Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Magdalen Laver was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ongar.

 

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The Revd. William Webb Ellis (1806–1872) was Rector of Magdalen Laver in 1855. According to legend, in 1823 whilst a pupil at Rugby School, he picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match, thus creating the game of rugby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harrow also has a noted public school.

 

[Springs Branch]

Londonderry also has a branch of the discount catalogue retailer Argos.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hull has also been accorded the UK City of Culture.

 

[Springs Branch]

Liverpool also has a museum focusing on the Atlantic slave trade.

 

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Liverpool was the home of the White Star Line, and was the port of registry of the ocean liner RMS Titanic. After leaving Southampton on 10th April 1912, RMS Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading west to New York.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manorhamilton in County Leitrim also has an Irish heritage centre.

 

[Springs Branch]

Antrim is also the location of a ruined plantation castle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballyclare also lies on the line of the river known as Six Mile Water.

 

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Ballyclare Limited makes industrial workwear & protective clothing, i.e. hi vis workwear, waterproof workwear, firefighter uniforms & ambulance uniforms. They are based in Stockport, Cheshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Luton also has historical links to the trade of hat-making.

 

[Springs Branch]

Dunstable is at the other end of Arriva (Beds & Bucks) no. 31 bus route.

 

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Although born on 7th May 1901 in Helena, Montana, the Hollywood film actor Gary Cooper went to Dunstable Grammar School from 1910 to 1913. His mother Alice had emigrated from Gillingham, Kent and married Charles Cooper in Montana.

Alice wanted her sons to have an English education, so in 1909 she took them to England to enroll them in Dunstable Grammar School in Bedfordshire. While there Cooper and his brother lived with their father's cousins, William and Emily Barton, in their ancestral home in Houghton Regis.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upper Sundon also lies on the line of the long-distance footpath known as the Icknield Way Path.

 

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Marston Moreteyne is also a settlement in Bedfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bramfield in Suffolk also has a church with a detached tower.

 

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The village of Bramfield lies near the source of a tributary of the River Blyth. It's source is near Laxfield, Suffolk, and it reaches a tidal estuary between Southwold and Walberswick on the North Sea coast.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Easton Bavents was also once administered by the Hundred of Blything.

 

[Springs Branch]

Mappleton, East Yorkshire, is also subject to serious coastal erosion from the North Sea.

 

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A public school was established in Mappleton in 1820 by subscription. It was run under the ideas of the educationalist Andrew Bell, who was born at St. Andrews, Fife, on 27th March 1753.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Virginia Water also has a noted golf course.

 

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A notable resident of Virginia Water until his death in 2017 was Sir Bruce Forsyth CBE. "Brucie" was, however, born on Victoria Road, Edmonton (then in Middlesex but today part of the London Borough of Enfield) on 22 February 1928.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winteringham in North Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the Roman road known as Ermine Street.

 

[Springs Branch]

Grimsargh in Lancashire was also recorded in the Domesday Book.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Inverness also hosts a Farmers Market.

 

[Springs Branch]

Perth also has associations as a base of The Black Watch regiment.

 

[Andy Pacer]

Edinburgh is also served by the M90 motorway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dumfries also has a camera obscura.

 

[Springs Branch]

Stagecoach buses' £11.30 (for adults) North West Explorer day ticket has a wide validity area. Dumfries is its northern limit; the southern extremity of travel on this ticket is Chester.