Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

The Church of St John of Jerusalem at Winkburn was a cell of the Knights Hospitaller during the mediaeval period.
The head house of the Order of Knights Hospitaller in England was the Priory of St John of Jerusalem at Clerkenwell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Monken Hadley was also once administered by the Hundred of Ossulstone.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The great adversarial lawyer Sir William Garrow (1760–1840), coiner of the phrase "innocent until proven guilty", was born and brought up in Monken Hadley. Upon his death, Garrow's will (written in 1830) contained only two demands; to set up a trust and to be buried in his birthplace. The second instruction was ignored: Garrow was buried in the churchyard of St Laurence, Ramsgate, his parish church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheltenham also has a synagogue that was built in the Regency fashion.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, was born on 13th April 1892 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He died on 5th April 1984, aged 91, eight days before his 92nd birthday, at his home in Goring, Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Souldern has also been a winner of the Oxfordshire Best-Kept Village award.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bury St Edmunds also has a pub named The Fox Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Epping was also one of the stops made by the stagecoaches on the London to Norwich journey.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

From 1924 to 1945, the old Epping division of Essex (which included Woodford, Chingford, Harlow and Loughton as well as Epping) was represented by Winston Churchill. He first became an MP for the constituency of Oldham in 1900.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colne also had connections to the Lancashire cotton spinning industry.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Wallace Henry Hartley (2nd June 1878 – 15th April 1912), one of the violinists and the bandleader on the RMS Titanic, was brought up and lived in Colne; he is buried in the town's cemetery. John Law Hume (9th August 1890 – 15th April 1912) was a fellow violinist in the band; he was born in Dumfries, Scotland where he lived with his parents.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also has a camera obscura.

 

[DerekC]

Dumfries is suggested by some as the site of the Battle of Tribruit, cited in Historia Brittonum as one of King Arthur's battles. The most famous was the Battle of Mount Badon for which many sites have been suggested - the most popular seeming to be Badbury in Wiltshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Liverpool also has a pub called The Halfway House.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Norwich also has both Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Norwich has long been associated with the manufacture of mustard. The world-famous Colman's brand, with its yellow packaging, was founded in 1814 and operated from its factory at Carrow until the end of 2019. In January 2018, it was announced that Colman's was to leave its base in Norwich and would move its production to Burton-on-Trent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wandsworth also has historical connections to the brewing industry.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The actress Keira Knightley once lived on Swaffield Road, Wandsworth, although she was born in Teddington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Borehamwood was also chosen to be the site of a television studio.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

As was Bristol. CASUALTY was filmed in a purpose built studio in Bristol up until around 2011.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rules:

• Associations provided should be clearly dissimilar to each of the previous three associations.

The extract shown above from the rules shown above still needs to be adhered to.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Borehamwood was also chosen to be the site of a television studio.

This is the posting from which matters should be continued.

 

[Springs Branch]

Following World War 2, highly secret early digital electronic equipment for military applications was developed at an Admiralty facility in Borehamwood.

During the same period, similar developments were undertaken by the Plessey Company at their Allen Clark research centre at Caswell House, near the Northamptonshire village of Greens Norton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wilmslow also has an Anglican parish church that is dedicated to St Bartholomew.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

William Roache MBE has played Ken Barlow in Coronation Street since its inception in 1960; he has lived in Wilmslow for most of his adult life.
The programme is made in MediaCityUK, which is at Salford Quays, City of Salford, Greater Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster is another Roman Catholic diocese.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The English poet, dramatist and art scholar, Robert Laurence Binyon CH, whose most famous work was "For the Fallen", was born on 10th August 1869 in Lancaster. He died on 10th March 1943 (aged 73) in Reading, Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bucklebury also once was administered by the ancient Hundred of Reading.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The parish of Bucklebury has three main parts. The original village is on the banks of the River Pang, which runs for approximately 14 miles from its source near the village of Compton to its confluence with the Thames in the village of Pangbourne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ruddington in Nottinghamshire also has a decorated village sign.