Settlement Association

[D6130]

Dunham Massey in Cheshire also has a deer park.

 

[Springs Branch]

There’s also a pub named The Rope & Anchor in Poole, Dorset.

 

[Calthrop]

As of a handful of centuries ago, things had worked out that Poole did much transatlantic trade with Newfoundland. Around the eighteenth century, there was an established "triangle of trade" as follows -- Poole to Newfoundland: salt and provisions. Newfoundland to southern Europe: dried and salted fish, for which southern Europe's Catholic countries were avid, with their mandatory "no meat on Fridays, only fish". Southern Europe to Poole: wine, olive oil, and salt. In the same era, Bristol played a big part in a better-known, and regrettable, "triangle of trade" (same ocean, but travelling in different directions). Britain to West Africa: various junk to be swapped there for slaves. West Africa to the Caribbean area: slaves. Caribbean area to Britain: stuff grown in said New World area -- above all, sugar.

 

[D6130]

Glasgow was also a major centre of the tobacco trade from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ness in Cheshire West and Chester also has noted botanic gardens.

 

[Calthrop]

Bingham, Nottinghamshire, also has a pub called the Wheatsheaf.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stalybridge in Greater Manchester also has an archery club.

 

[D6130]

Delph in Greater Manchester (Oldham Metropolitan Borough) is also situated on the River Tame.

 

[Springs Branch]

Cramlington in Northumberland also has an Indian restaurant trading as Bay Leaf.

 

[D6130]

Cramlington was expanded as an overspill new town to the North of Newcastle in the 1960's. The corresponding new town to the South of the city is Washington.

 

[Calthrop]

Cramlington was expanded as an overspill new town to the North of Newcastle in the 1960's. The corresponding new town to the South of the city is Washington.

Washington, Tyne and Wear, as above: has a namesake US state (to say nothing of "federal districts"); as has Virginia, Co. Cavan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Macosquin in County Londonderry was also established as one of the settlements established during the Plantation of Ulster.

 

[Calthrop]

Macosquin in County Londonderry was also established as one of the settlements established during the Plantation of Ulster.

Filey, North Yorkshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

(I'm a bit vain of my knowledge of Irish topography -- north and south -- but Macosquin is a totally new one on me.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Osmotherley in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Cleveland Way.

 

[Calthrop]

Osmotherley has a pub called the Queen Catherine (presumably after one "missus" of Henry VIII, out of several possibles) -- which appears to be the only pub of that name, in the country. Of not total dissimilarity, perhaps -- in Locksbottom, London Borough of Bromley, is the British Queen pub: thus honouring Boudicca, one gathers.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cudham in the London Borough of Bromley (formerly in Kent) was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bromley Poor Law Unon.

 

[Calthrop]

Born in Cudham, was the music-hall comedian and dancer Little Tich (1867 -- 1928, real name Harry Relph). In his show-business career, which began at an early age: he performed in many and various places, in Britain and abroad; including, early in said career, a decidedly unsuccessful spell in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. (L.T.'s stage name came from his childhood nickname of "Tichborne"; plus the "little", referring to his diminutive stature of 4ft. 6in. The slang "titch", and "titchy", referring to small people or things; originated from this gentleman's stage name, not vice versa.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stourport-on-Severn in Worcestershire also lies on the line of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

 

[D6130]

Ironbridge in Shropshire also lies on the River Severn....and was also the site of a coal-fired power station.

 

[Calthrop]

There lived in Ironbridge, Roger Squires (1932 -- 2023): holder of the record as the most prolific known compiler of crosswords. "Grand old man" of the cryptic crossword is generally reckoned to be Derrick Somerset Macnutt (1902 -- 71): who under the pseudonym of Ximenes, set crosswords for the Observer from 1939 till his death. Macnutt was born in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

 

[D6130]

Weston-super-Mare in Somerset also has a floral clock on the seafront.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Fortune in East Lothian also has an aviation museum.

 

[Springs Branch]

During WW1, East Fortune was the location of a Royal Navy Air Service (RNAS) station, supporting operation of British versions of Zeppelin-style rigid airships.

Another main RNAS airship base was at Pulham Saint Mary in Norfolk.

 

[Fermiboson]

The church of St Mary the Virgin at Pulham St Mary is 23.22km as the crow flies to Norwich train station, as is the cemetery at Dereham, Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alton Barnes in Wiltshire is another settlement when a hoard of Roman coinage was discovered.

 

[Springs Branch]

Compton Dundon in Somerset is also home to a business offering short holidays in horse-drawn gypsy caravans.

 

[Fermiboson]

A prominent feature of Compton Dundon is the Admiral Hood Memorial, a tall obelisk commemorating said admiral at the top of a grassy knoll. Another conurbation with an obelisk memorial commemorating a famous military leader at the top of a grassy knoll is Woodstock, Oxfordshire, with the Column of Victory at Blenheim Palace adjacent to the town commemorating the victory of the Duke of Marlborough during the War of the Spanish Succession.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Duns Tew in Oxfordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Woodstock Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of England parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, Duns Tew has a ring of five bells in it's tower. The ring contains a tenor bell cast by Matthew III Bagley of Chacombe, Northamptonshire in 1768.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edgcote in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the River Cherwell.