Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Blyth, Northumberland also has an RNLI lifeboat station.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

On the north side of the River Blyth are the remains of the railway coal staithes which featured in the chase scene at the end of the 1971 film Get Carter, starring Michael Caine. Carter's climactic pursuit of Eric Paice used an amalgamation of two locations spaced 35 miles apart: Blyth Staithes and Blackhall Beach near the village of Blackhall Colliery, County Durham.

 

[Calthrop]

Blean (Kent) is, like the above-bolded settlement, close to a Site of Special Scientific Interest -- said sites respectively: Blean Woods (great for butterflies); and Castle Eden Dene.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swalecliffe in Kent was also once under the jurisdiction of the Blean Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Part of the Saxon Shore Way footpath between Faversham and Deal passes through Swalecliffe; further along, it also passes through Herne Bay.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tobermory on the Isle of Mull also has a noted example of a clock tower.

 

[Springs Branch]

Tobermory lends its name to one of the Wombles.
The name of another Wombling character was reportedly inspired by the public school attended by a nephew of author Elisabeth Beresford, located in the Somerset town of Wellington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sampford Peverall is another settlement that was served by the Grand Western Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of St John the Baptist, Sampford Peverell is remarkable for a complete set of late C19th / early C20th stained glass windows. These were made by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, with the best one at the east end of the aisle. It is rare for a church in Devon to retain such extensive Early English fabric. The Grade II Listed former premises of the company are in Endell Street, Covent Garden, London.

 

[Calthrop]

The first recorded incidence of a Punch and Judy puppet show in Britain, is one which took place in Covent Garden in 1662; mentioned in Pepys's diary. The puppet-ised misadventures of the violent misogynist / infanticidist and his fellow-characters, are not greatly in favour nowadays, but can still be seen in some places: Cromer has a certain renown as one such.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The actor Sir John Hurt CBE was born on 22nd January 1940 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and died on 25th January 2017 at Cromer, aged 77.

 

[Calthrop]

Chesterfield lies on the River Rother; which continues northward to join the River Don at Rotherham. Robertsbridge (East Sussex) is situated on another, more southerly, River Rother.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Grade II Listed former Robertsbridge United Reformed Church, which was built in 1881 and closed in September 2015 stands on the High Street. It was designed by the local architect Thomas Elworthy, who also designed the Baptist Church at St Leonards-on-Sea in 1883.

 

[John Griffiths]

St Leonard's was built (in its early phases) by property developer James Burton and architect son Decimus, who also designed several major buildings for the new port town of Fleetwood.

 

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Fleetwood acquired its modern character in the 1830s, when the principal landowner Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, High Sheriff and MP, conceived an ambitious plan to re-develop the town to make it a busy seaport and railway spur. Peter Hesketh (he changed his name to Hesketh-Fleetwood in 1831) was born in 1801 at Wennington Hall, in Wennington, near Lancaster; he died at his home in Piccadilly, London in April 1866, following a lengthy illness, and is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.

 

[Hey 3]

Willesden is also in the London Borough of Brent and also has a cemetery where the Tesco founder was buried.

 

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The Grade II Listed St Matthew's Church, Willesden was designed by William Douglas Caroe and built between 1900 and 1906. Caröe was articled to John Loughborough Pearson, who designed Quarwood or Quar Wood, a Victorian Manor near Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. It was owned for 27 years by The Who's bassist John Entwistle.

 

[johnnychips]

The church is dedicated to St Edward the Confessor, who was crowned king at Winchester.

 

[Calthrop]

Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral. Charlotte and Emily Bronte, women novelists of a slightly later date, are buried in the church of St. Michael and All Angels in their home town of Haworth.

 

[DerekC]

The Railway Children Walk will take you from Haworth to Oxenhope.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yatton also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The villages of Yatton and Flax Bourton are both located on the North Somerset Levels, where the low-lying land, a mixture of peat, estuarine alluvium and low hills of sand and gravel, is crossed by a myriad of watercourses, providing a habitat for several scarce species.

 

[Calthrop]

At the risk of "repetition" re an entry only four posts back (I'm having problems with Flax Bourton !) -- said settlement has, yet again, a parish church dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels; as has Tettenhall (borough of Wolverhampton).

 

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There is a variety of pear known as 'Tettenhall Dick', named after Tettenhall, but originally found in the hamlet of Perton and dating to earlier than the 18th century. Perton is a large village and civil parish in South Staffordshire; the name Perton is derived from 'Pear Town' due to the number of pear trees that once grew there.

 

[Calthrop]

Perton has, appropriately, a pub called the Pear and Partridge. On the associated Christmas-carol theme: there is a pub in not-far-away Stourbridge called the French Hen.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Stourbridge RFC are the local rugby club, although they play at Stourton Park in nearby Stourton.

 

[Springs Branch]

Stourton was the site of an important junction on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.
The same canal terminates where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal at the Staffordshire village of Great Haywood.

 

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Samuel Peploe Wood (1827–1873) was an English sculptor and painter who was born in Great Haywood. He undertook work on many Staffordshire buildings, including St. Stephen's Church, Great Haywood and at All Angels' Church, Colwich.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wormbridge in Herefordshire also has a resident community of Benedictine Nuns.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Peter's Church, Wormbridge has a broach spire, which was added between 1851 and 1859. This is a type of tall pyramidical structure (spire) which usually sits atop a tower of a Church, starting on a square base and carried up to a tapering octagonal spire by means of triangular faces. Another example is at the Church of St Andrew, Broughton, in Northamptonshire.