Settlement Association

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Llanwrin also lies on the B4404 road, which connects the primary A487 at Pont Felin-y-ffridd to the primary A489 just outside the village of Cemmaes Road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanbrynmair in Powys also lies on the line of the River Twymyn.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Ruabon also has a pub called the Wynnstay Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Erbistock which lies on the border of Denbighshire and Flintshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Bromfield.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Richard Gwyn (c.1537 -- 84) -- Welsh bard, and schoolmaster, persecuted under Elizabeth I for openly practising / supporting / sharing his Catholicism; ultimately, imprisoned and put to death for same (I've featured this chap in a previous post in this game) -- "did his thing" in the area south of Wrexham, including at Erbistock. Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, has a Catholic High School named after him.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Barry was the location of Woodham Brothers, which scrapped a number of steam locomotives (but sold many more for preservation) in the 1980s. The Cashmore's yard at Great Bridge, West Midlands, was another location where locomotives were scrapped although, as far as is known, none were preserved from there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rowley Regis in West Midlands was also once under the jurisdiction of the Dudley Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

In the purlieus of Rowley Regis are the Rowley Hills: which include Turner's Hill, the highest point in the West Midlands region -- 269 metres (882 feet) above sea level. Not very far away, and quite similar in altitude, is the highest point in Leicestershire: Bardon Hill, near Bardon (about halfway between Leicester and Ashby-de-la-Zouch) -- 278 metres (912 feet) above sea level.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberdeen also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[Calthrop]

Aberdeen is located at the mouths of the Rivers Dee and Don, where they debouch into the North Sea. Although it might superficially appear likely that the city's name refers to the Dee: the experts in these matters tell us that the reference is to the other river: name meaning "at the mouth of the Don". Great Britain has several other Rivers Don; including that which flows through southerly parts of Yorkshire. This river's mouth, where it joins the Yorkshire Ouse (this, the result of ingenious re-routeing in the 17th century), is at Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester also has a market hall.

 

[Calthrop]

Burnley, Lancashire, also features in a slightly rude verse of the comic song The Rawtenstall Annual Fair.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunnockshaw in Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Burnley Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Near Dunnockshaw is Clowbridge Reservoir: the inauguration of which in 1866, caused over the following 25-odd years, the "ceasing to be" of the nearby village of Gambleside -- reservoir's drowning of much farmland cased loss of livelihood: bit by bit, the population all moved away. A similar though not identical situation came about in Rutland roughly a century later, with the making of the huge Rutland Water reservoir -- here, though: settlements were, by official fiat, wholly or partly "closed down" and destroyed -- the inhabitants compulsorily relocated. This befell the village of Nether Hambleton and most of its neighbour Middle Hambleton; Upper Hambleton survives, but in a "cul-de-sac" situation on a peninsula protruding into the reservoir.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penrith in Cumbria also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[Calthrop]

Windsor, Berkshire, also has a namesake settlement in the Australian State of New South Wales (the two N.S.W. towns are very close to each other, as it happens).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winchester in Hampshire also once had a medieval period leper hospital.

 

[John Griffiths]

Tamworth was also a capital of an Anglo-Saxon kingdom.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Polesworth in Warwickshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Editha.

 

[Calthrop]

Associated with Polesworth -- and a native and long a resident of those parts -- was the poet Michael Drayton (1563 -- 1631); he and his fellow-creative-types and contemporaries: dramatist Ben Jonson, architect Inigo Jones, and poet John Donne; made up the core of a group who became known as the Polesworth Circle. (Some suggest that William Shakespeare also featured on this scene; but a lot gets ascribed to that bloke, which generally reckoned not to have been so.) Drayton was born in Hartshill, Warwickshire -- some seven miles south-east of Polesworth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberaeron in Ceredigion also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

Aberaeron -- relatively new, as a town (a little over two centuries) was largely designed as such, by the Shrewsbury architect Edward Haycock Sr. (1790 -- 1870). He designed a great variety of buildings of importance, the large majority of them in England's Welsh Marches, and in much of Wales. A rare foray of his eastward (out of his geographical "comfort zone", and towards mine); involved designing of the Rectory at Farthingstone, Northamptonshire -- located between Daventry and Towcester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashby St Ledgers in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Fawsley.

 

[Calthrop]

Basford, Nottinghamshire ("northerly suburb of Nottingham") also has a church dedicated to St. Leodigarius -- a new one on me, saints-wise.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hucknall in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Ben Caunt (1815 -- 61), bare-knuckle boxer who became Heavyweight Champion of England, was born in Hucknall. It has been suggested that the popular name "Big Ben", for the famous Houses of Parliament clock tower bell, was coined in tribute to this gentlemen; a more likely derivation, however, is reckoned to have been from the name of Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (1802 -- 67): who as First Commissioner of Works for London, oversaw the installation of the bell concerned. Said Baron, B. Hall: was born in Abercarn, Caerphilly County Borough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cilfynydd in Rhondda Cynon Taf was also the scene of a South Wales Coalfield colliery disaster

 

[Calthrop]

Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough: is also situated on the River Taff.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carsington in Derbyshire also has a sailing club.

 

[Calthrop]

Carsington has a pub called the Miner's Arms. This -- with assorted "grammatical / possessive" variations -- is a favoured pub name, occurring in many settlements: in, at any rate, England and Wales. To vary the theme a little: at Coleford, Gloucestershire -- in the Forest of Dean -- there is a hostelry, styling itself as a gastro-pub, with the name of the Miners Sling.