Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashbourne in Derbyshire also has a church in which a table tomb can be seen.

 

[Calthrop]

Retford, Nottinghamshire, also has a hostelry whose name has been controversial in recent times because of race-related issues.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Staveley in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the Chesterfield Canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

Staveley was the headquarters of the Staveley Iron and Coal Company. The architect and planner Raymond Unwin worked for the company early in his career; he went on to design many innovative settlements, including New Earswick, Letchworth, Hampstead Garden Suburb and - for the Ministry of Munitions in 1915 - Gretna.

 

[Calthrop]

The above-bolded settlement is a noted location for observing huge flocks of starlings in flight, especially in winter. Ham Wall Nature Reserve near Meare in Somerset, is renowned for the same phenomenon.

 

[John Griffiths]

Meare has the only surviving monastic fish house in England. Peterhead has a sixteenth century fish house, the oldest in Scotland.

 

[DerekC]

Peterhead is home to the Buchan Ness lighthouse, built by Robert Stevenson who also built the Mull of Galloway lighthouse near Drummore amongst many others.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Port Logan is also a settlement on the southern part of the Rhinns of Galloway peninsula.

 

[Calthrop]

Port Logan is also a settlement on the southern part of the Rhinns of Galloway peninsula.

The above-bolded settlement has a bell tower designed by Thomas Telford (1757 -- 1834), the civil engineer / architect / road-bridge-and-canal builder. He did much work in Shropshire; wherein is located the new town, inaugurated some 50 years ago, named Telford in his honour.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Milton Keynes also became a "new town" under the Governmental "third-wave" plans between 1967-1970.

 

[DerekC]

Milton Keynes is famous for its concrete cows, but the ones in the open air are copies. The originals are in a museum at Wolverton.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Wolverton, Hedge End in Hampshire is twinned with the Belgian town Comines-Warneton.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiki recounts (a bit sniffily? -- I doubt whether in the situation concerned, I'd have been a model of stoic bravery) that a fair number of nearby Southampton's people moved, during World War II, to Hedge End; seeking to avoid the heavy air-raids on the port city. I understand that in that period, Llandudno played a similar role -- being seen as a place of minimal interest to the Luftwaffe.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Coptic Orthodox Church in Llandudno (Saint Mary and Saint Abasikhiron) was bought by the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Midlands in 2005 to be the second Church of the faith in Wales. The first Coptic Orthodox Church in Wales was consecrated in 1992 by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria in the town of Risca, South Wales; the official name of the Church is St Mary's and St Abu Saifain's Coptic Orthodox Church.

 

[Calthrop]

The Coptic Orthodox Church in Llandudno (Saint Mary and Saint Abasikhiron) was bought by the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Midlands in 2005 to be the second Church of the faith in Wales. The first Coptic Orthodox Church in Wales was consecrated in 1992 by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria in the town of Risca, South Wales; the official name of the Church is St Mary's and St Abu Saifain's Coptic Orthodox Church.

Wow ! ...if you say so ...

Risca played a role in the activities of the Chartist movement for social justice and equality nationwide, in the earlier part of the 19th century; re the Chartist "Newport Rising" of 1839. The only Chartist MP ever elected on that "ticket", was Feargus O'Connor; who became MP for Nottingham in the election of 1847.

 

[John Griffiths]

O'Connor was also the begetter of the Chartist Land Plan, an ultimately misguided attempt to create a class of Chartist smallholders out of industrial labourers. Members - 70,000 of them - bought shares in the Chartist Land Company; applicants were selected by lot to receive a cottage and land in the five settlements created by the company (250 settler families in all). The first settlement (1847), close to Chorleywood, Herts, was named O'Connorville, but after the collapse of the land plan in acrimony it was renamed Heronsgate.

 

[Calthrop]

Some barrel-scraping here: names which might at least seem to have to do with long-beaked and long-legged fish-loving birds -- viz. the above-bolded; and Martins Heron, suburb of Bracknell, Berkshire: name not in fact, we learn, to do with the bird -- but from the obsolete word hern = nook or corner of land.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Martins Heron is well known locally as being the site of the house of Harry Potter's Uncle and Aunt, and the first of J K Rowling's stories, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was filmed partly on location. J K Rowling was born in Yate, Gloucestershire.

 

[Calthrop]

Also significant in the field of fireworks is Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire; location of Britain's biggest fireworks-manufacturing undertaking. (Yate was formerly the world's chief site for the mining of celestine or spar; which colours flames red.)

 

[John Griffiths]

Queen Catherine of Aragon died at Kimbolton Castle in 1536. After Henry VIII had cast her off, she had resided successively at The More in Rickmansworth, Hatfield, Elsyng in Enfield, Ampthill, and Buckden Palace in Buckden , Huntingdonshire, before being confined at Kimbolton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Godmanchester also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse.

 

[Springs Branch]

Godmanchester is the location of Cambridge Display Technology Ltd, the European research and product development arm of Japanese multinational company Sumitomo Chemical.

Another Japanese industrial corporation, Nippon Sheet Glass, has its European technology development centre in rural West Lancashire at Lathom.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Lathom Chapel is a plain rectangular building constructed in about 1500. The chapel, dedicated to St John the Divine, was consecrated by the Bishop of Sodor and Man, whose Seat is located at the Cathedral Church of St German in the town of Peel, Isle of Man.

 

[Calthrop]

Perranporth, Cornwall, is also reckoned by many to be a place with excellent sunsets.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Falmouth also hosts a sea-shanty festival.

 

[Calthrop]

Kidderminster also has an interestingly individual name for its local newspaper: names concerned, the Falmouth Packet [boat, presumably]; and the Kidderminster Shuttle, commemorating the long-standing local industry of carpet-weaving.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stourport-on-Severn was also served by the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Stourport-on-Severn was also served by the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

We've mentioned John Wesley recently in the game... it would seem that occasionally in his journals of his missionary travels, he mentions secular things; including, re Stourport, commenting on its remarkable growth in extent over the 1771s / 80s, starting as just a "well built village". Mention is made by Wesley, concerning an Irish journey of his in 1789, of torrential rain experienced near Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Northern Bank building in Newtownstewart was the scene of an infamous murder on 29 June 1871, when Sub-Inspector Montgomery of the Royal Irish Constabulary assaulted and killed William Glass, a clerk employed by the bank and stole £1,600 from the till. In the aftermath, Sub-Inspector Montgomery took charge of the investigation and briefly succeeded in deflecting suspicion from himself. However, Montgomery's subordinates ultimately learned of his financial difficulties and eyewitnesses identified him as having left the bank one hour before the body of William Glass was discovered. As a result, a County Tyrone Coroner's Inquest brought a verdict of willful murder against Sub-Inspector Montgomery. After two mistrials, the disgraced policeman was convicted of murder and hanged in the Gaol at Omagh. His last words were "Is hanging a painful death?"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caherdavin in County Limerick also has a church that is dedicated to Christ the King.