Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

Eaglesfield is served by Houston's Coaches route 383 bus service, connecting it with Lockerbie.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moffat also lies on the line of the River Annan.

 

[LUYMun]

Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist, most notable for (what are now songs) "Auld Lang Syne", "To a Mouse" and "Scots Wha Hae". He frequently visited Moffat for its waters and local bars. He died aged 37 in Dumfries.

 

[cjp]

Palmerston Park is the football stadium in Dumfries which hosts both The Queen Of The South and also Heston Rovers Football teams. There is a park with the same name in Southampton

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Southampton was the port from which RMS Titanic departed on it's maiden voyage. She was built, though, by Harland & Wolf Ltd in Belfast.

 

[DerekC]

Belfast, translated from the Irish means Barmouth

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanstadwell in Pembrokeshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Tudwal.

 

[Springs Branch]

Some hundreds of miles north in Scotland, also at Longitude 4° 58'W is Kinlochleven.

 

[DerekC]

Kinlochleven was the site of an aluminium smelter, closed in 1996. The only remaining smelter in operation in the UK is nearby at Fort William

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The late Charles Kennedy was the former leader of the Liberal Democrat Party and former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Ross, Skye and Lochaber. Although born in Inverness, he was brought up and educated in Fort William.​

 

[DerekC]

The Battle of Culloden was fought close to Inverness on 16 April 1746 and was the last pitched battle on British soil. The last in England was the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685, near the village of Chedzoy

 

[cjp]

I had never heard of Chedzoy, it does not even sound British, and I was amazed to find it just a little to the east of Bridgwater in Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pawlett was also once administered by the Hundred of North Petherton.

 

[cjp]

Pawlet lies on the river Parrett which has its source by Chedington in Dorset

 

[EbbwJunction1]

At the north end of the village of Chedington is Winyards Gap, which marks the western end of the Dorset Downs. Winyards Gap was immortalised by Thomas Hardy in his poem "A Trampwoman's Tragedy". Thomas Hardy was born on 2nd June 1840 at Stinsford, Dorset.

 

[LUYMun]

Stinsford has a six-a-side football team which plays in the Dorset six-a-side leagues. The team has moved on to play for football teams such as Yeovil Town F.C.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beckfoot is another settlement in which a Roman coin hoard was discovered.

 

[DerekC]

Approximately opposite Beckfoot on the other side of the Solway Firth is Southerness

 

[cjp]

Southerness is a tourist village with camp and caravan sites and the inevitable fish and chip shop. If you want to escape there is decent bus service on the 372 route which will have you in Dumfries in less than twenty minutes - it even runs on Sundays. It is run by Houstons who are based in Lockerbie and they also run a regular service from Dumfries to Carlisle.

Sorry it is all about buses but every time I came up with a place it had been used in the recent past (Dumfries & Lockerbie)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Former England rugby union captain Steve Borthwick is a native of Carlisle. His first Premiership club was Bath FC, who play at the Recreation Ground, Bath.

 

[cjp]

The local bishop is the Bishop of Bath and Wells so Wells

 

[DerekC]

The current Bishop of Bath and Wells is Peter Hancock. As a boy he lived in Fareham.

 

[cjp]

Although in Hampshire Fareham's TV signals come across the water from a mast on Isle of Wight by Rowridge

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yaverland also once came under the jurisdiction of the Isle of Wight Poor Law Union.

 

[cjp]

Fossils have also been found at Seatown - part of Dorset's Jurassic Coast

 

[DerekC]

The Anchor Inn at Seatown is a very nice place for a pint. There is also an Anchor just along the coast at Burton Bradstock

 

[cjp]

The river Bride joins the sea at Burton Bradstock. There is also a River Bride in Ireland and that river passes through Conna in Cork

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 1554 the Fitzgeralds, Earls of Desmond, began building Conna Castle on a high limestone rock overlooking the River Bride. The castle and its estate was seized by the English and passed into the hands of Sir Walter Raleigh, the English settler. He was born in Hayes Barton, East Devon in c.1552 (or 1554).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashton on Mersey also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[cjp]

The Mersey is formed by the confluence of the Rivers Goyt, Tame and Etherow in Stockport.