Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arundel in West Sussex was also the scene of a military action during the English 1135-1154 civil war known as The Anarchy.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The British film, stage, and television actress Judy Geeson was born in Arundel on 10th September 1948. She is well known for her part in The Eagle Has Landed, the film about the alleged plot to kill Winston Churchill in 1943. She played Pamela Verecker, the sister of the Vicar, Philip Verecker, played by John Standing. The majority of the film, set in the fictional village of Studley Constable, was filmed at Mapledurham in Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bowers Gifford in Essex also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiki to the rescue: it tells us that in the 13th century William Giffard -- Bowers Gifford's local magnate -- is recorded as holding 100 acres of land in that community "by the Sergeancy of making the King's lard or bacon, whenever he should be in England". There is an association with the same commodity, further north in Essex at Great Dunmow: with its custom of awarding a flitch of bacon to the reckoned-most-happily-married couple.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Hadham in Hertfordshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Stane Street.

 

[Calthrop]

Little Hadham is located on the River Ash; a tributary of the River Lea. The Ash rises near Brent Pelham, Hertfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Shoebury in Essex also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[Springs Branch]

North Shoebury was formerly known as Shoebury Parva (Parva being Latin for "Little")

Another settlement which has retained the latinicised suffix is the Leicestershire village of Ashby Parva.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Markfield in Leicestershire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Guthlaxton.

 

[Calthrop]

Close by Markfield, is the Hill Hole Nature Reserve. Coincidentally name-wise, there is at Barnack (Cambridgeshire), some 35 miles to the east, the -- rather more "up-market" in natural-history terms (it's a National Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest) -- Hills and Holes Reserve. Both reserves are on the site of former stone quarries; their interest is principally botanical.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uffington in Lincolnshire was also once under the administrative area of the Soke of Peterborough.

 

[Calthrop]

Uffington in Lincolnshire was also once under the administrative area of the Soke of Peterborough.

England has three Uffingtons: the above-bolded one; the best-known of the three -- with the white-horse figure carved in the chalk hillside -- in Oxfordshire; and Uffington, Shropshire -- just east of Shrewsbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bolton Abbey in North Yorkshire is also a settlement where the ruins of an Augustinian monastery can be seen.

 

[Calthrop]

West Burton, North Yorkshire, also lies on the B6160 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prestbury in Cheshire East is another settlement where ancient stocks can still be seen in the centre of the village.

 

[Calthrop]

Prestbury in Cheshire East is another settlement where ancient stocks can still be seen in the centre of the village.

Macclesfield a short way to the south, has also been important in England's silk industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wildboarclough in Cheshire East was also once under the jurisdiction of the Macclesfield Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

From the summit of Shutlingsloe, near Wildboarclough, you can see the Worcestershire Beacon near Great Malvern.

 

[Springs Branch]

Builth Well in Powys is another spa town, where people would once go to "take the waters".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanwrtyd Wells in Powys also lies on the line of the River Irfon.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanwrtyd Wells claims to be the smallest town (formally / officially) in Wales. Another Welsh settlement -- St. David's, Pembrokeshire -- claims to be the smallest city in the UK. One has the picture, that there are various rival claimants in both cases.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Asaph in Denbighshire is also a Welsh cathedral city with a small area population.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

George Henry Powell was born on 27th April 1880 in St Asaph and died on 3rd December 1951 in Hove, East Sussex.

Never heard of him? Well, you've definitely heard of (and possibly sang) his most famous composition. He was a Welsh songwriter who, under the pseudonym George Asaf, wrote the lyrics of the marching song "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag" in 1915. The music was written by his brother Felix Powell, and the song was entered into a First World War competition for "best morale-building song". It won first prize and was noted as "perhaps the most optimistic song ever written". Although Felix Powell was a Staff Sergeant in the British Army, George Powell was a pacifist, and became a conscientious objector when conscription was imposed in 1916.

 

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Hove had an early trolleybus demonstration, a line was constructed in London Rd 1913, while Colindale London, likewise had a demonstration line within the confines of the tram depot 1909.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hendon in the Borough of Brent also lies on the line of the waterway known as Silk Stream.

 

[Calthrop]

Hendon has an Irish pub called the Claddagh Ring; right next to which there is posted-up -- as though the genuine article; potential source of confusion, one would feel -- a facsimile Irish road-traffic-direction sign, showing 9 miles to Athenry, and 3-and-a-half miles to Monivea (both in Co. Galway; both names shown in English- and Irish-language versions). (I once had a work colleague who came from Monivea.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tullamore in County Offaly also has a team that is a full member of the Irish Rugby Football Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Bushmills, Co. Antrim, also gives its name to a brand of whiskey distilled there. (At Tullamore, it's Tullamore Dew or D.E.W.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portballintrae in County Antrim also lies on the line of the waterway known as Saint Columb's Rill.

 

[Calthrop]

After the Spanish Armada's failure in 1588, the galleon Girona was wrecked off Portballintrae; not quite 400 years later, divers recovered an impressive amount of treasure from her. There have been rumours since Armada-time, of a similarly ill-fated galleon's having sunk in the harbour of Tobermory, Mull; but even supposing this to be true, no significant amount of treasure has ever been thus found in that location.