Settlement Association

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Certain towns would seem, by popular tradition, to be obsessed with a particular animal: in Great Dawley, it would appear to be the pig. Quoting Wiki (often hard to resist): "Traditionally, Dawley residents would show their support for the Dawley Prize Band or other civic marches by placing their pigs on their walls. [Live pigs? would they stay put there? who knows?] The pig also features in the local dialect, with a romantic phrase apparently being, 'I wudna swop thee for a big black pig' ".

Pig-consciousness features, usually to a lesser extent, in many British Isles settlement names: for instance Swinford (Co. Mayo) -- the name a fairly literal translation of the Irish-language one meaning "ford of the mouth of the pig".

 

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In 1855, the Sisters of Mercy established a presence in Swinford, building a convent near the parish church, and took over operations at the workhouse during the 1880s. In 1906 they established a primary school and a secondary school for girls in the town, and in 1916 they took over Brabazon estate house and converted it into a school. There are over 20 schools run by the Sisters of Mercy in the UK; another one is Maricourt Catholic High School, which is in the town and civil parish of Maghull, Merseyside.

 

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In 1855, the Sisters of Mercy established a presence in Swinford, building a convent near the parish church, and took over operations at the workhouse during the 1880s. In 1906 they established a primary school and a secondary school for girls in the town, and in 1916 they took over Brabazon estate house and converted it into a school. There are over 20 schools run by the Sisters of Mercy in the UK; another one is Maricourt Catholic High School, which is in the town and civil parish of Maghull, Merseyside.

Gargrave, North Yorkshire, also lies on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

 

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The A65 Leeds to Kendal Road passes through the village. There has been a long-running campaign to have a bypass built around the village, similar to the one which bypasses the village of Clapham, which is also in the Craven District of North Yorkshire.

 

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The botanist Reginald Farrer, who lived in and near Clapham, collected many plant species in high-mountain areas of Asia about a century ago. He specialised in rhododendrons: planted them in the Clapham area, where they still flourish in the woods above the village. Another "rhododendron paradise" is on the slopes of the Vale of Ffestiniog, south of Llanfrothen, Gwynedd.

 

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David Lloyd George, future Prime Minister, took on the Llanfrothen Burial Case when a young solicitor, successfully establishing the right for a Baptist to be buried in an Anglican churchyard with Baptist rites. Lloyd George, although a first language Welsh speaker, was born in Chorlton on Medlock, Manchester.

 

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Rivington in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Salford.

 

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Broadwas in Worcestershire also has a heritage-listed cruck barn.

 

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Beguildy in Powys also lies on the line of the River Teme.

 

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Knucklas is also in the LD7 Postcode District.

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Knucklas lies in the upper valley of the River Teme, which rises south of Newtown and flows southeast roughly forming the border between England and Wales for several miles through Knighton before becoming fully English in the vicinity of Bucknell, south Shropshire.

Knucklas lies on the B4355 road, which runs from the A483 at Dolfor to the A44 Kington Bypass.

 

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Knucklas lies in the upper valley of the River Teme, which rises south of Newtown and flows southeast roughly forming the border between England and Wales for several miles through Knighton before becoming fully English in the vicinity of Bucknell, south Shropshire.

The River Teme was used as an association a couple of postings ago.

 

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The River Teme was used as an association a couple of postings ago.

Apologies ... post now changed.

 

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Knucklas lies in the upper valley of the River Teme, which rises south of Newtown and flows southeast roughly forming the border between England and Wales for several miles through Knighton before becoming fully English in the vicinity of Bucknell, south Shropshire.

Knucklas lies on the B4355 road, which runs from the A483 at Dolfor to the A44 Kington Bypass.

Dolfor is close by the source of the River Mule (Welsh Miwl), which joins the Severn at Abermule.

 

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Abermule FC, who play at the Abermule Community Field in the centre of the village, has been part of the Montgomeryshire football scene since 1970 and enters its 50th year in 2020. The current team plays in the Est Division of the Mid Wales Football League; one of their opponents is Waterloo Rovers FC, who play at the Maes y Dre Recreation Ground, Welshpool.
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Another far-inland town with a seemingly incongruously-named Mermaid Inn; is Buxton.

 

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Edensor in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of High Park.

 

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St Peter's Church, Edensor is a Grade I listed parish church, and contains a pipe organ built by Bishop and Son which dates from 1873. Mr T H Mosley was the organist at St Peter's Church between 1929 and 1932; afterwards, he was the organist of All Saints Church, Bakewell, Derbyshire.

 

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Fascinating Wiki item about Bakewell: "In the early 14th century [the town's] vicar was terrorised by the Coterel gang, which evicted him and confiscated his church's money at the instigation of the canons of Lichfield Cathedral." Another medieval instance of chaps in Holy Orders getting mixed-up with stuff which they probably shouldn't have: was the Bishop of Winchester's having official powers to licence prostitutes and brothels in Southwark (south bank of the Thames opposite the City of London.)

 

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Sturminster Newton in Dorset also has a working watermill.

 

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Sturminster Newton is the home of the annual UK Boogie Woogie Festival. There is an annual Scottish Square Dance Festival which has at any rate, taken place in Aberdeen.

 

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James Clerk Maxwell FRSE FRS (1831 – 1879), who formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, held the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Marischal College, University of Aberdeen from 1856 to 1860. The James Clerk Maxwell building at the Waterloo campus of King's College, London commemorates his time as Professor of Natural Philosophy at King's from 1860 to 1865.

 

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In which county is the settlement called Waterloo?

 

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James Clerk Maxwell FRSE FRS (1831 – 1879), who formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, held the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Marischal College, University of Aberdeen from 1856 to 1860. The James Clerk Maxwell building at the Waterloo campus of King's College, London commemorates his time as Professor of Natural Philosophy at King's from 1860 to 1865.

In which county is the settlement called Waterloo?

I think the answer is given - London (strictly the London Borough of Lambeth). I have walked past the James Clerk Maxwell building many times.

Blenheim in Oxfordshire is also named after a battle.

 

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I think the answer is given - London (strictly the London Borough of Lambeth). I have walked past the James Clerk Maxwell building many time

Thanks for the clarification. It was just that I was searching for a district called Waterloo to make an association with rather than the actual borough it was part of and was not successful in that task.

 

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In which county is the settlement called Waterloo?

I think the answer is given - London (strictly the London Borough of Lambeth). I have walked past the James Clerk Maxwell building many times.

Blenheim in Oxfordshire is also named after a battle.

Thanks for the clarification. It was just that I was searching for a district called Waterloo to make an association with rather than the actual borough it was part of and was not successful in that task.

Thank you, folks, and I accept that I was stretching a point about Waterloo being a settlement in it's own right.

Moving on .... Sir Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace; his first parliamentary constituency (between 1899 and 1906) was at Oldham in Lancashire.

 

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A little before the Industrial Revolution, when cotton-spinning mightily took off in Oldham: the town was a big centre for hat-making. That trade has also been prominent in Atherstone, Warwickshire.

 

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The Atherstone Ball Game is a "medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday in Atherstone. The game honours a match played between Leicestershire and Warwickshire in 1199, when teams used a bag of gold as a ball, and which was won by Warwickshire. At one time similar events were held in many towns throughout England, but Atherstone's is now one of at last three such games that are still played each year at Shrovetide, the others being the Royal Shrovetide Football match match held in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, and the Alnwick Shrovetide Football match in Alnwick, Northumberland.

 

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Ashbourne, Derbyshire: has a namesake town in Ireland (who knew? not me, till a few minutes ago) -- Ashbourne (Irish name, Cill Dheaglain), Co. Meath -- some 20km. out of Dublin, on the N2 road which runs north-north-west out of Dublin; ending at the Republic / N.I. border just south of Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone.