Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Longcot in Oxfordshire is also situated on the line of the Wilts & Berks Canal, which is currently in a period of restoration.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Rudhall of Gloucester was a family business of bell founders in Gloucester, who between 1684 and 1835 cast more than 5,000 bells. The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Longcot contains five bells cast in 1722, together with the treble bell cast in 1729 to complete a ring of six. All eight bells at the Church of St Anne, Shandon, Cork were cast by Abel Rudhall in 1750, although they were recast twice in 1865 and 1906.

 

[Calthrop]

Situated in Shandon, is the Cork Butter Museum. There is a Cheese Museum just north-west of Settle, North Yorkshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Chesterfield also shares its name with an item of furniture.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worksop in Nottinghamshire also lies on the line of the Chesterfield Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

A minor battle in the Wars of the Roses also took place at Edgcote, Northamptonshire (north-east of Banbury).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thrupp in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Cherwell.

 

[John Griffiths]

The name Thrupp derives from Middle English thorp, meaning hamlet or village. The same is the case with many other settlements including Thorpe in Surrey.

 

[Calthrop]

Being perhaps a bit morbid about that famed and much-loved comedy-writing duo Frank Muir and Denis Norden -- although they were born within a couple of years of each other, their deaths were twenty years apart: Muir's in 1998 in Thorpe, Surrey; Norden's in Hampstead (London Borough of Camden) in 2018, at the age of 96.

 

[Springs Branch]

Hampstead has long been a haunt of writers and intellectuals. One former resident was poet John Keats, who lived in what is now the Grade I listed Keats House located in the former John St (now re-named Keats Grove), Hampstead. Keats was born in 1795 in the City of London.

 

[DerekC]

As well as London, a number of other UK cities including Armagh have the right to elect a Lord Mayor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Norwich is another settlement to have both an Anglican and a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wolverhampton also has a professional football club whose home kit includes a yellow-coloured shirt.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wednesfield in West Midlands was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wolverhampton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Wednesfield was formerly renowned for the making of all kinds of traps, from mousetraps to mantraps (!); and locks. In the same vein, Redditch, Worcestershire -- not all that far away -- was once the world's premier venue for the making of needles, and fish-hooks.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Runcorn was also designated a New Town on 10th April 1964.

 

[D6130]

Runcorn used to have a transporter bridge across the River Mersey. Middlesbrough still has one across the Tees.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swanmore in Hampshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Barnabas.

 

[Calthrop]

Swanmore lies just outside the South Downs National Park; Mid Lavant, West Sussex, lies just within it.

 

[DerekC]

The Lavant Drum, a neolithic cylindrical chalk artifact, was found at Mid Lavant in 1993. Three similar examples were discovered in 1889 at Folkton in North Yorkshire. Their purpose is said to have been for measuring lengths of cord to be used in surveying, although I don't know what evidence there is for this.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thwing in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Dickering Wapentake.

 

[John Griffiths]

Thwing was the birthplace of Saint John of Bridlington, the last English saint to be canonized before the Reformation.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quarndon in Derbyshire also has a chalybeate spring water source within its environs.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Paul's Church, Quarndon has a pipe organ was built by John Mitchell Grunwell of Becket Mill, Derby, in 1874. This, however, is much yoiunger than the oldest (complete) surviving church organ in the UK, which is that by Renatus Harris in St Botolph's Aldgate (or St Botolph without Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories), which dates from 1744. Minories is a small former administrative unit, and also of a street in central London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester is another settlement where Roman funerary artifacts were discovered.

 

[Springs Branch]

Chester is noted for the number of black-and-white timbered buildings, a feature of the Tudor Revival architectural movement from the middle of the 19th century.

Another example of this style (wooden framing painted black, with panels between the frames painted white) occurs at the 1849-vintage Court House at Worsley, Greater Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Timperley in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the Bridgewater Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Stone in Staffordshire also has a church, dedication Christ Church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Rollright in Oxfordshire is also a settlement where the remains of a Bronze Age ring ditch was discovered.

 

[Calthrop]

Little Rollright is only just in Oxfordshire, being very near the Warwickshire border. Similarly with Ashbrittle, Somerset (west of Wellington); it is very close to the border of Devon.