Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowes on the Isle of Wight also lies on the line of the River Medina.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The English gardener, broadcaster, TV presenter, poet and novelist Alan Titchmarsh MBE DL VMH HonFSE has a coastal home, near Cowes, where he spends about a third of the year. He was born in Ilkley, West Riding of Yorkshire on 2nd May 1949.

 

[John Griffiths]

Yorkshire's anthem, Ilkley Moor (On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at) is sung to a hymn tune entitled Cranbrook, composed by Thomas Clark (1775-1859) of Canterbury.

 

[341o2]

Whitby also has the ruins of an abbey

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Briggswath in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Whitby Strand Wapentake.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ruswarp also lies on the B1410.

 

[Calthrop]

Yorkshire's anthem, Ilkley Moor (On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at) is sung to a hymn tune entitled Cranbrook, composed by Thomas Clark (1775-1859) of Canterbury.

Not expressing any doubt -- this just emphasising to me, that I'm no kind of scholar about sacred music: I knew there was a hymn tune called "Cranbrook"; but didn't know it was this tune. Have never to the best of my knowledge, heard a hymn sung to this tune; but likely, I don't move in the right hymnological circles.

 

[Calthrop]

Ruswarp also lies on the B1410.

Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire -- just north of Cambridge -- also has a pub called the Bridge Inn.

 

[341o2]

Stevenage is the original New Town (Waterbeach designated so in 2018)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Selby in North Yorkshire is another settlement where a Roman silver coin hoard was discovered.

 

[341o2]

Bucklers Hard was also involved in shipbuilding
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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilmelford in Argyll and Bute also has a yachting marina.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Kilmelford is situated near the head of the west coast sea loch, Loch Melfort, on the A816 Lochgilphead to Oban road, about 15 miles south of Oban.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kendal in Cumbria also has a hydrotherapy pool.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Kendal RFC plays in the Regional 1 North West Division, a level five league of the RFU. Their home games are at Mint Bridge Stadium, which has a capacity of 3,500. Wirral RFC play at the same level, and are based in Thornton Common Road, Clatterbridge, Wirral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Landican in Wirral was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirral

 

[John Griffiths]

Sir Philip Toosey, who was the British officer in charge of building the real bridges on the River Kwai as a POW in the Second World War (and whose conduct was nothing like that of his fictionalized character in the 1957 film) is buried in Landican. He was born in Oxton, also on the Wirral.

 

[Calthrop]

Much of the land on which Oxton is situated, was part of the estate of the Earl of Shrewsbury: commemorated in various street and road names, after assorted names with relevance to the noble family; also the village's Shrewsbury Arms pub.

 

[John Griffiths]

Several of the founders of the magazine Private Eye had been educated at Shrewsbury School; the current editor Ian Hislop, however, went to Ardingly College, Ardingly, West Sussex.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a tendency in Sussex with settlements whose names end in "-ly": for that syllable to be pronounced not -- as one might think -- "lee"; but "lye". This is the case with Ardingly; also with Hellingly (East Sussex, north of Eastbourne).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seaford in East Sussex also lies on the line of the River Cuckmere.

 

[341o2]

Seaford College is nowhere near the town of that name, the nearest settlement to it is at East Lavington

 

[Calthrop]

Seaford College is nowhere near the town of that name, the nearest settlement to it is at East Lavington

Having looked it up -- agreed: this is mad, even for England . Shaldon, Devon -- near Teignmouth -- also has a church dedicated to St. Peter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upton Pyne in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Wonford.

 

[johnnychips]

The ‘Upton Pyne’ is a large cooking apple, as is the Bramley, which is a settlement near Leeds.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ernie Wise was born in Bramley; he died at the Nuffield Hospital in Wexham, Buckinghamshire on 21 March 1999.

 

[DerekC]

HMS Wexham, a "Ham Class" minesweeper, was launched in 1954 and sold to the French navy the following year. HMS Sidlesham, on the other hand, was sold to the Sussex Police in 1967 and after many different uses was abandoned on the Thames foreshore at Battersea, where as far as I know she still is.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Michael Flanders, half of the 1960s comedy duo Flanders and Swann, often made fun of Donald Swann for living in Battersea. Donald Swann was born in Llanelli (at the time known as Llanelly), Carmarthenshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Felinfoel in Carmarthenshire also lies on the line of the River Lliedi.

 

[Calthrop]

Felinfoel is one of a number of places in Great Britain, having in their purlieus a perceivedly scenic area which is likened -- sometimes incongruously -- to Switzerland / Swiss scenes. That of the Carmarthenshire settlement, involves picturesque double reservoirs on the river near the village, called Swiss Valley. Folkestone, Kent, has a cliffside spot (featuring a caravan park) called Little Switzerland.