Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

This association relates to "lost crowns of Olde England" . . .

The vicinity of Sutton Bridge is believed to be the location where King John's Crown Jewels were lost in marshland following a nasty wagon train accident in 1216. So far, those jewels have not been recovered.

Another settlement in eastern England associated with lost crowns (this time one of the fictional Saxon crowns protecting England from invaders which features in M.R. James' ghost story A Warning to the Curious) was the coastal town of "Seaburgh" - a thinly-disguised manifestation of the Suffolk town of Aldeburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Keswick in Cumbria also has a Moot Hall.

 

[Calthrop]

Muston, North Yorkshire (near Filey) is also the subject of disagreement between scholars, concerning the derivation of its name. Both cases involve "rivalry", Old English versus old Scandinavian tongues. Keswick's Old English version is seen as meaning "farm where cheese is made"; whereas the Danish / Old Norse explanation is taken as "the place of the [Norse] chieftain Kell, at the bend of the river". With the Yorkshire village, it's between Old English "mouse-infested farmstead"; and the Old English tun = farmstead, plus the envisaged chieftain thereof, bearing the Norse name of Musti.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Argam in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Dickering Wapentake.

 

[Springs Branch]

Argam has been depopulated since the early 19th century and is classified as a deserted mediaeval village. However it did once have a church dedicated to St John the Baptist (at least it did in 1318).

Another (more settled) settlement with a Church of St John the Baptist is Pilling, Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Agnes in Cornwall also has a pottery.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Agnes Parish Church is believed to have been built as a chapel of ease in about 1482, on the foundation of what is possibly an ancient Celtic church (410 to 1066 AD). In 1846 it was made into a parish church and two years later the building itself, exclusive of the spire and tower, was restored by the English architect James Piers St Aubyn (1815 – 1895), who is often referred to as J P St Auby. Two years before this, in 1846, he designed a new church (dedicated to St Illogan (Ylloganus or Euluganus) and St Edmund) in Illogan, West Cornwall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bosvennen in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Penwith.

 

[Calthrop]

Bosvennen in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Penwith.

Have found self struggling, here -- hope that my "doings" as follows, will be reckoned acceptable. Could find no mention anywhere of Bosvennen, except for its occurring in a "list of places in Penwith". There was in same list: the similar-looking name of the settlement Boswednack -- like Bosvennen, not featuring on any (paper) map which I have; but with a Wiki entry, stating that it lies on the B3306 road. Also located on that road -- further towards Land's End -- is the village of Kelynack.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Towednack in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Penzance Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Towednack's church was used as a filming venue in the BBC drama series Poldark, based on the novel cycle of that name by Winston Graham. Graham (1908 -- 2003) lived for very many years in Cornwall; but was born in Manchester, and died in Buxted, East Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lidgate in Suffolk also has a post-mounted incised metal village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Lidgate's most prominent son has to be John Lydgate (c.1370 -- c.1451), born there: monk and highly productive poet; also, on a modest scale, graffitist (one would like to imagine him comparing notes with Banksy). Literary scholars reckon Lydgate's talent to have been basically, a modest one: thus his being far less famed than his slightly earlier contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer -- which guy strongly associated, owing to his works, with Canterbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hackington in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Bridge and Petham.

 

[Calthrop]

The central area of Hackington, hard by the settlement's church dedicated to St. Stephen: is called St. Stephen's Green. A much better known thus-called spot, is St. Stephen's Green the garden square and public park in central Dublin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Athgarvan in County Kildare also lies on the line of the River Liffey.

 

[Calthrop]

Athgarvan lies a little way south-west of the considerably larger settlement of Newbridge, Co. Kildare: building in both directions, has meant that the two settlements are now close to merging into one.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hawes in North Yorkshire is another settlement where rope making is still a current industry.

 

[Springs Branch]

There is also a YHA youth hostel in Slaidburn, Lancashire.

 

[Calthrop]

Slaidburn lies on the River Hodder. Great Mitton, some ten miles to its south, is at the confluence of the Hodder with the River Ribble.

 

[Springs Branch]

Despite there being a particularly convivial pub in Great Mitton (The Aspinall Arms - where a good time is guaranteed), it’s Sunday so I’d better make an ecclesiastical association:-

Sutton-on-the-Forest in North Yorkshire also has a church dedicated to All Hallows.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigginton in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Bulmer Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a book A Hundred Years at Sunnyside (in the village of Wigginton near York) by John Edwin Gates -- an account of life in Wigginton from 1912 to 2011. Ronald Blythe did much the same for a Suffolk village, re a slightly earlier period: in his book Akenfield, published 1969. Blythe's "Akenfield" is a fictional name; the village written of is based largely on Charsfield, Suffolk -- a little way north of Woodbridge -- he lived near Charsfield for a considerable length of time.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanbydder in Carmarthenshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanbydder holds a monthly horse fair; Wickham, Hampshire (near Fareham) holds an annual one.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corhampton in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Meon.

 

[Calthrop]

Coombes, West Sussex -- near Shoreham-by-Sea -- also has a parish church undedicated to any saint or other figure.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sullington in West Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Steyning.

 

[Calthrop]

Sullington's rectory, built in the mid-19th century, became in time a private residence. One person who dwelt there for a while, was the novelist and physician A.J. Cronin (creator of, among others, Dr. Finlay of Casebook fame). Cronin (1896 -- 1981) was born in Cardross, Dunbartonshire.

 

[D6130]

The parish church in Cardross was reduced to an empty shell by enemy bombing during World war 2. The same fate befell the original cathedral in Coventry.