Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coed Gelli-fawr in Pembrokeshire is also on the route of the Gwaun Valley Trail.

 

[Calthrop]

Coed Gelli-fawr is the location of a Site of Special Scientific Interest, of importance in assorted biological fields; including being a habitat for dormice. Certain woods near Wootton Bridge, Isle of Wight, are also good for dormice.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

West Kingsdown in Kent is another settlement to have an 11th century church that is dedicated to St Edmund.

 

[Springs Branch]

Brands Hatch motor racing circuit is located in the vicinity West Kingsdown.
Another well-known racing facility, Donington Park, is near the Leicestershire village of Castle Donington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Honiton in Devon also has long historical links to lace making.

 

[Calthrop]

Honiton claims to be "the antiques capital of the South-West". The antiques business would seem also to be greatly to the fore in Hythe, Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandwich in Kent was another of the original Cinque Ports.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich has hosted The Open Championship on 15 occasions since 1894. This is the English course that has been used the most; second on the list is the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, Wirral, which has done so 12 times since 1897.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldeburgh in Suffolk is another settlement who suffered from a lifeboat disaster.

 

[Calthrop]

The composer Benjamin Britten (1913 -- 1976) lived for many years in Aldeburgh, contributing much to the town's life and culture. He was born not far away, in Lowestoft.

 

[Springs Branch]

Master ghost story writer M.R. James used Lowestoft as the model for the fictional settlement Burnstow in his story Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad.

Another real-life inspiration for one of his tales (A Vignette) is the rectory in the Suffolk village of Great Livermere.

 

[Calthrop]

Master ghost story writer M.R. James used Lowestoft as the model for the fictional settlement Burnstow in his story Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad.

Another real-life inspiration for one of his tales (A Vignette) is the rectory in the Suffolk village of Great Livermere.

James's A Vignette is not the only "spooky" aspect of the above-bolded settlement: this village has been widely reckoned to be the venue of a number of hauntings -- "factual" as it were, as distinct from fictional. Another reputedly highly-haunted settlement is Beaminster, Dorset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mapperton in Dorset was also once under the jurisdiction of the Beaminster Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Mapperton is on an unmarked minor road leading from the B3163, which passes through the village of Beaminster Broadwindsor in a westerly direction.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mapperton is on an unmarked minor road leading from the B3163, which passes through the village of Beaminster in a westerly direction.

Hang on!!!

Beaminster was used only two postings ago.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Hang on!!!

Beaminster was used only two postings ago.

Sorry ... location changed!

 

[Calthrop]

Mapperton is on an unmarked minor road leading from the B3163, which passes through the village of Beaminster Broadwindsor in a westerly direction.

Yet more about Charlie Two and his escape after the Battle of Worcester -- one of the many places where that personage briefly stayed during his complicated flight to exile in France, was Broadwindsor. Another, toward the end of the episode: was Hambledon, Hampshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Hambledon in Hampshire is known as one of the early locations of major cricket matches. Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London is a modern day major cricket ground.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Abbey Road studios in St John's Wood are close to probably the most famous zebra crossing in the UK; these crossings were first trialled in Britain in 1949, Newcastle upon Tyne being the zebra guinea pig.

 

[Calthrop]

The Abbey Road studios in St John's Wood are close to probably the most famous zebra crossing in the UK; these crossings were first trialled in Britain in 1949, Newcastle upon Tyne being the zebra guinea pig.

(My italics) -- initial slightly bewildering visions of a black-and-white-striped small cuddly rodent; but I get your meaning !

Birmingham is another English city with an officially recognised; and valued for tourist-attracting; Chinese quarter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aston was also once under the jurisdiction of the Birmingham Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

One unmissable feature of Aston is the A38(M) Aston Expressway cutting through the middle of the district.
The A38 is one of the longer English A-roads, running from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire south-west as far as Bodmin.

 

[Calthrop]

Bristol was also notably hard-hit by the 14th-century "Black Death" pandemic.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bedminster was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bristol Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Part of Bedminster is known as Windmill Hill, also the name of a village in East Sussex.

PS - I am determined to find a picture of the zebra guinea pig!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hellingley in East Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Dill.

 

[Calthrop]

Hellingley in East Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Dill.

Alfriston, East Sussex, is also located on the River Cuckmere, further down its course. (The H-village here boasted in the past, a railway curiosity which I'd have loved to mention; but of course, "not on the menu" in this game !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gautby in Lincolnshire also has an illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

In Gautby parish church there is an incised-slab memorial recording the murder of Frederick G. Vyner, of the local family of gentry, by Greek brigands in 1870. A parallel such commemoration of violent death in foreign parts is a plaque in the parish church of Bishop's Stortford, a propos Private Ernest William Boyden: killed at Thaba N'chu, near Bloemfontein, in the Boer War.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manuden in Essex also lies on the line of the River Stort.