Settlement Association

[Future]

Bossington is in the Post Town of Minehead, which has a heritage railway (WSR). Totnes, Devon, also has a heritage railway (SDR)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pickering in North Yorkshire also has a castle site that is administered by English Heritage.

 

[Calthrop]

Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan, also has a church with impressive surviving medieval wall paintings.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trevethin in Monmouthshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Cadoc.

 

[Calthrop]

Ware, Hertfordshire, also has a shell grotto.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire also lies on the River Lea.

 

[Calthrop]

Ainderby Steeple, North Yorkshire (near Northallerton) also has a church dedicated to St. Helen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yafforth in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Northallerton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Yafforth used to have (closed late 1990s) a pub called the Reveller -- after a 19th-century racehorse, it appears. Donegal town, Co. Donegal, still has an establishment for the purpose, called the Reveller Bar -- horses presumably not involved .

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballynasaggart in County Tyrone was also chosen as a site in which to establish a Franciscan priory.

 

[Calthrop]

Ballynasaggart in County Tyrone was also chosen as a site in which to establish a Franciscan priory.

This would seem a bit of a difficult one: Ballynasaggart would appear to be one of the "non-settlements" characteristic of Ireland -- one of the various outlying parts of the village of Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone. Hoping that it's acceptable to construe Ballygawley as the operative settlement; our friend St. Ciaran, mentioned only recently -- Ballygawley has a church dedicated to him. There is a church with the same dedicatee, at Achnacarry, Highland -- north-east of Fort William.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Torlundy in the Highland region is another settlement area where the Clan Cameron built a castle.

 

[Calthrop]

Another tough one ! The publicity undertaking "Days Out With The Kids", puts up on the Net, 55 Fun Things to do in Torlundy -- the "in" being an exercise in very-liberal interpretation, with attractions over a huge geographical radius. One of the geographically closer ones, is "The Ice Factor" in Kinlochleven: which has among other things an indoor ice wall, a beginners' climbing wall, and an aerial assault course. Not dissimilar sources of athletic / acrobatic fun, are the woodland "Go Ape" features at many places in the country; there is one near Bracknell, Berkshire (whose course I have attempted, not very successfully).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Basildon in Essex was also designated as a New Town in 1949.

 

[Calthrop]

Basildon has had since 2010 -- quoting Wiki, "a miniature famous white 'Hollywood' sign, reading 'Basildon'; at 5 feet tall, the new sign is one-ninth the height of the Hollywood original. Part of a plan of landscaping and infrastructure 'improvements' ... opponents from all parties believe that the spending could have been directed towards social problems." Birmingham has a civic "white elephant" of a different kind: the city's monumental new central library (which looks to me hideous -- as though wreathed in barbed wire) -- opened to great fanfare in 2013: has proved poorly patronised -- staff numbers and opening hours have been much reduced.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nottingham is also another Midlands settlement with a modern tramway system.

 

[Calthrop]

Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (one of many acclaimed works of fiction, which I fear I find untackle-able) was born in Nottingham. She studied at St. Hilda's College, Oxford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[Calthrop]

Buxton was the general location of the "radio ballad" by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, commemorating John Axon -- railwayman who died doing his job. A similar work by this duo -- Singing the Fishing -- honoured Sam Larner, fisherman of Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk -- north of Great Yarmouth.

 

[DerekC]

There is a theory that Winterton was founded by farmers from East Somerton, Norfolk. who spent the summer farming and the winter fishing - but it all sounds rather too convenient an explanation of the names.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a theory that Winterton was founded by farmers from East Somerton, Norfolk. who spent the summer farming and the winter fishing - but it all sounds rather too convenient an explanation of the names.

Indeed -- Norfolk people are by reputation too cussed to fall in with anything as "cut-and-dried" as that... the joint church of East and West Somerton, St. Mary's, is an example of the Norfolk speciality the round-tower church. Another church of that description in that county, is a -- once more -- St. Mary's: in Burnham Deepdale east of Hunstanton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Morston in Norfolk also lies on the route of the A149 road.

 

[341o2]

Morston was one a major port, but nowadays sees hardly any commercial traffic, likewise, Devoran, Cornwall, which was once the terminus for the Redruth & Chasewater Railway, it's last major customer switched allegiance to the Great Western Railway, so the R&C closed, as a consequence less than a year later, the last commercial ship with a cargo of coal arrived and sailed in ballast. the quays fell into disrepair and the shipping channel became silted up

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chacewater in Cornwall also lies on the line of the River Carnon.

 

[341o2]

"Chasewater" is how the R&C spelled Chacewater, Chasewater is a reservoir and country park, also with a heritage railway in Staffordshire, one of the nearest towns to it is Brownhills

I nearly mentioned the R&C in the "lines built but never used" thread, work was done on the Chasewater/Chacewater branch, but abandoned probably because the nines did not live up to their expectations

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wroxeter in Shropshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Watling Street.

 

[johnnychips]

Old Edlington, in South Yorkshire, also has a redundant parish church - St Peter’s as opposed to St Andrew’s in Wroxeter.

 

[DerekC]

Old Alresford in Hampshire is another example of a village, the main centre of which has migrated to a new site - in this case across the River Itchen to New Alresford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coombe Bissett in Wiltshire also has disused watercress beds.

 

[Calthrop]

Parracombe, North Devon, also has a pub called the Fox and Goose.