Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leyland in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Allen Hill, who played in the first-ever cricket Test match from 15th March 1877, and took the first wicket, was born on 14th November 1845 at Kirkheaton, Yorkshire and died on 28th August 1910 at Leyland, Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Greatham in County Durham also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Hospital of God, Greatham, County Durham, was founded in 1273 by the then Bishop of Durham, Robert de Stichell. It was originally a foundation to aid poor people. By the sixteenth century the foundation was used more as a "house of entertainment for gentlemen" and it was not well used for helping the poor. After 1610 there were reforms, and its original mission was resumed. It now runs day centres and home visiting services for patients, many of whom have dementia, in Greatham, Horden, Seaham and Wheatley Hill.

 

[John Griffiths]

Askern in South Yorkshire also had a greyhound stadium.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Owston in South Yorkshire was also once administered by the Osgoldcross Wapentake.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

John de St Paul, also known as John de St Pol, John de Owston and John de Ouston, was Archbishop of Dublin from 1349 to 1362. He was born in Owston in about 1295, and died in 1362; he was buried under the high altar in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blessington in County Wicklow also lies on the line of the River Liffey.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Mary's Church is situated in Market Square, in the middle of Blessington. It is part of the Blessington Union of Parishes, as is St. John the Evangelist Church, Ballymore Eustace, County Wicklow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Castlebar in County Mayo was also the scene of a battle during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

 

[Calthrop]

Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon, also lies on the route of the N5 National Primary Road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sligo in County Sligo is another settlement that was chosen as a site for a Dominican priory.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sligo Courthouse is an asymmetrical Neo-Gothic building designed by James Rawson Carroll (1830 – 1911) and built in 1878.
He was also responsible for the design of Saint John's church, Abington, County Limerick, which was built in 1869.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a sightly better-known and more populous Abington in South Lanarkshire, in the upper Clyde valley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moniaive in Dumfries and Galloway also lies on the route of the A702 road.

 

[D6130]

Cleckheaton in West Yorkshire is also the venue for an annual folk festival.

 

[Calthrop]

Roger Hargreaves, creator of the Mr. Men and Little Miss series of children's cartoon books, was born in Cleckheaton in 1935. Another deviser of cartoon-type material loved by the younger set -- Oliver Postgate -- was born in Hendon, Middlesex, in 1925.

 

[D6130]

The Metropolitan Police Training Academy is located in Hendon, while the equivalent training facility for Police Scotland is located at Tulliallan on the outskirts of Kincardine in Fife.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There is another, much smaller, Kincardine in Sutherland; this hamlet is situated less than 1 mile southwest of the village of Ardgay along the A836 coast road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Falkland in Fife also lies on the route of National Cycle Route 1.

 

[John Griffiths]

Much of Falkland, including its castle, was restored by the fabulously wealthy 3rd Marquess of Bute, who also commissioned the restoration of Cardiff Castle, in which city he owned the docks.

 

[Calthrop]

Concerning heraldic things in common -- the supporters of Cardiff's coat of arms are a (highly stylised, heraldic) seahorse; and a ram. The arms of South Molton, North Devon, are also characterised by something ovine, but decidedly dead: a sheep's fleece (with head and horns) featuring on the shield.

 

[John Griffiths]

South Molton lies on the River Mole. So does Leatherhead, Surrey, albeit a different River Mole.

 

[Calthrop]

One of Leatherhead's oldest buildings is the timber-framed Sweech House -- oldest parts dating from the 15th century, building now conserved: the name Sweech reckoned an earlier form of "switch" -- the house being situated by a road junction. The name could be found reminiscent of a perhaps more widely-known venue a good way west in England: Speech House in the Forest of Dean -- venerable structure which was once the administrative building of the local democracy of the Forest; it's now a hotel. Nearest settlement is Ruspidge, Gloucestershire -- just west of Cinderford.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ruspidge boasts a public house called The New Inn - such pubs are generally (and counterintuitively) pretty old - as does Headingley in Leeds.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thorner in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Skyrack Wapentake.

 

[Springs Branch]

Thorner was the location of one of the Starfish Sites during WW2 - large-scale night-time decoys created during the Blitz to simulate British cities with the aim of diverting German night bombers from their intended targets so they would drop their ordnance over the countryside.

Another sparsely-populated Starfish Site in the vicinity of a major city was at Carrington Moss, a peat bog adjacent to Carrington, Greater Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhos-on-Sea in Conwy County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to St George.

 

[Springs Branch]

Colwyn Bay was, until 1956, also served by the tramcars of the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Electric Railway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colchester in Essex also has a zoo within its environs.