Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

There would seem very little to tell about Mansriggs -- except that it's in the civil parish of Osmotherley. "Consulting", would seem to indicate that this Osmotherley is not a settlement at all; just a parish name. There is, however, a genuine village of Osmotherley in North Yorkshire -- six miles north-east of Northallerton. (Stuff like this can have someone like me, from a good deal further south in England: thinking -- Heaven forgive me -- "they're all mad up North ".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster also has a Meeting House of the Society of Friends.

 

[Calthrop]

Woodstock, Oxfordshire, also has a namesake settlement in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. (North America would seem to have many Woodstocks -- at none of which the [in]famous thus-named pop festival of half-a-century-odd ago, took place. Who ever said life was supposed to make sense?)

 

[High Dyke]

Last Bus to Woodstock is a crime novel by Colin Dexter. He was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire

 

[John Griffiths]

Stamford - although it looks so genteel - was the last place in England where bull running (a la Pamplona) took place, on St Bryce's Day in 1839, four years after being made illegal. Other places where bull running took place included Wokingham in Berkshire.

 

[DerekC]

The village of Swallowfield in Berkshire, like part of Wokingham, was an exclave of Wiltshire until transferred to Berkshire under the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barkham in Berkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wokingham Poor Law Union.

 

[High Dyke]

An open field system of farming prevailed in the parish until early in the 19th century. Parliament passed the Windsor Forest Act 1813 authorising enclosure for Barkham, but this was not implemented until 1821.

One place in England where the open-field system continues to be used is the village of Laxton, Nottinghamshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldershot in Hampshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel.

 

[Calthrop]

Teddington (Borough of Richmond upon Thames) also features -- worked-in, in slightly "tortured" fashion -- in a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Respective poems: "Gunga Din" -- You may talk of gin and beer / When you're quartered safe out 'ere / And it's all to penny fights and Aldershot it ... and "The River's Tale" -- Up I go till I end my run / At Tide-end-town, which is Teddington ...

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Mary with St Alban is the Church of England parish church of Teddington; it comprises the church of St Mary (Teddington's old parish church) and the former church of St Alban nearby. The church's most famous vicar was the Reverend Stephen Hales (1677 – 1761), a scientist whose legacy is the nearby National Physical Laboratory. Born in Bekesbourne, Kent, he is buried next to the church's tower.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nackington in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Bridge and Petham.

 

[Calthrop]

Nackington in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Bridge and Petham.

Sounds rather rude -- or is that just my in-single-figures mental age?

All I can think of, is: Hay-on-Wye, Powys, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

With over twenty bookshops, Hay-on-Wye is often described as a "town of books"; it is both the National Book Town of Wales and the site of the annual Hay Festival. Sedbergh in Cumbria is England's official Book Town.

 

[Calthrop]

Sedbergh is twinned with Zrece in Slovenia. Also with a twin-settlement in former Yugoslavia: is Norwich -- its "twin", Novi Sad in Serbia.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

William Cullum (1859 – 1949), known as Billy Bluelight, was a popular English flower vendor and cult figure in Norwich. He was well known for his races, when he would run the 20-mile stretch alongside the steam pleasure boats beside the rivers Wensum and Yare. He lived in Norwich for the majority of his life, but in his 80s, he entered the West Norwich Hospital and was later moved to St James Hospital at Shipmeadow, Suffolk where he died in 1949, aged 90.

 

[Calthrop]

Cadeleigh, Devon -- four miles south-west of Tiverton -- also has a church dedicated to St. Bartholomew. (Shipmeadow's "St. Bart's" was in fact, de-consecrated and sold for private housing in 1980.)

 

[John Griffiths]

The Cadeleigh Arms, which is in Cadeleigh, was in 2019 named as Devon's most dog-friendly pub. Another pub which welcomes man's best friend is The Thatch in Croyde, Devon, last year named as the third most dog-friendly pub in the UK.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The nearby hamlet of Putsborough is also on The South West Coast Path.

 

[High Dyke]

The first recorded written reference to Putsborough is from 1313; however there is mention in Domesday Book to a sister of Ordulf* (a Saxon lord who held the manor of Georgeham and Croyde, amongst others in Devon) who tried to found her own separate manor – possibly Putsborough.

* The above spelling of Ordulf may be a mistake. The Devonian reference is for Ordwulf.

His sister was Queen Ælfthryth, third wife of King Edgar (born 943, died 975; ruled 959-975). Although her reputation was damaged by the murder of her stepson, Ælfthryth was a religious woman, taking an especial interest in monastic reform during her queenship. Late in life, according to Gaimar, Ælfthryth retired to Wherwell, Hampshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stockbridge in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Test.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bramber in West Sussex was also a 'rotten borough' which lost its parliamentary representation at the passing of the Reform Act of 1832.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arundel in West Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[Calthrop]

Arundel's name either comes from the Old English Harhunedell = valley of horehound (the plant); or from the [Norman]-French hirondelle = swallow, which birds feature on the town's coat of arms. It is reckoned that the river which flows by Arundel -- the Arun --was formerly called the Tarrant: was re-named, by "back-formation", the Arun. This happens rather often, re rivers and towns: the river on which lies Chelmsford, Essex, formerly had another name; but was re-named to conform with that of the settlement.

 

[High Dyke]

North Walsham, Norfolk is another location where trouble occurred during the Peasants Revolt of 1381.

 

[Calthrop]

The A149 road also runs through Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.

 

[High Dyke]

Hoylake also suffered a lifeboat disaster.

• Hoylake in 1810 - eight crew lost.
• Wells-next-the-Sea 1880 - eleven crew lost.

 

[91130nut]

Lytham St Anne's has also hosted the Walker Cup in the last 10 years.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ilfracombe in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady Star of the Sea.

 

[Calthrop]

The young Peter Sellers lived in Ilfracombe, in the period when his parents managed the town's Gaiety Theatre; supposedly his first-ever appearance on stage was at that venue, playing the drums. He was born, however, in Southsea, Hampshire; in 1925.