Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Bishopsbourne boasts the Tadpole Tea Room on Frog Lane. Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, has a pub / restaurant called the Frog.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sherburn in Elmet also has a church that is dedicated to St Joseph the Worker.

 

[DerekC]

Big Meadow at Bidford on Avon is a recreation area. Big Meadow at Loughborough, on the other hand, is a nature reserve comprised of ancient water meadows with lots of wildlife (including, no doubt, frogs).

The ancient Brittonic kingdom of Elmet included parts of West and South Yorkshire and north Derbyshire. It is remembered also in the name of Scholes in Elmet

(and there are probably lots of frogs there, too)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Catterline in Aberdeenshire also has a church that is dedicate to St Philip.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Bidford-on-Avon grew up around an ancient ford, now replaced by a narrow stone bridge, on the Icknield Street or Ryknild Street Roman Road. This runs from the Fosse Way at Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire to Templeborough in South Yorkshire.

Catterline is at the end of a network of unmarked but mostly named roads leading off the A92. This road joins the A90, and then (as the A90) passes the outskirts of Stonehaven.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gillybrands in Aberdeenshire also lies on the route of the ancient drovers road known as Causey Mounth.

 

[DerekC]

Hmm - Gillybrands seems to be a farm and nothing more. However discovering that the owner is Mr A Shepherd and that the farm used to be a pub called the "Jeally Branns Inn" has made me less grumpy than usual so i won't register an official complaint! Gillybrands is on the Burn of Elsick which flows into the sea at nearby Newtonhill.

 

[Calthrop]

Newtonhill used to have the more stirring / attention-grabbing name of Skateraw; in fact the older part of the settlement is still known at least semi-officially by that name. Another settlement with a name evocative of sea fish and their eating, is Gurnard, Isle of Wight -- just outside Cowes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight also has a sailing club.

 

[Calthrop]

Weird place, the Isle of Wight: -- it contains two rivers called the Yar. Yarmouth is at the mouth of the Westerm Yar; its eastern counterpart reaches the sea at St. Helens, I.O.W.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hickling in Norfolk also has an illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a Broad -- name given to shallow lakes linked to the river system in this part of East Anglia -- which takes its name from Hickling. Just over the border in Suffolk, another such lake is called Oulton Broad; name originally from the village of Oulton a little to the north -- in more recent times, though, a newer settlement and parish has come into being, nearer to the body of water -- settlement in fact called Oulton Broad.

 

[DerekC]

The Victorian travel writer George Borrow married a lady with property in Oulton Broad and lived there towards the end of his life. He was born in East Dereham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burnham Norton in Norfolk also has a holy well.

 

[DerekC]

From Burnham Norton you can follow the Norfolk Coastal Path to Holme next the Sea, then Peddar's Way, the Icknield Way, the Great Ridgeway and the Wessex Ridgeway all the way to Lyme Regis in Dorset. I wonder how long it would take?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beer in Devon was another settlement used by the notorious 18th century smuggler to store goods that he had smuggled in from France.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Pecorama at Beer is worth a visit. For the same reason, a miniature railway, I took a 1BWS to RHYL.

 

[Calthrop]

Pecorama at Beer is worth a visit. For the same reason, a miniature railway, I took a 1BWS to RHYL.

Clevedon, North Somerset, also has a Marine Lake.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moycullen in County Galway also has a Church of the Immaculate Conception.

 

[341o2]

Moycullen is now regarded as a satellite town to Galway, London has several, one of the earliest being Letchworth

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Royston in Hertfordshire also lies on the route of the ancient trackway known as the Icknield Way.

 

[341o2]

Micheldever is on the route of the Roman road between Winchester and Manchester, the town's name inspired that of Michel Delving in the Lord of the Rings (along with an Anglo Saxon phrase)

 

[Calthrop]

I can't resist Tolkien-related ones ! Another associated name: the hobbits' Shire has an "extension" of sorts, to the east of the Brandywine River -- this region called Buckland, the fief of the Brandybuck family. There are a fair number of villages in England bearing that name; I'm choosing Buckland, Buckinghamshire -- a little way east of Aylesbury.

 

[341o2]

I once knew someone whose university thesis was the origins, the names, legends etc behind Tolkein's work

 

[Calthrop]

I once knew someone whose university thesis was the origins, the names, legends etc behind Tolkein's work

What better subject for a thesis? (Not that I can claim to be a truly hard-core Tolkien fan: some while ago I acquired a copy of the Silmarillion, but have yet to nerve myself to open it.)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Buckland House is a large Georgian stately home and the manor house of the village. It is a masterpiece of Palladian architecture designed by John Wood the Younger and built for Sir Robert Throckmorton in 1757. Much of his work was in Bath, but as well as Buckland House, he also designed the General Infirmary in Salisbury.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

NORWICH too might claim to have the most beautiful cathedral in England.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Elmham in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Wensum.

 

[DerekC]

Hexham in Northumberland, like North Elmham, is the site of a now-destroyed cathedral

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colchester in Essex also has historical medieval links to the leather trade.