Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

The actor, author, TV personality and polymath Stephen Fry lived for a while with his family in Chesham, and attended the preparatory school there. The family then moved to Booton, Norfolk -- some way north-west of Norwich: Fry's home in school holidays for the rest of his childhood and adolescence.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yalding in Kent also has an artistic wrought-iron village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Yalding was a place much-loved by Edith Nesbit, author of inter alia The Railway Children; though she never actually lived there. She died at New Romney, also in Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hastings is another of the original Cinque Ports.

 

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Winston Churchill was at one time Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. He is buried at Bladon in Oxfordshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Enstone, Oxfordshire, also lies on the River Glyme.

 

[Springs Branch]

RAF Enstone was used during World War 2 as a satellite airfield of the RAF No. 21 Operational Training Unit.

Another similar facility, No. 20 Operational Training Unit, was based at RAF Lossiemouth (which has now evolved into one of the RAF's largest and busiest fast jet stations), located in north-east Scotland at Lossiemouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Louth in Lincolnshire also has a church that is dedicated to St James.

 

[Calthrop]

Louth in Lincolnshire has of course an Irish namesake: the county of Louth, on the east coast just south of the Border -- named after its eponymous village; but its county town is Dundalk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cullyhanna in County Armagh also lies on the line of the River Castletown.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Patrick's Gaelic Football Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association based in Cullyhanna. It is part of the Armagh GAA, and plays Gaelic football in the Armagh Senior Championship. The club has reached the final of the Armagh Senior Football Championship twice in the last ten years, although they were unsuccessful on both occasions. On the last occasion, in 2016, they were beaten by Maghery Sean MacDermott's GAC which is based in Maghery, County Armagh.

 

[Calthrop]

Maghery, County Armagh: has a namesake / counterpart elsewhere in the traditional province of Ulster -- in the Republic: the village of Maghery on the west coast of Co. Donegal, quite close to Burtonport.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glenrothes in Fife also has a church that is dedicated to St Columba.

 

[Calthrop]

The brand of whisky called The Glenrothes: is made not in Glenrothes (Fife) -- but further north, in Rothes (Moray).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberlour in Moray also lies on the line of the River Spey.

 

[Calthrop]

Aberlour's full name is Charlestown of Aberlour. The naming of settlements with the " ***** " of " ***** " formula -- in assorted "contexts" -- is an often-observed thing in Scotland: giving a sonorous seeming, to sometimes small and obscure communities. Another instance of this, further south in the country, is Coaltown of Wemyss in Fife.

 

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Today the Coaltown has a primary school, some small shops, and the Earl David Hotel, which is named after David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss (1610 – 1679). He was an army officer and the only son of John Wemyss, 1st Earl of Wemyss. As Lord Elcho, a title he held between 1633 and 1649, he commanded a regiment of Fife infantry in the Scottish army which reached Newcastle upon Tyne in August 1640. On 1 September 1644, at the head of about 6,000 men, he was routed by Montrose at Tippermuir, and in August 1645, as supernumerary commander to Lieutenant-General William Baillie, again suffered defeat by Montrose's forces at Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire.

 

[Springs Branch]

In 1645 Kilsyth was the location of one of the battles during the Scottish Civil War.
Earlier in the same year, the same conflict had seen another significant battle at the castle at Inverlochy.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Iverlochy was purpose-built in the 1920s by the British Aluminium Company to house workers. The company later became Alcoa, and also owned a site at Dolgarrog in the Conwy Valley.

 

[Calthrop]

In the sphere of enterprising man-made "arenas" for hearty-and-venturesome usually-outdoor sports -- while Dolgarrog has the world's first commercial artificial surfing lake; Hemel Hempstead has a real-snow indoor winter sports venue.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bicester was also granted bailwick status in medieval times.

 

[Springs Branch]

Hemel Hempstead is part of Dacorum Borough Council (something else I'd never heard of), which also includes the tasty-sounding Hertfordshire village of Cow Roast.

 

[Calthrop]

Another settlement with a (less appetising-sounding) food-themed name: is the village of Pease Pottage, West Sussex -- near Crawley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

HOLD CALLED

My posting # 23,090 of Bicester preceded that of posting # 23,091 of Cow Roast (which in turn was responded to by posting # 23,092 of Pease Pottage).

Therefore, those last two postings are invalid and should be struck-through.

The quiz should carry on from the Bicester posting # 23,090.

 

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Bicester has a large Army storage and distribution centre nearby, complete with its own railway, another military depot with rail commection is at Hythe near Southampton at Cracknore Hard, (and yes, that is the correct spelling)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cliff End in East Sussex also lies on the line of the Royal Military Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stromness in Orkney also has a marina.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Stromness is referred to in the title of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's popular piano piece "Farewell to Stromness", a piano interlude from The Yellow Cake Review, which was written to protest at plans to open a uranium mine in the area. He was born in Holly Street, Langworthy, in the City of Salford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cardiff also has a Community Church.

 

[Calthrop]

Cardiff has a namesake settlement (full name, Cardiff-by-the-Sea) in California. Another South Wales settlement -- Sebastopol -- also has a namesake in that US State, though a good deal further north.