Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Bromsgrove has also been a prominent nail-making centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cofton Hackett in Worcestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bromsgrove Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

About 200 Short Stirling heavy bombers were produced during WWII at the Austin Aero factory in Cofton Hackett. The majority of early production was, however, at Short Brothers factory in Rochester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brentwood in Essex was also the scene of a battle between the British tribes and the Roman legions under Claudius.

 

[Springs Branch]

Brentwood's location meant it was susceptible to a substantial amount of bombing during World War, including 19 hits by V-1 "Flying Bombs".
The first V-1 strike on British soil occurred in East London on 13 June 1944 at Grove Road, Mile End.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The illustrator and comic artist Mabel Lucie Attwell was born in Mile End on 4th June 1879. In 1908, she married painter and illustrator Harold Cecil Earnshaw He was seriously injured during the First World War and, having never fully recovered from his wartime injuries, died at home in Kensington, London on 17th March 1937, aged 51.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Topcliffe in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Columba.

 

[Springs Branch]

Topcliffe is often a chilly spot and its weather station holds the record for the lowest temperature in Yorkshire (−19°C on 3 December 2010).
The lowest temperature recorded in the UK as a whole is the −27.2°C on 10 January 1982 at Braemar.

 

[341o2]

Braemar is in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park as is Lyndhurst in the New Forest

 

[Calthrop]

Buried in the graveyard of Lyndhurst's parish church, are the ashes of Alice Hargreaves nee Liddell -- Lewis Carroll's inspiration for the "Wonderland / Looking Glass" heroine; she lived for much of her life in the Lyndhurst area, but died actually at Westerham, Kent (in 1934, aged 82).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 1922, Winston Churchill MP purchased Chartwell Manor on the outskirts of Westerham; apart from the time he spent at 10 Dpwning Street and 28 Hyde Park Gate (his London home), it was his home for the rest of his life. He was, of course, born at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

 

[Calthrop]

The Keene family had a thriving bell-foundry in Woodstock in the 17th century. They cast bells for churches in many settlements in the general area; including that of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire.

 

[341o2]

The Devil's quoits are near to Stanton Harcourt as Stonehenge is to Amesbury

 

[EbbwJunction1]

King Alfred the Great (born c848 - 849 in Wantage, Berkshire) left the settlement of Amesbury to his youngest son Aethelweard (c. 880–922) in his will, a copy of which is in the British Library.

 

[Calthrop]

Devizes is also the venue, and final word of the first line, of a rather indelicate limerick.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hungerford in Berkshire also lies on the line of the Kennet and Avon Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

In 1688 William of Orange, on his way to London, was formally offered the British crown while staying at the Bear Inn, Hungerford. He and his forces had initially landed at Brixham, South Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Starcross in Devon also has a yachting and sailing club.

 

[Calthrop]

Shaldon (south side of the mouth of the Teign estuary) also lies on the A379 road.

 

[341o2]

Shaldon has a ferry as does Barmouth

 

[Calthrop]

Commander Harold Godfrey Lowe, fifth officer of the Titanic, lived in Barmouth in his youth. The ill-fated vessel's fourth officer, Commander Joseph Groves Boxhall (the last one of that ship's officers to die -- aged 83) was born in Kingston-upon-Hull.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tynemouth also has a noted aquarium.

 

[Calthrop]

Prince Rupert of the Rhine -- prominent military figure on the Royalist side in the English Civil War -- returning from the Continent to take part in that conflict, landed at Tynemouth in 1642. A low point in his fluctuating fortunes in the war, was his surrendering of besieged Bristol in 1645; leading to a spell out of favour with King Charles I.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Westbury-on-Trym was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bristol Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Westbury-on-Trym is partly named after the River Trym, which flows through it; the river rises in Filton, South Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

West Bagborough in Somerset is another settlement where a large Roman coin hoard was unearthed.

 

[Calthrop]

A lychgate at West Bagborough church is dedicated to the memory of Air Chef Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham: of the Royal Flying Corps and then the RAF, in and between the two World Wars. Although of a family from the area of Somerset concerned; Brooke-Popham was born in Mendlesham, Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rattlesden in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Stow.

 

[Calthrop]

Another settlement where was located in World War II, a US Air Force bomber base: is Molesworth, Cambridgeshire (one is tempted to add, "as any fule kno").

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Freethorpe in Norfolk also has an illustrated village sign.