EbbwJunction1
Established Member
The village of Killin has a small primary school with 56 pupils. For secondary education, pupils travel to the town of Callander, which is 21 miles to the south.
-
Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
Settlement Association
- Thread starter Ivo
- Start date
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R
RailUK Forums
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Deanston in the Stirling Council Area also lies on the line of the River Teith.
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
Deanston is the birthplace of pioneering documentary maker John Grierson, after whom a street in the village is named. Probably the most famous and well-known of his works is Night Mail, the 1936 British documentary film directed and produced by Harry Watt and Basil Wright and produced by the GPO Film Unit. The 24-minute film documents the nightly postal train operated by the LMS from London to Glasgow and the staff who operate it. It is narrated by John Grierson and Stuart Legg, the film ends with a "verse commentary" written by W H Auden to a score by the composer Benjamin Britten. John Grierson died on 19th February 1972 in Bath, aged 73; he was cremated according to his wishes and his urn was placed in the sea off the Old Head in Kinsale, County Cork.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Leenane in County Galway also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as The Wild Atlantic Way.
Seaweed baths as a thing "on sale to the public" -- rather than the gear for doing the business in one's home -- would seem to be an Irish speciality. They are to be had in Leenane; and at sundry other seaside places in Ireland, including Newcastle, Co. Down.
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
There are five RNLI stations in County Down; one of these is at Newcastle, and another at Kilkeel.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Kingask St Andrews in Fife also holds Lammas Day celebrations.
Springs Branch
Established Member
A bit of internet searching, trying to find the elusive Kingask St Andrews leads me to the conclusion that the surviving Lammas Day Fair actually takes place in the university town of St Andrews (where William met Kate - how romantic!), and Kingask St Andrews is the name of an estate agent business trading there (whose website happens to have a page promoting the Lammas Fair).
Brancaster in Norfolk also has a coastal "links" golf course.
Brancaster in Norfolk also has a coastal "links" golf course.
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
The wreck that can be seen off the harbour at Brancaster is the 1,021 ton coaster SS Vina, which was built at Leith by Ramage & Ferguson in 1894 and registered at Grangemouth. She was a coast-hugging general cargo ship which would have worked the crossings between the east coast of England and through to the Baltic states. During the Second World War, she was requisitioned as a naval vessel for wartime use as a blockship at Great Yarmouth and was later towed up the east coast towards Brancaster where she was used as a target for the RAF before the planned invasion of Normandy in 1944.
Springs Branch
Established Member
Kilbirnie in North Ayrshire also has an active place of worship known locally as the Auld Kirk.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Arrington in Cambridgeshire also lies of the route of the Roman road known as Fosse Way.
The next village to Arrington -- about a mile to the west -- is Croydon (population 235 !). Lucker, Northumberland (near Seahouses) is in rather similar case: one of its neighbouring villages, a little further away than with the Cambridgeshire pair, is likewise a namesake of an immensely bigger settlement: viz. Bradford.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Whitby also has a church that is dedicated to St Hilda.
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
Whitby Town FC, formed in 1892, is a semi-professional club which plays in the Northern Premier League; their home ground is the Turnbull Ground on Upgang Lane, Whitby. Their nearest opponents are Scarborough Athletic FC, but their furthest opponents are probably Stafford Rangers FC, who play at Marston Road, Stafford.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Chebsey in Staffordshire was also once administered by the South Division of the Hundred of Pirehill.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Greenfield in Flintshire also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
DerekC
Established Member
Sittingbourne's football team is known locally as "The Brickies", an affectionate name also used in Swanmore, Hampshire for the local pub, the Brickmakers Arms.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Gloucester also has a church that is dedicated to St Barnabas.
D6130
Established Member
Ironbridge in Shropshire also lies on the River Severn.
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
A famous (depending on your interpretation of the word, of course) resident of Ironbridge is Roger Squires, a retired British crossword compiler / setter who is best known for being the world's most prolific compiler. He compiled under the pseudonym Rufus in The Guardian, Dante in The Financial Times and was the Monday setter for the Daily Telegraph. He was born on 22nd February 1932 in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Bilston, historically in Staffordshire, was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wolverhampton Poor Law Union.
The painter William Harold Dudley (1890 -- 1949) was born in Bilston. I'm a Philistine; but get the idea that arty types are very fond of Cornwall -- we learn that Dudley's style was similar to that of the "plein-air" painters of the Newlyn school.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Whitehills in Aberdeenshire also has a Fishermen's Memorial.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Rosehearty on the Moray Firth coast is another settlement that was created a Burgh of Barony.