Settlement Association

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The site of the Roman fort and town of Derventio, was long thought to be modern Malton, North Yorkshire; but with improved archaeological accuracy, its site is now reckoned to be Stamford Bridge.

 

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Great Waldingfield in Suffolk was also affected by the Bubonic Plague of 1626.

 

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Up to 2010, the intermediate feeding station on the "Dunwich Dynamo" annual overnight mass bicycle ride, was at Great Waldingfield. This event involves cycling from London to -- unsurprisingly -- Dunwich, Suffolk.

 

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Exeter also had a leper hospital in the Middle Ages.

 

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Exeter's castle is alternatively known as Rougemont. Shakespeare plays on this in his Richard III -- the hunchbacked villain, hearing the name "Rougemont", gets a nasty turn; because of a prophecy that the similar-sounding "Richmond" will be his downfall. As indeed comes about, with the ultimate victory over him of Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond (North Yorkshire) and subsequently King Henry VII.

 

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Catterick Bridge in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Swale.

 

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Charles Macintosh (1766 -- 1843), the inventor of the "mackintosh"" raincoat, was educated at Catterick Bridge; he was born, and died, in Glasgow.

 

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Melrose in the Scottish Borders also hosts an annual Pipe Band championship.

 

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Another settlement on the course of the River Tweed is, surprisingly enough, Berwick-upon-Tweed.

 

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Tain in the County of Ross was also created a Royal Burgh in the reign of King David I.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Sixteen Men of Tain are the group of skilled craftsmen entrusted with maintaining and passing on to future generations traditional skills and techniques involved in production of Glenmorangie scotch whisky (the band of sixteen apparently once becoming seriously depleted at the time of the First World War).

Another institution named in similar vein - the Twelve Men of Wreay - is still entrusted with charitable distribution of bursaries to school and university students, and since 1660 has met annually around the time of Candlemas (2 February) at the Plough Inn in the Cumbrian village of Wreay.

 

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Tidenham, Gloucestershire (near Chepstow) also has an equestrian centre.

 

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Chirk in Wrexham County Brough also lies on the line of the linear earthwork known as Offa's Dyke.

 

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Hay-on-Wye, Powys, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

 

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Hereford is another settlement to have a Butter Market.

 

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Llangurig, Powys, also lies on the River Wye.

 

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St Arvans in Monmouthshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Wye Valley Walk.

 

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An interesting figure closely associated with St. Arvans is Nathaniel Wells (1779 -- 1852): born in St. Kitts, West Indies -- son of William Wells, a Welsh plantation owner, and a local black woman. Nathaniel, as William W.'s son and heir, was sent to Britain to complete his education: in time he was called to the bar; became a lieutenant in the Monmouthshire Yeomanry (militia) -- he lived for a long period, close to St. Arvans; became a local sheriff and JP -- was one of the very first inhabitants of Britain of Afro-Caribbean lineage, to achieve these various distinctions. In 1820 he endowed the church at St. Arvans (dedicated to that saint) with its distinctive octagonal tower. At the end of his life he retired to Bath, where he died.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kelston in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Bath Forum.

 

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Dunnington, North Yorkshire -- just east of York -- also has a church dedicated to St. Nicholas.

 

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Wiggington in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the York Poor Law Union.

 

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Wiggington in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the York Poor Law Union.

Wigginton, Staffordshire (near Tamworth) similarly derives its name from the old English for "Wicga's settlement / enclosure / farm". (Wiki says re the Yorkshire settlement, that the personal name Wicga, also means "beetle".)

 

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Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Leonard.

 

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Melton Mowbray is famous for its pork pies.

For aficionados of these pig-based products, the headquarters of the Pork Pie Appreciation Society is based at the Old Bridge Inn, Ripponden, West Yorks.

 

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Quoting Wiki -- "short and sweet" -- Ripponden is the terminus of the annual Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing Festival.

 

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Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.

 

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The British Formula One Racing Driver Robert McGregor Innes Ireland (1930 – 1993), in Mytholmroyd and died at Reading. Although born in the West Riding of Yorkshire, his family returned to Kirkcudbright, Scotland during his youth.

 

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Tongland in Dumfries and Galloway also lies on the line of the River Dee.

 

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We learn that Joe Dobson, co-founder of Interflora, was born at Tongland in 1875. A figure involved with flowers in a different way, and at a somewhat later date: was the gardener, broadcaster and writer Percy Thrower (1913 -- 1988); who was born at Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire -- between Buckingham and Milton Keynes.

 

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Godshill on the Isle of Wight also has a church with medieval wall paintings.