Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pemroke Dock also has a maritime museum.

 

[High Dyke]

Another location with a Martello Tower is Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.

The Tally Toor is the local name for the Martello tower in Leith.

 

[DerekC]

Leith is the (presumably) final home of HMY Britannia. She was built at Clydebank, Dunbartonshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Raphoe in County Donegal also has a church that is dedicated to St Eunan.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Burn Dale (also known in English as the Burn Deele) is a burn (a small river) that flows a short distance to the south of Raphoe. It eventually flows, via the village of Ballindrait, into the River Foyle just north of Lifford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lifford in County Donegal also lies on the route of the B264 regional road.

 

[D6130]

Lifford is the County Town of Donegal, even though Letterkenny is the largest settlement.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harrogate in North Yorkshire has also been a gold-medal winner in its class at the European Entente Cordial event.

 

[D6130]

Wormald Green in North Yorkshire also lies on the A61 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby Overblow in the West Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the large area-encompassing Claro Wapentake.

 

[John Griffiths]

Wendover, Buckinghamshire, also has a pub called the Shoulder of Mutton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altrincham in Greater Manchester also has a clock tower.

 

[High Dyke]

Altrincham Fair became St James's Fair or Samjam in 1319 and continued until 1895. Fair days had their own court of Pye Powder (a corruption of the French for "dusty feet").

The last "active" court of piepowders, at the Stag and Hounds Public House in Bristol, was abolished by the Courts Act 1971.

 

[DerekC]

Samuel Plimsoll, campaigner for safety in merchant shipping, is still remembered in the load line which bears his name. He was born in Bristol in 1824 and was elected MP for Derby in 1867. Suspended from Parliament in 1875 for shaking his fist at the Speaker and calling government ministers villains because they had dropped his bill, he achieved success the next year when the Merchant Shipping Act was finally passed.

 

[High Dyke]

Derby was made one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, by the Vikings.

Stamford, Lincolnshire was the only one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw not to become a county town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Spalding in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Welland.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Around the northwest of Spalding is a large waterway called Vernatt's Drain, named after one of the adventurers who drained the Fens in the 17th century. Philibert Vernatti was made a baronet on 7th June 1643; the Vernatti Baronetcy, of Carlton in the County of York comes from the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It is presumed to have become dormant on the death of the second Baronet (Sir Louis Philibert Vernatti) some time after 1678.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby Wharfe in the West Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Barkston-Ash Wapentake.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St John the Baptist's Church, built in the 12th and 14th centuries, is the parish church for the Ecclesiastical Parish of Kirkby Wharfe and Ulleskelf.
St Lawrence's Church, built in the 14th century and rebuilt in the 1780s, is the parish church of Aldfield, North Yorkshire. Both churches were Grade II* listed in 1967.

 

[High Dyke]

George Gap Spa in the hamlet of Great Fryup Dale, North Yorkshire is also the location of a mineral (or Chalybeate) spring.

Hyperlink included for Fryup (Great Fryup Dale)

 

[Tetragon213]

Jeez, this is a tricky one!

A fryup is another nickname for an English Breakfast. The Irish equivalent to this is sometimes referred to as an Ulster Fry.

 

[D6130]

Jeez, this is a tricky one!

A fryup is another nickname for an English Breakfast. The Irish equivalent to this is sometimes referred to as an Ulster Fry.

Hmmm....not sure that Ulster counts as a settlement. If it does, it's a mighty big one!

 

[Tetragon213]

Hmmm....not sure that Ulster counts as a settlement. If it does, it's a mighty big one!

Bah, I tried!

 

[Tetragon213]

Great Fryup Dale is under the jurisdiction of North Yorkshire Council, who meet up at County Hall, Northallerton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tamworth in Staffordshire also has a church that is dedicated to the Sacred Heart.

 

[High Dyke]

Dawlish in Devon also has a small population of Black Swans.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doddiscombleigh in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Exminster.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The NoBody Inn is the pub in Doddiscombleigh; there's also one with the same name in Grantham.

 

[John Griffiths]

In 1915 Edith Smith, a member of the Women's Police Service, was transferred to the Grantham Borough Police and there became the first woman police officer in the UK to have full powers of arrest. After WW1 she resumed her previous career of nursing, dying aged 46 in 1923. She had been born at Oxton on the Wirral.

 

[DerekC]

Oxton stands on a ridge of Bunter Sandstone. This geological formation contains redeposited quartzite pebbles thought to have been carried by an ancient river to the English Midlands. It occurs also at Budleigh Salterton in Devon, where the pebbles, an attractive greyish mauve, form much of the beach.