Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Feeling a slight dose of "Crusoe syndrome" vis-a-vis Unst: I'm venturing at least to shift us to a different remote Scottish isle. Bearing a name with a very considerable resemblance to Kirkaton: is Kirkapol on Tiree, Argyll and Bute.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ruaig on the Isle of Tiree also lies on the route of the B8069 road.

 

[Calthrop]

On the scene of "glamping" -- luxurious camping -- Wigwam Holidays of Ruaig, offer that experience. Far to the south: the same is afforded by Brook Cottage Shepherd Huts of Pwllheli, Gwynedd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandegwning in Gwynedd was also once under the jurisdiction of the Pwllheli Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Llandegwning lies just off the B4413 road; whose western end is Aberdaron, Gwynedd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Groeslon in Gwynedd also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Llyn Coastal Path.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiki mentions among "notable residents" of Groeslon: "Arwel Jones, 'The Laughing Postman' " -- no further information findable, about this gentleman. Thoughts inevitably prompted, of Allan Smethurst -- a largely humorous singer "in the folk idiom": specialised mostly in making up and performing his own songs, in Norfolk dialect -- was styled thus, as "The Singing Postman". Smethurst grew up in Sheringham, Norfolk; although he spent the majority of his life outside of East Anglia.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Antingham in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Erpingham Poor Law Union.

 

[High Dyke]

Stanmore, Middlesex (London) is another location where a ruined church stands adjacent to the current church.

Antingham: St Mary's parish church, at the south of the village close to the A149 in Church Lane, stands next to the ruins of St Margaret's Church which was abandoned in the late 17th century.

Stanmore: The current parish church of St John the Evangelist was built in the mid-19th Century, but the picturesque ruins of the 17th Century church it replaced still survive in the church’s large burial ground.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a pond on Stanmore Common called Caesars Pond: referring to an alleged battle near there in 54BC, between Julius Caesar's invasion force and the local Catuvellauni tribe. A similarity name-wise, with the Iron Age hill fort a little way south of Bracknell, Berkshire, which is called Caesar's Camp -- but, it would seem, with no historical or pseudo-historical link to doings by Julius, or any other, Caesar.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blythburgh in Suffolk also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

Just north of Blythburgh is the site of the Battle of Bulcamp, 653 or 654 AD; between the forces of East Anglia, and Mercia. King Anna of East Anglia was defeated and killed, together with his son Jurmin. Whence the snatch of woeful ballad: There was sad stir at Blythburgh / To which they brought the king / His corpse, therewith that of his son / Because the Mercian men had done / A sad and dreadful thing. Further warfare-and-bloodshed doings a few centuries later, not all that far away, in the Battle of Maldon (Essex) in 991: Anglo-Saxons versus Vikings -- the latter won.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Fambridge in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Dengie.

 

[High Dyke]

The town holds an annual "Taxi Day" which sees mentally and physically disabled children from London driven to Maldon in London Black Cabs for a fun day of activities and a meal. Or, the annual Mud Race, across the Blackwater estuary at low tide. However, the most notable thing is the production of sea salt for domestic use.

Another producer, amongst others, is the Isle of Skye Sea Salt Co. Ltd. Their website says they are based at Dunvegan, Isle Of Skye.

 

[High Dyke]

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[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Fambridge in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Dengie.

This is the last valid posting.

 

[Calthrop]

North Fambridge has a pub called the Ferry Boat Inn. Lincolnshire for ever ! -- Washingborough, just east of Lincoln, has a pub by the name of the Ferry Boat.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colsterworth in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Witham.

 

[Calthrop]

Niton, Isle of Wight, also has a pub called the White Lion.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldenham in Hertfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[Calthrop]

General Sir Adolphus John Dalrymple (1784 -- 1866), soldier and politician (seemingly not super-prominent in either occupation; I, for sure, had never heard of him before this "move" in the game): had assorted residences, including one in Aldenham; where he spent some time -- and he in fact died and was buried, in Aldenham. This gent was MP for a while, for the then constituency of Haddington Burghs: comprising wide areas of Scotland south-and-east of Edinburgh; and including and named after Haddington, East Lothian.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tyninghame in East Lothian also lies on the line of the River Tyne.

 

[Calthrop]

It was not altogether rare, 2 / 3 centuries ago, for wealthy landowners -- in the interests of aesthetically beautifying the landscape -- to obliterate villages of which they were the landlords (in mitigation, they usually replaced / rebuilt said villages on another site). This appears to have happened throughout the British Isles. It did with Tyninghame on 1761, at the hands of the Earl of Haddington. Likewise in the same era, in Dorset: with Lord Milton, Earl of Dorchester, razing the earlier village of Middleton in order to "landscape"; replacing it with the "new, and now" Milton Abbas -- between Blandford Forum and Puddletown.

 

[High Dyke]

Milton Manor (Mid C19th) was enlarged in the early 20th century in the Arts and Crafts style of building.

The Seion Methodist Chapel in Llanrhaeadr-ym-mochnant, Powys was also rebuilt in the same style, designed by architects Shayler and Ridge of Oswestry.

 

[Calthrop]

Quoting Wiki: "Parts of the 1995 film The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain, starring Hugh Grant, were filmed in [Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant] portraying the real-life village of Taff's Well, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, which by 1995 had become too developed to use."

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoney Middleton in Derbyshire also has a thermal spring.

 

[High Dyke]

A peculiarity of the lead mining industry that took place in Derbyshire was the Barmote Court. The venue alternating between Stoney Middleton and Eyam until the early 20th century.

There were two barmote courts, one covering the High Peak, and one covering the Low Peak. Since 1994, the two have met together, once a year, at Wirksworth. In line with tradition, bread, cheese, clay pipes and tobacco are provided at the meetings, and a representative of the monarch who is the Lord of the Field attends.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirk Ireton in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirksworth.

 

[Calthrop]

Fleetwood, Lancashire, also shares the name of a figure of some eminence in the Parliamentarian army in the English Civil War (Henry Ireton; Charles Fleetwood).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knott End-on-Sea is the other terminus of a cross-river ferry.