Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Bremilham 's church bell was stolen in 2020. The church bell of St Matthew's in Withernsea, East Yorkshire, was stolen in October, 2021.

 

[Calthrop]

Withernsea briefly had a pier; which was, for sure, bedevilled by misfortune -- opened 1877, with a length of 399 yards. It was subsequently collided with at different times, by assorted seagoing vessels; thereby being progressively reduced in length -- in 1903, the town council gave up, and removed the surviving stub. Shanklin, Isle of Wight, has also possessed a pier which is no longer in existence, though it was longer-lived that that of the Yorkshire resort -- Shanklin's was wrecked beyond repair by the Great Storm of October 1987: the remains were finally demolished in 1993.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Totland is another settlement on the Isle of Wight that has a noted chine.

 

[John Griffiths]

Actor Shaw Taylor, born in the London district of Hackney and probably best remembered as the presenter of Police Five, a forerunner of Crimewatch, spent his latter years living in Totland, where he died in 2015 aged ninety.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winkburn in Nottinghamshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John of Jerusalem.

 

[Calthrop]

Winkburn lies just off the A617 road. Situated on that road some considerable way to the west is Heath, Derbyshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Churchill, Oxfordshire also shares its name with a twentieth century prime minister.

 

[D6130]

Peel on the Isle of Man shares its name with a nineteenth century prime minister.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beaumaris in Anglesey also has a ruined castle.

 

[John Griffiths]

The lifeboat station at Pwllheli was also established in 1891.

 

[D6130]

Filey in North Yorkshire was also once the site of a Butlin's holiday camp.

 

[John Griffiths]

Chocolatier Sir Joseph Terry, born and died in York, had a holiday home in Filey.

 

[D6130]

Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has a minster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Filey in North Yorkshire was also affected by the effects caused by the Dogger Bank earthquake of 7th June 1931, which had a recorded highest figure for England of 6.1 on the Richter Scale.

 

[Springs Branch]

We seem to have violated the "don't repeat any of the last three" quiz rule with Filey, but in the interest of keeping the game moving ....

Grasmere in Cumbria also has a church dedicated to St Oswald.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We seem to have violated the "don't repeat any of the last three" quiz rule with Filey, but in the interest of keeping the game moving ...

If you look at the first of those postings, you will see it was York that was emboldened in that posting as the connection....not Filey.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Oswald's Church, Grasmere is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere and is notable for its annual ceremony of Rushbearing. This is an old English ecclesiastical festival in which rushes are collected and carried to be strewn on the floor of the parish church; it dates back to the time when most buildings had earthen floors and rushes were used as a form of renewable floor covering for cleanliness and insulation. Rushbearing ceremonies have survived, or been revived, in a number of towns and villages in northwest England including Forest Chapel in Cheshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberdeen also has a church that is dedicated to St Stephen.

 

[Calthrop]

Aberdeen is the third most populous city in Scotland. From large tuna, say, to minnows: the Isle of Man's third most populous settlement, is Peel.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glasson Dock in Lancashire also has a traditional kipper smokehouse.

 

[Calthrop]

Glasson Dock has a pub called the Dalton Arms: which looks rather like being a pub name unique in Britain. However, Huddersfield (West Yorkshire) has a pub called just the Dalton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dorchester in Dorset also has the site of an Iron Age hill fort within its environs.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Duchy of Cornwall developed an extension to Dorchester on 'new urbanism' lines named Poundbury, and is developing an extension to Newquay called Nansledan, on the same design principles/ philosophy.

 

[Calthrop]

In World War II, the Public School Gresham's School, of Holt, Norfolk; was evacuated to Newquay -- one takes it, essentially further away from Jerry: two Newquay hotels accordingly pressed into service to accommodate masters and pupils.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fakenham in Norfolk also lies on the route of the A148 road.

 

[John Griffiths]

Fakenham has a Museum of Gas and Local History. Biggar in South Lanarkshire similarly has a Gasworks Museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Norwich also has a -- permanent -- puppet theatre.

 

[johnnychips]

Canterbury also had a Wallonian church at some time in its history.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lenham in Kent also lies of the line of the River Great Stour.

 

[Springs Branch]

Lenham is the location of the workshops for GKD Sports Cars, a small-volume manufacturer of British sports cars.

Another British specialist builder of racing and sports cars is Ginetta Cars Limited, based in Garforth West Yorkshire.