Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thornton in Lonsdale in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Ewcross Wapentake,

 

[Calthrop]

Thornton in Lonsdale, being near the border with Lancashire, has at times featured in ownership disputes between the two counties. The same applies to Earby, Lancashire (near Colne).

 

[Springs Branch]

Until the end of 2015, Earby was the location of the Yorkshire Dales Lead Mining Museum.

Following closure due to a funding cut, many of the museum's artefacts have been relocated to the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes, North Yorks.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Margaret's Church, Hawes is in a joint parish with three others in the area. One of these is St Matthew's Church, Stalling Busk, North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Agglethorpe in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Leyburn Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Agglethorpe is in the post code district DL8, as is Bedale.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wensley in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Ure.

 

[Springs Branch]

Holy Trinity Church at Wensley was used as the location for filming James & Helen Herriot's wedding in the 1970s TV series All Creatures Great and Small.

Another location frequently used in the original series was Mrs Pumphrey's stately home, filmed at the real-life Ellerton Abbey House in Richmond, North Yorks.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Marrick in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Richmond Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Marrick is on a network of named but unclassified minor roads. One of these leads to the hamlet of Fremington, which is on the B6270.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salton in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Rydale Wapentake.

 

[John Griffiths]

In 1685 Christopher Fowler was appointed vicar of Salton. He was succeeded by his son, Philip, Philip's son Christopher, and Christopher's nephew Christopher, who died (or any rate gave up the living) in 1836.

A similar case happened at Mayfield in East Sussex, where John Kirby became vicar of St Dunstan's in 1782, and was succeeded by his son, grandson, and great grandson, the last retiring in 1920.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

During the early 18th century, Mayfield became a centre for owling - smuggling wool for brandy and silk. Gabriel Tomkins was the leader of the local gang, and in 1721 he was chased from Burwash (archaically known as Burghersh), a rural village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex to Nutley, a village in the Wealden district of East Sussex and was then arrested. The gang had a reputation for not using violence and also applying their profits to the benefit of the local community, unlike many other such gangs.

 

[Calthrop]

The author and poet Rudyard Kipling lived for much of his life in Burwash. His unusual first name comes from that of the village of Rudyard, Staffordshire -- near Leek (Rudyard also famed for its picturesque artificial lake): his parents met in Rudyard, and named their firstborn after the village.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bowness-on- Windermere in Cumbria is also a lakeside settlement.

 

[Calthrop]

Situated in Bowness-on-Windermere is "The World of Beatrix Potter" attraction. Beatrix Potter in her youth, spent many family summer holidays at Dalguise (Perth and Kinross), before discovering the Lake District; with which she is so strongly associated.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kenmore in Perth and Kinross also lies on the line of the River Tay.

 

[Calthrop]

At Kenmore is the Scotttish Crannog Centre; an open-air museum dedicated to crannogs: artificial islands in bodies of water, as often created in the distant past. The Kenmore establishment has a lovingly recreated example of one of these structures. The same is true of the Irish National Heritage Park near Wexford; the "deal" there, being that the crannog is just one historical item among a variety of such.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harbledown in Kent was another settlement with a medieval leper hospital.

 

[Springs Branch]

One of the main thoroughfares in Harbledown is Church Hill.

There is also a street named Church Hill in Nether Kellet, near Carnforth in Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arkholme in Lancashire is another of the "Thankful Villages" where all men from the village sent off to fight in the Great War 1914-1918 returned safely at the end of that war.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Arkholme was also a doubly Thankful Village, as it did not loose any men in either World War. Literature in the church records that all the men of Langton Herring returned from both World Wars, making it the only village in Dorset to be so.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kingston Russell in Dorset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Uggescombe.

 

[Calthrop]

Wilmington, Devon (not to be confused with the better-known East Sussex Wilmington with its Long Man) also lies on the A35 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Membury in Devon was also once under the jurisdiction of the Axminster Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Thomas Wakley (1795-1862), surgeon, journalist, radical campaigner, MP for Finsbury and founder of the journal The Lancet was born in Membury. At the age of eleven he was sent away as a midshipman on a vessel bound for Calcutta, but on his return was discharged and sent to school at Wiveliscombe, Somerset.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiveliscombe lies quite near the eastern end of the B3227 road; near its western end is Langtree, Devon (near Great Torrington).

At the age of eleven he was sent away as a midshipman on a vessel bound for Calcutta, but on his return was discharged and sent to school at Wiveliscombe, Somerset.

Assuming that this was a boarding-school "deal": in view of what such establishments tended to be like a couple of hundred years ago -- one has to wonder which of the two experiences, was nastier for the poor lad.

 

[John Griffiths]

Darlington also has a pub called The Green Dragon.

 

[Calthrop]

Darlington also has a pub called The Green Dragon.

(So has Bywater in the hobbits' Shire; but we are of course restricted to the British, plus Channel, Isles ...)

Fishburn, County Durham, also lies on or at least very close to the River Skerne.

 

[John Griffiths]

I was excited to learn that Bert Draycott (d. 2017), several times the World Spoons Champion, was a Fishburn man and hoped to find other UK locations associated with prominent spoon players. Alas no, as the championship seems to have been thought up by Bert, and if any rivals seized the laurels temporarily, they did so without troubling the internet. Bearing that in mind...


Trimdon also lies on the B1278.