Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Silchester is on the site of the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum -- in the area where dwelt the British Atrebates tribe. Winchester, not very far off, was by the same token, previously Venta Belgarum -- the region of the Belgae tribe (both tribes concerned, were originally from the Continent).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sturminster Newton in Dorset also has a working watermill.

 

[Calthrop]

Sturminster Newton lies on the Dorset River Stour, as an element in its name implies. Somewhat further north, involving another River Stour, is Stourport-on-Severn (Worcestershire) -- as indicated name-wise, located at the point where the River Stour flows into the River Severn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wightwick in the West Midlands also lies on the line of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

 

[Springs Branch]

Rye in East Sussex also has a Mermaid pub

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolverhampton also has a church that is dedicated to St Anthony of Padua.

 

[341o2]

Leicester city football team are nicknamed the Foxes

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Along with his brother Sir David, Richard Attenborough (Baron Attenborough Kt CBE FRSA) was made a Freemen of the City of Leicester. He was born in Cambridge on 29th August 1923 and died, aged 90, on 24th August 2014 in London; he is buried in St Mary Magdalene Churchyard, Richmond, London.

 

[Springs Branch]

Sebastian's Italian restaurants promise fine home-cooked Italian cuisine at their two locations in Richmond and Windsor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chesterfield has also lent its name to an item of furniture.

 

[Calthrop]

Chesterfield seems proud of its unusual emblem, the pomegranate: there is a representation of a pomegranate tree on its coat of arms; and the town has a Pomegranate Theatre. There is a Pomegranate Restaurant in Keynsham, Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woking in Surrey also has a church that is dedicated to St Dunstan.

 

[John Griffiths]

Woking had Britain's first crematorium, built in 1878 but only opened for business in 1885 after the legality of cremation had been established by the trial the previous year of my (according to family legend) kinsman, the slightly eccentric Dr William Price, physician, Chartist and druid, who had cremated the body of his deceased infant son, Iesu Grist Price, on a hillside at Llantrisant , Glamorgan.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Although famous for his connection with Llantrisant, Dr William Price was born in the small village of Rudry, near Caerphilly in 1900.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiki tells us -- without going into any detail on the matter -- that it is thought that Oliver Cromwell took shelter in St. James's Church, Rudry (presumably during the Civil War). A little later on, Mr. C. was notoriously prominent in the role of "hammer rather than anvil", at Drogheda (County Louth).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portstewart in County Londonderry also has a religious house of Dominican Nuns.

 

[Calthrop]

Concerning the 1930s popular song Red Sails in the Sunset: song's lyrics, by the songwriter Jimmy Kennedy -- an inhabitant of Portstewart: inspired by the sails of that colour, of a yacht which he often saw, off the town: said craft's name being Kitty of Coleraine -- a nearby town.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The poem The Coleraine Salmon Leap of 1835 by Letitia Elizabeth Landon refers to an abundance of salmon in the river here in those times, and to a considerable sport derived therefrom. She was born on 14th August 1802 in Chelsea, London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bath also lends its name to a bun.

 

[John Griffiths]

Saltaire is also a World Heritage Site.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barnoldswick in Lancashire also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

 

[Springs Branch]

Barnoldswick is one of those settlements where the accepted pronunciation varies significantly from the spelling (it's Barlick to locals)
Another non-intuitive place name is the Cheshire village of Cholmondeley (or Chum-lee).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shocklach in Cheshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Broxton.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, the village name Shocklach means 'goblin stream'. Investigating this meaning further, the old English (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) for goblin "was scucca and lache which is a variant of letch which means wet ditch or bog or a stream flowing through boggy land; a muddy, ditch or hole". Similarly there is a village named Shobrooke in Devon, and the dictionary compares the original meaning of this name (goblin brook) with that of the village Shocklach.

 

[Calthrop]

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, the village name Shocklach means 'goblin stream'. Investigating this meaning further, the old English (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) for goblin "was scucca and lache which is a variant of letch which means wet ditch or bog or a stream flowing through boggy land; a muddy, ditch or hole". Similarly there is a village named Shobrooke in Devon, and the dictionary compares the original meaning of this name (goblin brook) with that of the village Shocklach.

("scucca" [my bolding, above]: allied name-wise, must be our East Anglian spectral-canine friend Black Shuck, who appeared in the game a couple of days ago -- post #20,287.)

Twenty-five men from Shobrooke were killed in World War I -- seemingly a tragically great number, from such a small place. One supposes that in that episode in history, it was a matter of how the dice happened to roll. At the opposite extreme: Saxby, Leicestershire, is one of Britain's "thankful villages": all the men from which, who fought in World War I, survived.

 

[Springs Branch]

I have to confess I had never heard of "thankful villages" before reading @Calthrop's post. You learn something new every day in this quiz!
If the stout yeomen who regularly inhabit this thread ever got together to form a Pub Quiz team, I'm sure we'd wipe the floor with the opposition in the "Settlements of Britain" round.

Anyhow...... the relatively obscure Leicestershire River Eye also passes through Melton Mowbray.

 

[Calthrop]

I have to confess I had never heard of "thankful villages" before reading @Calthrop's post. You learn something new every day in this quiz!
If the stout yeomen who regularly inhabit this thread ever got together to form a Pub Quiz team, I'm sure we'd wipe the floor with the opposition in the "Settlements of Britain" round.

We'd certainly slay them, as regards church-saints-dedications; church bells; architects past and present, and their detailed doings; administrative areas and divisions from times past; pub names by town / village; places' locations on watercourses; and lesser-known sports teams and where they play ! (Sorry, guys.)

Anyhow...... the relatively obscure Leicestershire River Eye also passes through Melton Mowbray.

Whiskas cat food --- and at least in the past, Kit-e-Kat -- is manufactured at Melton Mowbray. Felix, however, is made in Southall, west London.

 

[John Griffiths]

Southall also had the world's largest margarine factory, built for the Maypole Dairy Company, a very large chain of food stores in the late 19th and earlier 20th century, and the first to sell margarine on a large scale. Maypole was founded in 1887 by George Watson in Wolverhampton.

 

[341o2]

Back to Wolverhampton.It has a university as does Bournemouth

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Bournemouth town centre has notable Victorian architecture and the 202 foot spire of St Peter's Church, one of three Grade 1 Listed churches in the borough, is a local landmark. It was designed by George Edmund Street RA (1824 – 1881), who carried out a number of new works in Ireland, including the small clifftop church of St. John the Evangelist at Ardamine, Co. Wexford.