Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Cleaves Wood Site of Special Scientific Interest near Wellow is an excellent butterfly habitat; including for the nationally scarce, and rather splendid-looking, Duke of Burgundy Fritillary (Hamearis lucina). Another good place for encountering the "Duke" is Rodborough, Gloucestershire (near Stroud).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

South Molton in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiveliscombe, Somerset, is also located on the B3227 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fitzhead in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Kingsbury.

 

[Calthrop]

A feature of Fitzhead's annual fete in July, is duck racing. We learn that -- same idea, different fowl -- Bonsall, Derbyshire (near Matlock) hosts annually in August, the World Hen Racing Championship.

 

[Springs Branch]

In October 2000, a resident of Bonsall observed and filmed a UFO (in the form of a large luminous pink object).

In June 2006. another UFO (a shiny, silver, triangle-shaped object moving silently along the horizon) was reported in Cookley, Worcestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Acton Trussell in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Acton Trussell was the birthplace (on 23rd January 1942) of entertainer Patrick Fyffe, one half of the popular comedy duo Hinge and Brackett; the characters resided in a fictional village called Stackton Tressel, a name adapted from Fyffe's birthplace. His stage partner, George Logan, was born on 7th July 1944 in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Inverkeithing in Fife was also one of the earlier-created Royal Burghs.

 

[Calthrop]

Inverkeithing has long had some renown for its shipbreaking yard (no longer functioning as such), at which were cut-up a number of vessels of considerable fame. The facility was run by the steel / engineering / cement business of Thos. W. Ward Ltd., based first and foremost in Sheffield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Conisbrough in South Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Don.

 

[John Griffiths]

Thornhill Lees, West Yorkshire, also had a factory run by the Kilner glassware company.

 

[Calthrop]

The philologist Hector Munro Chadwick (1870 -- 1947) was born in Thornhill Lees (he's the only son or daughter of note, of this settlement, that I can find). His academic career was at the University of Cambridge; he died in that city.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Great.

 

[Calthrop]

The business of advertised-on-the-Net "things to do" in a particular place: in Sawbridgeworth's one of these -- of the twenty or so suggestions on the list, at least a quarter are antiques venues. One would deduce that the buying and selling of antiques, is a big thing in Sawbridgeworth ... I gather that Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, is a significant player on the Northern Ireland antiques scene.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Athy in County Kildare also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.

 

[Calthrop]

Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Oise. Athy's "twin" is Grandvilliers; Bury's, Compiegne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wissington in Norfolk also has connections to the sugar-beet processing industry.

 

[Calthrop]

It rather appears, at least in my perception; that there is no "civilian" settlement at Wissington, Norfolk -- it would seem purely the location of the sugar factory. Neighbouring Suffolk has, however, a "pukka" village with the name of Wissington; some three miles east of Bures.

 

[John Griffiths]

Wissington is, it seems, referred to by locals as Wiston. Another place where local people simplified a name - rather more understandably - is the Berkshire (Buckinghamshire pre 1974) village of Wyradisbury, known popularly and now officially as Wraysbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Elstow in Bedfordshire was also chosen as a site in which to establish a Benedictine nunnery in the years following the Norman invasion.

 

[John Griffiths]

Elstow is famously connected with the nonconformist writer John Bunyan, born there in 1628. He served in the Parliamentary army 1644-47, and it is thought he was exposed to radical religious ideas while on garrison duty in Newport Pagnell.

 

[DerekC]

Newport Pagnell services on the M1 were the second to open when the motorway was constructed in 1959. The services at Watford Gap, near Watford, Northamptonshire, were the first.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wallingford in Oxfordshire also lies on the route of a pre-Roman trackway.

 

[John Griffiths]

The civil war in medieval England known as 'The Anarchy', between the armies of the Empress Matilda and Stephen of Blois, was ended by the Treaty of Wallingford in 1153. Attempts to negotiate a treaty to end a later civil war took place at the Crown Inn in Uxbridge, west London, in 1645, but proved unsuccessful.

 

[Calthrop]

Christine Keeler -- participant in disreputable doings in 1963, which had considerable political repercussions -- was born in Uxbridge. Her companion and associate in same, the rather endearing Mandy Rice-Davies: was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

In 1972 the supposedly invincible All Blacks rugby team were defeated 9-3 by, and at, Llanelli. In 1979 a team representing the North of England defeated the All Blacks 21-9 at Otley, West Yorkshire.

Just by the by, I think Chritine Keeler was a resident of Wyradisbury.

 

[Springs Branch]

In the early 20th century, Otley was a significant centre of the printing trade.

In the earliest days of British printing, many books were produced attacking the authority of the church, including the ‘Martin Marprelate’ tracts, calling for religious reform and printed illegally in the 1580s in the Warwickshire village of Wolston.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hereford also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret.

 

[Springs Branch]

Owermoigne in Dorset also has a cider museum.