Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ousby in Cumbria is also one of the 51 Thankful Villages in England that suffered no casualties in World War 1.

 

[Calthrop]

Much Wenlock, Shropshire, also has a Fox Inn.

 

[johnnychips]

The Olympic Games were supposed to be inspired by an event at Much Wenlock. The Olympic Games took place in 2012 largely at Stratford in London.

 

[DerekC]

The ford at Stratford was across the River Lea, which rises at Leagrave in Bedfordshire

 

[godfreycomplex]

The ford at Stratford was across the River Lea, which rises at Leagrave in Bedfordshire

There is also a takeaway restaurant called Blossom Garden in Upney

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shadwell was also once under the jurisdiction of the Stepney Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Newlyn, Cornwall, has a quite prominent fish market -- more successful than Shadwell's, which was set up as a (failed and rather short-lived) rival to Billingsgate.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Exeter Chiefs and England rugby player Jack Nowell was born in Newlyn on 11th April 1993. Exeter Chiefs play their home games at Sandy Park, which is (unsurprisingly) located on the outskirts of Exeter.

 

[Calthrop]

Caerleon (Gwent) also bore, when a Roman settlement, an Isca ******** name.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

HMS Caerleon was a Royal Navy Hunt Class Minesweeper and named after the settlement. She was built in 1918 by Bow, McLachlan & Co. Paisley, and was broken up by the Stanlee Shipbreaking Yard in Dover in 1922.

 

[Calthrop]

Bury St. Edmunds also has a local paper called the Mercury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chipping Campden also was involved in the medieval-period wool trade.

 

[Calthrop]

Bonsall (near Matlock, Derbyshire) also specialises in an idiosyncratic local sport. At Chipping Campden, it's shin-kicking; at Bonsall, hen racing.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Bonsall (near Matlock, Derbyshire) also specialises in an idiosyncratic local sport. At Chipping Campden, it's shin-kicking; at Bonsall, hen racing.

Dial Post (Sussex) also has a meditation garden

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lower Beeding in West Sussex is also in the RH13 postcode area.

 

[John Griffiths]

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[godfreycomplex]

There is also a coffee roastery in Lower Holloway

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crieff also has a Seventh-day Adventist Church.

 

[Calthrop]

William McGonagall of Dundee, reckoned by many the worst-ever poet in the English language, wrote in praise of the above-bolded settlement:

Ye lovers of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief,
Take my advice, and visit the ancient town of Crieff.

He composed a similar paean to a community rather closer to his home city:

All ye pleasure-seekers, where'er ye be,
I pray ye all be advised by me,
Go and visit Tayport on the banks of the Tay,
And there ye can spend a pleasant holiday.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mumbles is also a coastal settlement with a church that is dedicated to Our Lady, Star of the Sea.

 

[Calthrop]

The name of Pity Me -- suburban village of Durham city -- is also of uncertain origin, with various contradictory suggested explanations for it.

 

[Springs Branch]

Go North East's Angel 21 bus service passes through Pity Me. The route also serves the settlement of Low Fell.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Low Fell is home to numerous buildings listed by English Heritage. One of these is Underhill, 99 Kells Lane, which is a Grade II* listed building. It was the home of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan between 1869 and 1883, and was the site of many pioneering experiments in photographic processing and in electricity.
Joseph Wilson Swan was born in 1828 at Pallion Hall in Pallion, which is in the Parish of Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, County Durham.

 

[Calthrop]

... in the Parish of Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, County Durham.

Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, hero of the Indian Mutiny, was born in the above-bolded settlement. Brigadier John Nicholson, whom that description also fits (and who also died in the course of that historical episode), was born in Dublin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Celbridge in County Kildare also lies on the line of the River Liffey.

 

[Calthrop]

Celbridge in County Kildare also lies on the line of the River Liffey.

On the outskirts of the above-bolded settlement, is Castletown House -- Ireland's original and largest Palladian country house; part of the interior decoration thereof was done by a descendant of an illegitimate child of King Charles II. A different by-blow of the "Merry Monarch" was James Scott, Duke of Monmouth; who came to an unhappy end after the failure of his 1685 rebellion against King James II.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skenfrith also lies on the line of the River Monnow.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Skenfrith Castle is one of the "Three Castles of Gwent’ (along with Grosmont and White Castle) founded by the Norman Lord William Fitz Osbern in the early 12th century; White Castle is located near Llantilio Crossenny, Monmouthshire.

 

[Nick_C]

Llantilio Crossenny is associated with a large bronze age hoard. The largest found in Britain was the Isleham Hoard, discovered in 1959 in Little Isleham, Cambridgeshire

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Little Isleham lies on the B1104, which runs from from Prickwillow to Chippenham (the Cambridgeshire version, not the one in Gloucestershire).