Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Malmesbury in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Avon.

 

[Calthrop]

It is believed that the first person to have been killed by a tiger in Britain, was Hannah Twynnoy, a barmaid at the White Lion pub in Malmesbury. A menagerie set up, and conducted its business, in the pub's backyard: among its animals was a tiger. Despite warnings, the lady teased this creature; which one day reacted by fatally mauling her. This event took place in 1703. The unfortunate Ms. Twynnoy has a fictional counterpart re "death by big cat", somewhat later in history: in the Stanley Holloway recitation Albert and the Lion -- in which, at Blackpool Zoo, young Albert Ramsbottom pokes and prods Wallace the lion, in the hope of getting him to behave more interestingly -- Wallace responds by promptly eating the wretched child.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Yarmouth also has a Pleasure Beach.

 

[Springs Branch]

Peterhead in Aberdeenshire was once an important port for the North Sea herring fishing industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lower Largo in Fife was also created a Burgh of Barony in the 16th century.

 

[Calthrop]

"Robinson Crusoe, rumour is rife:
Came from Lower Largo, Fife."

Daniel Defoe's original for his hero -- Alexander Selkirk -- indeed hailed from that settlement. He spent the years 1704 -- 1709 as a solitary castaway on one of the Juan Fernandez Islands off Chile. After being rescued, he returned to his seafaring life. On a visit to Plymouth in 1720 he married a lady there; but died of yellow fever, in foreign waters, the following year.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salford also has a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

[Calthrop]

The scientist James Prescott Joule -- after whom the SI derived unit of energy, the joule, is named -- his dates 1818 -- 89: was born in Salford. He died in Sale, Cheshire; not very far away.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Sale, Bexley - then Kent, now London - was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1935.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Efailwen in Pembrokeshire is another settlement chosen in which a Strict and Particular Baptist Chapel was established.

 

[DerekC]

The first of the "Rebecca Riots", in which men dressed as women tore down the local toll gate as a protest against high taxation and low agricultural prices, took place in Yr Efailwen in 1839. The next one was at St Clears, Camarthen, in 1841.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kerswell in Devon is another settlement that was chosen as a site for a Cluniac priory.

 

[Calthrop]

Awliscombe, Devon, also lies on the A373 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Luppitt in Devon was also once under the jurisdiction of the Honiton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Luppitt (sounds like the name of a cartoon-saga lovable animal !)'s Luppitt Inn, features on CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors; as does the Berkeley Hotel in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ted Lewis's 1970 novel Jack's Return Home was set in the Scunthorpe area, but when a film was made of it the following year the production team chose to film on Tyneside and adjoining areas. One of the most notable scenes was set in Gateshead.

The film was, of course, Get Carter, and the scene was where Carter threw rival underworld figure Cliff Brumby (played by Brian Mosley, well known as Alf Roberts of Coronation Street) off the top of the now-demolished Trinity Centre multi-storey car park.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoke-on-Trent was another of the settlements chosen to host the National Garden Festival.

 

[Calthrop]

Newark, Nottinghamshire, is also located on the River Trent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tidworth in Wiltshire also has Polish war graves.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Holy Trinity, North Tidworth is the Church of England Parish Church. The present building, in flint and stone with repairs in red brick, is from the late 14th and 15th centuries, and was restored by John Loughborough Pearson RA (1817 – 1897) in 1882. Pearson's architectural practice was not confined to church buildings; the French Renaissance style Westwood House, Sydenham, south-east London dating from 1880, shows his aptitude for domestic architecture.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanover in Monmouthshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Bartholemew.

 

[Calthrop]

Llangynidr, Powys, also lies on the line of the River Usk.

 

[D6130]

Talybont-on-Usk in Powys also lies on the line of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llansantffraed in Powys also lies on the line of the River Caerfanell.

 

[Calthrop]

The 17th-Century poet, author and physician Henry Vaughan was born, lived most of his life, and died, in Llansantffraed. He studied at Jesus College, Oxford, around 1640.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rugby in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the Oxford Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Preston is reckoned also to have been written about by Charles Dickens, in fiction and under an accordingly fictional name. His short story with railway setting, Mugby Junction, is thought to represent Rugby; whereas his "it's grim up North" industrial hell-hole Coketown, in the novel Hard Times, is seen as real-life Preston.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stackhouse in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Ribble.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hawkshead in Cumbria (Westmorland) was also owned by the monks of Furness Abbey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Undermillbeck in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Kendal Poor Law Union.