Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

The tune 'Londonderry Air' is probably best known as the music to the popular song 'Danny Boy'. This, and WWI hit 'Roses of Picardy', together with a claimed 3,000 other songs, were written by energetic English lawyer Frederic Weatherly (1848-1929), who was born and raised in the Somerset resort Portishead.

 

[Calthrop]

The tune 'Londonderry Air' is probably best known as the music to the popular song 'Danny Boy'. This, and WWI hit 'Roses of Picardy', together with a claimed 3,000 other songs, were written by energetic English lawyer Frederic Weatherly (1848-1929), who was born and raised in the Somerset resort Portishead.

Seems that Mr. Weatherly was a busy little bee... long ago, the manor of Portishead was held for generations by the Berkeley family, until it passed by marriage to the Cokes of Holkham, Norfolk -- most famous of which Norfolk family, was Thomas Coke: 18th / 19th century agricultural innovator.

 

[John Griffiths]

Another village demolished and rebuilt on a new site so as not to spoil the view from an aristocratic mansion was Milton Abbas in Dorset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hedsor in Buckinghamshire also has a property that was designed by the noted architect Sir William Chambers.

 

[Calthrop]

Marton, Lincolnshire, is also only just in its county -- near the river which forms the boundary with the neighbouring county.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barming in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret.

 

[John Griffiths]

From the Christian to the (possibly) pagan... May Day is also celebrated with clog dancing at the Worcestershire village of Offenham

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Offenham was founded as a Monastic grange and medieval deer park by the Benedictine Abbots of Evesham Abbey in the 13th century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frome is another settlement where a hoard of Roman coinage was discovered.

 

[Calthrop]

Frome is another settlement where a hoard of Roman coinage was discovered.

The bolded settlement has one of only three instances in England, of a bridge with, truly and fully, buildings on it. Here, it's the Town Bridge over the eponymous river; another such, is the High Bridge in Lincoln.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derby was also one of the Five Burghs of the Danelaw.

 

[Calthrop]

Derby was also one of the Five Burghs of the Danelaw.

This is a bit naughty and stretching-things: but -- Invergarry (Highland) has a sort-of alternative name -- borne by a couple of institutions associated with it -- in the shape of "Glengarry". This "G-name" is also borne, by a type of headgear. The same applies to Derby -- at least, in America; where what we call a bowler hat, they call a "derby" ditto.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nostie also lies on the route of the A87 road.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Nostie is the home of the well known young Scottish harpist, Murdo Macrae, who took up the clàrsach (the Celtic Harp) while in primary school in Plockton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Attadale is also a settlement situated on the banks of Loch Carron.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Attadale is a settlement and estate in Wester Ross in the Highland council area of Scotland. The Attadale Estate covers an area of 30,000 acres and include two mountains known as Munros, i.e. over 3,000 feet - Lurg Mhor and Bidein a' Choire Sheasgaich. This name was given to such mountains by
Sir Hugh Thomas Munro, 4th Baronet (1856 – 1919) who, although born in London, was brought up in Scotland on the family estate of Lindertis near Kirriemuir in Angus.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Roughlee in Lancashire is another settlement to have had witchcraft accusations made against it.

 

[Calthrop]

Betwys-y-Coed is another place of nearby-waterfall-related note.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pont-y-Pant also lies on the line of the River Lledr.

 

[Calthrop]

Hemel Hempstead also featured in a weird artistic creation by Rowland Emett.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bicester was also granted bailwick status in medieval times.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Bicester RFC play at Oxford Street, Bicester and participate in the Southern Counties North Division. Aylesbury RFC are also in the same League, and play at Ostler's Field, Weston Turville, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burston in Buckinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Aylesbury Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Burston in Buckinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Aylesbury Poor Law Union.

The above-bolded settlement is close by, and in the civil parish of, the village of Aston Abbotts; which featured prominently in the impassioned 1970s campaign against the proposed siting in the area, of a third airport for London.

 

[johnnychips]

Wetton in Staffordshire also has a Royal Oak pub.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hulme End in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Manifold.

 

[Springs Branch]

Todmorden is another settlement whose Postcode District (OL14) is based on a postcode area in a different county.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Failsworth also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Daisy Nook is a public country park in Failsworth, and runs along the southern boundary with the town of Droylsden in Tameside, Greater Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pudsey also has a Moravian Church.