Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

One of Upper Norwood's many celebrated residents was Joseph Paxton (1803-65), among other achievements designer of the Crystal Palace (which was moved to Upper Norwood after its stint in Hyde Park). He was born in the Bedfordshire village of Milton Bryan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sheep Lane, a hamlet in Bedfordshire, was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Manshead.

 

[Springs Branch]

Given the settlement's small size, there was a substantial Primitive Methodist congregation in Sheep Lane, with 60 attending an evening service at the time of an 1851 census. The Sheep Lane congregation was held in a private house registered for worship.

There was also a Primitive Methodist chapel (now converted to a private dwelling) in Norley, Cheshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Norley has a pub called the Tiger's Head. Mildenhall, Suffolk, once had one of the same name; but this hostelry is no more.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Framlingham Earl in Norfolk also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[John Griffiths]

Framingham Earl 's "beguilingly irregular" church of St Andrew has one of Norfolk's 124 round towers, as well as being the burial place of the author WG Sebald. Another round-towered church in the county is that of St Edmund at Acle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belaugh in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Bure.

 

[Calthrop]

Belaugh has a small "broad" = body of open water included in the river system of this area, the Norfolk Broads. Also in said area -- just off another of the area's rivers, the Yare -- is Rockland Broad, close by the village of Rockland St. Mary. Rockland Broad is navigable; Belaugh Broad is not.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Loddon in Norfolk also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Wherrymans's Way.

 

[John Griffiths]

Rockland St Mary was twice hit by V2 missiles during the Second World War, mercifully without causing any fatalities: on 4 October 1944, damaging the village school and injuring two adults and 34 children, and damaging 23 houses, and again on 11 October, damaging 14 houses. The first V2 to be fired at the UK had hit the London suburb of Chiswick he previous month, on 8 September, killing three civilians and an off-duty soldier. Details of this attack were censored, and it was given out that a gas explosion was responsible for the damage.

 

[Calthrop]

Loddon in Norfolk also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Wherrymans's Way.

This name is shared by a different kind of feature some 150 miles to the south-west: the River Loddon, running northward from near Basingstoke, to join the Thames. Sherfield on Loddon, Hampshire. lies on this river.

 

[John Griffiths]

Chobham in Surrey also has a pub called The Four Horseshoes.

 

[Calthrop]

Around Chobham in the 19th century, much peat was cut for fuel. Then and up to the present day or nearly: that substance was extracted on a commercial scale near -- among many other locations in the Republic of Ireland -- Castleisland, Co. Kerry (east of Tralee). Those particular peat operations have actually been around places wondrously named Ballymaceligott, and Lyracrumpane -- sadly, these would appear too tiny to give anything to latch on to, association-wise.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Currans in County Kerry also lies on the line of the River Maine.

 

[John Griffiths]

Taylorstown in Co Wexford also has a railway bridge that was damaged or destroyed during the Irish Civil War of 1922-23.

 

[Calthrop]

"Kicking the problem along the road", maybe -- aside from "doings in the heat of the moment" about a century ago: the only noteworthy thing about Taylorstown, Co. Wexford, that I can find -- is that it has an equally tiny namesake up north: Taylorstown, Co. Antrim; south-west of Ballymena, north of Lough Neagh, and seemingly never close enough to a railway line to put it in danger from folk therefrom.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Templepatrick in County Antrim also has a Presbyterian graveyard in its environs.

 

[Springs Branch]

Spennymoor Co. Durham is also located at latitude 54° 41' N.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newtongrange in Midothian also has a mining museum.

 

[John Griffiths]

Prestonpans, like Newtongrange, has a pub run on the Gothenburg system ('improved' pubs with food, pastimes, table service etc aimed discouraging heavy drinking).

 

[D6130]

The Battle of Prestonpans, on 21st September 1745, was the first significant engagement of the second Jacobite rebellion. The final battle of the rebellion took place on Culloden Moor, near Inverness, on 16th April 1746.

 

[John Griffiths]

Culloden has a church in a former barn; Kew in SW London has a church (St Philip & All Saints) constructed from timbers of a barn originally sited at Oxted in Surrey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coventry was also chosen as a settlement in which to establish a Carthusian religious house.

 

[Calthrop]

Dumbarton's coat of arms also features an elephant.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arklow in County Wicklow also has a maritime museum.

 

[D6130]

Vinegar Hill at Enniscorthy in Co. Wexford was also the site of a bloody battle during the insurrection of 1798.

 

[Calthrop]

The first successful powered flight between Great Britain and Ireland was made on 22nd April 1912, from Goodwick (Pembrokeshire) to Enniscorthy, by Denys Corbett Wilson flying a Bleriot XI. Somewhat later, was the first successful powered flight between Great Britain and the Isle of Man, actually "from terra firma to terra firma": January 1919, Hooton Park (Cheshire) to a meadow near Castletown, by Captain Elgie Jefferson in a Bristol Fighter.

 

[D6130]

Peel on the Isle of Man also has a medieval castle on the edge of the town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitby in North Yorkshire also has a traditional kipper smokehouse.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cruden Bay in Aberdeenshire was also a regular haunt of Bram Stoker.