Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

With the Station Association Quiz having gone slightly off the rails of late (pun not intended), it has been suggested that a new quiz to run in parallel to it is created. Thus, as requested by several others, I present to you all.....The Settlement Association Quiz!

This works in exactly the same manner as the Station Association Quiz, only this thread concentrates on the thousands of inhabited locales instead of their railway stations. As such, a small request has been made in the Station Association Quiz to keep everything in that thread railway-related from here on.

With new contributors in mind, can I draw attention to the guide notes section of this quiz, shown in the very first posting on the thread.

There is another quiz, called "The Station Association Quiz", where matters concerning railway related items can receive posting submissions.

 

[nw1]

With new contributors in mind, can I draw attention to the guide notes section of this quiz, shown in the very first posting on the thread.

There is another quiz, called "The Station Association Quiz", where matters concerning railway related items can receive posting submissions.

Ah ok sorry. In that case I will withdraw my previous suggestion.
However this I think will be acceptable: Laverstock, Wilts, is another village which adjoins a cathedral city in Southern England.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Idmiston in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Alderbury.

 

[Calthrop]

In Idmiston parish is what Wiki calls the Porton Down "military science park" -- which feels like an interesting euphemism. On a non-sinister note, that establishment has played a role in the reintroduction, as from early this century, of the Great Bustard as a breeding species in Britain. Subject of similar reintroduction efforts in various parts of Britain, has been the White-Tailed Sea Eagle: most recently projected one of these, being at Wild Ken Hill near Heacham in Norfolk.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Heacham has historic ties to Matoaka (better known as "Pocahontas"), who married John Rolfe, a native of the village on 5th April 1614 in Jamestown, Virginia. Rolfe took his wife, Rebecca (Pocahontas), and their two-year-old son, Thomas, to visit his family at Heacham Hall in 1616, but settled in Brentford.

 

[Calthrop]

There is considered to be a fair likelihood that in Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain in 54 B.C., military action took place near what is now Brentford. The same applies, re the same campaign, to the vicinity of Harbledown, Kent (near Canterbury).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Verwood in Dorset also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

Verwood long had a thriving pottery industry; many of whose products were -- thanks to a quirk of maritime trade -- exported to Newfoundland. There is a town on that island called St. Andrew's; which matches as-near-as-dammit to St. Andrews the Scottish university city.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The chancel and bell tower of All Saints' Church, St Andrews, were designed in 1907 by the Chester architect John Douglas. At the same time, he designed the conversion of a school to the Church of the Resurrection and All Saints, Caldy, Merseyside.

 

[Calthrop]

The various sports clubs of Caldy (in the Merseyside administrative area, but on the shore of the Dee estuary) play at the sports grounds of Thurstaston -- next village along the shore, up-river.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thingwall on the Wirral peninsula was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirral.

 

[Calthrop]

Thingwall on the Wirral peninsula was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirral.

The name is from the Old Norse thing vollr = assembly field. The same derivation and meaning apply to Dingwall, Highland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dumbarton was also created a Royal Burgh in the 13th century by King Alexander II.

 

[DerekC]

Dumbarton was the capital of the Brythonic kingdom of Alclud. Similarly Caerwent was the capital of Gwent.

 

[Springs Branch]

The birthplace of the 5th Century Christian missionary and bishop St Patrick is not known with any certainty.

Amongst Patrick's suggested birthplaces are Caerwent (proposed by John Nettleship, a local retired chemistry teacher and Secretary of the Caerwent Historic Trust - so perhaps a pinch of NaCl is in order), and the Roman town of Glannoventa - the modern-day Cumbrian town of Ravenglass.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holmrook in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Irt.

 

[Calthrop]

Holmrook in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Irt.

Holmrook Hall, the village's "big house", was owned in the 19th century by a clergyman who was related to Lewis Carroll, author of the "Alice" books and other works of delightful craziness; Carroll stayed occasionally at the Hall. For some of Carroll's schooldays, he attended school at Richmond, North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thrintoft in North Yorkshire also (in its border area) lies on the line of the River Swale.

 

[Calthrop]

Rather convoluted association: Thrintoft's former Chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, now a barn: originated as a chantry chapel connected to Jervaulx Abbey, 7 or 8 miles away. The name "Jervaulx" is from a French equivalent of "Ure valley", in which river valley the abbey lies; but said valley has long been called not after the river's name: but Wensleydale -- associated with the village of Wensley, in that Ure valley and some fifteen miles north-west of Ripon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grinton in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Wapentake of Hang West.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

TROUTBECK, Windermere, also had a youth hostel in a fantastic setting a short cycle ride up hill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skelsmergh in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Kendal Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Embleton, Northumberland (between Alnwick and Seahouses) also has a pele tower -- speciality of these general parts. (Embleton's is combined with the vicarage -- crazy lot, those old Borderers !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Togston in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Alnwick Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

A neighbour village of Togston, a little way to its east, is Radcliffe: which has a semi-namesake some 150 miles further south -- Radcliffe-on-Trent, just east of Nottingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wortwell in Norfolk also has an illustrated village sign.

 

[DerekC]

The Wortwell Mardler is a kind of parish magazine - the word "mardle" meaning "gossip" in local dialect. Norfolk Mardler, on the other hand, is a goat's milk cheese encased in a bright yellow wax case and made by "The Goat Shed" at Honingham, Norfolk.

 

[Calthrop]

Honingham has an apparent close relative in "name" terms, not very far away in the county of Norfolk: Honing, some fifteen miles to the north-east, and near North Walsham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thurne in Norfolk also lies on the route of the Weaver's Way long-distance footpath.

 

[Springs Branch]

Tollesbury in Essex also has a Sailing Club.