Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Non-residential buildings in the Round Hill area include the former Brighton Forum, built by the Anglican Diocese of Chichester as an institute to train female schoolteachers for the Anglican schools in Brighton and the rest of Sussex in 1854. It is now a multipurpose business centre and office complex. The architects William and Edward Habershon were commissioned to design the new building; they were based in London but worked extensively in Sussex. One of the buildings they designed separately or together in the county is St Augustine's Church at Scaynes Hill, Mid Sussex.

Walsall Wood, West Midlands, is also the location of a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The Interest of Scaynes Hill's is chiefly geological; that of Walsall Wood's, botanical.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Curborough in Staffordshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Offlow.

 

[Calthrop]

Curborough in Staffordshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Offlow.

The names of Curborough; and Melbourne (Derbyshire); both indicate "mill stream", derived from the archaic English (of different periods) for that same.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portmeirion in Gwynedd also hosts an annual arts festival.

 

[John Griffiths]

Clough Williams Ellis also designed the village of Cushendun, Co Antrim.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newtownards in County Down also has a National Trust area in which red squirrels can be seen.

 

[goo_trains]

Holbeach (Lincs) also has a railway station which opened in 1858 and was closed during the 1950s.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Settlement Association Quiz!

This works in exactly the same manner as the Station Association Quiz, only this thread concentrates on the thousands of inhabited locales instead of their railway stations. As such, a small request has been made in the Station Association Quiz to keep everything in that thread railway-related from here on.


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Rules:

• Repeating any of the previous three clues or names of settlements in a link is forbidden (you can of course quote a previous post)
• Associations provided should be clearly dissimilar to each of the previous three associations.
• Settlements may be anywhere in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland (Éire), Isle of Man and The Channel Islands.
• A description of the association should be incorporated in each posting, without simply posting the name only.

I think this extract from the very first posting on the thread is needed to remind contributors to the thread.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Continuing from post 20,316:
Ards FC is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club who play in the NIFL Championship. The club is based in Newtownards, but plays its home matches at Clandeboye Park in Bangor, which it rents from rivals Bangor to play home games.

 

[Calthrop]

The "feel-good" but IMO rather soppy song The Day We Went To Bangor, which had a considerable vogue a few decades ago; refers, or so I understand, to the Bangor in Gwynedd, not the one in Down -- not that geography is of any great relevance in this connection !

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The "feel-good" but IMO rather soppy song The Day We Went To Bangor, which had a considerable vogue a few decades ago; refers, or so I understand, to the Bangor in Gwynedd, not the one in Down -- not that geography is of any great relevance in this connection !

It certainly did, being performed by the folk group Fiddler's Dram in 1979 / 1980, when it was their only hit record. A parody was later written and performed by Jasper Carrott with the slightly different title "The Day We Went To Blackpool" ... on the whole, I prefer this version!

 

[Calthrop]

Bizarre nicknames for people from various towns: those from Blackpool are sometimes called "Sandgrownians" or "Sandgrown'uns". People from Leeds are called "Loiners".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has a Grade I listed town hall.

 

[Calthrop]

If I've done the reverse of this in the past, apologies; but it's understood that Manchester and Liverpool have long been complementary in practical terms, but not altogether in love with each other: Mancunians having tended to see Liverpudlians as flighty, ostentatious "Johnny-come-lately" clever-dicks, "getting by on gab"; while those from Manchester see themselves as straightforward, down-to-earth solid citizens -- whence the tag, "Liverpool gentleman, Manchester man".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portsmouth also has an Anglican cathedral and a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

[Calthrop]

There is another Portsmouth, in the north of England: a village located between Todmorden and Burnley; the village has long been something of a "football" between Lancashire and Yorkshire -- at the present time, it is (narrowly) in West Yorkshire. (This Portsmouth has a certain amount of railway significance: being on the Copy Pit line -- though that is irrelevant here !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wadsworth in West Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Todmorden Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Wadsworth Old Town Cricket Club's 1st XI travelled to Sowerby Bridge last Saturday for their first game of the season, against Stones CC.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Elland in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

 

[Calthrop]

Elland has been the location of the main factory making Gannex products -- raincoats, that outfit's speciality. Harold Wilson, Prime Minister 1964 - 70 and 1974 - 76, had as something of a personal trademark -- featuring an aspect of mockery from his detractors -- his liking for this particular item of rain-wear. Wilson was for long, MP for Huyton (Merseyside).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tyldesley was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of West Derby.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St George's Church, Tyldesley, was built as a Chapel of Ease to St Mary's, Leigh in 1825. It was a Commissioners' Church, paid for by money raised by the Church Building Act 1818, said to be a celebration of Britain's victory in the Battle of Waterloo. The chapel was consecrated on 19 September 1825 and dedicated to England's Patron Saint. The Church had six bells, which were cast at Downham Market, Norfolk.

 

[Calthrop]

King Charles I hid at Downham Market after the battle of Naseby. His son, the future Charles II, did similarly after that of Worcester six years later: his "hideaway" Boscobel, Shropshire -- the famous "Royal Oak" episode.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Several unmarked, but named, roads lead onto the A41 trunk road, which at one stage becomes a bypass for the town of Newport, Shropshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Several unmarked, but named, roads lead onto the A41 trunk road, which at one stage becomes a bypass for the town of Newport, Shropshire.

Lilleshall Hall just outside Newport, has been a property of the Dukes of Sutherland -- that lot seem to have got everywhere, often very far from their native heath -- including their having owned, not very far from the above-bolded: Trentham Hall, near Trentham, Staffordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wheelock in Cheshire East also lies on the line of the Trent and Mersey Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Castleton (Derbyshire), also has a pub called the Cheshire Cheese.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Taunton also had a medieval leper hospital.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Roman Catholic Church of St George, Taunton dates from the mid-19th Century. It was designed in 1860 by the English Gothic Revival architect Benjamin Bucknall (1833 – 1895), who was also responsible for Saint Wulstan's RC Church, Little Malvern, Worcestershire in 1862.

 

[Calthrop]

The Roman Catholic Church of St George, Taunton dates from the mid-19th Century. It was designed in 1860 by the English Gothic Revival architect Benjamin Bucknall (1833 – 1895), who was also responsible for Saint Wulstan's RC Church, Little Malvern, Worcestershire in 1862.

The composer Edward Elgar is buried in that same Saint Wulstan's Church as above. He was born in Lower Broadheath, near Worcester.