Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Nicholas of Tingewick was a medieval physician who served as doctor to Kings Edward I and II, Edward I describing him as "the best doctor for the king's health". Good he may have been, but not enough to treat the dysentery which carried Edward off on 6 July 1307 at Burgh by Sands, Cumberland.

 

[Calthrop]

Nicholas of Tingewick was a medieval physician who served as doctor to Kings Edward I and II, Edward I describing him as "the best doctor for the king's health". Good he may have been, but not enough to treat the dysentery which carried Edward off on 6 July 1307 at Burgh by Sands, Cumberland.

[my italics above]... and everyone in Scotland jumped for joy...

The parish church of Burgh by Sands, St. Michael's: is a fortified church -- a not altogether rare thing in strife-prone regions. Another fortified church is Old St. Mary's, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mallow in County Cork also has a racecourse.

 

[D6130]

Strathaven in South Lanarkshire also has a ruined castle.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sir Harry Lauder, who died at his home in Strathaven, was born in the Edinburgh seaside suburb Portobello

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Duddingston also in the Edinburgh administered area also lies on the line of the Figgate Burn.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Sheep Heid Inn in Duddingston is claimed to be the oldest pub in Scotland. The Skirrid Mountain Inn in Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, is claimed to be the oldest pub in Wales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corkbeg in County Cork also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[John Griffiths]

Fawley in Hampshire is also adjacent to an oil refinery.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Calshot in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Dibden.

 

[John Griffiths]

Swannington in Leicestershire also has a church dedicated to St George.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upminster in the London Borough of Havering also has a windmill which has been involved in restoration works upon it.

 

[Calthrop]

The Rev. William Derham (1675 -- 1735) was Rector of Upminster; and among other avocations, a keen scientist and scientific researcher. He made the first accurate calculation of the speed of sound, via experiments using local churches -- including St. Laurence's, Upminster -- as "vantage / hearing points". He was born in Stoulton, Worcestershire -- a little way north-west of Pershore.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hill Croome in Worcestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Oswaldslow.

 

[Calthrop]

Woodham Ferrers, Essex, also has a church dedicated to Saint Mary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buttsbury in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chelmsford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Another place where there was considerable bloodshed in the course of the suppression of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381: is North Walsham, Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oswestry in Shropshire also has a market cross.

 

[Calthrop]

In the course of Owain Glyndwr's early-15th-century rebellion against English rule in Wales; the town of Oswestry was burned and largely destroyed by the Welsh -- thence called in Welsh for a time, Pentrepoeth = "hot village". Nowadays there is an area of Newport, South Wales: with the name Pentrepoeth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanidloes in Powys was also involved in the Chartist Revolt of 1839.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanidloes's half-timbered Old Market Hall is the only surviving half-timbered building of any magnitude, in Wales. Such specimens survive in far greater numbers, in England: one of same being the Old House in Hereford -- a fine three-storeyed construction which since 2017 has been named -- and has functioned as -- the Black and White House Museum.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hay-on-Wye in Powys is another settlement where a Butter Market was established.

 

[DerekC]

Hay on Wye is well known for its bookshops (there are said to be twenty currently) and its annual festival of literature. Less well known is the literary festival at Budleigh Salterton in Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Venn Ottery in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of East Budleigh.

 

[Calthrop]

Bedale, North Yorkshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Gregory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby Fleetham in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Hang East Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Kirkby Fleetham lies close by the River Swale, which is a tributary of the River Ure. The last settlement on the Swale before it joins the Ure, is Myton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire -- a little way east of Boroughbridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skaithmuir in Scottish Borders was also the scene of a battle that was won by the Kingdom of Scotland in the First War of Scottish Independance.

 

[John Griffiths]

There is a Skaithmuir Avenue in the euphonious Cardiff district of Splott.

 

[Calthrop]

Welsh-placename-euphony: a thing which I find inspirational in this game -- and have thus in the past, quite often quoted from -- is the book (compiled in the 1940s) which we had in my childhood home, of various silly-but-diverting humour; including a large section of "clerihews" on the names of assorted settlements in Britain. There was one therein, about the abovementioned Cardiff district:

Splott / Sounds Teutonic, does it not? / But instead of being in, say, Bavaria / It's a South Wales built-up area.

I remember no other such rhyme from this collection, about anywhere else in Wales; but there is a rhyme, source unknown anyway to me, about a settlement further north in Wales: Dolgellau, Gwynedd. The rhyme -- thought up long ago-- uses the former standard English spelling of the name, viz. Dolgelly (fun to be had involving English-versus-Welsh spelling / pronunciation, whichever rendering used). The sub-optimal hostelry mentioned, is "asterisked" in the rhyme's printed version: will use here, a name picked at random -- the "Anchor".

If ever you go to Dolgelly / Don't stay at the Anchor Hotel; / There's nothing to put in your belly / And no-one to answer the bell.