Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In my post 26,187; I meant to put in "bold", Dorchester -- but in error, did so (again) with Solfach. Please can we take this, as accordingly rectifying that post?

Huddersfield in West Yorkshire also has the site of an Iron Age hill fort in its environs.

 

[Springs Branch]

Huddersfield had a municipal trolleybus system which closed in 1968 - the same year that trolleybuses were discontinued in Belfast.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dundee also has historical links to the production of linen cloth.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bakewell in Derbyshire also lends its name to a traditional bakery item.

 

[Calthrop]

Bakewell has been a location for the popular and long-running TV programme The Great British Bake-Off. Many sessions of this programme have been filmed at Welford Park, near Welford, Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bedale in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Gregory.

 

[Calthrop]

Bedale is twinned with Azay-sur-Cher, in the French departement of Indre-et-Loire. Croston, Lancashire (near Chorley) is twinned with the similarly-named Azay-le-Rideau, in the same departement.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sollom in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Yarrow.

 

[Calthrop]

Sollom used to have a pub called the Ram's Head -- now an Indian restaurant, bearing another name. Dolton, Devon -- south-east of Great Torrington -- still has a Ram's Head pub.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frithelstock in Devon was also once under the jurisdiction of the Torrington Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The London Borough of Barnet also has a church dedicated to Saints Mary and Gregory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ridge in Hertfordshire was also once under jurisdiction of the Barnet Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Ridge in Hertfordshire was also once under jurisdiction of the Barnet Poor Law Union.

Pubs and churches, chubs and perches (to get piscine for a moment) -- among this game's most reliable standbys.

Ridge has a pub called the Old Guinea -- which looks as though it might be unique among British hostelry names. Looe, Cornwall, has however: a restaurant called the Golden Guinea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boscastle in Cornwall is also a settlement situated at the end of a steep-sided valley with a small harbour at its end.

 

[Calthrop]

Picturesque though Boscastle is; it would seem that not everyone has always been a fan of it. Visiting the place in the mid-16th century, the antiquary John Leland commented, "it is a very filthy town and ill kept". Deal, Kent, would appear to have made a similarly poor impression on more than one visitor over the centuries: Daniel Defoe for one, gave the town and its inhabitants a very "bad rap".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gunwalloe in Cornwall is another settlement that was noted for smuggling in past times.

 

[Calthrop]

The Conservative politician Vyvyan Adams (1900 -- 1951) died accidentally, swimming near Gunwalloe. At the time of his death he was M.P. for Darwen, Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quernmore in Lancashire is another settlement that had a Jubilee Tower erected to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Thirlmere Aqueduct, which transports a significant proportion of drinking water from the Lake District to Manchester, passes through Quernmore.

Along its route the aqueduct also passes through the Lancashire village of Wheelton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire also has a clock tower.

 

[341o2]

Stonehaven has an open air saltwater pool, as does Lymington

 

[Calthrop]

Dennis Wheatley, author of novels of the occult and / or thrillers, lived in Lymington for the latter part of his life. Lymington plays some part in his works: it is the boyhood home of his character Roger Brook -- a kind of Napoleonic-era James Bond. One of Wheatley's best-known black-magic-type novels is The Devil Rides Out; whose scary denouement takes place on Salisbury Plain -- near Tilshead, Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashton Common in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Whorwellsdown.

 

[Calthrop]

Ashton Common lies close by the A350 road. Situated on that road much further south, is Spetisbury, Dorset; a little way south of Blandford Forum.

 

[Springs Branch]

There are five different rivers in England named Stour. The reason for this recurrence is apparently not widely agreed.

Spetisbury lies along the course of Dorset's manifestation of the Stour.
Kent's River Stour has two tributaries - the Great Stour and Little Stour, which converge at the village of Plucks Gutter.

 

[Calthrop]

Kent's River Stour has two tributaries - the Great Stour and Little Stour, which converge at the village of Plucks Gutter.

A former ferry cottage at the above-bolded settlement: is, "fictionalised", the setting of The House at Plucks Gutter -- which was the last-published (1963) novel by "Manning Coles" -- the pseudonym adopted by the joint-and-collaborative authors Adelaide Manning and Cyril Henry Coles: who were neighbours in East Meon, Hampshire, and collaborated on many novels -- largely but not exclusively, of the spy-thriller genre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woking in Surrey also has Bronze Age burial barrows within its environs.

 

[DerekC]

The Martians landed near HG Wells' home in Woking, according to his novel "War of the Worlds". Wells seems to have been deeply influenced, at least in terms of his social attitudes, by two summers spent at Uppark, near South Harting in Sussex, where his mother was housekeeper. He suggested where he thought the upper class/servant class division would lead in his novel "The Time Machine".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Binbrook in Lincolnshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary and St Gabriel.

 

[Calthrop]

There was once near Binbrook: another village, disappeared centuries ago -- said former settlement named Orford. In a similar phenomenon some forty miles to the north, on the other side of the Humber; there was near Wharram-le-Street, North Yorkshire, the "vanished village" of Wharram Percy.