Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Colindale was formerly home to the British Library Newspaper Library; another branch of the British Library is located at Boston Spa, West Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ryther in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Barkston Ash wapentake.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Ryther lies on the B1223 minor road; this also passes through the village of Cawood in North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Naburn in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Ouse.

 

[Calthrop]

Tamworth, Staffordshire, also has a pub called the Blacksmiths Arms. (I feel that this effort is a bit of a boring one -- but the two more interesting possibilities which suggested themselves re Naburn, both seemed at least to verge on what are sins per the rules of the game.)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Tamworth takes its name from the River Tame, which flows through it on it's way to a junction with the River Trent near Alrewas, Staffordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Invergordon in Highland also has a Polish War Memorial.

 

[Calthrop]

There have been episodes of extreme dissatisfaction among Royal Navy personnel, involving disregarding of orders received: at Invergordon in 1931, and at the Spithead anchorage at Portsmouth in 1797.

 

[D6130]

Newhaven in East Sussex also has a terminal for ferry services to France.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Newhaven was part of the Holmstrow Hundred until the abolition of hundreds in the 19th century; this also contained the village of Piddinghoe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beckhampton in Wiltshire also has a Neolithic Long Barrow within its environs.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Beckhampton is part of the civil parish of Avebury in Wiltshire; also part of the parish is the small village of Avebury Trusloe.

 

[DerekC]

The Wessex Ridgeway passes through Avebury Trusloe. It reaches the coast at Lyme Regis in Dorset

 

[D6130]

Dartmouth in Devon was also used as a location for the filming of 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' in 1980.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Henley-on-Thames also hosts a major regatta.

 

[Springs Branch]

In a survey carried out by Money Observer in 2016, Henley-on-Thames was ranked the second most expensive market town in England in which to buy a house (average price £748,000).

The most expensive market town of all in that survey (£959,000) was in Buckinghamshire at Beaconsfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Babbacombe in Devon also has a model village.

 

[Springs Branch]

As a seaside resort, you'd expect to find a choice of fish and chip shops in Babbacombe. One of the selection is Drakes Fish & Chips on Babbacombe Road.

Another chippy trading as Drake's Fish & Chips is located in Harrogate, North Yorks.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton in Derbyshire also developed as a spa town.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The English architect and surveyor Henry Currey (1820–1900) was appointed in 1859, he was appointed by the 7th Duke of Devonshire as the architect for the extensive Devonshire Estate in Buxton. He was highly influential in the town's development as a Victorian spa resort, much in his preferred Italianate design. Between 1852 and 1853 the present buildings of the Thermal Baths and the Natural Mineral Baths were opened; they are positioned either side of the Buxton Crescent at the foot of The Slopes in the town's Central Conservation Area, and are both Grade II listed buildings. The Duke of Devonshire owned many buildings and much land in Eastbourne where, in 1870, Currey designed the original College House for Eastbourne College, a project which was followed three years later by drawings for the chapel, and in 1879, Currey was to design the school's Cavendish Library.

 

[Calthrop]

Fairford, Gloucestershire, also holds an acclaimed annual airshow -- respectively, at Eastbourne, Airborne -- Eastbourne's International Airshow; and at Fairford, at the RAF facility there, the Royal International Air Tattoo.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Andoversford in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the River Coln.

 

[Calthrop]

Church Gresley, South Derbyshire -- near Swadlincote -- had until recently; as Andoversford still has; a pub -- one of the seemingly tens of thousands of them in England, called the Royal Oak. (I want a few pubs celebrating the other side in the Civil War ! -- they weren't all teetotallers, by any means.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frithelstock in Devon is another settlement that was chosen to be the site of a religious house of the Order of Augustinian Canons.

The mention above of Swadlingcote reminds me of something many years ago that was told to me by a member of the clergy who had spent time in the parish of Saints Peter and Paul there and when it came to the infant and junior school putting on the annual Nativity Play, the little girl playing the part of Mary, in a loud clear voice said....

"And Mary picked up the baby Jesus and wrapped him up in Swadlingcote"

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village, civil parish and former manor of Frithelstock (pronounced Frizzlestock) is located within the Torridge local authority area and was part of the historic Shebbear Hundred, one of the thirty-two 19th century Hundreds of Devon. Another part of the Hundred was the village and civil parish of Buckland Brewer. Appropriately enough given it's name, it does have a pub - The Coach & Horses Inn dates from the 13th Century, and its history is well documented.

 

[Calthrop]

John Hanning Speke (1827 -- 1864), army officer and participant in much African exploration -- in the course of which he was the first European to reach Lake Victoria -- was born at Buckland Brewer. He is buried in the church at Dowlish Wake, Somerset (near Ilminster).

The mention above of Swadlingcote reminds me of something many years ago that was told to me by a member of the clergy who had spent time in the parish of Saints Peter and Paul there and when it came to the infant and junior school putting on the annual Nativity Play, the little girl playing the part of Mary, in a loud clear voice said....

"And Mary picked up the baby Jesus and wrapped him up in Swadlingcote"

I like this ! It's as good as the Wise Men bearing gifts of gold, Frankenstein, and myrrh ....

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shepton Beauchamp in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of South Petherton.

 

[Calthrop]

It is reckoned possible that Jane Seymour (1508 -- 1537), Henry VIII's third Queen, lived briefly at Shepton Beauchamp during her father Sir John Seymour's tenure as High Sheriff of Somerset. Jane is buried -- as is her royal spouse -- in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bewdley in Worcestershire also has a safari park within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Burgess Hill, West Sussex, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Somme. Bewdley's "twin" is Fort-Mahon-Plage; Burgess Hill's is Abbeville.