Settlement Association

[DerekC]

The Fleet River has its source in the ponds on Hampstead Heath. It flows (but only these days as a storm overflow) into the Thames at Blackfriars.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gravesend in Kent also lies on the line of the River Thames.

 

[Springs Branch]

Southampton is another coastal settlement which was attacked by the French navy and allies during the Hundred Years' War.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsall in West Midlands also has a Sikh temple.

 

[Springs Branch]

Walsall was home to one of the last trolleybus systems in the UK, closing in 1970.

The last British trolleybus system of all, closing in 1972, was in Bradford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birstall in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Morley Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Near Birstall is Oakwell Hall, an Elizabethan manor house which was the model for "Fieldhead" in Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley. Near Haworth, West Yorkshire, is the now ruined farmhouse Top Withens: the model for her sister Emily's venue of Wuthering Heights in the novel of that name.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth was built between 1879 and 1881 and is best known for its historic association with the Bronte sisters, whose father Patrick Bronte served as minister of the parish between 1820 and 1861. His first clerical appointment was as a curate at Whethersfield, near Braintree in Essex, where he was ordained a deacon of the Church of England in 1806, and into the priesthood in 1807.

 

[Calthrop]

St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth was built between 1879 and 1881 and is best known for its historic association with the Bronte sisters, whose father Patrick Bronte served as minister of the parish between 1820 and 1861. His first clerical appointment was as a curate at Whethersfield, near Braintree in Essex, where he was ordained a deacon of the Church of England in 1806, and into the priesthood in 1807.

Minor niggle -- I believe it's Wethersfield (no "h"): another clergyman of some note; who was born there: was John West (not the fish-canner !), 1778 -- 1845: who did a brief but energetic stint, 1820 -- 23, as a missionary in wild "outback" parts of Canada. Back in England, he was rector at Chettle, Dorset (north-east of Blandford Forum); where he died and is buried.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Chettle House is the village manor and is a red brick Baroque mansion designed by Thomas Archer during the reign of Queen Anne. Thomas Archer's secular works include a Baroque garden pavilion for Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent at Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedfordshire.

PS: My spelling mistake in post 27, 697!

 

[Calthrop]

Silsoe has in its time had many pubs (now down to one). One of the defunct ones was "The Battle of Alma" alias "The Mouse's Hole". Concerning rodent-related pub names: in relatively recent times, there has been a chain of pubs in Britain all bearing the gimmick name "The Rat and Parrot". The last survivor of these -- now closed -- was in Crawley, Sussex.

 

[341o2]

In the 1970's Crawley ran a competition to name its buses, the winner was "Crawline", other suggestions including Creepy Crawlies and Bionic Buses were not chosen (can't understand why).
In Oxford the Girl Guides were the winners of a recent Brand A Bus competition

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boscombe in Dorset also has a church dedicated to Corpus Christi.

 

[Calthrop]

Am aware that I've "been here before" in this game ... but -- a currently often found form of sardonic humour in Britain, is the nicknaming of various settlements in the land which are seen as somewhat down-market and, often, characterised by sub-optimal behaviour on the part of dwellers there: as " **** Vegas" -- an ironic allusion to Las Vegas, Nevada, with its combination of being a genuinely glamorous location which very many people are truly keen to visit; and of all kinds of skulduggery going on there. Boscombe is rather notorious nowadays as a venue for much drug use and dealing and the associated bad stuff: has acquired the nickname "Bos Vegas". Skegness, Lincolnshire -- which, however bracing, is an insalubrious place in some ways -- similarly gets called "Skeg Vegas".

 

[Calthrop]

In the 1970's Crawley ran a competition to name its buses, the winner was "Crawline", other suggestions including Creepy Crawlies and Bionic Buses were not chosen (can't understand why).

The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway tended not to be very imaginative in its locomotive-naming: relying heavily on the names of places served by its system -- and when those ran out, they went on to place-names further afield. Re settlements on the system -- it was, and is: reckoned indicative of rather a lack of imagination, and sense of humour, to name (as they did) a loco, Crawley -- liable to give passengers a wrong and discouraging idea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skegness, Lincolnshire -- which, however bracing, is an insalubrious place in some ways -- similarly gets called "Skeg Vegas".

Clevedon in Somerset also has a clock tower.

 

[Calthrop]

The author M.M. Kaye (1908 -- 2004) -- best known for her novel The Far Pavilions (reckoned an equivalent for 19th-century British India, of Gone With The Wind -- IMO Kaye's novel is largely hokum, but splendid such): born in India, Kaye was shipped by her family, to Britain aged eleven or twelve -- resentfully on her part: she loved India, and later in life spent much time back there. She was a pupil for a while, at a boarding school in Clevedon. Much later, from late 1960s to late 80s, she lived with her husband in Boreham Street, East Sussex -- north of Pevensey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wartling in East Sussex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hailsham Poor Law Union.

 

[341o2]

The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway tended not to be very imaginative in its locomotive-naming: relying heavily on the names of places served by its system -- and when those ran out, they went on to place-names further afield. Re settlements on the system -- it was, and is: reckoned indicative of rather a lack of imagination, and sense of humour, to name (as they did) a loco, Crawley -- liable to give passengers a wrong and discouraging idea.

Does anyone remember the London Transport recruiting poster "Do you know this man?" with an outline?
the felt pen artists had a field day until the image was changed to solid black

Wartling has a Lamb inn, Preston has adopted the Lamb of God as its emblem

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wartling has a Lamb inn, Preston has adopted the Lamb of God as its emblem

Clitheroe in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Ribble.

 

[341o2]

The radio series The Clitheroe Kid.
Oldham comedian Danny Ross played the half witted tongue tied boyfriend of Jimmy's sister Susan

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Urmston in Greater Manchester was also once administered by the Hundred of Salford.

 

[Calthrop]

The coat of arms of the former Urmston Urban District Council features a squirrel; the coat of arms of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, features two of said animals ("proper" British red squirrels in all cases, I'm glad to say).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Low Walworth in County Durham also has a building that has served as a dower house.

 

[Springs Branch]

Burton upon Trent is also located at longitude 1° 38'W.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolstanton in Staffordshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Rykneld Street.

 

[Calthrop]

Roosebeck, Cumbria -- on the peninsula which contains Barrow-in-Furness -- could, by a stretch of the imagination, be reckoned to have in common with Wolstanton: that both names begin with those of a character in Winnie-the-Pooh: respectively Roo the baby kangaroo, and Wol the owl.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Newbiggin also lies on the A5087 road between Barrow-in-Furness and Ulverston.

 

[Calthrop]

Newbiggin -- or its (chiefly Scottish) variant Newbigging -- is a name very frequently met with in northern England, and Scotland: the road-atlas gazetteer shows nearly twenty assorted Newbiggin(g)'s scattered over those parts of this island. Meaning -- new (word descended from Old English) building ("biggin[g]" descended from Middle English). There is a Newbiggin in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire -- near Aysgarth.

 

[John Griffiths]

Reeth was also on the route of the 2014 Tour de France, stage 1.