Settlement Association

[D6130]

Helmsley in North Yorkshire also has a ruined castle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Havenstreet in the Isle of Wight also has a Bird of Prey centre.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a prominent landmark on a hill north of Havenstreet: a First World War shrine which a local landowner, John Willis Fleming, had built and consecrated -- actually during the later years of that war -- to honour the memory of his son, and that of all other men of the locality who had been killed in the war. The same man did identically, re time and purpose, with another such shrine, visually alike in all particulars -- this one at North Stoneham, Hampshire (near the modern Southampton Airport).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burnage in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[johnnychips]

Liam and Noel Gallagher of the band Oasis grew up in Burnage. Swindon has an Oasis leisure centre.

 

[John Griffiths]

Haverhill in Suffolk was also designated as an 'overspill' town to take surplus population from the London area.

 

[Calthrop]

Haverhill is one of several settlements in England which has a house of some centuries' antiquity, called "Anne of Cleves House"; from its having at least supposedly been given to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife, as part of his divorce settlement with her. (They liked each other fine, and stayed good friends; it was just the highly important "begetting" factor that was a problem.) Another settlement with an "AoCH" is Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Long Clawson in Leicestershire also has a dairy licensed to make Stilton cheese.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hethersett in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Remigius.

 

[Springs Branch]

The village of Hethersett has been a winner of the Big Society Award, an awards scheme set up by prime minister David Cameron in 2010 to recognise community work performed in the UK.

Another Big Society Award winner has been Gateway 97.8, a local community radio station located in Basildon Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bracknell in Berkshire was also designated as a New Town in 1949.

 

[Calthrop]

A suburb of Bracknell is Martins Heron (which seems rather often to show up in these Quizzes and Games). In the Harry Potter films, the scenes in Little Whinging in suburban Surrey (where Harry lives, reluctantly, with his odious relatives the Dursleys), were filmed in Martins Heron: which some fans regard as being actually, per "canon", a disguised version of Martins Heron. A real settlement which features in genuine Potter lore, endorsed by the author -- is Hampstead Garden Suburb, London Borough of Barnet: where Hermione Granger lives with her (non-magical) parents.

 

[John Griffiths]

Harold Wilson and Mary Wilson lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb (when not in No 10), but in the early 1940s they lived in Twickenham.

 

[Calthrop]

Twickenham has a pub called the Cabbage Patch. Ilford (London Borough of Redbridge) has -- or has had -- one called the Cauliflower.

 

[DerekC]

John Logie Baird, prolific inventor and the first person to demonstrate a system capable of transmitting moving images, worked at the Plessey site in Ilford during the 1920s. As well as the first television system, he invented a glass razor, thermal socks, air cushion soles for boots and many other things. He was born and is buried in Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute

 

[D6130]

Henry Bell, who operated the first commercial steamship - the Comet - lived for many years and died in Helensburgh. He is buried in the churchyard at the nearby village of Rhu.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Deganwy in Conwy County Borough also has a marina.

 

[Calthrop]

Icklingham, West Suffolk, also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prickwillow in Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the River Lark.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Owing to the high water table, church burials do not take place at Prickwillow, but at the more elevated settlement of Ely.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

White Notley in Essex also has a church that is dedicated to St Etheldreda.

 

[John Griffiths]

White Notley has a pub called The Cross Keys; the pub in Ancrum, Scottish Borders, is called The Ancrum Cross Keys.

I noticed it while my wife and I were in Ancrum just yesterday, hunting down an eleventh century hog-back tombstone (in the graveyard, not the pub).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lilliesleaf in the Scottish Borders also lies on the line of the waterway known as Ale Water.

 

[John Griffiths]

The popular Victorian novelist Mrs Oliphant wrote a book entitled Lilliesleaf; she also wrote a series of stories for Blackwood's Magazine (later published as a number of novels) under the umbrella title The Chronicles of Carlingford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sligo in County Sligo was also chosen as a site for a Dominican Friary.

 

[Calthrop]

In the events of 1798, a force of French troops plus Irish volunteers defeated one from the local contingent of British troops, at the battle of Collooney, aka of Carrignagat -- some eight miles south of Sligo. There is a street in Sligo named after one of the battle's principal Irish combatants, Bartholomew Teeling. (Incidentally, Collooney and Carrignagat were names of appreciable railway significance, in the days when this area was better endowed with railways than is now the case.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Torquay in Devon also has a church named Church of the Assumption.

 

[D6130]

Torquay was the setting for the fictional hotel in the TV comedy series 'Fawlty Towers' which starred John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth. Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bettystown in County Meath also hosts an annual sand sculpture exhibition.

 

[Calthrop]

Harking back to the game a few months ago -- it is reckoned that while the derivation of Bettystown's name, is uncertain; it's for pretty sure, nothing to do with anyone called Elizabeth. However -- north therefrom on the island of Ireland, is Helen's Bay, Co. Down -- also evocative of a female first name: and this one, from a real (aristocratic) Helen.