EbbwJunction1
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St Michael and All Angels, Croft is one of three churches in a combined Parish which also contains St Mary the Virgin, Broughton Astley and St Michael's, Stoney Stanton.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Peatling Magna in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lutterworth Poor Law Union.
EbbwJunction1
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In 1265, Peatling Magna stepped onto the national stage when, after the Battle of Evesham, the villagers refused to co-operate with men of the victorious royal forces, on the grounds that the latter were “going against the welfare of the community of the realm”. The fracas which followed eventually led to the village appearing in court, as recorded in the Plea Rolls of 1266, in the person of the reeve and four men as representatives of “the community of the vill" (a term used in English history to describe the basic rural land unit).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Frome in Somerset is also a settlement in which a hoard of Roman coinage was discovered.
EbbwJunction1
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The Anglican Christ Church in Frome was built in 1817 and 1818 and is a Grade II* listed building. It was built as a "free church" (which meant that no-one paid pew rent) to the designs of George Allen Underwood (1793 – 1829). He was an Cheltenham based architect; he was also responsible for the extension and remodelling of Beaminster Manor in 1822.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Melbury Sampford in Dorset was also once under the jurisdiction of the Beaminster Poor Law Union.
Broughty Ferry, City of Dundee, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.
Per my road-atlas gazetteer, there are only four settlements in Britain with the Melbury name; all in Dorset. Melbury Sampford is in a cluster of villages between Yeovil and Maiden Newton: also including Melbury Osmond and Melbury Bubb. Melbury Abbas is way off east, near Shaftesbury. Dorset must rank high among English counties for sonorous and / or dotty village names -- I consider that Lincolnshire does even better in that respect, but I'm biased.
EbbwJunction1
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St. Mary’s Church, Broughty Ferry, was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and was dedicated in 1858, ten years after the congregation was founded. In 1886, the organ (a gift from the Don family) was built. It was enlarged in 1892 and electric action installed in 1950. In 1982 J W Walker and Sons carried out a complete overhaul. In 2014 new electrics and a new console were added by John R Lightbown Organ Builders Ltd, who are based in North Shields, Tyne & Wear.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Clara Vale in Tyne and Wear also lies on the line of the River Tyne.
Clara Vale has a Local Nature Reserve, among whose attractions are "wild rare breed cows" (sic -- surely not "wild" in the fullest sense). Chartley Park close by Stowe-by-Chartley, near Stafford: has a herd -- of many centuries' vintage -- of Old English White Park cattle.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Burford in Oxfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.
A "staple" of mine: Bernard Cornwell's for me, rather fine 9th-century historical / thriller novels; their hero / narrator the splendidly contrary Uhtred: war-leader for, and personal thorn in the flesh of, Alfred the Great. Burford features in this series, "semi-historically-named" as "Beorgford". The same applies to Bamburgh, Northumberland: under the name of "Bebbanburg" -- Uhtred's usurped patrimony, which he perpetually hopes one day to regain.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Yeavering in Northumberland was another settled area of the Brythonic Kingdom of Bryneich.
Kirknewton, Northumberland, is a mile or two west of Yeavering; close to where the College Burn, flowing northward from near The Cheviot eminence, joins the River Glen. The "folk-oid" song The College Valley Hunt -- a newish ditty, telling of an epic day's fox-hunting eighty years ago -- mentions among the ground traversed that day, the hill Yeavering Bell, south of Yeavering.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Akeld in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Glendale Poor Law Union.
Striking out following highlighting about rules of quiz.
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Do we have any strong views from the regular players here about whether this is a settlement association link, or perhaps more of a station association link?
My understanding is that -- as, briefly and in bare essentials, set out in post #1 inaugurating this game -- said game, "Settlement Association", should be about anything and everything which might associate settlements with each other; except for railway-related stuff (stations, and other). Other participants have, elsewhere in the thread -- I can't, on the spot, locate such references -- reinforced this stipulation.
I myself occasionally make in posts here, railway-related references; but emphasise that they are "just for interest", irrelevant to the progress of the game. I try to be scrupulous about making actual associations, rail-free -- occasionally, I perhaps "push the envelope" a bit.
ETA: quote from another participant a few years ago (happened-on by chance): "please do not make any railway-related postings on this quiz".
I myself occasionally make in posts here, railway-related references; but emphasise that they are "just for interest", irrelevant to the progress of the game. I try to be scrupulous about making actual associations, rail-free -- occasionally, I perhaps "push the envelope" a bit.
ETA: quote from another participant a few years ago (happened-on by chance): "please do not make any railway-related postings on this quiz".
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Ok, NP. I have struck it out. Was really struggling for something to go with Tarset......
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Shall we try
Bala is a few miles down the road from a reservoir (Llyn Celyn) like Tarset (Kielder Water)
Bala is a few miles down the road from a reservoir (Llyn Celyn) like Tarset (Kielder Water)
A figure of some fame, born near Bala: was Betsi Cadwaladr (1789 -- 1860) who towards the end of her adventurous life, was a Crimean War nursing colleague of Florence Nightingale (their work relationship tended not to be harmonious). Florence N. lived for some time in her childhood, at Lea, Derbyshire -- a little way east of Matlock.
I didn't set out to be fiendish with Tarset -- reckoned there to be a few things in the Wiki entry for it, which might be latched onto. Anyway, see your Llyn Celyn vis-a-vis Kielder Water, as fine !
DerekC
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Nether Langwith, just over the country boundary in Nottinghamshire, also has a pub with the appropriate name of "The Jug and Bottle"
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sookholme in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.
Sookholme is the site of a Roman pottery kiln, something it shares with Elstree (Herts).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire was also chosen as a site in which to build a film studio.
D6130
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Godshill on the Isle of Wight also has a model village.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Little Horwood in Buckinghamshire also has a church with medieval wall paintings.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wishaw in Lanarkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Ignatius.