Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Ampthill RUFC are based at Dillingham Park, Ampthill, and play in the RFU Championship, the second tier of the English Rugby Union system. One of their opponents are Jersey Reds RFC, who play at the Stade Santander International, Saint Peter, Jersey.

The traditional local nickname for the inhabitants of the above-bolded Jersey parish is ventres a bainis = "limpet bellies". Although limpets are not much eaten in Britain; there is a species of the creatures found in the river Fal estuary, Cornwall, which are to a small extent harvested there for the table -- chief settlement on that estuary is of course Falmouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hugh Town in the Scilly Isles also has a tradition of gig boat racing.

 

[Nick_C]

Hugh Town is the only part of the Scillies not owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. Somewhere that is, however, is the town of Poundbury, Dorset.

 

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In 2009, Poundbury Fire Station, designed by Prince Charles and Calderpeel Carden Croft, was nominated for a Carbuncle Cup award. Another unsuccessful nominee that year was Dyer Associates for Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, East Lothian

 

[Nick_C]

Musselburgh's second appearance here this week!

Sculptor Alexander Carrick was born in Musselburgh. He was responsible for many WW1 war memorials, including that at Killin.

 

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The Revd Professor Patrick Campbell MacDougall DD FRSE (born in Killin, 1806) was a 19th-century Scottish Minister of the Free Church of Scotland who became Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He died on 30th December 1867 and is buried in Dean Cemetery, which is in the former village of Dean, immediately northwest of the city centre of Edinburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Balerno also lies on the line of the waterway known as the Water of Leith.

 

[Springs Branch]

Lothian Buses service 44 links Balerno with Musselburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cartmel also has a racecourse

 

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Cartmel was the favourite holiday spot of the Lancashire dialect writer and BBC broadcaster, Thomas Thompson, who was born in Bury on 14th January 1880.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bacup also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

[Calthrop]

Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire also has, peculiar to it, a unique folk-dancing tradition with male performers; with the dancing taking place first and foremost, at a particular time of the year.

 

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Alice Mary Coleridge was a promoter of girls' schools, and was the instigator of Abbots Bromley School for Girls. She was born on 27th March 1846 in the manor house of Ottery St Mary, East Devon.

 

[Calthrop]

The name of Budleigh Salterton, not quite ten miles distant, is -- like the "Ottery" part of that cluster of villages -- "borrowed" and used, in a modified form, in the Harry Potter books. (With the books' fictitious "Ottery St. Catchpole" -- where the Weasleys live -- I suspect, from context, that while Rowling uses the "O-name"; said village in the book lies west of London, but considerably further east than Devon.)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The South West Coast Path runs from Minehead in Somerset along the coasts of Devon and Cornwall and ends in Poole Harbour, Dorset. After leaving Budleigh Salterton, the path skirts Chiselbury Bay and Ladram Bay and passes through Sidmouth.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Donkey Sanctuary is based at Sidmouth; it has a branch, where riding and contact for children with special needs is available, at Eccup in West Yorkshire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kettlewell also lies on the line of the River Wharfe.

 

[John Griffiths]

Harrogate was also on the route of the2014 Tour de France.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southport also hosts a Flower Show.

 

[John Griffiths]

Louis Napoleon, nephew of the French dictator, lived in exile in Southport; later, as ruler of France, he was deemed such a threat that major fortifications were erected around strategic British cities including Portsmouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gravesend was also sacked during the Hundred Years War.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Gravesend Airport became a fighter station, FAF Gravesend, during the Second World War. RAF Northolt was also used during the Second World War; it is in South Ruislip in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alrewas in Staffordshire also has a Polish War Memorial.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Alrewas is just inside the boundary of the National Forest, which has it's Visitor Centre (known as "Conkers") just outside the village of Moira, Leicestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hinckley also lies on the line of the Ashby Canal.

 

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Hinckley RFC has played in National League 2 North for the past few years, but have been level transferred to National League 2 South for the 2020 / 2021 season because of their geographical location. One of their opponents will be Westcliff RFC, who are based in Eastwood, a suburb of Southend-on-Sea in Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pentney in Norfolk also has an illustrated village sign.

 

[John Griffiths]

The gatehouse of Pentney priory is faced with Barnack stone, a high quality stone widely used in the east of England on buildings including Ely Cathedral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolverton is another settlement where the medieval field method of ridge and furrow was practised.

 

[DerekC]

Wolverton has a secret garden, but the secret garden which inspired Francis Hodgson Burnett's book is said to be in Rolvenden, Kent