Settlement Association

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Blimey .... follow that, he said!

Well, I'll have a go with this:

Since 2015 the University of Bradford's Europe's Lost Frontiers project has continued mapping the prehistoric landscapes of Doggerland and has used this data to direct a programme of extensive coring of marine palaeochannels. Sediment from the cores has provided sedimentary DNA as well as conventional environmental data and these will be used in a major computational modelling programme replicating colonisation of the submerged landscape. In June 2019 a team of scientists from the Universities of Bradford and Ghent found a hammerstone flint on the seabed 25 miles off the coast of Cromer, Norfolk, from a depth of 105 feet, which could point to the existence of prehistoric settlements.

{I am indebted to Mr W Pedia for his help with this suggestion}

 

[Calthrop]

Upper-crust residence south of Cromer, Cromer Hall: reputedly, Arthur Conan Doyle was a guest there in 1901, and heard the tale of the East Anglian spectral hound Black Shuck, who seems often to show up in this game; which supposedly inspired his Sherlock Homes story The Hound of the Baskervilles. Conan Doyle is buried at Crowborough, East Sussex, where he lived for the latter part of his life.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

BEDDGELERT also has an association with a hound, the true and fearless Gelert, who was killed by his master after a terrible misunderstanding.

 

[Calthrop]

Waunfawr, Gwynedd, also lies on the A4085 road.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Fawr is Welsh for large. Another inappropriately named small settlement is GREAT ROLLRIGHT.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stogursey in Somerset also has a Grade I listed church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[DerekC]

Stogursey parish used to include Stert Island, which has existed as an island only since 1798. Stert is known for its bird life, particularly spotted redshank and whimbrel. Since 1885 Stert has been part of the adjoining parish of Huntspill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Puriton in Somerset was the only other settlement that was administered by the very small Hundred of Huntspill and Puriton.

 

[Calthrop]

Perton, Staffordshire -- west of Wolverhampton -- is also celebrated for pear-growing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penmon in Anglesey also has a dovecote.

 

[DerekC]

St Seiriol is said to have founded the church in Penmon. According to folklore St Seiriol and St Cybi from Holyhead were very good friends and would meet at least once a week. St Seiriol would set out from the Penmon Priory and walk west toward Ynys Cybi (also known as ‘Holy Island') and St Cybi would walk eastwards. They would meet at Ffynnon Clorach near Llanerchymedd in the centre of Anglesey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog in Anglesey was also once administered by the Hundred of Menai.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog is a civil parish in Anglesey, which includes the villages of Gaerwen and Pentre Berw. The former lies on the route of the A5 which, after passing through there, also passes through the village of Gwalchmai.

 

[Calthrop]

The name Gwalchmai -- as well as being as above, that of a settlement in Anglesey -- is also the Welsh form of the name of Sir Gawain of Arthurian legend. Sir G. is the hero of the 14th-century poetic chivalric romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: the author of which is not known for certain -- but the likeliest candidate for authorship is reckoned to be one John Massey of Cotton, Cheshire. Cotton is a former village, now totally merged into Congleton: to which town we thus come back after seventy-odd posts.

 

[DerekC]

Congleton was for many years a centre of bear-baiting. The centre for abolition of this "sport" could be said to be Darlington as it was here that Joseph Pease was born. He was the first Quaker MP who amongst other things piloted through the 1835 Cruelty to Animals Act.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coatham Mundeville in County Durham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Darlington Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

A1M Retro Classics Limited, who restore classic cars, is based in Coatham Mundeville. Another place (albeit slightly bigger and more famous) where classic cars (and other vehicles) are restored is Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, Surrey.

 

[DerekC]

Although Weybridge and Brooklands are most closely associated with Vickers aircraft production, the prototype Hawker Hurricane was first flown from here on 6th November 1935. Hurricane production was widely distributed amongst various shadow factories including the Austin Aero Co's facility at Cofton Hackett, Worcestershire.

 

[Calthrop]

Being a bit frivolous: Cofton Hackett's name comically calls up associations of less-than-total wellness in the "ear, nose and throat" department. (Name's real derivation, is of course nothing to do with that sort of stuff.) A possible parallel here, weak-humour-wise, with Colwick near Nottingham -- which if pronounced in a certain way, will sound like "colic" -- distressed behaviour on the part of an apparently healthy infant.

 

[DerekC]

Colwick was once well known in the area for its soft, curdy cheese. It was made from the 17th to the 20th Centuries. Production of the cheese has recently been revived on a small scale by Alan & Jane Hewson of Eastwell, Leicestershire.

 

[Calthrop]

The parish church of St. Michael in Eastwell, is built of the local ironstone. The same applies to St. James's church, Silsoe, Bedfordshire (between Bedford and Luton).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barton-le-Clay in Bedfordshire also has an illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

In the parish of Barton-le-Clay are the Barton Hills: northernmost extremity of the Chiltern Hills, and an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty -- much of the area is a nature reserve. Further beauty and nature conservation not far away at Totternhoe, Bedfordshire -- also near this northerly "end of the line" for the Chilterns. On the downs near the village is Totternhoe Knolls nature reserve.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontefract in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles.

 

[Calthrop]

King Richard II is thought to have met an unpleasant end in Pontefract Castle; it is reckoned certain that Edward II met one in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Slimbridge in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.

 

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The Slimbridge Estate is owned by the Ernest Cook Trust based on an original purchase in 1945 by Ernest Cook in the parishes of Slimbridge and Gossington out of the sale of outlying portions of the Berkeley Castle Estate. Ernest Edward Cook (1865 – 1955) was an English philanthropist and businessman, and a grandson of Thomas Cook, the travel entrepreneur. He was born in Camberwell, Camberwell, London and educated at Mill Hill School.

 

[Calthrop]

There is an attractive butterfly called the Camberwell Beauty: a rare migrant to the British Isles. Another butterfly species of our islands -- scarce, but it is a genuine resident -- is the Lulworth Skipper: named after Lulworth, Dorset, where it has tended to be found.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

"Skipper" is a fairly common boys name in Denmark. GRIMSBY is one of many places in the UK with a name possibly of Scandinavian/Danish origin.

 

[John Griffiths]

Music hall and variety performer Freddie Frinton (1909-1968) was born in Grimsby. His most famous work - though not in his home country - is the short comic film 'Dinner for One', broadcast each Christmas in Germany. It was first shown in full in the UK in 2018, in Campbelltown, Argyllshire.