Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Freethorpe has a round-tower church -- a speciality of East Anglia, especially of Norfolk. Bruisyard, Suffolk -- west of Saxmundham -- also has a church of this variety.

 

[DerekC]

Bruisyard was the site of a nunnery of the Order of St Clare, known as the "Poor Clares" because of their vows of poverty. The first nunnery of the order in England was founded in Newcastle on Tyne in 1286.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester is another settlement where the Chinese New Year is celebrated in the traditional fashion.

 

[DerekC]

According to Wikipedia Ernest Rutherford split the atom at the University of Manchester, but in fact this was done by Cockcroft and Walton working under his direction at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, after Rutherford moved there in 1919.

(The crocodile carved by Eric Gill at the entrance to the Mond Laboratory is often said to represent Cockcroft!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ludlow also suffered from outbreaks of Sweating Sickness in the 16th century.

 

[Springs Branch]

Broad Street in Ludlow leads to Broad Gate, the last remaining historic town gate.
In Lancashire there is also a Broad Street in Nelson.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hapton in Lancashire is also a settlement on the Burnley Coalfield.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal passes through Hapton; further east, Barnoldswick (known locally as Barlick) is the highest town on the Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Estes, one of the country's oldest standing stove manufacturers, have been making stoves in Barnoldswick since 1854. They have had various customers of considerable eminence; including in recent times, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall of River Cottage at Uplyme near Lyme Regis.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The earliest recorded reference to the parish was in AD740 when Cynewulf, King of Wessex gifted the manor of Uplyme to Glastonbury Abbey. The Domesday Book mentions the village.

 

[Calthrop]

The composer Rutland Boughton lived in Glastonbury for most of the 1920s and '30s; starting there, the country's first national annual summer school of music. He was born in Aylesbury (not, as one might think appropriate, Rutland ).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I have been trying to visit Aylesbury for some time, because it's a good place to stay for a visit to the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway.

 

[John Griffiths]

Betchworth, Surrey also has disused lime quarries.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holmbury St Mary in Surrey was also once administered by the Hundred of Wotton.

 

[Springs Branch]

Kegworth in Derbyshire was also the site of a Prisoner of War Camp during World War 1.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northwood in the Greater London area was also the scene of an aircraft disaster.

 

[Springs Branch]

Northwood is home to the London School of Theology, an interdenominational evangelical college.
Another institution of similar ilk is the Union School of Theology, with its UK HQ at Bryntirion House, Bridgend.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ystradgynlais in Powys has also hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

 

[341o2]

Ystradgynlais lies on the River Tave which has its estuary at Swansea

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ystalfera was lies on the line of the Swansea Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In about 1900 the original Gurnos Chapel in Ystalyfera had an organ built and installed by Conacher and Co. of Huddersfield.

 

[Springs Branch]

Huddersfield Corporation Transport operated trolleybus services in the town until 1968.
In the same year, municipal trolleybuses were also withdrawn in Reading.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York also has a Quaker School.

 

[Calthrop]

Peldon in Essex also features in fairly well-attested phantom-Roman-soldier sightings (at the Essex settlement, it's just one soldier; in York, a whole troop of them).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colchester in Essex was also affected by the 5.1 magnitude earthquake on 22nd April 1884.

 

[Calthrop]

It has been theorised -- generally reckoned very much an exercise in far-fetching -- that the famously merry Old King Cole was a real person, of one sort or another, from times past: linked thus, with various British settlements. These include Colchester; and Woolfardisworthy, Devon. (Also Reading; but we had that town a few posts ago.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yarnscombe in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Hartland.

 

[John Griffiths]

The lovely village - a very shrunken former town - of Bywell in Northumberland also has a church dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ovingham in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Tyne.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ovingham Bridge was fabricated by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough, who also made the New Tyne Bridge between Newcastle and Gateshead.