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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southport also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.

A brief aside....Allendale features in one of the songs that our folk group sang in the 1960s...The Rose of Allendale.

 

[Calthrop]

Southport also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.

From 1965 until 2006, the popular chewy sweets called Chewits were manufactured in Southport, initially by the firm of J. Arthur Holland. A character in advertisements for these sweets, who attracted quite a following, was a sort of Godzilla-like monster -- only rather lovable -- named Chewie the Chewitsaurus. In the ads, Chewie wrecked various famous buildings world-wide; and also the not-so-famous Barrow-in-Furness bus depot.

A brief aside....Allendale features in one of the songs that our folk group sang in the 1960s...The Rose of Allendale.

I don't remember ever coming across that one. One I do recall, to do with that part of the world, is "The Flower of Northumberland" -- Scots knight or similar warrior-type, taken prisoner in the never-ending England / Scotland hostilities; cons young lady, by means of feigning "love undying", into helping him to escape and get back to his own country ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Higher Broughton in Greater Manchester is another settlement where a grouping of the Ashkenazi Jewish people settled.

 

[DerekC]

William Crabtree was an astronomer who observed the 1639 transit of Venus across the face of the sun predicted by his friend Jeremiah Horrocks. Crabtree lived and made his observations from Broughton. Horrocks observed the event from his home in Much Hoole. Oddly, although they worked in close cooperation and lived not very far apart, there is no evidence that they ever met.

 

[Calthrop]

Spennymoor, County Durham, also has a pub called the Fox Cub.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Staindrop in County Durham also lies on the route of the A688 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Jeremiah Dixon -- one of the surveyors of the Mason-Dixon Line, famous in American history -- was born elsewhere in County Durham, but is buried in Staindrop. Charles Mason, his partner in the project, was born in Oakridge Lynch, a hamlet of the village of Oakridge, Gloucestershire (east of Stroud).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

From 1913 to 1920 Sir William Rotherstein, artist and some time Principal of the Royal College of Art, lived at Iles Farm in Far Oakridge, which he restored and furnished with the help of members of the Arts and Crafts movement based at Sapperton, Gloucestershire.

 

[Springs Branch]

The historic (and quite lengthy) Sapperton Canal Tunnel runs between its northern portal at Sapperton and the rather ornate southern portal at Coates, Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swinstead in Lincolnshire also has a church with a piscina.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Corby Glen is also a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire. It is north west of Swinstead along the B1176.

 

[Springs Branch]

Overton in Hampshire also hosts a Sheep Fair.

 

[DerekC]

Papermaking has long been an important industry in the Test Valley. Overton Mill still makes paper for many banknotes throughout the world. Laverstoke Mill at Whitchurch, Hampshire is still in use, but as a gin factory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Papermaking has long been an important industry in the Test Valley. Overton Mill still makes paper for many banknotes throughout the world. Laverstoke Mill at Whitchurch is still in use, but as a gin factory.

Is the Whitchurch stated above in Shropshire or the one in Hampshire?

 

[Calthrop]

Papermaking has long been an important industry in the Test Valley. Overton Mill still makes paper for many banknotes throughout the world. Laverstoke Mill at Whitchurch is still in use, but as a gin factory.

Is the Whitchurch stated above in Shropshire or the one in Hampshire?

Not wanting to come across as officious; but @DerekC mentions his venues being in the Test Valley: that would indicate Whitchurch, Hampshire -- located on that river -- would it not?

 

[DerekC]

Is the Whitchurch stated above in Shropshire or the one in Hampshire?

Not wanting to come across as officious; but @DerekC mentions his venues being in the Test Valley: that would indicate Whitchurch, Hampshire -- located on that river -- would it not?

It would, but nevertheless I should have been clear. I will edit the post.

 

[Calthrop]

Papermaking has long been an important industry in the Test Valley. Overton Mill still makes paper for many banknotes throughout the world. Laverstoke Mill at Whitchurch, Hampshire is still in use, but as a gin factory.

Guildford, Surrey, also holds an annual beer festival.

 

[DerekC]

Pontefract, like Guildford, was once the home of a mint for producing coin.

 

[Springs Branch]

Auchtermuchty in Fife also has a street named Bondgate.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Pittenweem was also created as a Royal Burgh by King James V, albeit later (1541) than Auchtermuchty (1517); both lost the status when the Royal Burghs were abolished in 1975.

 

[Calthrop]

Fishwives seem on the whole, to get a rather bad press; but there are songs set respectively in Pittenweem; and in Cullercoats (North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough) which in each case, give a favourable picture of at least one follower of that occupation.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Cullercoats Life Brigade House and Watchtower were designed by the Newcastle upon Tyne based architect Frank West Rich (1840 – 1929) between 1877 and 1879. He mainly worked in the Newcastle upon Tyne area and, in 1895, designed additions to
Chesters, an 18th Century country mansion situated adjacent to Hadrian's Wall and the Roman fort of Cilurnum at Humshaugh, Northumberland.

 

[Calthrop]

Humshaugh shares with Fourstones, a few miles to the south-west, the distinction of having been the venue of the first-ever fully-fledged Scout camp, in summer 1908; its location being between the two settlements. (An experimental "pilot" camp had been held the summer before, on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour.) These camps were of course presided over by Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the movement; who between the World Wars lived with his family at the house of Pax Hill, near Bentley, Hampshire.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Village was a TV series produced between 1993 and 2001 by ITV Meridian, presenting stories of the lives of villagers living in the Hampshire village of Bentley.

Another TV series, also called The Village, was made and broadcast by the BBC in 2013 and 2014.
This was based in Derbyshire and filmed, among other places, in the High Peak village of Hayfield.

 

[Calthrop]

Sheepdog trials take place annually near Hayfield. Another venue for regular sheepdog trials is Hawes, North Yorkshire.

 

[DerekC]

Hell Gill is in the parish of Hawes. Hell Lane, on the other hand, is in the parish of Symondsbury, Dorset.

 

[Calthrop]

Symondsbury has a long tradition of local mummers who, at the appropriate season, perform the old "mumming play" (Western versus Saracen champions, life-restoring doctor, etc.); and I understand that there is a folk song / tune called Symondsbury Mummers. A more-northerly counterpart is Droylsden, Greater Manchester -- with its song from way back, Droylsden Wakes: about the high jinks during the annual holiday ("Wakes") for industrial towns in times past.

 

[Springs Branch]

In the 1970s TV series I Didn't Know You Cared, elderly protagonist Uncle Mort had his nemesis in an interfering mother-in-law figure named Mrs Partington.

In order to to annoy Mrs Partington whilst in conversation, Uncle Mort would regularly confuse her surname with other settlements loosely in the orbit of Manchester. Among these deliberate misnomers were Mrs Droylsden and Mrs Wythenshawe.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The English actor and comedian Harry H Corbett OBE (1925 – 1982) was born in Rangoon, Burma, where his father was serving in the Army. He was brought up by his aunt, Annie Williams, in Ardwick, Manchester and later on in Wythenshawe and attended several Schools there. He died, aged 57, of a heart attack on 21st March 1982 in Hastings, East Sussex and is buried in the graveyard at St Michael the Archangel Church at Penhurst, East Sussex.

 

[Calthrop]

The English actor and comedian Harry H Corbett OBE (1925 – 1982) was born in Rangoon, Burma, where his father was serving in the Army. He was brought up by his aunt, Annie Williams, in Ardwick, Manchester and later on in Wythenshawe and attended several Schools there. He died, aged 57, of a heart attack on 21st March 1982 in Hastings, East Sussex and is buried in the graveyard at St Michael the Archangel Church at Penhurst, East Sussex.

I gather that in pretty well all respects (including the full title of the church), Penhurst comes as a package deal with neighbouring Ashburnham ("A. with / and P.") Ashburnham ("solo") has a namesake settlement in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Continuing to play a little fast-and-loose: the same applies to Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire (a little west of Aylesbury) -- there is a Winchendon (only), Massachusetts.