Settlement Association

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The parish church of Munford is St. Leonards. It has a Three Manual Organ built by Harrison & Harrison of Durham in 1912. Another of their organs can be seen (and heard) in St George's Church, Douglas, Isle of Man.

 

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The first regular boat services linking the Isle of Man with the mainland began, with early steam boats, in 1819; with Douglas an intermediate stop on the boats' route between Greenock and Liverpool (the famous Isle of Man Steam Packet Company came into being a little later).

 

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Peterhead in Aberdeenshire was another of the Scottish whaling ports.

 

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Princetown in Devon is also the location of a prison (Dartmoor, of course) with a long-standing reputation for being especially disagreeable to be an inmate of.

 

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Princetown is located on the B3212 road between Yelverton and Two Bridges and is surrounded by moorland (Dartmoor).

 

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The Two Bridges Hotel, at that settlement, was formerly known as the Saracen's Head. Far off in south Lincolnshire, another inn of that title: has given its name to a hamlet, essentially conjoined with the nearby village of Holbeach Clough.

 

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Holbeach Clough is on the A17 road, which at it's western end begins in Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire on the eastern side of the Newark bypass.

 

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It is considered that Winthorpe's name may come form the Old English wynne throp = "hamlet of joy". The mind turns, along those lines, to Merrybent, County Durham (near Darlington); though Wiki offers no theory as to the derivation of that one's name.

 

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The Teesdale Way passes along the north bank of the meandering River Tees to the south of Marybent. Another small settlement which is on the route of the Way is the small village of Over Dinsdale in North Yorkshire.

 

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Newton Morrell in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Darlington Poor Law Union.

 

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Newton Morrell is on a named but unclassified minor road leading from near to the junction with the A1(M). This road ends at the junction with the A66 (M) after passing through Stapleton, another small village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire.

 

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Romaldkirk in County Durham also lies on the line of the River Tees.

 

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Hannah Hauxwell, the celebrated "frugal and hard-living" Northern farmer, is buried in the churchyard at Romaldkirk. She died in 2018 at West Auckland, County Durham.

 

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Bolam in County Durham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Auckland Poor Law Union.

 

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Bolam lies just off the B6275 road, which is a part of the Roman road called Dere Street. A few miles south along that road, is the village of Piercebridge, County Durham.

 

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Braco in Perth and Kinross is another settlement where the Romans chose to build a fort.

 

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Just upstream of Braco on the River Kraik is "Maiden's Pool". A lake in Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf, has the same name.

 

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Senghenydd in Caerphilly County Borough is also a settlement that suffered from a mining disaster with a great loss of life.

 

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Men from Senghenydd participate in one of the world's longest running epidemiology studies – The Caerphilly Heart Disease Study. Since 1979, a representative sample of adult males born between 1918 and 1938, living in Caerphilly and the surrounding villages of Abertridwr, Bedwas, Machen, Senghenydd and Trethomas, have participated in the study. A wide range of health and lifestyle data have been collected throughout the study and have been the basis of over 400 publications in the medical press. A notable report was on the reductions in vascular disease, diabetes, cognitive impairment and dementia attributable to a healthy lifestyle.

 

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Bargoed in the Rhymney Valley area also lies on the line of the Rhymney River,

 

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Bargoed is on the A469 road, which runs north from Cardiff to the A465 Heads of the Valleys Road; en-route, it passes through Pontlottyn.

 

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Keiss also features a double consonant in its name.

 

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Keiss has a ruined castle as a major attraction as does Corfe Castle

 

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Stenalees in Cornwall has also been a location of china clay mining.

 

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Stenalees is in Treverbyn parish (St. Austell region); Baal Pit china-clay extraction site, in the parish, has been used as a filming location for "Doctor Who"; as has Frensham Common, Surrey.

 

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Lower Eashing in Surrey also lies on the line of the River Wey.

 

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The veterinary practice of Noel Fitzpatrick -- TV's "Supervet" -- is based in Lower / Upper Eashing. He was born in Ballyfin, Co. Laois -- a little way west of Port Laoise.

 

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Ballyfinn is said to be the birthplace of Fionn Mac Cumhail, a figure in Irish mythology who ate the Salmon of Knowledge and so acquired all the knowledge in the world. There are parallels with the story of the Welsh poet Taliesin who is said to have drunk from the Cauldron of Knowledge, with the same effect. Taliesin's birthplace is unknown, but his traditional burial site is at Tre-Taliesin in Ceredigion.

 

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Brynmawr in Blaenau Gwent is another settlement where a Rehoboth non-conformist chapel was built.

 

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The Dunlop Rubber Company also once operated a factory in what is now Greater Manchester at Hindley Green.