Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Hambledon has a vineyard; vineyards and wine-making also feature near Dorking.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Broadclough in Lancashire also lies on the route of a turnpike road that was authorised by a Turnpike Trust Act of Parliament in 1755.

 

[Springs Branch]

Stoneclough is also on the course of the River Irwell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eastbourne also has a church that is dedicated to St Saviour.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 1793, following a survey of coastal defences in the southeast, approval was given for the positioning of infantry and artillery to defend the bay between Beachy Head and Hastings from attack by the French. Fourteen Martello Towers were constructed along the western shore of Pevensey Bay, continuing as far as Tower 73, the Wish Tower at Eastbourne. A small number of Martello towers were also built in Wales, of which few survive. The most notable surviving towers are the two located in Pembroke Dock, which were built between 1848 and 1857 to protect the naval base there

 

[Calthrop]

Until development under naval auspices began about two hundred years ago, what is now Pembroke Dock was called Paterchurch. In the "not to be confused with..." department -- not immensely far away, but on the other side of the Anglo-Welsh border, is Peterchurch in the Golden Valley of Herefordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holywell also has a healing well with waters that are said to have curative properties.

 

[Calthrop]

Holywell also has a healing well with waters that are said to have curative properties.

In former times, an important industry around Holywell was the smelting of copper, and manufacturing of items therefrom. Copper used also to be of significance at Coniston, Cumbria; where it was mined.

 

[Springs Branch]

Young travellers of limited means are well provided-for in Coniston with two YHA (England & Wales) Youth Hostels in the vicinity.
Another settlement with Youth Hostel accommodation offered by the same organisation is Llanberis.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ewell also has a preserved waterwheel

 

[Calthrop]

Pulborough, West Sussex, is also on the route of the Roman road called Stane Street

 

[Nick_C]

Pulborough lies on the River Arun, the source of which is in St Leonard's Forest, near to Mannings Heath.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The actor Peter Vaughan died in Mannings Heath on 6th December 1916, aged 93. He was born in Wem, Shropshire on 4th April 1923.

 

[Calthrop]

The actor Peter Vaughan died in Mannings Heath on 6th December 1916, aged 93. He was born in Wem, Shropshire on 4th April 1923.

Wem is one of those places where there are humorously reputed to be treacle mines. In similar vein: in Chester -- decades ago anyway -- the jest was that nearby Saltney, on the border of England and Wales, boasted vinegar mines.

 

[Calthrop]

The actor Peter Vaughan died in Mannings Heath on 6th December 1916, aged 93. He was born in Wem, Shropshire on 4th April 1923.

(2016 presumably meant -- unless he was living backwards, like the White Queen )

 

[EbbwJunction1]

(2016 presumably meant -- unless he was living backwards, like the White Queen )

Well, as Genial Harry Grout, he'd have been capable of arranging anything ..... !

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wem is one of those places where there are humorously reputed to be treacle mines. In similar vein: in Chester -- decades ago anyway -- the jest was that nearby Saltney, on the border of England and Wales, boasted vinegar mines.

Bretton lay at the other end of the Sir John Glynne's Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Several buildings on the former Grosvenor Estate at Bretton were designed by John Douglas (1830 – 1911), who was an English architect who designed over 500 buildings in Cheshire, North Wales and North West England. John Douglas's only church built entirely in half-timbering is the small church of St Michael and All Angels at Great Altcar in West Lancashire in 1878 / 1879.

 

[Calthrop]

John Douglas's only church built entirely in half-timbering is the small church of St Michael and All Angels at Great Altcar in West Lancashire in 1878 / 1879.

The "Altcar" in the above-bolded settlement's name, is derived from the Old Norse kjaer = marsh, + "Alt": marsh by the [River] Alt. Redcar (North Yorkshire) derives (second syllable) similarly from the Old Norse marsh-word: the "red" part is reckoned to be from either the Old English word for "reed", or that for "red".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saltburn-by-the-Sea also has historical links to the mining of ironstone.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bournville was another planned settlement which was originally set up without pubs due to Quaker influences.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Port Sunlight is another settlement that provided housing of a superior standard than the norm by a philanthropic employer for his workforce.

 

[Calthrop]

Port Sunlight is another settlement that provided housing of a superior standard than the norm by a philanthropic employer for his workforce.

Port Sunlight was in its early days -- in 1912 -- the subject of a west End musical comedy, The Sunshine Girl, which introduced the Tango dance to British audiences. "Tango" soft drinks are now, chiefly anyway, manufactured by the firm of Britvic; whose headquarters are in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Watford was also on the route of the Sparrows Herne turnpike road.

 

[Springs Branch]

White-knuckle drive aficionados can also enjoy a spin around a Magic Roundabout in Swindon.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Elton John was Chairman of Watford FC between 1976 and 1987, and is now the Club President. He was born, as Reginald Kenneth Dwight, on 25th March 1947 in Pinner, then part of Middlesex, but now in the London Borough of Harrow. .

 

[Calthrop]

Dunblane (council area of Stirling) also features in a limerick by Edward Lear, as the residence of the central character: respectively, "old person of" the English settlement, and "old man of" the Scottish one.

 

[johnnychips]

Andy Murray comes from Dunblane; he has played tennis at Wimbledon.

 

[John Griffiths]

Tennis player Sir Andrew Murray was brought up in Dunblane, but was born in Glasgow.

Smart work, Johnny

 

[johnnychips]

Sorry, nobody posts for four hours then we both have convergent thinking. This is the power of the Johns.