Settlement Association

[DerekC]

The Battle of Lewisham, which took place on 13 August 1977 between 500 National Front supporters attempting to stage an anti-immigrant march and about 4000 Anti-Fascist opponents, is reminiscent of the much larger Battle of Cable Street, which took place on 4th October 1936 and resulted in about 2,000 members of the British Union of Fascists being prevented from marching through the East End, despite the efforts of 6,000 Metropolitan Policemen in support of the march. Estimates of the size of the opposing crowd vary, but are in the range 100,000 to 300,000. Cable Street is quite long and runs from the City of London via Wapping and Shadwell to Stepney, East London.

 

[Calthrop]

Stepney is one of the more "inner" districts of London, featured in the old nursery-ish rhyme Oranges and Lemons -- supposed messages expressed by the bells of the district's churches ("When will that be? say the bells of Stepney"). A sombre quasi-parody of this piece -- quite often occurring in the past of this game -- is The Bells of Rhymney (County Borough of Cardiff): somewhat-matching wording, but transplanted to a South Wales hit desperately hard by the 1930s economic depression; featuring the church bells of assorted South Welsh towns.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Borth in Ceredigion also has a church that is dedicated to St Matthew.

 

[A0]

Borth has a zoo, as does Twycross (Leics).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peckleton in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Market Bosworth Poor Law Union.

 

[M-Train]

Golders Green also shares a borough with the site of a significant battle in the Wars of the Roses.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheetham Hill in Greater Manchester is another area that saw enclaves of Jewish settlement.

 

[M-Train]

Acton in London also has a preserved transport depot.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chiswick in West London was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ossulstone.

 

[A0]

IBM had their UK headquarters in Chiswick, they are now in Portsmouth

 

[M-Train]

At present, the Woolwich Ferry is also at the edge of an emissions zone, like the Wightlink terminal at Portsmouth is.

 

[A0]

Like Woolwich, Wimbledon had a football club which relocated and renamed itself. (Arsenal and Wimbledon / MK Dons).

 

[DerekC]

Wimbledon Common was, of course, the home of the Wombles. Their creator, Elisabeth Beresford, lived in Wimbledon for several years but in 1975 moved to St Anne, Alderney, where she stayed until her death in 2010.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shevington in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Anne.

 

[Calthrop]

Shevington's rugby team is called the Shevington Sharks; its association football team, the Shevington Strikers. Another local sports side with an alliterative name -- one which delights me; I've used it in the game before -- association "footy" again: is that of Ballyvary, Co. Mayo (north-east of Castlebar) -- the Ballyvary Blue Bombers. The kit which they wear to play, is of course coloured blue.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carracastle in County Mayo also has a hurling team.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Like Carracastle, Lavybeg, County Mayo is also on the L1331 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gortahork in County Donegal also lies on the route of the 964 bus service that calls at a great number of small settlements.

 

[Calthrop]

Gortahork is reckoned to be the settlement with the eighth-highest percentage of daily Irish speakers, in Ireland. As regards the settlement with the highest percentage of same: "trick questions" / paradox would seem to come into play: it is -- wait for it -- Dublin and its suburbs (18%, numbering 14,229 speakers). Clearly the same situation which makes Glasgow the No. 1 settlement -- by number anyway -- for Gaelic speakers in Scotland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Calthrop]

Athgarvan, we learn, comes from the Irish for "Garvan's ford". Similarly, Athlone (border, Counties Westmeath / Roscommon), is from "Luan's ford". Dead easy, this Irish lingo -- surprising that it has only fourteen-thousand-odd speakers in Dublin ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glin in County Limerick also lies on the line of the River Shannon.

 

[D6130]

'The Knight of Glin' was the hereditary title of the head of the Fitzgerald/Fitzmaurice family of landed Anglo-Irish gentry, whose seat was Glin Castle. The last holder of the title was Desmond John Villiers Fitzgerald who died in 2011, having produced five daughters but no sons, the title thereafter becoming dormant. He was born in Paddington, London, in 1937. (Source: Wikipedia - edited).

 

[M-Train]

Holborn was another of the few Central London trolleybus terminals, though this was uniquely a relatively wide loop on several streets.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tredunnock in Monmouthshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[Calthrop]

In Tredunnock's churchyard is the grave of Isabella Gill: only child of Sir John Franklin (1786 -- 1847), pioneer of the North-West Passage. Franklin was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ludlow in Shropshire also is a settlement with a Buttercross.

 

[D6130]

Malton in North Yorkshire is also a 'slow food' town.

 

[Calthrop]

Malton Priory, now a parish church; was originally a religious house of the Gilbertine Order, the only monastic order which originated in England. The order's "mother house" was Sempringham (Lincolnshire -- south of Sleaford) Priory: founded by the order's eponymous 12th-century Saint Gilbert, son of the lord of the manor of Sempringham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Edston in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Rydale Wapentake.