Settlement Association

[DerekC]

Warborough in Oxfordshire, like Hedgerley, has provided filming locations for the series Midsomer Murders.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

John Nettles played the original Chief Inspector Barnaby in Midsomer Murders. He was previously well know for playing Sergeant Jim Bergerac in "Bergerac". Although mostly filmed in the Channel Islands, the final episode was the 1991 Christmas Special titled "All for Love", which was set partly in Bath.

 

[DerekC]

Bath has, of course, its Roman baths and associated museum. Less well known is the Roman Bath Museum at Caerleon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester was also a Roman fortified city.

 

[DerekC]

Lionel Thomas Caswall (Tom) Rolt, author and pioneer of canal and railway preservation, was born in Chester but lived for much of his adult life (when not on a canal boat) in Stanley Pontlarge, Gloucestershire. He is buried in the churchyard there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Longborough was also once administered by the Hundred of Kiftsgate.

 

[John Griffiths]

Painswick has also been awarded the Bledisloe Cup for being the best kept village in Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ryde on the Isle of Wight also has an English Benedictine monastery in its environs.

 

[Springs Branch]

Southsea is the other terminal of Britain's last remaining public hovercraft service.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lytham St Annes also has a pier.

 

[John Griffiths]

Birkdale also has a golf course that has hosted The Open.

 

[Springs Branch]

The 20th Century historian A.J.P. Taylor was born in Birkdale.
Prior to his period of fame at Oxford, Taylor was at Manchester University, when he lived in the Cheshire settlement of Disley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ollersett was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hayfield Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Ollersett is on the Sett Valley Trail. If you walk all the way along it you will get to Hayfield

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Arthur Lowe (1915 – 1982), who played Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army from 1968 until 1977, was born in Hayfield. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea, on the south coast of England. The exterior scenes were mostly filmed in and around the Stanford Training Area [STANTA], near Thetford, Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bermondsey is another settlement where a Cluniac priory was established.

 

[DerekC]

Bermondsey (Peak Frean) and Reading (Huntley & Palmer) used to compete with each other for the title "Biscuit Town"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheltenham also hosts a music festival.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cheltenham is home to GCHQ which, in its earlier incarnation as Government Code & Cypher School, was during WWII located at Bletchley Park in what is now Milton Keynes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Telford was another of the "third wave" series of New Towns (1967-1970)

 

[John Griffiths]

Much of the early plans for Telford - or Dawley New Town as it was originally known - were by the John Madin Design Group. Madin was also responsible for the (now demolished) Central Library in Birmingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

London also has a noted symphony orchestra.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sir Norman Wisdom was born in the Marylebone district of London. In his early teens, he spent a period in a Children's Home in Deal, Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Camber was also chosen as a site to erect a Device Fort (or Castle) by Henry VIII after his divorce from Catherine of Aragon.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

This fortification is known by two names - Camber Castle and Winchelsea Castle; it is located halfway between Rye and Winchelsea on the other side of the river.

 

[Springs Branch]

Winchelsea Cutting is a geological feature designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
Another SSSI of a geological nature is in Cheshire, at Alderley Edge.

 

[John Griffiths]

Alderley Edge is the setting for the novel The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner, who was raised locally but born in Congleton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bosley also lies on the line of the River Dane.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bingley also has noteworthy flights of canal locks.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Keighley also lies on the line of the River Aire.