Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ripon also has a cathedral.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The cathedral has a fine organ by Harrison & Harrison Ltd of Durham, which is a rebuild of the original Lewis instrument dating from 1878.The company built a new organ for the Chapel at Rossall School, the day and boarding independent school near Cleveleys, Lancashire.

 

[Calthrop]

Warton is also on the A584 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hothersall was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Amounderness.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Hothersall is on unmarked roads which connect to the B6243 from Clitheroe to Preston; this road passes through the piratical sounding Grimsarrrrrrgh ... sorry, Grimsargh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dumbarton also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Dumbarton FC (Also known as 'Sons of the Rock') play in the Scottish League One at the Dumbarton Football Stadium. Another club in the same League are Cove Rangers FC, who are based in the Cove Bay area of Aberdeen and play their football at the Balmoral Stadium.

 

[Calthrop]

Alness (Highland) has also in recent years, been ranked highly in the "Scotland in Bloom" competition.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uig also has a whisky distillery.

 

[Calthrop]

England has few whisky distilleries; but one thereof, is the Cotswolds Distillery at Stourton, Warwickshire (I've been there).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

River Stour is a spring near Highways Farm, just south of Swalcliffe. The first settlement that the river flows through is the village of Stourton; it then turns to the north and passes through the town of Shipston-on-Stour (there's a very nice cricket ground there!).

 

[Calthrop]

Shipston-on-Stour lies in the Vale of Red Horse. Re equine-titled geographically-non-elevated regions: well under fifty miles south thereof, lies the similarly-named Vale of White Horse; wherein is situated Blewbury, Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quethiock in Cornwall is also a settlement where almshouses were built.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

An Unmarked road leads north from Quethiock to the A390 , which it joins at St Ive (no "s").

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boconnoc was also once under the jurisdiction of the Liskeard Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Coedydd Aber in Abergwyngregyn is another good place to see lichens.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bontnewydd also lies on the line of the River Aber.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bontnewydd in Welsh translates to New Bridge in English.

Another settlement in Wales with this same placename in English (but a quite different name in its Welsh form) is in the county borough of Caerphilly at Newbridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blaenavon is another Welsh settlement where coal mining became established.

 

[Calthrop]

"Blaenavon" means in Welsh, approximately "river's source": the settlement is near the source of the River Lwyd. An English-language counterpart is Wearhead in County Durham; it being near the source of the River Wear.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wanlockhead also has historical connections to lead mining.

 

[Calthrop]

The stationary-steam-engine engineer and steamboat pioneer William Symington (1764 -- 1831) lived and worked for some while at Wanlockhead (he was born in nearby Leadhills). Symington moved around a good deal in the course of his work; for a while, he managed a colliery near Bo'ness (full name Borrowstounness), now in the Falkirk council area.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clydebank is another settlement on the line of the Roman Antonine Wall.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Royal Navy Battlecruiser HMS Hood was built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank and launched in August 1918. She was an Admiral Class ship and named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, who was born on 12th December 1724 in Butleigh, Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Middlezoy was also once administered by the Hundred of Whitley.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Holy Cross church Middlezoy dates from the 13th century. It has a three-stage tower similar to that at Lyng, also in Somerset, and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I Listed Building.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goathurst was also once administered by the Hundred of Andersfield.

 

[Calthrop]

There was also a World War II P.O.W. camp at Birdingbury, Warwickshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Church Lawford was also once under the jurisdiction of the Rugby Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Harlestone, Northamptonshire, is also situated on the A428 road.