Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Callington in Cornwall was also a "Rotten Borough" prior to the passing of the Reform Act of 1832.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Callington Town Ladies FC are based at Marshfield Parc, Calington, and play in the South West Regional Women's Football League Premier Division. One of their opponents in the same league are Bishops Lydeard Ladies FC, who play at Darby Way, Bishops Lydeard, Somerset.

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[Calthrop]

Pakenham, Suffolk, also has a functioning watermill.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

As well as the watermill, Pakenham also has a windmill. It is a Grade II* Listed tower mill, which has been restored and is maintained in working order. Buttrum's Mill (also known as Trott's Mill) is another Listed tower mill (in this case Grade II); it is at Woodbridge, Suffolk, and has also been restored to working order.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hallaton in Leicestershire also has an illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Edward FitzGerald, best known as translator into English verse of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, was born near Woodbridge in 1809. A keen amateur sailor, in his latter years he spent most of his summers -- in his own words -- "knocking about somewhere outside of Lowestoft".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberdeen also has a maritime museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Department of "mickey-taking city nicknames" -- Aberdeen is sometimes called "Furryboots City". This, from the rather individual variation on the English(?) language, current in north-eastern Scotland; in which the friendly enquiry "whereabouts do you come from?", is approximately "Farrabouts air ye fae?" Far to the south: Birkenhead is quite often called "the one-eyed city": this uncomplimentary nickname bestowed largely by the people of its larger, better-known, and generally more glamorous twin on the other side of the Mersey, Liverpool -- implying that Birkenhead is a rather poor, feeble, boring, deprived backwoods kind of place -- for sure, a considerable inferiority complex on Birkenhead's part, re that lot across the water.

 

[Springs Branch]

Aficionados of bakery goods will also find a branch of Greggs catering to their needs in Barnsley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Felkirk was also once administered by the Staincross Wapentake.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Felkirk is on a network of unmarked minor roads, one of which eventually leads to the B6428. This road begins at traffic lights on the A635 in the Barugh Green area of Barnsley and heads north then northeast into Barugh; it ends at a T-junction on the B6421 just to the south of Featherstone.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also has a weightlifting club.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The writer and physician (and creator of Sherlock Holmes) Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL was born on 22nd May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh. He died on on 7th July 1930 at Windlesham Manor, his house in Crowborough, East Sussex, aged 71.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hadlow Down was also once under the jurisdiction of the Uckfield Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Brenchley in Kent was also a centre of the Wealden iron industry which flourished from the middle ages to the eighteenth century.

 

[Calthrop]

Siegfried Sassoon, poet (especially of World War I) and writer, was born near Brenchley in 1886; he died in 1967 at Heytesbury, Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Norton Bavant in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Wylye.

 

[Calthrop]

Similarly at Warden, near Hexham, Northumberland: the bells of the villages' (N.B., and W.) respective churches, are "unringable". (I didn't previously know that this phenomenon existed; but campanology not my thing.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hexham also lies on the line of the River Tyne.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The footballer Peter Beardsley MBE was born on 18th January 1961 in Hexham and grew up in Forest Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

[Calthrop]

Renfrew also has a pub called the Flying Scotsman. (Wrong side of the island / River Clyde, surely? -- in solidly LMS territory...)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

As the county town, Renfrew once was a centre of local government for the surrounding area. Whilst the county remained known as Renfrewshire, the focus of local government gradually shifted from Renfrew to its larger neighbour Paisley.

 

[Calthrop]

Worstead (Norfolk) also has a type of fabric named after it -- admittedly, in this case the "a" is dropped: worsted.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The North Walsham and Dilham Canal runs along the northeast parish boundary at Briggate. The Canal was originally 8.7 miles long and ran from two bone mills at Antingham to a junction with the River Ant at Smallburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashmanhaugh was also once under the jurisdiction of the Tunstead and Smalburgh Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

There are several different conventions locally, for pronouncing "Ashmanhaugh" (at least they all have three syllables). Similarly, there is more than one local pronunciation of the name of Towcester, Northanptonshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gumfreston in Pembrokeshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Lawrence.

 

[Calthrop]

Hay-on-Wye is also on the Welsh Cistercian Way long-distance pilgrimage / tourist trail.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portmeirion also hosts a noted arts festival.

 

[johnnychips]

Clough Williams-Ellis, the architect of Portmeirion, was born in Gayton, Nottinghamshire.