend, Assynt's name is derived from a fight long ago between two brothers, Unt and Ass-Unt (meaning respectively Man of Peace and Man of Discord). Ass-unt won the fight, so gave his name to the parish. (You -- i.e. modern types like us -- couldn't make this stuff up...) Not dissimilar colourful local traditions furnish explanations for the existence of Silbury Hill near Avebury, Wiltshire -- involving one way or another, the Devil setting out with plans to wreak large-scale mischief in the area, but being thwarted.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Berwick Basset in Wiltshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Marlborough Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Berwick Basset in Wiltshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Marlborough Poor Law Union.

The above-bolded settlement lies on the upper part of the River Kennet, which usually flows only during the winter months. Further down the Kennet -- and presumably getting a flow of water throughout the year -- is Ramsbury, Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yanworth in Gloucestershire is another settlement where the remains of a Roman villa were discovered.

 

[341o2]

A recehorse has been named after the town of Yanworth as has Cowdenbeath