Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Brancaster in Norfolk was also on the route of the Roman road known as Akeman Street.
-
Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
Settlement Association
- Thread starter Ivo
- Start date
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R
RailUK Forums
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Thrigby in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of East Flegg.
D6130
Established Member
....whereas Heckington in Lincolnshire has a very tall six-sailed windmill of the 'tower' variety.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Stragglethorpe in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the large area remit of the Newark Poor Law Union.
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
Saint Michael's Church, Stragglethorpe is a Grade I Listed building dating from the 11th century, and is now in the care of the Historic Chaples Trust (HCT). It has an 11th-century font and 18th-century box pews. Another church where box pews can be seen is Bethesda Methodist Chapel in Hanley, Staffordshire; it, too, is the the care of the HCT.
Hanley is host to an annual one-day event called "Sanity Fair": its very laudable purpose, to tackle and raise awareness of mental-illness issues, and to celebrate emotional well-being. It would seem very likely that the name is a "cog on" the well-known wording "Vanity Fair" -- title of the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, but originated by John Bunyan in his Pilgrim's Progress: his "Vanity Fair" being a non-stop fun-and-games (and skulduggery and violence) event purveying all the possible temptations and distractions for a Christian. Bunyan's real-life inspiration here: is thought to have been the, in past centuries, big annual "Stourbridge Fair" held in Cambridge.
Last edited:
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and the English Martyrs, also known as the Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs (OLEM), is an English Roman Catholic parish church in southeast Cambridge. It is a large Gothic Revival church built between 1885 and 1890 by Rattee and Kent, a local building contractor. An early project by the company included ornate tables, ceilings and urns completed in the 1850s and 1860s at Wimpole Hall, which is part of the Wimpole Estate in the civil parish of Wimpole, Cambridge.
By 'eck, this game is educational ! Before reading the above post, the name "Wimpole" had meant nothing to me beyond the melodrama The Barratts of Wimpole Street (future spouse of the poet Robert Browning, and her tyrannical dad). So: the -- newly-discovered by me -- village of Wimpole, lies a short way from the course of Cambridge's river, the Cam or -- in these of its higher reaches -- Rhee. Said river rises at the village of Ashwell, near the northernmost extremity of Hertfordshire.
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Ashwell dates almost entirely from the 14th century and is renowned for its ornate tower which stands at 176 feet It is crowned by an octagonal lantern with a leaded fleche or spire. This is known as a Hertfordshire spike as it is common in the county, but the same type of structure can be found in other English counties; for example the St Mary the Virgin Church, Wendens Ambo, is a good example in Essex.
(And no, I'd never heard of this before, either!)
(And no, I'd never heard of this before, either!)
Wendens Ambo lies at a crossroads of "B" roads: one of which, the B1052, takes off in a generally north-easterly direction -- passing after some miles, through the village of Linton, just on the Cambridgeshire side of the Herts. / Cambs. border.
Yet another interesting item of lore learnt of today -- the Hertfordshire spike. One does occasionally wonder cynically whether those who serve up this scholarship, might be "at the wind-up" -- I recall, long ago, on the agricultural / woodcraft tools scene: a chap proudly brandishing a bladed implement which he called a "Staffordshire slasher". Another guy ventured to ask whether that was really what it was called: the first bod confessed, "no -- I just made that term up -- but you have to admit, it sounds good".
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
The River Granta, a chalk stream, runs through the village of Linton. It is the name of two of the four tributaries of the River Cam, although both names are often used synonymously. The River Granta starts near the village of Widdington in Essex.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Muston in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Devon.
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
The Vking Way, a long-distance footpath between North Lincolnshire and Rutland, passes half a mile to the east of Muston and also through Sewstern, Leicestershire.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Twydall in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
DerekC
Established Member
Twydall is the location of the Grange Redoubt, a part of the "Palmerston Forts" chain defending Chatham. Fort Grange, built at approximately the same time as part of the chain to defend Portsmouth, is in Gosport, Hampshire
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Newbury in Berkshire also had a Mesolithic period settlement in its environs that incorporated hunting camps.
Springs Branch
Established Member
Newbury's racecourse is located at longitude 1° 19' W.
By coincidence, another horse racing venue lies further north also at longitude 1° 19' W - the racecourse at Pontefract, West Yorkshire.
By coincidence, another horse racing venue lies further north also at longitude 1° 19' W - the racecourse at Pontefract, West Yorkshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Guildford in Surrey also once had a coin-producing mint.
Ayman Ilham
Member
Blackburn is also a place with a cathedral but no city status (yet).
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
In 1807, the Daniel Thwaites & Co. brewery was established in Blackburn; the company is still in business today and is now based at Sykes Holt in Mellor, a village in the Ribble Valley.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Tockholes in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Blackburn.
EbbwJunction1
Established Member
There's not much information available on Tockholes, so all I can say is that it's situated on an unclassified but named road (Tockholes Road) which at it's southern end becomes the A675. This continues southward and passes through the village of Belmont in Lancashire.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Gawsworth in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St James the Great.
A paradoxical situation in these parts; quoting the Wiki entry re neighbouring Warren: "the traditional name for the largest settlement in the civil parish of Gawsworth in Cheshire... Nowadays the name is seldom used, the inhabitants usually saying that they live in Gawsworth". Indeed, road atlases tend to have Warren looking like a larger and more significant village, than Gawsworth.
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Astbury in Cheshire East was also once administered by the Hundred of Macclesfield.