Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hinton Ampner in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Alresford Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

The garden of Hinton Ampner House is home to a locally well known scarecrow who seems to be dressed in a different outfit each time I visit. Scarecrows are a bit of a thing at Urchfont in Wiltshire, where they hold a scarecrow festival every year on the weekend of the early May Bank Holiday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prestbury in Cheshire East is another settlement in which remains of bowl barrows were found.

 

[High Dyke]

The River Bollin passes through Prestbury before flowing into the Mersey section of the Manchester Ship Canal at Warburton, Greater Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire also has a toll bridge.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Milford Haven was founded in 1790 by Sir William Hamilton, who designed a grid street pattern. He intended it to be a whaling centre, but by 1800 it was developing as a Royal Navy dockyard; it remained as such until the dockyard was transferred to Pembroke in 1814.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gumfreston in Pembrokeshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Pembroke Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

William Wogan (1678–1758) was an Irish religious writer, sympathetic with early Methodism. He was possibly born in Gumfreston or in Ireland, but was the son of Ethelred Wogan, the rector of Gumfreston. After a period in Ireland, from about 1727, he lived at Ealing in Middlesex, but died at his daughter's house at Stonham Aspal, a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk; he was buried at Ealing on 29 January 1758.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swilland in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Bosmere and Claydon.

 

[DerekC]

Toad Hall seems to be a popular name for equestrian centres. There is one in Swilland and another near Uckfield, East Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mawdesley in Lancashire also has a millennium green.

 

[High Dyke]

Ardfern (Scottish Gaelic: Aird Fheàrna) is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is also associated with the growing of willow trees, for things like basket making or cricket bats.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stromness in Orkney also has a marina.

 

[D6130]

Stromness is the Northern terminus of a regular passenger and vehicle ferry service from Scrabster in Caithness

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mybster in Scottish Highlands also lies on the route of the A9 road.

 

[johnnychips]

Mybster has a broch, a stone tower common in the Highlands. There is also a Broch of Gurness, on Orkney. The nearest settlement to it seems to be Evie.

 

[DerekC]

The island of Eynhallow, off the coast at Evie, is famous as the former home of the mythical Finfolk (mermen/mermaids) who were driven away by the farmer Guidman o'Thorodale. The boss of the Finfolk was said to be The Great Sulkie who lived on Sule Skerry, a small uninhabited island about thirty miles due north of Bettyhill in the former county of Sutherland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Mey in Scottish Highlands also lies on the route of the A836 road.

 

[johnnychips]

East Mey has a post box on a metal column with a red crown on a silver rectangular plate. Its collection times are 0900 Mon-Fri and 0700 Saturday. An identical box (albeit with its Royal Mail sign not missing) can be found in Skipwith Gardens, Rossington, South Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hooton Pagnell in South Yorkshire was also once administered by the Lower Division of the Strafforth and Tickhill Wapentake.

 

[DerekC]

Hooton Pagnell has a pub called "The Hostel", built originally to accommodate men of limited means who were studying to become Church of England priests. That's an unusual name for a pub and the only other one I can find is in Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth, London, across the road from London Waterloo station. It was originally what its name suggested, a cheapish hotel with very limited pretensions to food and drink (speaking from personal experience) but has now changed its name to "The Walrus Bar and Hostel" and operates as a large pub with accommodation.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wandsworth in London was also once administered by Hundred of Brixton.

 

[High Dyke]

Young's (Young & Co.'s Brewery Plc) were founded as a brewing company in 1831 by Charles Young and Anthony Bainbridge when they purchased the Ram Brewery in Wandsworth. The company closed the Ram Brewery in 2006, and the brewing operation was transferred to a new company, Wells & Young's Brewing Company Ltd, which was a joint brewing venture with Charles Wells Brewery of Bedford. However, Charles Wells sold its Bedford based brewery and most of its beer brands to Marston's in May 2017, for £55 million.

 

[D6130]

Aylesbury also has a high proportion of native or first and second generation Italians among its population.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Watford is also a settlement that was on the route of the Sparrows Herne turnpike.

 

[DerekC]

The 2019 London NATO Summit was actually held at The Grove in Watford. The previous NATO summit held in the UK, the 2014 Wales Summit, was held in Newport, Monmouthshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sennybridge in Powys also lies on the line of the River Usk.

 

[DerekC]

In Defynnog churchyard (part of Sennybridge) there stands the Defynnog Yew, thought to be about 3000 years old and one of the oldest trees in Europe. It cannot be a coincidence that churchyards in many places have yew trees older than the church - and in some cases older than Christianity itself, although the precise explanation is lost in time. There is a yew of similar age in the churchyard at Upper Farringdon in Hampshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shalden in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Alton Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Shalden used to have a pub called the Golden Pot (now a restaurant), and to my amazement there is also a Golden Pot pub in Eversley, Hampshire.

Could the name be a euphemism for a chamber pot? Sorry to lower the tone.