Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, also has a pub called the Foxglove.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sookholme in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

If I might be forgiven for playing the "pedant" card: by my reckoning, Upton House and Ratley are (just) in Warwickshire -- a bit north-west of Banbury. I can find no Leicestershire Ratley; though there's Ratby, just west of Leicester.

Apologies - I don't know why I typed Leicestershire. Upton House is indeed in Warwickshire, although close to the boundary with Oxfordshire.

Sookholme in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.

There is some evidence that Sookholme was the site of a Roman bath. A definite Roman bath complex alongside a temple has recently been discovered at Exton in Hampshire. The archaeologists are excited because of evidence of continuous use as a religious site from the pre-Roman Iron Age, with a horse and foal sacrifice buried beneath the base of the temple tower.

 

[Springs Branch]

Plaitford is another Hampshire village with a pub named The Shoe Inn.

 

[Calthrop]

Plaitford lies on the River Blackwater -- one of several of that name in the British Isles. Another -- considerably larger -- such, is Northern Ireland's Blackwater, which flows into Lough Neagh from the west. It rises near Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cronkbourne in the Isle of Man also has a noted creamery.

 

[Springs Branch]

Westhoughton in Greater Manchester also has a well-established cricket club.

 

[Calthrop]

Cronkbourne in the Isle of Man also has a noted creamery.

This game is very educational ! Thought I knew the Isle of Man quite well, but had never before heard of Cronkbourne. I learn that it's a suburban setting, between Douglas and Onchan.

Westhoughton in Greater Manchester also has a well-established cricket club.

Newbury, Berkshire, also saw varied action in the English Civil War / War of the Three Kingdoms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heptonstall in West Yorkshire also had a medieval-period Cloth Hall.

 

[341o2]

Scenes from the recent remake of Swallows and Amazons were shot at Heptonstall, the original, and many of Ransomes' books are based on the Lake District, especially Bowness upon Windermere

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scenes from the recent remake of Swallows and Amazons were shot at Heptonstall, the original, and many of Ransomes' books are based on the Lake District, especially Windermere

Just to be clear, are we talking about Windermere or Bowness-on-Windermere above?

 

[341o2]

Bowness on Windermere or Rio to the Swallows in the first novel

 

[DerekC]

Bowness is home to the World of Beatrix Potter attraction. The lady herself lived on the other side of the lake, close to Esthwaite Water, in Near Sawrey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hawkshead Hill in Cumbria is another settlement served by the B5285 road.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Bobbin Mill is a B&B establishment located in Hawkshead Hill.

Not so far away, still in Cumbria, is the Stott Park Bobbin Mill, a working cotton-spinning museum at Newby Bridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Backbarrow in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Leven.

 

[Calthrop]

Beaulieu, Hampshire, also has a museum devoted to road motor vehicles.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sawtry in Cambridgeshire was also chosen as a site in which to establish a Cistercian religious house.

 

[Calthrop]

Sawtry has a pub called the Greystones (which the Cistercians presumably did not frequent). Sheffield has a pub with the same name.

 

[Springs Branch]

Sheffield University has (or had - seems to have gone quiet of late) a Pork Pie Appreciation Society.

Another long-established Pork Pie Appreciation Society is based at The Old Bridge Inn in Ripponden, West Yorks.

 

[D6130]

The Old Bridge Inn in Ripponden claims to be the oldest pub in Yorkshire, allegedly opened in 1307. However Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, Hertfordshire, claims to be the oldest pub in England. (Other pubs have the same claim though).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mildenhall in Suffolk is another settlement where Roman gold coinage was found within its environs.

 

[341o2]

Brize Norton is another settlement associated with an RAF base

 

[Calthrop]

There seems to be doubt as to the origin of the "Brize" in Brize Norton's name. Some see it as being derived from the name of the local lords of the manor in medieval times; others ascribe it to the parish church's being dedicated to St. Britius. At all events, this is the UK's only church dedicated to this saint -- the name being a variant of his more familiar name of St. Brice of Tours, in his native country Gaul / France. Another saint reckoned to have only one church in the UK dedicated to him, is St. Gluvias -- said church being that of the settlement of that name, in Cornwall (near Falmouth).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Just in Penwith is also a Cornish settlement with a fine example of a stone Cornish Cross.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Ballowall Barrow is a prehistoric chambered funerary cairn located at St Just.
Another neolithic burial site is the Tideslow Chambered Cairn, near the Derbyshire village of Little Hucklow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wirksworth in Derbyshire also has historical connections to lead mining.

 

[Calthrop]

Chesterfield, Derbyshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Hesse. Wirksworth's "twin" is Frankenau; Chesterfield's, Darmstadt.

 

[Springs Branch]

Chesterfield is famous for its church with a crooked spire.

Another less twisted and perhaps less well-known crooked spire is in Shropshire at St. Mary's Church in Cleobury Mortimer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newnham Bridge in Worcestershire also lies on the line of the River Rea.