Settlement Association

[High Dyke]

One notable incident in the history of the local area was the 1975 Balcombe Street siege involving members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).

After serving time in English prisons, the four gang members were transferred to the maximum security prison in Portlaoise, County Laoise, Ireland.

 

[Calthrop]

Portlaoise has a pub called -- IMO rather sick-makingly -- the Funky Munky. On another "branch" of the generally simian theme: Wallsend (Tyne and Wear) has a pub called the Powder Monkey.

 

[High Dyke]

Wallsend is at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall. The western end is situated at Bowness-on-Solway, Cumbria.

 

[Greaseball]

Bowness-on-Solway is situated on the former site of Maia, a Roman fort. Another Roman settlement on the Solway Firth was Alauna, which was just north of the town Maryport.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uldale in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Ellen.

 

[Tetragon213]

Whitehaven also has a St James' Church

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The design of St James' Church, Whitehaven has been attributed to Carlisle Spedding, who was the agent and mining engineer to Sir James Lowther, who gave the land on which the church was built. However, the authors of the Buildings of England series note that no other building designed by Spedding is known, and it has been suggested that the architect was Christopher Myers of Monkstown, County Dublin [formerly of Whitehaven], who later designed churches in Ireland, notably the chapel of Trinity College Dublin.

 

[Calthrop]

Ireland has another Monkstown, in Co. Cork -- some 9 miles south-east of Cork city. (And -- strictly in parenthesis re this game -- served by the one-time Cork, Blackrock & Passage 3ft. gauge line.)

 

[High Dyke]

Ringaskiddy is also situated within the historical barony of Kerrycurrihy.

 

[Calthrop]

Ringaskiddy has a bar / restaurant called the Ferry Boat Inn. Stoke Bardolph, Nottinghamshire -- just east of Nottingham -- has an establishment of the same kind, with the same name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Haywood in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Trent.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Samuel Peploe Wood (1827 – 1873) was an English sculptor and painter who was born in the village of Great Haywood. He undertook work on many Staffordshire buildings, including St. Stephen's Church, Great Haywood and All Angels' Church, Colwich.

 

[Calthrop]

Strange things on Wiki, about places -- source of endless fun. Concerning derivation of name of Colwich -- we're told that it means, from the Old English, either "charcoal specialised farm"; or [sic] "Cola's specialised farm". Our forbears a thousand-plus years ago, had come up with the concept of specialisation? -- it's to laugh... imaginably related words-wise, is Colney, Norfolk -- just west of Norwich -- reckoned to come from the Old English for "Cola's Island". We know of course, that Cola must mean in these contexts, name of an Anglo-Saxon chieftain; irresistible to think, though: growing kola nuts, and producing Coca-Cola, in Britain in Anglo-Saxon times? -- come on...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yetminster in Dorset also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[John Griffiths]

Chetnole in Dorset also lies on the wonderfully-named River Wriggle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ryme Intrinseca in Dorset was also once administered by the Hundred of Yetminster.

 

[High Dyke]

The village is sited on a low ridge of cornbrash limestone on the edge of the Blackmore Vale. The Cornbrash Formation is a Middle Jurassic geological formation in England. It ranges in age from Bathonian to Callovian, the uppermost part of the Middle Jurassic.

Although only a thin group of rocks (10–25 feet c. 3–7 m), it is remarkably persistent; it may be traced from Weymouth to the Yorkshire coast, but in north Lincolnshire it is very thin, and probably dies out in the neighbourhood of the Humber. It appears again, however, as a thin bed in places like Cayton, North Yorkshire.

 

[Calthrop]

A subject which always appeals to me: it would appear from available information, that Cayton is (though possibly not on the official list thereof) one of Britain's very few "doubly-thankful villages" -- no inhabitant of the village killed in either World War I, or II. Another doubly-thankful thus, is Stocklinch, Somerset -- between Taunton and Crewkerne.

 

[John Griffiths]

Stourbridge in the West Midlands also had a microbrewery that has now sadly closed down.

 

[Calthrop]

Stourbridge has long been a prominent venue for the craft of glass-making -- it hosts every two years, the International Festival of Glass. Also of some -- though rather less -- note on this scene: is Seaham, County Durham.

 

[Tetragon213]

Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Milbank had their wedding at Seaham Hall. Their daughter, Ada Lovelace, had her marriage at Fordhook House in Ealing

 

[Calthrop]

Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Milbank had their wedding at Seaham Hall. Their daughter, Ada Lovelace, had her marriage at Fordhook House in Ealing

I'd thought that Ada was wedded to early computers ...

Ealing has a long-established and well-loved pub called The Old Hat. Preston Bissett, Buckinghamshire -- between Buckingham and Bicester -- had a pub of the same name (now a private dwelling).

 

[High Dyke]

Branston, Lincolnshire also has a croquet club.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cherry Willingham in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.

 

[Tetragon213]

Pickering is also home to a St Peter and Paul's Church

 

[Calthrop]

Eynsford, Kent, also shares -- by a slight bit of a stretch -- the name of a character in Shaw's play Pygmalion and its musical adaptation My Fair Lady: respectively, Colonel Hugh Pickering and Freddy Eynsford-Hill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stockport in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Martin.

 

[Tetragon213]

Derby's local football team is another EFL team with the word "County" in its name (Of the 72 currently in Championship/League One/League Two, just 4 in total have the suffix "county" in the name; bonus points if you can name the other 2 as of 2025!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derby's local football team is another EFL team with the word "County" in its name (Of the 72 currently in Championship/League One/League Two, just 4 in total have the suffix "county" in the name; bonus points if you can name the other 2 as of 2025!)

The other two teams are Notts County and Newport County...in answer to the raised query

For an association with Derby. I will say that Leicester lends its name to a type of cheese.

 

[Tetragon213]

The other two teams are Notts County and Newport County...in answer to the raised query

For an association with Derby. I will say that Leicester lends its name to a type of cheese.

Hethel is also home to the headquarters of a British high-performance car manufacturer (Noble Automotive in Leicester, who make the M500; Lotus Cars in Hethel, whose reputation speaks for itself)