Settlement Association

[DerekC]

High Wycombe is well known for furniture manufacture, most famously for the Windsor chair, so called because the middleman who bought chairs from the craftsmen who made them and sold them in London was based there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Poole Keynes in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the River Thames.

 

[Springs Branch]

A number of settlements dotted around the country have the suffix Keynes - apparently derived from anglicisation of the family name of Guillaume de Cahaignes, a French knight who was granted lands following the Norman conquest.

As well as famous big brother Milton, those with an interest in railways may also be familiar with the West Sussex village of Horsted Keynes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tonbridge in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Stephen.

 

[Calthrop]

Chelmsford also has a grammar school founded by King Edward VI.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Essex County Cricket Club is based at the County Ground in New Writtle Street, close to the city centre of Chelmsford. The club has previously used other venues throughout the county, including the Gidea Park Sports Ground in Romford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dartford in Kent also had a large leather industry in the medieval period.

 

[Calthrop]

Richard Trevithick, engineer and steam pioneer, died in Dartford. He was born in Tregajorran, near Redruth, Cornwall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Morvah in Cornwall was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Penwith.

 

[341o2]

As Penwith means headland, St Anne's Head in Pembrokshire is reckoned to be the sunniest place in Wales

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dale in Pembrokeshire also lies on the route of the Pembrokeshire Coast Walk Path.

 

[Calthrop]

Bamfurlong, Greater Manchester, also shares its name with that of a location in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. (Tolkien's Dale is the Dwarves' "metropolis", way up in the north-east; his Bamfurlong is on the eastern edge of the Shire, home to Frodo's "frenemy" Farmer Maggot.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Standish in Greater Manchester also had a colliery on the Wigan Coalfield.

 

[Calthrop]

Standish in Greater Manchester also had a colliery on the Wigan Coalfield.

Also with a namesake among the Pilgrim Fathers who set out for Massachusetts in the early 17th century: is Winslow, Buckinghamshire. (Respectively Myles Standish -- their chief military guy in so far as there was one; and Edward Winslow, civilian leader of one shipload.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Drayton Parslow in Buckinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Winslow Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

The following rhyme was apparently read at a fund-raising event in Drayton Parslow, sometime in the 19th Century:

"Our brand new organ wouldn’t play
Why it was we couldn’t soy.
The mon from Wing he come to tell uz
That mice hod bin ond et the bellers."

 

[Springs Branch]

For a time during the 1970s, the disused airfield RAF Wing was recommended by a government-appointed Commission as the site of London's third airport.
This proposal did not proceed and was eventually superseded by the development of Stansted Airport, located at Stanstead Mountfitchet.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Wigborough in Essex was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Uttlesford.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Little Wigborough is on an unmarked but named road which later becomes the B1026 Maldon Road. On it's way to Maldon, it passes through the small village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Angerton in Cumbria is another settlement with a very long history in coastal salt-pan sites.

 

[Calthrop]

Angerton in Cumbria is another settlement with a very long history in coastal salt-pan sites.

I find that there are two Angertons in Cumbria -- "north", and "south", both seemingly near the shore: both mentioned by Wiki, but accompanied by minimal information. Only the "northern" one features in the Michelin Britain road atlas,so I'll plump for that one. It lies on the B5307 road; which some miles south-westward, joins the B5302 at Abbeytown.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontrhydfenigaid in Ceredigion is another settlement that was chosen as a site to erect a Cistercian Abbey.

 

[Calthrop]

Pontrhydfenigaid in Ceredigion is another settlement that was chosen as a site to erect a Cistercian Abbey.

I learn that the above-bolded name includes the Welsh words for "ford" and "bridge" -- a reference to a point in time when the former was replaced by the latter. A parallel can be seen with Fordingbridge, Hampshire; which for sure, had a ford before it had a bridge, or successive ones.

 

[341o2]

And s short distance from Fordingbridge is a campsite whose name is funny and a bit rude -- Sandy Balls

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upavon also lies on the line of the River Avon.

 

[D6130]

....and between Upavon and Fordingbridge, the Avon flows through the historic city of Salisbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tisbury in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Nadder.

 

[D6130]

The village of Upper Chicksgrove also lies in the Vale of Wardour.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sutton Mandeville in Wiltshire also was once administered by the ancient Hundred of Cawden and Cadworth

 

[D6130]

Sutton Courtenay, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire also has a church dedicated to All Saints, in the churchyard of which author George Orwell is buried.