Settlement Association

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The City of Exeter Rowing Regatta is run annually in July; another Regatta can be seen at Henley-on-Thames.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Windsor also has historical connections to being a Desmesne of the Crown.

 

[DerekC]

Windsor Castle was used as the westernmost sighting point for the first triangulation of Southern England, carried out in 1784-90 by William Roy as part of a project to accurately measure the distance from London to Paris. The northernmost sighting point was at Hanger Hill in Ealing. The success of this work resulted in the creation of the Ordnance Survey, with responsibility for accurately mapping the whole of the British Isles.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sir John Soane had a country house, Pitzhanger Manor, in Ealing; his main residence, now a museum, was in Holborn, central London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harlesden was also once administered by the Hundred of Ossulstone.

 

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The footballer Paul Merson was born on 20th March 1968 in Harlesden. He played the majority of his career with Arsenal, but in 2012 played one match for Welshpool Town FC, who play at the Maes y Dre Recreation Ground, Welshpool.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dolgellau also has a livestock market.

 

[DerekC]

Gwynfynydd gold mine near Dolgellau, closed in 1998, was the last gold mine worked in Wales. Arguably more famous is the Dolaucothi mine near Pumsaint in Carmarthenshire, worked extensively by the Romans and then again for a short period in the 1930s.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abergwili also lies on the line of the River Tywi.

 

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Abergwili is known for its Bishop's Palace, the home of the Bishop of St David's since 1542, when Bishop William Barlow transferred his palace there from St David's. It was known as a college until it was amalgamated with another, to create Christ College in Brecon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangynidr also lies on the line of the River Usk.

 

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Sir William Herbert, Knight of Raglan Castle, was granted the manors of Tretower Castle and Crickhowell just after the accession of Edward IV in 1442. At that time Llangynidr was part of the manor of Tretower.

 

[Springs Branch]

Hastings is also the location of an annual festival of music and performing arts.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The instigator of the "Popish Plot", Titus Oates (1649–1705), lived in Hastings when his father was Curate of All Saints between 1666 and 1674.
He was born at Oakham in Rutland.

 

[John Griffiths]

Oakham may soon be getting a branch of McDonald's, the first in Rutland; the first in the UK was opened in 1975 in Woolwich, SE London.

 

[DerekC]

Woolwich is at the south end of one of the two ferries across the lower Thames. The other runs from Gravesend to Tilbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Inverkip also once had an oil-fired power station.

 

[Springs Branch]

Samlesbury in Lancashire was also associated with persecution of witches in the 17th Century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woodplumpton was also once under the jurisdiction of the Preston Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

The Woodplumpton Brook runs into the River Brock which flows almost immediately into the River Wyre at St Michaels on Wyre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chipping was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Amounderness.

 

[A Challenge]

Newton-in Bowland also lies with the Forest of Bowland AONB and the Ribble Valley borough of Lancashire

 

[Springs Branch]

Long ago*, The Parkers Arms at Newton-in-Bowland was a favourite refreshment stop on my cycling trips around the Forest of Bowland.

There is also a pub named The Parkers Arms in Paignton.

* in the days when I could sink a couple of pints then continue cycling up hill and down dale without much effect, and before the advent of Gastropubs.

 

[DerekC]

Paignton has a zoo. So does Owslebury in Hampshire, although the zoo is called Marwell and tells visitors it is in Colden Common.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boscobel also lies on the line of the Monarch's Way long-distance footpath.

 

[John Griffiths]

Charles II hid in an oak tree at Boscobel after losing the Battle of Worcester in 1651.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hopwood in Worcestershire also lies on the line of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal.

 

[Springs Branch]

Forton in Lancashire also has a motorway service station.

 

[John Griffiths]

Forton Services were designed by Sir Thomas Bennett, who was also chairman of the Crawley New Town Development Corporation from 1947 To 1960.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhuddlan has also been a site of human settlement since the time of the Stone Age.