Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunwich in Suffolk was also a "Rotten Borough" prior to the passing of the Reform Act of 1832.

 

[Calthrop]

The novel Red Eve by H. Rider Haggard (better known for King Solomon's Mines and other Africa-located epics) is partly set in 14th-century Dunwich. Haggard (1856 -- 1925) was himself East Anglian by birth: his birthplace Bradenham, Norfolk -- near East Dereham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Necton in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Wissey.

 

[John Griffiths]

There is also a Windmill Inn in Beverley, East Riding.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wimborne Minster in Dorset also has a noted minster church.

 

[John Griffiths]

Leigh in Essex also has an annual folk festival.

 

[Calthrop]

Pubs and their names, to the rescue again ! With Leigh long having had a role in the fishing industry -- chiefly involving shellfish -- the town has a pub called Ye Olde Smack. Further up the coast, Great Yarmouth (Norfolk) has a pub / restaurant called, "from way back", the Barking Smack: it doesn't go "bow-wow" -- the name is after a characteristic vessel of the fleet of another Essex one-time fishing port -- viz. Barking: whose boats often called in at Yarmouth in former times.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harleston in Norfolk also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as The Angles Way.

 

[Calthrop]

Harleston lies on the River Waveney; which rises some ten miles to the west, near Redgrave, Suffolk; and at its other end, joins the Yare to reach the sea at Great Yarmouth / Gorleston.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Waldringfield in Suffolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Woodbridge Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

In the late 19th century Waldringfield was a centre of coprolite mining, for use as fertiliser.

The potential for using coprolites as a fertiliser (by treating the mineral with sulphuric acid) was realised and patented in 1842 by Rev. J.S. Henslow, a Cambridge University don. The particular coprolites which Rev. Henslow used for his studies were sourced from the Suffolk village of Trimley St Martin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hemley in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Colneis.

 

[Calthrop]

Deganwy, Conway County Borough, also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

All Saints Church, Deganwy, was built as a memorial church by Lady Augusta Mostyn to a design by John Douglas of Chester on a site overlooking the Conwy estuary. Another ecclesiastical building designed by him is St John the Baptist's Church is in the village of Aldford, Cheshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Plemstall in Cheshire West & Chester was also once administered by the Hundred of Broxton.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Plemstall (formerly Plemonstall) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Mickle Trafford and District in Cheshire, lying northeast of the village of the same name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buerton in Cheshire East was also once under the jurisdiction of the Great Boughton Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Buerton Primary School closed in 2006; the parish falls within the catchment areas of St James CE Primary School in Audlem.

 

[Calthrop]

In Audlem, on the Shropshire Union Canal which runs through the village, there is a flight of fifteen locks. Some ten miles to the south, on the same stretch of the canal: there is a lesser flight of five locks at Tyrley (nearest "qualifying" settlement would seem to be Woodseaves -- Shropshire, though the reach concerned, of the canal -- would seem to be on the Shropshire / Staffordshire border).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Woodseaves lies on the A519 road, as does Lower Sutton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tibberton in Shropshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newport (Shropshire) Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Holystone, Northumberland also has a holy well.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 1903, the Newcastle upon Tyne-based architect Frank West Rich (who was born in Darfield, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1840) purchased Dues Hill Grange and 3,000 acres of land in Holystone, which he subsequently renovated.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cawthorne in South Yorkshire was also once administered by the Staincross Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Chapel Brampton, Northamptonshire -- a little way north-west of Northampton -- also has a pub called the Spencer Arms.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Red Earl Spencer, who owned much of Chapel Brampton and broke the neck of his favourite horse there, was also manorial Lord and a major landowner in Wimbledon, SW London, where he caused a fury by proposing to develop the Common with villas.

 

[Calthrop]

The Red Earl Spencer, who owned much of Chapel Brampton and broke the neck of his favourite horse there, was also manorial Lord and a major landowner in Wimbledon, SW London, where he caused a fury by proposing to develop the Common with villas.

Tobermory & Co. would have seen him off...

Ashburton, Devon, also has a namesake settlement in New Zealand.

 

[DerekC]

Bovey Tracey, Devon (like Ashburton) claims to be the "Gateway to Dartmoor".

 

[Calthrop]

Chudleigh, Devon, lies not far eastward from Bovey Tracey, also on the B3344 road.

 

[Springs Branch]

Audax UK, a British cycling club which oversees randonneuring (long-distance cycling) in Britain, holds a number of regular rides during the year. One of these regular events is the Dartmoor Devil, which starts in Bovey Tracey.

Another Audax event, which covers Salisbury Plain and The Ridgeway, starts from the Oxfordshire village of Sparsholt.

Caution: There's another - quite different - village named Sparsholt near Winchester in Hants. Let's hope no long-distance cyclists or RUK Quiz posters get confused.