Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eggborough in North Yorkshire (near to the border with South Yorkshire) was also once under the jurisdiction of the Pontefract Poor Law Union.

 

[D6130]

Pontefract was the site of an important battle in the English Civil War....the siege of Pontefract Castle.

 

[DerekC]

In the 18th Century Godalming, like Pontefract, was a noted centre for liquorice production,

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

HOLD CALLED
Posting # 21,630.....Pontefract
Posting # 21,631.....Eggborough
Posting # 21,632.....Pontefract

We would normally not repeat a settlement as soon as this.

 

[D6130]

HOLD CALLED
Posting # 21,630.....Pontefract
Posting # 21,631.....Eggborough
Posting # 21,632.....Pontefract

We would normally not repeat a settlement as soon as this.

Oh dear! (...or words to that effect). I seem to have done it again.....sorry folks! That'll teach me to look at the previous page before typing. What happens next?

 

[DerekC]

I have deleted my Godalming entry. If you delete your Pontefract entry and replace it with somewhere else that associates with Eggborough, we shall be on the move again!

 

[FQ]

I have deleted my Godalming entry. If you delete your Pontefract entry and replace it with somewhere else that associates with Eggborough, we shall be on the move again!

This seems like a good course of action

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I cannot make the next posting as it was I who made the last valid posting of Eggborough.

 

[FQ]

Eggborough in North Yorkshire (near to the border with South Yorkshire) was also once under the jurisdiction of the Pontefract Poor Law Union.

Ferrybridge is also the site of a coal fired power station

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Airmyn in the East Riding of Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Aire,

 

[Springs Branch]

There's also a pub named The Percy Arms in the Surrey village of Chilworth.

Hint for next poster:
There's another village called Chilworth in Hampshire. The association should follow from the one in Surrey near Guildford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Waltham Abbey in Essex is another settlement chosen to be the site of a gunpowder factotum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Waltham Abbey FC currently plays in the Southern League Division One Central; their ground is Capershotts, Waltham Abbey. Didcot Town FC, based at Loop Meadow Stadium, Didcot, Oxfordshire, are also currently members of the same division.

 

[341o2]

Didcot has been described as the most normal town in the UK, at the other end of the scale, all the buildings at Ilam Staffs are Swiss in design

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Peak District Boundary Walk is a circular 190-mile walking trail, starting and finishing at Buxton and broadly following the boundary of the Peak District National Park. It follows the Manifold Trail along the river upstream through Ilam and then down to the River Manifold downstream along the Manifold Way through Waterhouses on it's way north to the hamlet of Waterfall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Onecote in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Hamps.

 

[Springs Branch]

Gaddum and Gaddum Ltd is a specialist manufacturer of silk yarn, with its factory in Onecote - maintaining a long history of silk production in the Leek area.
Another centre of the British silk industry (with around five local firms trading) is in Suffolk at Sudbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alphamstone in Suffolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Sudbury Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Alphamstone in Suffolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Sudbury Poor Law Union.

Alphamstone is about a mile from the East Anglian River Stour. Child Okeford, Dorset, is about the same distance from one of England's several other rivers with the name Stour.

 

[Springs Branch]

Child Okeford is within the DT11 Postcode District, which is centred around the Post Town of Blandford Forum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The military base of Blandford Camp is sited on the hills two miles northeast of the town. It is the base of the Royal Corps of Signals, the communications wing of the British Army, and the site of the Royal Signals Museum. The museum was founded in Catterick, North Yorkshire during the 1930s, and moved to its current location in 1967.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leeds was also a settlement of the Brythonic Kingdom of Elmet.

 

[Calthrop]

Leeds was also a settlement of the Brythonic Kingdom of Elmet.

Chertsey, Surrey, is another place: the antics of an old lady of which, feature in a limerick by Edward Lear.

 

[341o2]

Chertsey has a knigfisher pub, while Shirley Southampton has a Kingfisher fish and chip shop

 

[Calthrop]

The comedian Benny Hill (born in Southampton) is buried in Hollybrook Cemetery, Shirley; he actually died in Teddington, Greater London.

 

[341o2]

Teddington has a canal lock on the River Thames as does Marlow

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowes also holds an annual regatta.

 

[Calthrop]

Newport (Isle of Wight) also features in the corny old "Wonders of the I.O.W." routine -- unmilkable "Cowes", and un-bottle-able "New port".

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of St. John the Baptist, Newport has a pipe organ by Bryceson Brothers dating from 1890. Another example of work from the same eracby the same manufacturer is at St Mary's Church, Woolpit, Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fornham St Genenvieve in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Thedwastre.