Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Ireland's smallest museum, the Nora Barnacle House Museum, is in Galway. Nora Barnacle, who was born and grew up in Galway, was the lifelong "significant other", and ultimately wife: of the author, poet and literary critic James Joyce (1882 -- 1941). For a while in Joyce's youth: he, with parents and siblings, lived in Bray, Co. Wicklow.

 

[341o2]

There is (or was) another James Joyce, of whom I can find no details, save that he wrote Trolleybus Trails in the 1960s and requested that all proceeds from sales of the book be donated to the tram museum at Crich

 

[D6130]

Beamish in Co. Durham also has an open air museum which incorporates a working electric tramway.

 

[DerekC]

Beamish has a pub called the Shepherd and Shepherdess. Another pub with ovine connections is the Shepherd and Flock at Farnham, Surrey This is unusual for being in the centre of a roundabout, where it caused problems with the game "sign cricket" once played by my children on journeys in the back of my car. It has a very large number of legs and is always on the right of the car whichever way you are going!

 

[Calthrop]

Beamish has a pub called the Shepherd and Shepherdess. Another pub with ovine connections is the Shepherd and Flock at Farnham, Surrey

Born at Farnham in 1740 was the clergyman Augustus Montague Toplady; most famous for writing the hymn Rock of Ages, allegedly inspired by his sheltering from a storm in a natural fissure in the Mendip Hills near Burrington, Somerset.

 

[Calthrop]

This is unusual for being in the centre of a roundabout, where it caused problems with the game "sign cricket" once played by my children on journeys in the back of my car. It has a very large number of legs and is always on the right of the car whichever way you are going!

I like the suggested ultimate entry for that game: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves All on Horseback.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Born at Farnham in 1740 was the clergyman Augustus Montague Toplady; most famous for writing the hymn Rock of Ages, allegedly inspired by his sheltering from a storm in a natural fissure in the Mendip Hills near Burrington, Somerset.

Berrow in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Brent-cum-Wrington.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of St Mary, Berrow, dates from the 13th century and was restored in the 19th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The tower contains a bell dating from 1801 and made by Thomas and James Bilbie of the Bilbie family, who were bell founders and clockmakers from the late 17th century to the early 19th century. They were based initially in Chew Stoke, Somerset and later at Cullompton, Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Normandy in Surrey also has the site of a Romano-British temple within its environs.

 

[341o2]

And on the subject of place names being virtually the same, there is Normanby Redcar and Cleveland

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Normanby Hall Cricket Club play alongside Normanby Hall at Cricket Lane, Normanby. They are members of the North Yorkshire and South Durham Premier League Division One. It seems that their first team aren't playing tomorrow, although their second team are at home to Shildon Railway CC second team; their home ground is Hackworth Road, Shildon, County Durham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tonypandy in Rhondda Cynon Taf is another settlement that saw industrial action incidents in the early years of the 20th century.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The name Tonypandy means fulling mill lea, from the Welsh ton (archaic tonnau) for lea, layland, pasture, grassland or unploughed land; pannu for fulling and tŷ for house (cf. pandy). Another place with the same meaning is the village of Tonna in the Neath Valleys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colchester in Essex also has a church that is dedicated to St Anne.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The River Colne passes through Colchester and runs through Essex. It is not a tributary of any other river, instead having an estuary that joins the sea near Brightlingsea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight also has a sailing club.

 

[Calthrop]

The Southern Vectis bus undertaking operate, in the more "summery" part of the year, an open-topped-bus route called the "Needles Breezer"; running a circuit based on Yarmouth, running via Freshwater Bay and Totland, and up to the Needles Battery overlooking the sea-girt rocks of that name, and back. This route has a counterpart in a more easterly area of the island: a scenic circuit based on Ryde, called the "Downs Breezer".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has a bus museum.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a Manchester Lake in Canada. There is another Canadian lake; which bears the same name as Baldock, Hertfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bygrave in Hertfordshire was also once administered by the Hitchin Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Bygrave's church has carvings of the board for the ancient game of Nine Men's Morris, on the frames of the chancel windows. There is also a N.M.M. board carved into the base of a pillar in Chester Cathedral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seaford in East Sussex also has an officially appointed Town Crier.

 

[Calthrop]

Some centuries ago, the people of Seaford had some notoriety for their eagerness to loot the cargoes of ships wrecked in the adjacent bay. The same applied to the folk of settlements along the rugged Atlantic coast of Devon and Cornwall south from Hartland Point; including Morwenstow, whose parish is the furthest north in Cornwall. (It is generally reckoned that the thing about such coastal dwellers showing at night false lights to lure ships to their doom on the rocks, is essentially a calumny; enough ships came to grief on the coasts, owing to perfectly genuine mishaps.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Juliot in Cornwall also has a holy well.

 

[Calthrop]

Thomas Hardy was an architect, as well as a novelist and poet. Commissioned in 1870 to restore the parish church of St. Juliot, he met there his first wife Emma; they were married for 38 years, until her death. Hardy also worked on All Saints' parish church at Windsor, Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woburn in Bedfordshire also has a safari park.

 

[Calthrop]

The long-distance path the Greensand Ridge Walk runs through Woburn village. Its north-eastern terminus is at Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Eversden in Cambridgeshire was also was administered by the Hundred of Longstow.

 

[DerekC]

Great Eversden possesses a "Holbein Farm" which seems a curious name. Even stranger, the only other one that comes up on Google is a few miles away at Hatley St George, Cambridgeshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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