Settlement Association

[johnnychips]

The parish contains a pack horse bridge. One can be also found at Ripponden in Calderdale.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rishworth in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Ryburn.

 

[D6130]

Giggleswick in North Yorkshire also has a noted boys' boarding school which has become co-educational in recent years.

 

[John Griffiths]

Middleham in Yorkshire also has a church dedicated to St Alkelda - in fact the only other church so dedicated, and to a saint whose existence is disputed. And it is possible or even likely that the two churches were named for different Alkeldas of dubious origins. Isn't ecclesiology great?

 

[Calthrop]

Lambourn, Berkshire: shares with Middleham, the trait of horseracing's being a prominent local activity and big local employer.

 

[Springs Branch]

A lurcher is a type of dog crossbred from a greyhound and another herding dog or terrier - with a historically somewhat dubious reputation, due to being a favoured and useful companion of poachers. Possibly enhancing the respectability of the type, the first Lurcher Show was held in Lambourn in 1971.

In contemporary times, there is still a Lurcher Show hosted at the Lancashire Game and Country Festival in Scorton (north of Preston) Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mitton in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Amounderness.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Three Fishes is the local gastropub at Great Mitton (the part on the north-western side of the River Ribble).

Another settlement with a pub named The Three Fishes is Bayston Hill, Shropshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heald Green in Greater Manchester also has a church named Christ Church.

 

[Calthrop]

Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire, also has a pub called the Griffin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Muston in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiki suggests -- quoting from A Dictionary of British Place Names -- that Muston's name may come either from the Old Norse / Old English "farmstead of a man named Musti"; or, from the tongues of that period, "mouse-infested farmstead". The latter would seem the more colourful alternative; bringing to mind the London Borough of Redbridge, which in recent years has had a rat problem threatening to border on infestation.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chipping Ongar in Essex also lies on the line of the River Roding.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There are memorials to Father Thomas Byles in St Helens Catholic Church and on Ongar Railway Station. He was parish priest in Chipping Ongar from 1905 and perished on the RMS Titanic in 1912, refusing to leave in a lifeboat and staying to pray with the remaining passengers. He was born as Roussel Davids Byles in Leeds and attended Leamington College and Rossall School, Fleetwood, Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dolphinholme in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Wyre.

 

[Calthrop]

A resemblance borne, by the name of Dolphinton in South Lanarkshire. Neither has marine-mammal relevance: the name of the English settlement derives from that of an ancient Scandinavian one on the same spot; that of the Scottish one, from the local manor's having belonged in the 12th century, to Dolfine -- elder brother of the first Earl of Dunbar.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Dolphinton, South Lanarkshire, lies on the route of the A702; to the south, the road passes through the town of Biggar, also in South Lanarkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huntly in Aberdeenshire was also created a Burgh of Barony in the 15th century.

 

[DerekC]

The Water of Bogie (aka River Bogie) runs through Rhynie on its way to join the River Deveron just below Huntly. (Huntly was once known as Milton of Strathbogie)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberlemno in Angus also has a noted example of a Pictish symbol stone.

 

[Calthrop]

Lunanhead, Angus, also lies on the B9134 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bodelwyddan in Denbighshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wirksworth in Derbyshire was also a historical centre of the lead mining industry.

 

[Calthrop]

The historic Haarlem tape mill in Wirksworth (now housing an art collection) has been identified as the mill in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss -- tentatively and, it would seem, most improbably: with said fictional mill being described in the book as being in Lincolnshire, in the fictional town of St. Oggs; which is equated by most students of the work, with Gainsborough in that county.

 

[Springs Branch]

Smiffys, a fancy dress and party costume firm based in Gainsborough, was the last mass-production manufacturer of costume wigs in the UK. Production of these items has now migrated to the Far East.

Those requiring a custom-made, bespoke or quality theatrical wig can still use the services of Banbury Postiche Ltd, a company operating in Wroxton Oxfordshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Wroxton is on a Ley line between Rollright Stones and Chipping Warden in Northamptonshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sutton Valence in Kent also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Many of the older buildings in Sutton Valence are constructed from "ragstone" which was quarried locally at the village of Boughton Monchelsea, near Maidstone.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tarporley in Cheshire West & Chester also has a polo club.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Helen's Church, Tarporley contains a stained glass window in the south aisle dated 1899 by Charles Eamer Kempe (1837 – 1907). Another window by him can be seen at St Paul's Church, Newport, Isle of Wight.