Settlement Association

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The unusual War Memorial at Walton on the Naze commemorates the crew of a Handley Page Halifax who all died when they crashed on the Naze. It also has a tribute to Private Herbert George Columbine VC (after whom the local leisure centre is named), and a tribute to those lost from HMS Conquest during World War I. Private Herbert George Columbine VC was born on 28th November 1893 in Penge, London.

 

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Anerley was also once served by the Croydon Canal, which was the first canal to be abandoned by an Act of Parliament.

 

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Abellio London operates the N3 Night Bus between Bromley North and Oxford Circus. Along its route, the bus passes through Anerley and Brixton.

 

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Croxteth was also affected by the large city riots that occurred in England in the 1980s.

 

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The first houses in the Croxteth estate were in fact built in the immediate postwar period to house skilled workers from Slough and Rugby who had been brought in to the English Electric and Napier factories on the East Lancs Road), and families from the dockland inner-city areas who had lost their homes through bombing and slum demolition.

 

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Stoke Bruerne also lies on the line of the Grand Union Canal.

 

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Ellesmere Port also has a canal museum.

 

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Plymouth also has a noted aquarium.

 

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Plymouth Albion RFC are the local rugby union club, who play their home games in National League 1 at The Brickfields Stadium. One of their opponents is Old Elthamians RFC, who are based in Mottingham, London. Although they currently play there, one of their former grounds was the Queen Mary Sports Ground in Chislehurst.

 

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Plymouth has a Coastguard Rescue Team but operational control in the area is exercised from the Coastguard Operations Centre in Falmouth


Nottingham, like Chislehurst, has a network of underground chambers and passages created by past quarrying and mining of local stone.

 

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Sheffield also has a modern tramway system.

 

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Sheffield FC and Hallam FC are today Sheffield's two major non-league sides, although Sheffield now play just outside the city in nearby Dronfield, Derbyshire.

 

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Unstone also lies on the line of the River Drone

 

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Originally on the A61 trunk road, the Unstone is now bypassed by the Unstone-Dronfield Bypass dual carriageway. The same road used to go through Chesterfield town centre, but the heavy congestion was alleviated by the construction of the Chesterfield bypass in the 1980s.

 

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West Stockwith also lies on the line of the Chesterfield Canal.

 

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East Stockwith is a settlement on the other side of the Trent, but within the county boundaries of Lincolnshire. The two villages were once linked together by a passenger ferry.

 

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Harpswell was also once under the jurisdiction of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bensham in Gateshead also has a church dedicated to St Chad.

 

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Lawrie McMenemy was born in Gateshead. He once managed Grimsby Town

 

[DerekC]

The first part of Grimsby's name is thought to be an alternative name for the Anglo-Saxon god Odin, and occurs in many other placenames in Britain including Grimspound, near Widecombe-in-the-Moor.

 

[John Griffiths]

Widecombe's church is known as the 'Cathedral of the Moors'; St Albans in Teddington was known as the 'Cathedral of the Thames Valley'.

 

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Borehamwood was also chosen as a site for a television studio.

 

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Boreham Wood FC are members of the National League, the fifth tier of English football, and play at Meadow Park, Borehamwood Ebbsfleet United FC, based at Stonebridge Road, Northfleet, Kent, also compete in the National League.

 

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Hollinwood in Greater Manchester is also the location of a major toilet roll manufacturer.

 

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Prolific twentieth-century hangman Albert Pierrepoint owned a public house on Manchester Road named "Help the Poor Struggler". After resigning as an Executioner, he and his wife ran their pub until they retired to the seaside town of Southport in the 1960s, where he died on 10 July 1992, aged 87.

 

[John Griffiths]

Southport was also for a short time the residence of Louis Napoleon, the future Emperor Napoleon III of France, who after he was kicked out following the debacle of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) came to live in Chiselhurst, but since we've had that recently we'll note merely that after his death in 1873 he was buried at St Michael's Abbey in Farnborough.

 

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Southend also hosts an airshow.

 

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Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore OBE (12th April 1941 – 24th February 1993) was manager of Southend United between 1984 and 1986. He played the majority of his career for West Ham United which, at that time, were located at The Boleyn Ground, located in Upton Park, East London.

 

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Ashton-under-Lyne also has a covered food and clothing market.

 

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In 1881, a tramway with horse-drawn tramcars was opened between Stalybridge and Audenshaw which passed through Ashton-under-Lyne.