Settlement Association

[D6130]

The huge Ravenscraig steelworks complex was once situated between Wishaw, Holytown and Motherwell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunnichen in Angus also has a Quoad Sacra parish.

 

[Calthrop]

Dunnichen in Angus also has a Quoad Sacra parish.

Dunnichen has been since 1985 the scene of -- in various forms -- a plentifully attended annual popular-music festival: with some controversy about alleged aspects of the participants' conduct. The Isle of Wight has long had a similar annual festival -- now, one gathers, established and "respectable"; but in its earlier years controversial, as with the Scottish one. The 1970 Isle of Wight festival, which raised a few eyebrows, took place at Afton Down near Freshwater.


@Xenophon PCDGS -- the remarkable things which you come up with in the general ecclesiatical / religious realm ... I initially wondered whether the expression concerned, arose from the rather similar-sounding stuff with which the Britons painted themselves for war; adapted by ancient-Roman priests into a more sophisticated version, wherewith people might adorn themselves for religious ceremonies? ... in fact, I learn, it's an adminstrative thing of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian, not Episcopal).

 

[A0]

Freshwater's lifeboat is not run by the RNLI. There are a number of independent lifeboats around the country like this, including Hemsby in Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Billockby in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the East and West Flegg Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Billockby in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the East and West Flegg Poor Law Union.

Repps with Bastwick, Norfolk -- a few miles away -- lies, pretty much, at the other end of the B1152 road.

 

[A0]

Repps with Bastwick has a church with a round tower as does Snailwell in Cambridgeshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Seaton, Rutland -- near Uppingham -- also has a pub called the George and Dragon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkburton in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to All Hallows.

 

[Calthrop]

Kirkburton has a pub called the Foxglove; its name until 2000, was the Three Owls. Also in Yorkshire -- but North, not West -- is Summerbridge, north-west of Harrogate; where there is a B & B called Owl's Retreat.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fewston in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Upper Division of the Claro Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

A dweller at New Hall near Fewston (great house which no longer exists) was Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1584 -- 1648): military commander in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War, and father of Thomas Fairfax, head of the New Model Army in that war. The elder Fairfax died at Bolton Percy, North Yorkshire (south-west of York).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Appleton Roebuck in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[D6130]

Egmanton in Nottinghamshire also has a former windmill that has been converted into a private house. (Incidentally, both structures are siuated alongside - and clearly visible from - the East Coast Main Line).

 

[Calthrop]

Kimmeridge, Dorset -- on the Purbeck coast -- also has oil wells, active "in a (very) small way of business".

 

[D6130]

Sway in Hampshire also has a prominent "folly" tower.

 

[Calthrop]

Buckfastleigh, Devon, also has a church dedicated to St. Luke.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rattery in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Stanborough.

 

[A0]

Rattery is the location of Marley House, renamed in 1925 to Syon Abbey when the formerly exiled community of nuns whose antecedents were from Syon Monastery, in Twickenham, Middlesex took up residence.

 

[D6130]

Murrayfield in the Western suburbs of Edinburgh also has a major international Rugby stadium.

 

[Calthrop]

Ventnor, Isle of Wight, also has a golf club and course.

 

[D6130]

Kew in South West London also has botanical gardens.

 

[A0]

Kew was the location of Dodge's truck plant in the UK until 1967, production was then moved to Dunstable (Beds).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The hamlet of Sheep Lane in Bedfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Manshead,

 

[A0]

The pub at Sheep Lane is named 'The Flying Fox' - as we all know, foxes don't fly. Another place with a pub named as a flying animal, when the animal doesn't fly is nearby Clophill who's pub is The Flying Horse.

 

[Calthrop]

The pub at Sheep Lane is named 'The Flying Fox' - as we all know, foxes don't fly.

Ah, but there is the genus Pteropus -- the fruit bat, or flying fox -- abundant in various equatorial and southerly climes. With horses, as below -- admittedly you've got me there.

Another place with a pub named as a flying animal, when the animal doesn't fly is nearby Clophill who's pub is The Flying Horse.

Also located on the River Flit, in this part of Bedfordshire but a few miles to the east, is Shefford; where the Flit is joined by its tributary the Hit. They clearly like monosyllabic river names hereabouts.

 

[A0]

Shefford is the home of B&T Brewery, which originally as Banks and Taylor was founded in 1981.

Another place with a brewery founded in 1981 is South Woodham Ferrers in Essex, where Crouch Vale brewery is based.

 

[Calthrop]

Another multiple-word-named settlement, last word "Ferrers": is Bere Ferrers, Devon -- a little way north-west of Plymouth.

 

[A0]

Another settlement with Bere is Bere Regis in Dorset.

Bere is an old English word meaning an under-wood, scrub or copse

 

[Calthrop]

Another settlement with Bere is Bere Regis in Dorset.

Harleston, Norfolk, also has a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

Bere is an old English word meaning an under-wood, scrub or copse

In the current lively thread on "Railway History & Nostalgia", about the hypothetical transport-related details of Paddington Bear's reaching Britain: posters have lately been citing as possible arrival points, assorted settlements with bear-related names -- one of such (this poster clearly not an etymologist) was Bere Ferrers.