Settlement Association

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Richard Whiteley was born on 28th December 1943 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, and spent his childhood in Baildon. At 13, he won a scholarship to Giggleswick School, Yorkshire, where his English teacher was Russell Harty.

 

[Ayman Ilham]

Like Baildon, the town of Saffron Walden in Essex (where I lived most of my life) also has a population in the 15k range.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alkborough in North Lincolnshire also has a turf maze.

 

[LocoCycle]

Tain in Ross-shire, like Alkborough has a bombing range on its coastline.

 

[Ayman Ilham]

Wick in Caithness, like Tain, is on the Far North Line as well as having a 4-letter name.

 

[DerekC]

Old Pulteney whisky (one of my favourites) is distilled in Wick. The Balmenach distillery at Cromdale on Speyside is owned by the same company. (I must try that one!*)

* update - just looked at the prices - might have to save up!!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Killiecrankie was also the scene of a battle in the First Jacobite Rising of 1689.

 

[Springs Branch]

Killiecrankie mentioned in the traditional Scottish folk song The Braes o' Killiecrankie.
Another traditional Scottish song, The Road to the Isles, lists a number of waypoints, including Morar.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carinish on North Uist was also the scene of a 17th century Scottish clan battle.

 

[Springs Branch]

Derry / Londonderry is also located at longitude 7° 19'W

 

[Ayman Ilham]

Whitby North Yorkshire, another place where the bus is faster than the train

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The coastal section of the Cleveland Way follows the coast north from Whitby to Saltburn.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bridgnorth also has a cliff railway.

 

[Ayman Ilham]

Bilston also uses a Wolverhampton (WV) postcode

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wednesbury also has historical links to the craft of enamelling.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

John Ashley Kilvert JP (1833–1920) was an English soldier and later businessman and politician, who became Mayor of Wednesbury. He served with the 11th Hussars in the Crimean War, where he survived the Charge of the Light Brigade. He was born on 29th September 1833, at High Ercall, Shropshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chipping in Lancashire is another settlement where almshouses were built.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Wardstone Chronicles, written by Joseph Henry Delaney, frequently feature the village of Chipenden, which is based on the village of Chipping; in the same books, Priestown is the author's hometown of Preston.

 

[John Griffiths]

Walsingham in Norfolk also has a shrine to the Virgin Mary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dundee also has a Russian Orthodox church.

 

[Springs Branch]

Salford also has an eponymous university which was established in 1967.
(Strictly speaking, both Dundee and Salford universities had their origins in pre-existing institutions)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arundel is another settlement to have a Roman Catholic cathedral, but not an Anglican one.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

People born in Arundel are known locally as Mullets, due to the presence of mullet in the River Arun, which joins the English Channel at Littlehampton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cartmel also has a Quaker Friends Meeting House.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Cartmel was the favourite holiday spot of the Lancashire dialect writer and BBC broadcaster, Thomas Thompson, who authored sixteen books on Lancashire people and their communities; he was born in Bury on 14th January 1880 and in lived all his life there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bacup also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The famous 1961 British film "Whistle Down the Wind" starring Hayley Mills used various parts of Bacup for filming. Another film starring Hayley Mills was "Tiger Bay" in which there's a scene of her getting onto the Transporter Bridge in Newport and getting off in Tiger Bay, Cardiff - 12 miles away!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crickhowell also lies on the line of the River Usk.

 

[Nick_C]

Crickhowell plays host to a music festival - and so does the village of Pilton, Somerset

 

[Bacon_BMW]

Great Coxwell, Oxfordshire has a Grade I listed tithe barn, as does Pilton