Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newburgh in Fife was created as a Royal Burgh in the 17th century.

 

[Calthrop]

Kirkcaldy, on the other side of Fife (south vis-a-vis north) has also been prominent in the manufacturing of linoleum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Kirkcaldy has long been nicknamed the "Lang Toun", the Scots for "long town", in reference to the early town's 0.9-mile main street, as indicated on maps from the 16th and 17th centuries. The street would finally (by 1876) reach a length of nearly 4 miles. Another place with the same nickname is Auchterarder, who's one and a half mile long High Street gave the town its popular name.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

BANGOR has the longest High Street/Stryd Fawr in Wales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandygai in Gwynedd also lies on the line of the River Cegin.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St. Tegai's Church, Llandygai, contains a marble monument to Archbishop John Williams, the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal between 1621 and 1625 during the reign of King James I. A later holder of the position (Sir Nathan Wright, from 1700 to 1705) is commemorated by a J D Wetherspoon pub in the town of Oadby, Leicestershire; it is named the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal to recognise that he was later the Lord of the Manor of Oadby.

 

[Calthrop]

Oadby, we learn, is one of seventy originally Danish settlements in Leicestershire, with name ending in "by" = town or village. Another of the seventy, with a name which has always appealed to me: is Ab Kettleby, just north-west of Melton Mowbray.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Tenuous - appealing, fascinating names: I have a bee in my bonnet about Stoney Middleton and MIDDLETON STONEY.

 

[Calthrop]

Tenuous - appealing, fascinating names: I have a bee in my bonnet about Stoney Middleton and MIDDLETON STONEY.

Thanks -- I'd not been aware of this "reversed-names pair": in the Derbyshire Peak District, and Oxfordshire, respectively. "Middleton" (archaic English meaning, the middle farm or settlement of a group) seems frequently to show up in double-barrelled English village names. Yet another is Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire (near Banbury, and only twelve miles north of Middleton Stoney). Per Wiki, the "non-Middleton" parts of these names signify, in order: "stony middle farm" (well, things are generally pretty stony up in the Peaks); reference to stone-quarrying pits which at one time functioned in the parish; and, held in the 12th century by one John de Chendut.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chipping Warden in Northamptonshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Banbury Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Irnham, Lincolnshire -- about midway between Grantham and Bourne -- also has a pub called the Griffin. (I like this East-Midlands-and-eastward, patch of England !)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Andrew's Church, Irnham is late Norman with Perpendicular additions It holds the tomb and Easter Sepulchre of Sir Geoffrey Luttrell III (1276 – 1345) who commissioned the Luttrell Psalter, a celebrated medieval manuscript now in the British Library, in the early 14th century. Although he has been praised for his patronage of the arts, it has also been claimed that Luttrell, like many medieval landowners of his time, was capable of ruthlessness and violence. A private war which he conducted together with his neighbour Roger de Birthorpe against the monks of Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire was considered serious enough to warrant a Royal Commission of Inquiry in 1312. However, it has been argued that Birthorpe was the principal offender and that Luttrell was to blame only for supporting his friend; this may be borne out by the fact that while Birthorpe was outlawed for a time, Luttrell seems to have escaped any censure.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Threekingham in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Wapentake of Kesteven.

 

[Calthrop]

St Andrew's Church, Irnham is late Norman with Perpendicular additions It holds the tomb and Easter Sepulchre of Sir Geoffrey Luttrell III (1276 – 1345) who commissioned the Luttrell Psalter, a celebrated medieval manuscript now in the British Library, in the early 14th century. Although he has been praised for his patronage of the arts, it has also been claimed that Luttrell, like many medieval landowners of his time, was capable of ruthlessness and violence. A private war which he conducted together with his neighbour Roger de Birthorpe against the monks of Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire was considered serious enough to warrant a Royal Commission of Inquiry in 1312. However, it has been argued that Birthorpe was the principal offender and that Luttrell was to blame only for supporting his friend; this may be borne out by the fact that while Birthorpe was outlawed for a time, Luttrell seems to have escaped any censure.

Being cynical, no doubt: did he commission the Psalter, to get off the hook with the monks as regards the war against them?

Threekingham in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Wapentake of Kesteven.

There is a whalebone arch at the entrance to Laundon Hall, near Threekingham. Whitby has a similar-looking arch made of the same material.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Danby in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Esk.

 

[Calthrop]

Danby has a castle, at which Katharine Parr -- Henry VIII's sixth and last wife -- lived for a while, in a part of her life prior to that marriage. She died at Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Glocestershire; having outlived the much-married Hal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Selsey in Gloucestershire also has a long barrow within its environs.

 

[Springs Branch]

One of the ascents made by the 18th Century English balloonist James Sadler landed in Selsley.
Another of Sadler's pioneering ascents started in Manchester (from Balloon St, one of the streets now traversed by the Manchester Metrolink), landing further north near Bury at Radcliffe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackrod was also once administered by the Hundred of Salford.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Being cynical, no doubt: did he commission the Psalter, to get off the hook with the monks as regards the war against them?

I couldn't possibly comment, but the Wikipedia article hints that he might have done!

Moving swiftly on ..... Blackrod is situated on hilly ground near the River Douglas, which rises at Douglas Springs, a series of springs on Rivington Moor. Nearby are a number of reservoirs which form part of the Rivington Chain, a network of reservoirs built to meet the drinking water needs of Liverpool. The River Douglas descends rapidly before it empties into the Lower Rivington Reservoir, just to the north of Horwich.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rumworth in Greater Manchester was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bolton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Rumworth in Greater Manchester was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bolton Poor Law Union.

Shortage of inspiration leads me here into facetiousness: strong-drink associations can also be seen or dreamed up, concerning Brandy Wharf, Lincolnshire: a few miles east of Kirton in Lindsey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bishopbridge in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Ancholme.

 

[Calthrop]

The Manor House, Bishopbridge -- built circa 1850 -- is or has been in recent years, in the ownership of the Public Relations Officer of the Central Council for British Naturism. Devotees of that movement are catered for on part of the beach at Lower Largo, Fife.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peterhead in Aberdeenshire was also created a Burgh of Barony in the 16th century.

 

[Calthrop]

With Kirkcaldy's nickname ("the Lang Toun"), featuring a little way upthread; but far enough so, for it to be legitimate to use the town and this topic re it, afresh: I can't resist coming up with this which I have used before in the game -- Peterhead is nicknamed, a bit similarly, "the Blue Toun".

 

[Springs Branch]

Jocky Wilson, the darts legend and twice-winner of the British Darts Organisation World Darts Championship, was born in Kirkcaldy.
In the 1982 WDC final, Jocky beat fellow competitor John Lowe by 5 -3. Lowe was born in Derbyshire, at New Tupton.

 

[Calthrop]

The ancient road known as Icknield or Ryknild Street, also runs through Wixford (Warwickshire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beckbury in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Milburga.

 

[Calthrop]

Beckbury lies on the River Worfe, a tributary of the Severn; joined at Beckbury by the rather splendidly named Mad Brook: the name connected with Madeley, Shropshire -- near the brook's source.