Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Kirkfieldbank's "child of note, literary-type" is Robert McLellan (1907 -- 1985): author and dramatist, writing in Scots. His Linmill Stories are set in the Kirkfieldbank area. He died at Corrie, Isle of Arran (North Ayrshire).

 

[Springs Branch]

The island of Arran is of great interest to "them 'as likes rocks" (also known as geologists). Amongst the rock formations in the vicinity of Corrie is Corrie Limestone, a Carboniferous Period basal member of the Lower Limestone succession of the Midland Valley of Scotland.

This limestone is found at many localities in central Scotland and has a variety of names. In the vicinity of Glasgow the rock is known as Hurlet Limestone, named after the village of Hurlet, bordering Renfrewshire and Glasgow.

 

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Hurlet (or The Hurlet) may have a limestone named after it, but there doesn't seem to be much there. It is a small semi-rural district and former mining village near the town of Barrhead in the Scottish Lowlands. However, during the late twentieth century, most of the Hurlet was consigned to the history books when the Paisley to East Kilbride road, which cut through the village, was widened to become a dual carriageway. To the northeast of The Hurlet, though (and named after a farm near there) is Roughmussel, now a neighbourhood in Glasgow.

 

[Calthrop]

Seemingly also with a "bivalve-themed" name is Oystermouth, West Glamorgan -- near Mumbles.

 

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The most notable grave in the churchyard of All Saints' Church, Oystermouth is that of the English doctor and editor Thomas Bowdler, who died in Swansea in 1825. He was an English physician known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler. They sought a version they saw as more appropriate than the original for 19th-century women and children. Thomas Bowdler was born in Box, near Bath, Somerset in 1754.

 

[Calthrop]

Hungerford in Berkshire is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Indre-et-Loire. Box's "twin" is Sorigny; Hungerford's, Ligueil.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Avoncliff in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the Kennet and Avon Canal.

 

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Avoncliff is the point at which the Kennet and Avon Canal crosses the river and railway line via the Avoncliff Aqueduct. This was built by John Rennie and chief engineer John Thomas between 1797 and 1801. John Rennie was the younger son of James Rennie, a farmer near the agricultural hamlet of Phantassie, near East Linton, East Lothian.

 

[Calthrop]

Back to Wiltshire: Netheravon in that county -- near Amesbury -- also has a notable dovecot; it, and Phantassie's, are accordingly preserved for future generations. The "dovecot-gricers" will tell us that the Netheravon structure is a typical eighteenth-century one, with a tiled pyramid-shaped roof with two dormers on the south side; whereas that at Phantasssie is of the "beehive" (round) variety, with an unusual parapet in the shape of a horseshoe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clayton-le-Moors in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Sparth House Hotel in Clayton, dating back in parts to the 14th century, contains furnishings from the White Star liner RMS Olympic, sister ship of RMS Titanic. "Interior decorations" and "various elements" from the Olympic, acquired after it was decommissioned and broken up in 1936, are also a feature of the Olympic Suite in the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick, Northumberland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Togstone in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Alnwick Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Longframlington, Northumberland; is also located on the B6345 road -- at the point where that road joins the A697.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Smith family became squires of Togston in the seventeenth century; in the mid eighteen th h a younger son of the then squire, Thomas Smith, was apprenticed to a Newcastle rope manufacturer. Thomas flourished in business and local politics, becoming a councillor, alderman, sheriff and twice mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne. He died in 1836 at Heaton Hall, in the Newcastle suburb of Heaton. [s/]

Zut slots, too wordy as usual.

 

[John Griffiths]

Many places have pubs named after the Marquess of Granby, such as Longframlington's Granby Inn. Another is The Granby in Whitby, North Riding of Yorkshire.

 

[Calthrop]

The Smith family became squires of Togston in the seventeenth century; in the mid eighteen th h a younger son of the then squire, Thomas Smith, was apprenticed to a Newcastle rope manufacturer. Thomas flourished in business and local politics, becoming a councillor, alderman, sheriff and twice mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne. He died in 1836 at Heaton Hall, in the Newcastle suburb of Heaton. [s/]

Zut slots, too wordy as usual.

More interesting than my "roads" stuff -- I'd wish if it were possible, for your offering to take the place of mine !

Many places have pubs named after the Marquess of Granby, such as Longframlington's Granby Inn. Another is The Granby in Whitby, North Riding of Yorkshire.

In addition to its many other attractions; Whitby, having been found to be endowed with chalybeate springs: tried for a time, not very successfully, to "make it" as a spa. A considerable number of places in Britain, finding this to be a natural feature of theirs: likewise attempted, generally again with little success, to get on this "bandwagon". Many of same were obscure settlements in comparison with Whitby: one such being Somersham, Cambridgeshire.

 

[DerekC]

Somersham shares with Somerton in Somerset both the similarity of name and the fact that both were briefly the county towns of their respective counties.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Babcary in Somerset also lies on the line of the River Cary.

 

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The Anglican Church of the Holy Cross, Babcary was built in the 14th century, and is a Grade II* listed building. In 1764 James Woodforde, the author of The Diary of a Country Parson, was the curate there. This was after he'd left Oxford University in 1763 and returned to Somerset where he worked as a curate, mostly for his father, for ten years. On his father's death in 1771, he failed to succeed to his parishes but, in 1776 he was presented to the living of All Saint's Church, Weston Longville in Norfolk, one of the best in the gift of New College, Oxford, being worth £400 a year. He took up residence at Weston in May 1776 and died there in 1803.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Darwen in Lancashire also has an equestrian centre.

 

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St Peter's Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) is in Bank Street, Darwen, and was built between 1827 and 1829 to a design by Thomas Rickman and Henry Hutchinson. St. Stephen's Church, Sneinton was also designed by Thomas Rickman, and dates from 1837.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Haywood in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Trent.

 

[D6130]

Shardlow in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the Trent & Mersey Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Faversham in Kent is another settlement where a Bronze Age log boat was discovered.

 

[D6130]

Tadcaster in North Yorkshire is also a noted brewing centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gowdall in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Selby Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Gowdall used to have -- until 2018 -- a pub called the Boot and Shoe Inn. Flintham (Nottinghamshire), between Newark and Bingham; still has a hostelry of that name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Painters Forstal in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Augustine of Canterbury.

 

[Calthrop]

Painters Forstal in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Augustine of Canterbury.

Is "Forstal" maybe a Kentish thing? Further south in that county, than Painters Forstal -- just south-east of Ashford -- is the hamlet of The Forstal; semi-contiguous with the village of Mersham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eastwell in Kent was also once under the jurisdiction of the East Ashford Poor Law Union.