Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

For many years, the early 20th Century Prime Minister and the 1st Earl of Oxford H.H. Asquith had his country house at Sutton Courtenay.
Asquith was born into a prosperous family (not in a shoe box in t' middle o' t' road) in the Yorkshire town of Morley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Ardsley in West Yorkshire is another of the towns in the area that were known as the Heavy Woollen District.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The entertainer Ernie Wise was brought up in East Ardsley, although (as Ernest Wiseman) he was born in Bramley, (a district of Leeds) on 27th November 1925.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bramley was mentioned in the Domesday Book.
So was the Leicestershire village of Barton in the Beans

Thanks to member @75A for the tip about this wonderfully eccentric name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Earl Shilton in Leicestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Sparkenhoe.

 

[Springs Branch]

Perhaps surprisingly, in the era of corporate financial institutions, Earl Shilton has an eponymous and long-established Building Society based in the town.
Another financial powerhouse (home to The Chorley & District Building Society) is the Lancashire town of Chorley.

 

[Calthrop]

Not far from Chorley, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal features Botany Bay Boatyard. Another borrowing of the name of Captain Cook's landfall "Down Under", occurs at Broadstairs, Kent: the northernmost of that resort's renowned "Seven Bays", being called Botany Bay.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Oliver Postgate, the writer of the Clangers animated TV series, was a long time resident of Broadstairs and his life is commemorated by a mosaic of the Clangers and a blue plaque on the front of his home in Chandos Square. He was born on 12th April 1925 in Hendon, Middlesex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harlesden also lies on the line of the River Brent.

 

[Calthrop]

The journalist / author / controversialist Louis Theroux has lived for spells, in Harlesden. He studied Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hilmorton in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the Oxford Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Hilmorton in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the Oxford Canal.

Unity Mitford, one of the six varied and colourful Mitford sisters; lived -- in unhappy personal circumstances -- at the above-bolded settlement during World War II, as a guest of the local vicar and his family. Some quarter-century earlier, the Mitfords dwelt, rather briefly but memorably, at the house and estate of Batsford Park: near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dinnington in Somerset also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Fosse Way.

 

[DerekC]

A Roman bronze dog was found by "Time Team" at Dinnington. A similar but considerably larger dog was unearthed near Lydney in Gloucestershire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangollen in Denbighshire also had an Iron Age hillfort within its environs.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The "Ladies of Llangollen", Eleanor Butler (1739 - 1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755 - 1831) , were two upper-class Irish women whose relationship scandalised and fascinated their contemporaries during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The pair moved to a Gothic house in Llangollen in 1780 after leaving Ireland to escape the social pressures of conventional marriages. Eleanor Charlotte Butler was a member of the Butler family, the Earls and later Dukes of Ormond, whose family seat was Kilkenny Castle. Sarah Ponsonby lived with relatives at the Woodstock Estate, just outside the village of Inistoge, County Kilkenny.

 

[Calthrop]

Bennettsbridge also lies on the River Nore.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pilling in Lancashire also has a pottery.

 

[Calthrop]

Lower Assendon (South Oxfordshire -- near Henley-on-Thames) also has a pub called the Golden Ball.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The A4130 road between Henley and Wallingford passes Lower Assendon before passing through the village of Nettlebed.

 

[Calthrop]

The travel writer and journalist Peter Fleming -- elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond -- lived for the latter part of his life in Nettlebed, and is buried there. Ian, who predeceased Peter, is buried at Sevenhampton, Wiltshire (Borough of Swindon).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stratton St Margaret in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Cole.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Highworth & Swindon Workhouse was built within the parish of Stratton St Margaret from 1834, having been relocated from Highworth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ledbury in Herefordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

Thaxted, Essex, also has a Morris-dance side. (Ledbury's are rather splendidly called the Silurian Border Morrismen.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lichfield in Staffordshire also has a Guildhall.

 

[DerekC]

Truro Cathedral, like Lichfield, has three spires.

 

[D6130]

Truro Cathedral, like Lichfield, has three spires.

As does St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Durham also has botanical gardens.

 

[Springs Branch]

Durham (at least the cathedral and castle part) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Another UNESCO World Heritage Site in Great Britain is Jodrell Bank Observatory, located in the Cheshire East village of Lower Withington.