Settlement Association

[NorthOxonian]

Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire is also within the Paisley postcode area.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The main annual event in the village calendar is the celebration of Lilias Day, on the first Saturday of June, during which hundreds of visitors come to Kilbarchan to watch the parade and join in the festivities. Habbie Simpson is one of the main focuses of the celebration of Lilias day, during which he "comes to life" from his statue on the steeple, the statue being covered by a flag for the day. He was the town piper and is today chiefly known as the subject of the poem the Lament for Habbie Simpson (also known as The life and death of the piper of Kilbarchan). Inhabitants of Kilbarchan are informally known as "Habbies" to this day. The poem was written by Robert Sempill the Younger, and was widely used by Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson in their poems.Kilbarchan's Steeple Building has an exterior niche which contains a statue of Simpson. The original statue was carved in wood by Archibald Robertson of Greenock and placed in the niche in 1822. The current statue, dating from 1932, is made of bronze and it replaced the original statue.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peterhead in Aberdeenshire was another of the Scottish whaling ports.

 

[D6130]

Parkhurst, near Newport on the Isle of Wight, also has a high-security prison.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shanklin on the Isle of Wight also lies on the route of the A3020 road.

 

[Calthrop]

For me, the IOW means first and foremost, the island's rather shy and retiring red squirrels. Shanklin Chine, leading from the town down to the sea, is supposed to be a good place for spotting them; though I've never seen any there. There's a more hopeful location for encountering the beasties, close to nearby Sandown.

 

[D6130]

Chessington in Surrey also has a zoo.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Teddington in the London Borough of Richmond was also once under the jurisdiction of the Kingston Poor Law Union.

 

[D6130]

Teddington Lock is the highest point on the River Thames reached by the tides. The tidal head of the River Severn is at Maismore, just North of Gloucester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Washbourne in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Tewkesbury.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Great Washbourne is on a named but unclassified road (unsurprisingly, Beckford Road) which leads to the village of Beckford.

 

[John Griffiths]

Kemerton, since 1931 part of Worcestershire but previously in Gloucestershire, is also a village which includes part of Bredon Hill within its parish boundaries.

 

[341o2]

Bredon Hill is the subject of one of A E Housman's poems under the title of A Shropshire Lad as is Ludlow (The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair)

 

[John Griffiths]

Alnwick was also a town whose urban morphology was the subject of investigation by the historical geographer M R G Conzen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashbourne in Derbyshire also has an annual Shrovetide town football match.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Tissington Trail, a bridleway, footpath and cycleway, runs between Ashbourne and the Derbyshire village of Parsley Hay.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crowdecote on the borders of Derbyshire and Staffordshire also lies on the route of the Parsley Hay Circular Walk.

 

[D6130]

Widdop, between Hebden Bridge (West Yorkshire) and Trawden (Lancashire), also has a pub called the Pack Horse Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wycoller in Lancashire situated on the old cross-Pennine road has an ancient pack horse bridge.

 

[Springs Branch]

Actress Penelope Keith lived for a period in Beckside House at Wycoller.
More recently she has lived in the Surrey village of Milford, near Godalming.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontrobert in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[Springs Branch]

Pontrobert is along the course of the River Vyrnwy.
The Vyrnwy eventually discharges into the River Severn at the Shropshire village of Melverley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandwick in Orkney also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ness United FC plays some of their home matches at Sandwick. In 2019 they retained the Shetland FA County Shield, beating the Shetland team Delting 4-1.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Delting is a civil parish and community council area on Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. It includes the Sullom Voe oil terminal and its main settlements are Brae, Mossbank and Voe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eyemouth in Berwickshire is another settlement that lost many of its fishermen in a fishing disaster.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Captain Sir Samuel Brown of Netherbyres KH FRSE (1776 – 1852) was an early pioneer of chain design and manufacture. In 1812 he established a company (known as Samuel Brown & Co and also Brown Lenox & Co) with his cousin Samuel Lenox, based initially at Millwall in east London and from 1816 at a larger works (a nail works previously operated by William Crawshay Brown), establishing the Newbridge Chain & Anchor Works (Pontypridd) at Ynysangharad, Pontypridd, South Wales. In 1827, Brown purchased Netherbyres, a country house near Eyemouth, where he had the existing house demolished and a new house built.

 

[Calthrop]

Bredon Hill is the subject of one of A E Housman's poems under the title of A Shropshire Lad as is Ludlow (The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair)

Captain Sir Samuel Brown of Netherbyres KH FRSE (1776 – 1852) was an early pioneer of chain design and manufacture. In 1812 he established a company (known as Samuel Brown & Co and also Brown Lenox & Co) with his cousin Samuel Lenox, based initially at Millwall in east London and from 1816 at a larger works (a nail works previously operated by William Crawshay Brown), establishing the Newbridge Chain & Anchor Works (Pontypridd) at Ynysangharad, Pontypridd, South Wales. In 1827, Brown purchased Netherbyres, a country house near Eyemouth, where he had the existing house demolished and a new house built.

A.E. (Shropshire Lad) Housman and his verse -- I having mentioned same quite recently on this game; including (usually good-humoured) mockery of its misery-fest qualities, by some of his contemporary versifiers ... one such -- which I greatly like -- offers an association opportunity, via the name of Pontypridd. By E.V. Knox, titled The Everlasting Percy (a "cog" on Housman's Everlasting Mercy). The "Percy" of the title -- given the role of first-person narrator of the poem -- is a young chap who is very ashamed and repentant about some years on his part, of -- really very mild and doing-little-harm -- misbehaviour in the course of travelling on passenger trains: much of the humour comes from his breast-beating about same, appropriate to truly hideous crimes worthy of life imprisonment or yet-greater severity. Near the end of the poem, we read:

"And, last and worst of all I've done,
I threw a great sultana bun
Out of the train at Pontypridd --
It hit a platelayer, it did."

By great good fortune, Percy is dealt with leniently over this hideous offence; and turns over a new leaf. Another bad deed during his time of wickedness -- re which he accordingly beats himself up -- involves a frivolously pulled communication cord at Whissendine, Rutland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nottingham also has a working windmill.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Nottingham is famously associated with the story of Robin Hood, and there have been many film over the years telling the story in several different ways. One of these was Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in 1991, starring Kevin Costner as the hero. Principal exteriors were shot on location in the United Kingdom; one of these was Wardour Castle, a ruined 14th-century castle at Wardour in Wiltshire, which stood in for Locksley Castle, the family home of our hero - it was restored in an early shot using a matte painting.