Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wortwell in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Depwade Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

At Wortwell is the grave of Ezekiel Blomfield (1778 -- 1818): Congregational minister, and compiler of religious works and works on natural history. A contemporary (by a narrow-ish margin) of his -- also a Christian minister-cum-naturalist -- was the much better-known Rev. Gilbert White (1720 -- 1793): who is of course strongly associated with Selborne, Hampshire -- his parish for longer periods than any other, and about the natural history of which, he wrote his master-work.

 

[D6130]

Selborne was once the centre of Hampshire's hop-growing district, which provided hops mainly for the four breweries which once existed in Alton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster also has a Society of Friends Meeting House.

 

[Calthrop]

Eastwood, Nottinghamshire; also shares its name with the surname of a renowned American film actor with life and work spanning the majority of the 20th century -- Burt, and Clint, respectively -- overall fairly similar re genres and type of roles.

 

[A0]

The footballer Jeff Astle was born in Eastwood but played at West Bromwich Albion for most of his career.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whalley Range in Greater Manchester also has a Sikh Gurdwara.

 

[A0]

Whalley Range was one of Manchester's first suburbs built by businessman Samuel Brooks.

Brooks was born in Great Harwood (Lancs).

 

[Calthrop]

Linlithgow, West Lothian, also has a church dedicated to St. John.

 

[D6130]

Falkland in Fife also has a ruined former royal palace.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway was also created a Royal Burgh during the reign of King James II.

 

[A0]

Kirkcudbright was used in the filming of the cult film The Wicker Man, also used was Isle of Whithorn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glenluce in Wigtownshire also lies on the route of a footpath walk that visits former pilgrimage sites en route known as The Pilgrim's Way.

 

[Calthrop]

Coupar Angus, Perth & Kinross, is or has been the site of a Cistercian abbey: that of Glenluce is ruined -- only a small section remains, of that of Coupar Angus.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Meikleour in Perth and Kinross also lies on the line of the River Isla.

 

[Calthrop]

Meikleour; and Henleaze (northern suburb of Bristol); are both the site, respectively, of hedges of considerable distinction; and very different kinds. Meikleour's is a beech hedge, planted in 1746: reputedly the longest hedge in Britain (a third of a mile), and highest in the world (100 feet). Henleaze's "Phoenix Hedge" is reckoned about 800 years old: composed of a mixture of woody-plant species -- eight of them, including ash, elm, and dog rose -- it is just under 300 feet long.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandwick in Orkney also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[Calthrop]

Durrington, Wiltshire -- close by Amesbury and Bulford -- also has near to the settlement, and in the parish with its name: prominent Neolithic settlement site(s). For Sandwick, Skara Brae; for Durrington, Durrington Walls and Woodhenge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wythenshawe in Greater Manchester also has a Community Church.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The actor Harry H Corbett attended Ross Place and Benchill Primary Schools and Sharston Secondary School in Wythenshawe. He was born on 28th February 1925 in Rangoon, Burma and died on 21st March 1982, aged 57, in Hastings, East Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wimborne Minster In Dorset has also hosted folk festivals.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Ouen parish in Jersey is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Manche. Wimborne Minster's "twin" is Valognes; St. Ouen's is Coutances.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Ouen parish in Jersey is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Manche. Wimborne Minster's "twin" is Valognes; St. Ouen's is Coutances.

Wondering whether I'm reckoned to have thrown a spanner into the works with the above (Jersey parishes have been accepted and latched-onto in the game, a number of times in the quite recent past). If people wish: I'm ready to scrap the above, and do another association from Wimborne Minster (or someone else could have a go). Or maybe all participants except me, are taking a breather from Settlement Association ...

 

[transportphoto]

The Channel Islands are expressly permitted within the game, I’ll leave the floor to anyone with a creative brain to think of a new association!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Channel Islands are expressly permitted within the game, I’ll leave the floor to anyone with a creative brain to think of a new association!

I will tentatively offer up the following posting submission, but it can be disregarded if it does not meet with the accordance of the quiz....

St Brelade is another of the Jersey parishes that erected a memorial to those parish inhabitants as serving soldiers that were killed in the Great War of 1914-1918.

 

[Springs Branch]

Taking this to mean the Jersey settlement of St Brelade without an 'i' . . .

St Brelade takes its name from a corruption of the name St Branwalator - a Celtic saint whose relics* were kept at the abbey at Milton Abbas in Dorset.

* - i.e. body parts; allegedly an arm or the head.

 

[Calthrop]

It was not altogether uncommon in the 18th century for landowners -- doing so for what they saw as aesthetic reasons -- to have a village which they owned, demolished; and re-erected in an alternative site in the area; often furnishing better accommodation in the new settlement, than there had been in the old -- still a practice which to modern eyes, seems monstrous. This happened re Milton Abbas, at the hands of Lord Milton, Earl of Dorchester -- he had the former village of Middleton razed, and replaced by the new Milton Abbas. Nuneham Courtenay -- a little way south-east of Oxford -- was the victim in that era, of a similar action on the part of the local magnate.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abingdon in Oxfordshire also lies on the lines of the River Thames.

 

[Calthrop]

Amesbury, Wiltshire, is a rival claimant to Abingdon for the title of England's oldest town.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Stonehenge is located within the parish of Amesbury; Woodhenge is located within the parish of Durrington.