Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Davyhulme also has a church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[DerekC]

Davyhulme is home to one of the largest sewage treatment plants in Europe. However it is not as large as the one at Beckton, East London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coatbridge in Lanarkshire also was chosen as a site for a gasworks.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Coatbridge, along with its neighbour Airdrie, forms the area known as the Monklands.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lochmaddy in North Uist also has a Sherriff Court.

 

[DerekC]

Lochmaddy has a camera obscura. Hugh Town, Scilly Isles, also has one.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Falmouth also has a tradition of gig boat racing.

 

[DerekC]

Henry VIII built Pendennis Castle to defend Falmouth and Carrick Roads. He also built Hurst Castle at Keyhaven in Hampshire to defend the Solent from the west.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tiptoe is another Hampshire settlement that was once administered by the Hundred of Christchurch.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

A school was built at Tiptoe at the beginning of the 20th century as a replacement for an earlier school in nearby Wootton (a hamlet in the civil parish of New Milton in Hampshire), which burned down in 1914.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Battramsley also once came under the jurisdiction of the Lymington Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Battramsley has a pond used for model yacht sailing. Frensham in Surrey has a pond used for the same purpose.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Passfield also lies on the line of the south branch of the River Wey.

 

[DerekC]

Passfield Common belongs to the National Trust, as does Selborne Common, also in Hampshire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Latheron in Caithness also has an iconic local pottery.

 

[DerekC]

Latheron Castle is said to have been build in about 1190 by Harald ungi Eiriksson, Earl of Orkney. Harald was killed in 1198 by his co-Earl, Harald Maddadsson, at the Battle of Wick. In those days the lordship of Orkney was disputed between Scotland and Norway and they appointed joint earls who evidently didn't always get on!!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coedpoeth was also chosen as a site for a Carnegie Library.

 

[DerekC]

Coedpoeth translates into English as Burntwood.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yoxall is another Staffordshire settlement to have once been under the jurisdiction of the Lichfield Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Yoxall is on the banks of the River Swarbourn, which rises near Marchington Woodlands

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Marchington Woodlands uses two telephone area codes, Burton upon Trent (01283) and Uttoxeter (01889).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swanage also had Bronze Age axe heads found in its environs during excavations.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Swanage is stated as the home town of John Cleese's character Basil Fawlty in the sitcom Fawlty Towers. As is well known, the series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay in Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Creswell in Derbyshire also has had Palaeolithic finds within its environs.

 

[DerekC]

Creswell has a model village created by the Duke of Portland, the local colliery owner, for the miners and their families. Saltaire, created by Titus Salt, is probably the most famous model village in the UK.

 

[Springs Branch]

Ince in Makerfield is also on the route of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashton-under-Lyne also suffered a colliery disaster with fatalities in 1851.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst MBE was born on 8th December 1941 in Ashton-under-Lyne; he now lives in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheltenham']Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with his wife Judith. [/URL]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Strathpeffer also has historical spa town connections.

 

[DerekC]

Cheltenham is often associated with the Gold Cup horse race. A different kind of gold cup was found in Rillaton barrow in Linkinhorne parish, Cornwall. This one was made somewhere between 2300 and 1700 BC, possibly in Greece.

Strathpeffer is sometimes referred to as "the Highland Village of Music". A rough equivalent in East Anglia is Aldeburgh, Suffolk.