Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

'Barnet' means hair in rhyming slang (Barnet Fair). Chalfont St Giles - abbreviated to 'Chalfonts', as in "Ooh, me Chalfonts is playing up something awful" - is also a rhyming slang term

Sorry to lower the tone.

 

[341o2]

Wimborne St Giles is a Dorset settlement

 

[Calthrop]

Wimborne St. Giles's annual fete "sometimes includes a duck race". New Mills, Derbyshire, holds an annual duck race -- proceeds to charity.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edensor in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of High Peak.

 

[Calthrop]

Edensor is -- in the oft-found English way -- pronounced "Enzer". Another "pronunciation not per spelling" instance is Cowbit, Lincolnshire -- a little way south-east of Spalding -- pronounced "Cubbit". (This is one which drives to fury, my "English-pronunciation-and-spelling-are-phonetic" heretic friend, whom I quite often mention on this game.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quadring in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Spalding Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Durham also has a church dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch, located in the area of the city known in medieval times as the Old Borough, one of five administrative units that made up the city.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanhope in County Durham also lies on the line of the River Wear

 

[Calthrop]

Hathersage, Derbyshire, also has a heated open-air swimming pool.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Long Wittenham in Oxfordshire is another settlement where a Broze Age field system was established.

 

[Calthrop]

I just can't resist "twinnings" -- admittedly, to some extent an easy-and-lazy way to go. Taunton, Somerset, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Calvados. Long Wittenham's "twin" is Thaon; Taunton's is Lisieux.

 

[DerekC]

Taunton is well known as the principal site of the "Bloody Assizes" held in September 1685 after the Monmouth Rebellion failed at the Battle of Sedgemoor. However it wasn't the only one. The five judges led by the infamous Judge Jeffries sat first in Winchester, then Dorchester and Exeter, then Taunton and finally Wells in Somerset.

 

[Calthrop]

Taunton is well known as the principal site of the "Bloody Assizes" held in September 1685 after the Monmouth Rebellion failed at the Battle of Sedgemoor. However it wasn't the only one. The five judges led by the infamous Judge Jeffries sat first in Winchester, then Dorchester and Exeter, then Taunton and finally Wells in Somerset.

(My italics) -- the gentleman concerned, suffered from a painful kidney disease; to alleviate the symptoms of which he, on medical advice, quaffed copious amounts of alcohol: a combination which -- understandably, even if not excusing his conduct -- likely played a part in his notorious harshness and ferocity in his role.

Elixabeth Goudge (1900 -- 1984) -- author of fiction and children's books, acknowledged with praise by J.K. Rowling as an influence re her own writing -- was born in Wells; dwelt for the latter part of her life in Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire (near Henley-on-Thames).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bix in Oxfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Binfield.

 

[DerekC]

Th A4130 which passes through Bix seems related to slightly odd village names, because the next one westwards is Catslip (also in Oxfordshire)

 

[Calthrop]

Very close to Catslip is the village of Nettlebed; which once had what was reckoned to be the only windmill of the "smock" type, in Oxfordshire (it burnt down in 1912). Ibstone, Buckinghamshire -- a few miles north-east of Nettlebed -- still has a smock mill, by the name of Cobstone Mill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burnage in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[DerekC]

Most of the land in Burnage was once owned by the Mosley family. They had various seats, one being Rolleston Hall at Rolleston on Dove, Staffordshire.

 

[Blindtraveler]

Removed

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Most of the land in Burnage was once owned by the Mosley family. They had various seats, one being Rolleston Hall at Rolleston on Dove, Staffordshire.

Drayton Bassett in Staffordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Offlow.

 

[John Griffiths]

Drayton Manor Resort, an amusement park in Drayton Bassett, grew among a number of disused gravel pits; in this, it resembles Thorpe Park Resort, an amusement park at Chertsey in Surrey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coupar Angus in Fife and Kinross also has a church that is dedicated to St Anne.

 

[341o2]

St Anne lends her name to a headland in West Pembroke, the nearest settlement is Dale Fort Field Studies Council where back in my schooldays, a visit was part of the A Level curriculum

 

[Calthrop]

A few miles off the mainland near Dale Fort, is the nature-reserve island of Skokholm; the wardens of which island operated initially from Dale Fort. Strongly associated with Skokholm -- on which he spent much time -- was the naturalist Ronald Lockley (1903 -- 2000): big on seabirds, and rabbits -- Lockley's rabbit-knowledge was considerably drawn on by Richard Adams for Watership Down (and Lockley features as a "bit-part" character in Adams's The Plague Dogs). Lockley's childhood was spent in the Cardiff suburb (County of Cardiff) of Whitchurch.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ely is also a suburb of Cardiff that shares its name with an urban settlement in England.

 

[Calthrop]

Burton Lazars, Leicestershire -- near Melton Mowbray -- also had formerly, but no longer, a regularly-used racecourse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shoby in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Melton Mowbray Poor Law Untion.

 

[Calthrop]

Shoby lies (almost) on the A6006 road. Also on that road is Zouch (just -- in Nottinghamshire; on the River Soar marking the county boundary, and not to be confused with Ashby-de-la-Zouch in "next-door" Leicestershire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prestwold in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Corbridge, Northumberland -- near Hexham -- also has a church dedicated to St. Andrew.