Settlement Association

[Class172]

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.

As @transportphoto has already indicated, the Channel Islands are within the geographical remit of this game. Hopefully the following extract from the game's rules make this clear.

Rules:

• Repeating any of the previous three clues or names of settlements in a link is forbidden (you can of course quote a previous post)
• Associations provided should be clearly dissimilar to each of the previous three associations.
• Settlements may be anywhere in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland (Éire), Isle of Man and The Channel Islands.
• A description of the association should be incorporated in each posting, without simply posting the name only.

 

[Calthrop]

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

The bird species the great bustard (Otis tarda) has strong associations with this part of the world (Salisbury Plain), and with Durrington; and Porton, Wiltshire, a few miles to the south. Salisbury Plain was one of the last parts of Britain where the bird was found in the wild; it was exterminated early in the 19th century. One of the last was shot by a shepherd at Durrington in 1802; a Mr. Dudman subsequently painted a picture of the corpse. Attempts are taking place nowadays, to reintroduce the species starting from specimens from abroad; this undertaking has been centred close to the military facility for the development of sundry nasty things, at Porton Down (the facility now bears the sanitised name of a "military science park").

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Montgomery in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[Calthrop]

Livingston, West Lothian, also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Alabama.

 

[DerekC]

Livingston may have given its name to the famous African explorer David Livingstone, who having lost contact with the outside world in 1865, was met in 1871 near Lake Tanganyika by Henry Stanley with the famous words "Dr Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley's antecedents may well have got their name from Stanley , Derbyshire.

 

[D6130]

Livingston gave its name to the famous African explorer David Livingston,

I always thought that Livingston new town - founded in the 1960s - was named after the explorer....who was born in Blantyre, North Lanarkshire.

 

[DerekC]

I always thought that Livingston new town - founded in the 1960s - was named after the explorer....who was born in Blantyre, North Lanarkshire.

Apparently not - the village of Livingstone (which was incorporated into the new town) has a history dating back to the 12th Century.

Blantyre is the site of Scotland's worst mining disaster, in which at least 207 men and boys were killed by a methane explosion. The worst in the UK took place in October 1913 at Senghenydd, Glamorgan. In it, 439 miners were killed in a similar explosion. The owners of the Universal Colliery, where the disaster, happened, were fined £10 with 5 guineas costs for 17 breaches of the Mines Act.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abertridwr in Caerphilly County Borough was also one of the settlements to be included in the Caerphilly Male Heart Disease Study.

 

[Calthrop]

The painter Peter Prendergast (1946 -- 2007) was born in Abertridwr. He lived for a long period in Bethesda, Gwynedd; specialising in pictures of the Penrhyn slate quarries close to that town.

 

[DerekC]

Bethesda is the point where the recently created "Snowdonia Slate Trail" divides to make an 80 mile long loop on its way from Bangor to visit many of the famous quarries of North Wales including those at Croesor, Gwynedd.

 

[A0]

Croesor was the location of a slate mine until 1980 - another, but less well known location of a slate mine was Collyweston in Northamptonshire, which closed in 1963.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Collyweston lies on the path of the Hereward Way. This is a long-distance footpath that links the Viking Way at Oakham with the Peddars Way at Knettishall Heath, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Knettishall, Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ixworth Thorpe in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Blackbourn.

 

[Calthrop]

Ixworth Thorpe's parish church contains "nationally important" carved wooden bench ends, dating from the 15th century. The parish church of Danbury, Essex -- near Chelmsford -- is similarly endowed; date not given, but Wiki mentions re this, that "many pews feature distinctive poppy heads". I, ignorant on such matters -- about which there are on this game, very knowledgeable participants -- cannot help irreverent imaginings of a congregation delighting in certain recreational drugs ...

 

[DerekC]

That same church in Danbury was, according to local folk lore, damaged by the devil in the guise of a monk in 1402. A couple of hundred years later he was at it again. The spire of St Pancras' church at Widecombe in Devon fell in a severe storm in 1638, caused by the devil tethering his horse to it whilst snatching away a young boy who had fallen asleep in church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Torbryan in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Haytor.

 

[D6130]

Edwinstowe in Nottinghamshire also includes a male personal name in its name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ossington in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Southwell Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Barnsley, South Yorkshire, also has a church with the name of the Holy Rood. (Not an area of expertise of mine -- but there seem to be more churches thus-named, than I'd imagined. Predominantly, though not exclusively, a Catholic thing?)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The famous (but now retired) cricket umpire Harold Dennis "Dickie" Bird OBE was born in Barnsley on 19th April 1933. In a first class playing career which lasted between 1956 and 1964, he played 93 matches for Yorkshire and Leicestershire, mostly in the English County Championship.
After his county career ended he became a cricket professional for Paignton Cricket Club between 1965 and 1969, scoring over 10,000 runs.

 

[Calthrop]

Huge puddings are occasionally baked at Paignton, in celebration of momentous events. Denby Dale, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, has a similar custom; only in respect of pies.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dobcross in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

Much of the 1979 film Yanks (a story of American troops in Britain in World War II) was shot in Dobcross. Some other scenes were shot in Keighley, West Yorkshire -- which was chosen for a reason which verges on the taboo in this game: one may infer accordingly !

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanbury in West Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Keighley Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Frankton, Warwickshire -- between Rugby and Leamington -- also has a pub called the Friendly Inn.

 

[D6130]

Guildford in Surrey also has a church dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[Calthrop]

Frensham, Surrey, also lies on the River Wey (south branch thereof -- Guildford is downstream of the river's "split").

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Badshot Lea in Surrey was also once administered by the Hundred of Farnham.

 

[Calthrop]

Remains of mammoths have also been found at Sherford, Devon -- a little way east of Kingsbridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Remains of mammoths have also been found at Sherford, Devon -- a little way east of Kingsbridge.

That is the new town that saw its first houses completed in 2009. There is another Sherford in the same South Hams area of Devon which has been established for over 1,000 years and received a mention in the Domesday Book.