Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Greta Bridge was also in Startforth Rural District.

 

[DerekC]

Greta Bridge is mentioned in Charles Dickens' novel Nicholas Nickleby as the location of Dotheboys Hall. Dickens was, of course, born in Portsmouth but in middle age he bought Gad's Hill near Higham in Kent, a house he had long admired. He died there in 1875.

 

[John Griffiths]

Higham has a memorial (a concrete novelist obelisk) to parliamentary reform campaigner Charles Larkin, who lived and died in Rochester.

 

[DerekC]

King's School Rochester, founded in 604, claims to be the second oldest continuously operating school in the world. The oldest is King's School Canterbury, founded in 597.

 

[John Griffiths]

Norwich was also a target of the so-called Baedeker raids in 1942.

 

[DerekC]

There are 23 cities in the UK with the right to appoint a lord mayor. Norwich is one. Sheffield is another.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oughtibridge also lies on the line of the River Don.

 

[John Griffiths]

Gannister was also worked at Healeyfield, Co Durham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Muggleswick also once came under the jurisdiction of the Lanchester Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmondbyers Commons form a Site of Special Scientific Interest and at over 9,000 hectares are one of the most extensive areas of dry heath in the North of England. The largest similar area in the Chilterns in the South of England is Berkhamsted and Northchurch Commons, but at 427 hectares they are about twenty times smaller!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kea in Cornwall is another settlement where almshouses were built.

 

[John Griffiths]

Claygate also has a variety of fruit named after it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Catfield in Norfolk also has an illustrated village sign.

 

[John Griffiths]

Catfield Church has a memorial to Lt Thomas Cubitt, who died at Multan in 1848. Another British officer killed in Multan that year was Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew, a former student at the East India College (now Haileybury College) at Hertford Heath.

 

[johnnychips]

Vera Barclay lived in Hertford Heath and wrote children’s stories. Richmal Compton also wrote them, notably Just William and went to school in Darley Dale, St Elphin’s School.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Foolow also once came under the jurisdiction of the Bakewell Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

Marple also has a pub named The Bull's Head.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hastings also shares its name with a recurring Agatha Christie character.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Hastings gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place 8 miles to the north at Senlac Hill in 1066. Senlac Hill is located near what is now the town of Battle, East Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Selby was another site chosen to erect a Benedictine Abbey.

 

[John Griffiths]

The New Inn in Selby was partially remodelled in 1933 in one of the earliest works of the architect John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson, who was born in Pontefract.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cartmel also has a racecourse.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ludlow is also noted for the quality of its restaurants.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leintwardine also lies on the line of the River Teme.

 

[DerekC]

Leintwardine possesses a Sun Inn, as does Bentworth in Hampshire.

 

[Springs Branch]

Carshalton also received a gold postbox following the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woodmansterne is another settlement which was administered by the Anglo-Saxon Hundred of Wallington.

 

[DerekC]

Brockhampton, Herefordshire, is another village with a publishing company named after it.

 

[John Griffiths]

Otterburn also has a name relating to the genus Mustelidae.

 

[DerekC]

Lulworth, like Otterburn, has a large military training area near it.