There's a River Newton, so it's not something to do with Manchester Utd, is it? i.e. Newton Heath (meadow).
Possible rivers: Mite, Eea, Loud, (mighty loud?), Eau (vert the) White Lyne, Wear, (the best) Team, Burn Trying to enable others, I'm not very good at this sort of thing.
Anything to do with the confluence of Wince Brook with the River Irk. The Wince Brook turned white and frothy recently as a result of some discharge or other, and the River Irk is already one of the most polluted rivers in England.
I'll give you that. They're both in Manchester - River Irk and Medlock River. Medlock is OE for meadow stream. Over to you.
Very generous BB, thanks, I knew that one of the Irk's tributaries is the Medlock but had no idea that was Old English! OK, what connects the English Civil War, Florence Nightingale and an erstwhile railway station in Buckinghamshire?
The ex railway station may be Calvert, which was named after Sir Harry Verney (born Calvert), who married Florence Nightingale's sister. In an extension of the English Civil War (in this case on American soil) as a result of the battle of the Severn (Baltimore) Leonard Calvert was made royal governor of the new colony in the late 1640s. So I guess the link is the Calvert family. There was also a Verney station in Bucks. (named after the same person) - and also an Edmund Verney who died at Edge Hill - so alternatively the link could be the Verney family.
Absolutely correct Cologne - the link is the Verney family - the station is or was Verney Junction on the Oxford Bletchley line for the branch to Buckingham. It is currently derelict with one rusting line passing through the undergrowth. However the line is to be rebuilt to be a double track electrified 100mph railway in the next 4 years! Incidentally there is no settlement called Verney - a couple of cottages and the Verney Arms being the only buildings once served by the station. Until 1936 there was also a service from Verney Junction down through Aylesbury and Ricky to Baker Street run by the Metropolitan Railway (and then Line). Over to you.
Cheers Vic. Another connections one. What is the link between 1,000 oak trees, Henry the Eighth, and 3 different coloured flags ?
Savernake Forest has 1000+ oak trees. Jane Seymour, (3rd wife of 'enry, 2nd visit on Jeremy Kyle) was born in Savernake Forest). She was of Belgian ancestry (3 coloured flag) and took over from French Annie B (Frenchie tricolour). The straws I'm clutching remain gold, black and red.
