Settlement Association

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Wallingwells Hall is a grade II listed 17th Century country house built on the site of Wallingwells Priory, which was a small house of Benedictine Nuns founded in the 1140s by Ralph de Chevrolcourt. Another Benedictine house in Nottinghamshire, but this time for Monks, was Blyth Priory, which was founded in 1088 by Roger de Busil.

 

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Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, also lies on the River Ryton.

 

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York also has a church that is dedicated to St Wilfrid.

 

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York is the home of the second Bettys Tea Room to be opened (in St Helen's Square, in 1937). The first Bettys Tea Room was opened on Cambridge Crescent in Harrogate in July 1919, although it moved to their current position on Parliament Street in 1976.The third Bettys Tea Room was opened on High Street, Northallerton in 1971.

 

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Sidmouth in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

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The parish church of Sidmouth is dedicated to St Giles and St Nicholas. It was rebuilt in 1860, when the architect was William White FSA (1825 – 1900). Another parish church in Devon on which he worked is Holy Trinity, West Down, which he restored in 1874.

 

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Stornoway (Lewis and Harris) has also featured in controversy concerning the establishing -- actual or proposed -- of wind-turbine-farms in adjacent or nearby areas.

 

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Two local teams currently participate in the Lewis and Harris Football League, namely Stornoway Athletic and Stornoway United. One of the other teams in the League is Point FC, who play at Garrabost Park, Knock on the Isle of Lewis.

 

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Sunderland Point in Lancashire is also a settlement that is on a narrow isthmus which is submerged during high tides.

 

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Sunderland Point was developed as an outport for Lancaster by Robert Lawson, a Quaker, at the beginning of the 18th century. Reportedly, stonework from the ruined Cockersand Abbey just across the river was utilised in the construction of the quay and buildings. Lawson finally went bankrupt in 1728, which began a steady decline until it was totally surpassed by Glasson Dock, also known as Glasson, which opened in 1787.

 

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Silverdale in Lancashire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Lancashire Coastal Way.

 

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Carl Almquist (1848 – 1924) was a Swedish-born stained-glass artist whose professional life was spent entirely in Britain, becoming one of the two chief designers for the well-known Lancaster firm of Shrigley and Hunt. As well as his work at St John's Church, Silverdale, where he created the West window (three lights, 1888, subject: the Nativity) and the Clerestory windows (1891, subject: Old Testament prophets), in 1889 he also worked at St John's Church, Yealand Conyers, Lancashire, where he was responsible for the South window, which is one light with the subject of the Good Shepherd.

 

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Yealand Conyers featured prominently in the early history of the Society of Friends (Quakers) -- the movement's founder, George Fox, preached there at least once. Fox was born in Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire (near Nuneaton).

 

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George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, who are commonly known as the Quakers or Friends, was born in Drayton-on-the-Clay (as Fenny Drayton was known then) in July 1624. He died on 23rd January 1691, and was interred three days later in the Quaker Gardens in the London Borough of Islington. The area is close to the boundary with the City of London, and is known historically as Bunhill Fields.

 

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Islington is one of the first distinct districts which the A1 road passes through after departure from its origin the City of London.
Much further north, the A1 also passes through the Edinburgh suburb of Portobello.

 

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Blackpool also has a promenade that fronts a wide sandy beach.

 

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Llangollen, like Blackpool, once hosted a Doctor Who Exhibition.

 

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Corwen in Denbighshire also lies on the line of the River Dee.

 

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The philosopher, critic, novelist and poet John Cowper Powys (1872 -- 1963) lived in Corwen between 1935 and 1955. Much of his youth was spent in Montacute, Somerset; this likely contributing to his having set several novels in south-west England, for which some have reckoned him a successor to Thomas Hardy.

 

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Penrith in Cumbria also has a church that is dedicated to St Catherine.

 

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Penrith has an area on its western side, called Castletown: which is of course also the name of a settlement on -- and former capital of -- the Isle of Man.

 

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The independent school King William's College is spread over two sites in Castletown. It was originally founded in 1668 with funds from the Bishop Barrow Trust, although not officially opened until 1833. The Bishop Barrow Trust was founded in 1668 by Dr Isaac Barrow, Bishop of Sodor & Mann between 1663 and 1669, who was the son of Isaac Barrow of Spinney Abbey, Wicken, Cambridgeshire.

 

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Oare, Kent -- near Faversham -- is also the location of a valued wetland nature reserve.

 

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The 13th century-built and Grade I listed St Peter's Church, Oare was restored and a spire added during 1877 / 1878 by the British Gothic Revival architect Joseph Clarke FRIBA (1819/20 – 1881). At around the same period, he was also responsible for the construction of the Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin, Reculver which, despite it's name, is in the village of Hillborough, in the parish of Reculver in north east Kent.

 

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The 13th century-built and Grade I listed St Peter's Church, Oare was restored and a spire added during 1877 / 1878 by the British Gothic Revival architect Joseph Clarke FRIBA (1819/20 – 1881). At around the same period, he was also responsible for the construction of the Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin, Reculver which, despite it's name, is in the village of Hillborough, in the parish of Reculver in north east Kent.

Going to be a bit naughty here, perhaps: there is, or was, a better-known (at least by name) Hillborough elsewhere in England: in Warwickshire, featuring in the rhyme attributed to Shakespeare, about villages in the Stratford-upon-Avon area:

Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston,
Haunted Hillborough, hungry Grafton...

We learn that even in the 16th century, the village of Hillborough (which had lain approximately six mile east of Stratford) was no more -- had become deserted in medieval times (Black Death, maybe?) -- hence reckonably, the "haunted" in the rhyme. Approx. the nearest settlement to one-time Hillborough, is Temple Grafton -- "hungry" in the rhyme, one gathers, because of the poor soil locally.

 

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Ullenhall in Warwickshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ferncombe.

 

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One of the more prominent people associated with Ullenhall during its history, must be Henrietta, Lady Luxborough: incumbent of the local "big house" and its estate, Barrells Hall. She was a colourful character who -- "banished" by her husband to their place in the country, after a romantic indiscretion -- in the mid-18th century, made the house the hub of a literary circle, the "Warwickshire Coterie"; and went in for improving and beautifying the estate and grounds -- she is credited with the invention of the word "shrubbery". One can imagine in fancy, her thus liking Colchester's south-western suburb of Shrub End.

 

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Blundellsands in Merseyside also has a church with a slated spire.

 

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Gerald Brosseau Gardner (1884 - 1964), the founder of Gardnerian Wicca, a denomination of the Neopagan religion of Wicca, was born in Blundellsands, although he lived there for only a few years. In 1940, fearing the bombing of London (where they lived at the time) Gardner and his wife Dorothy Rosedale moved to Highcliffe-on-Sea, just south of the New Forest in Hampshire.

 

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Sopley in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Christchurch.