Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skirpenbeck in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Wapentake of Buckrose.

 

[Calthrop]

Skirpenbeck lies two miles from the site of the battle of Stamford Bridge, where King Harold defeated Harald Hardrada of Norway in 1066. Later that year and a long way south, Harold took on a different adversary, with -- as we know -- a much less favourable outcome for him. Whatlington, East Sussex, is located two miles from the site of that battle -- viz. Hastings.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fairlight in East Sussex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hastings Poor Law Union.

 

[johnnychips]

Fairlight is a good place for fossil hunters, as is Lyme Regis.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The former captain of the England Women's team, Charlotte Edwards CBE was born on 17th December 1979 in Huntingdon. She made her first Test century for England against India in 1999 at the Denis Compton Oval, Shenley, Hertfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eglwysbach in Conwy County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to St Martin,

We know of that settlement quite well as it is only a short drive away from the National Trust property at Bodnant Gardens. About ten years ago, we made our usual visit to the settlement and there was a funeral in process. The deceased lived a short distance from the church and the coffin was carried out of the house and up the road to the church on the shoulders of the pall bearers.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The name Eglwysbach can be taken to mean 'the small / insignificant church', thus it has the same meaning as Ecclefechan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Both locations are derived from a Brythonic language.

 

[Calthrop]

Shrewsbury also gives its name to a popular item in the baked-goods line.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Newport (South Wales) is another place whose football team has changed it's ground in recent times.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

WELSHPOOL / Y Trallwng is also generally known by an anglicised name despite having a perfectly good Welsh name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abbeycwmhir in Powys also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as Glyndwr's Way

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

WELSHPOOL / Y Trallwng is also generally known by an anglicised name despite having a perfectly good Welsh name.

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People have been known to say the same about MOLD / YR WYDDGRUG

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Abbeycwmhir is named after Cwmhir Abbey, the Cistercian abbey built there in 1143. It was the largest Abbey in Wales but was never completed. It was constructed at the behest of three sons of Madog, the then Prince of southern Powys, as a daughter house of Whitland Abbey. This was a country house and Cistercian abbey in the parish of Llangan in what was the hundred of Narberth; the town which grew up nearby is now named Whitland after it.

 

[Calthrop]

The well-respected Welsh King Hywel Dda (="the Good"), ?880 -- 948 A.D., is honoured in Whitland by the Hywel Dda Culture Cente located there. Hywel is reckoned a wise and statesmanlike ruler, who achieved a degree of accord with his English neighbour king Aethelstan; which included his being accorded the use of Aethelstan's mint at Chester, to produce silver pennies for Wales's currency.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caerwent in Monmouthshire still has substantial amounts standing of the original Roman settlement walls.

 

[Calthrop]

Caerwent had until a few years ago, a pub called the Northgate Inn. South Molton in Devon still has one of that name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lostwithiel in Cornwall also has a Guildhall.

 

[Calthrop]

Wretched antiques again, I'm afraid -- Lostwithiel styles itself the "antiques capital of Cornwall". Another good place for antiques-lovers is Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh -- especially renowned in the field of lace.

 

[johnnychips]

Unfortunately Manchester also had a bomb attack during the ‘troubles’.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crumpsall in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the River Irk.

 

[DerekC]

Crumpsall was the site of a biscuit factory, one of the enterprises started by the Cooperative Wholesale Society before WWI. Another was a shipping line which operated out of Goole to various parts of mainland Europe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swinefleet in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Goole Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

As with the area around Swinefleet; that around Clonbollogue, Co. Offaly, was for a long time significant for the extraction of peat (turf).

 

[Springs Branch]

The Irish Parachute Club (IPC) is now based at the airstrip in Clonbollogue.
When originally founded in 1956 the IPC operated from Weston airfield in Leixlip, Co. Kildare.

 

[Calthrop]

Leixlip's prevailing theme would seem to be salmon. The name comes from the Old Norse lax hlaup = salmon leap: name of a one-time quite spectacular waterfall on the River Liffey just upstream of town, unfortunately obliterated in 1945 by a hydro-electric dam. The town has a Salmon Leap Inn; and holds a festival every June which was until recently, called the Salmon Festival (now the Leixlip Festival). Material read, would suggest probably little presence of real live salmon hereabouts nowadays (it would be nice to be proved wrong here). A location of plentiful genuine salmon, is the Scottish River Dee: a particularly good stretch for which, said to be around Banchory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Potarch in Aberdeenshire also lies on the route of the Deeside Way that caters for both pedestrians and cyclists.

 

[Calthrop]

Objects with some history, which can be seen in Potarch's hotel: the Dinnie Stones -- a pair of Scottish lifting stones, which reportedly were in 1860 carried single-handed by the strongman Donald Dinnie, across the width of Potarch Bridge over the Dee. Resorting not for the first time to the crime novelist Val McDermid, a favourite of mine: one of her recent murder mysteries features in some detail, the modern-day Highland-Games-strongman scene -- she has a character therein in that milieu, hailing from Rosemarkie, Highland (on the Black Isle peninsula).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arbroath in Angus is another settlement where finely carved Pictish stones can be seen.

 

[DerekC]

Arbroath is well known for the very tasty "Arbroath Smokies", a form of hot smoked haddock. Craster in Northumberland is the home of "Craster kippers" (cold smoked herring) which I haven't tasted but are said also to be excellent.