Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

In the latter part of his life, the journalist, author and controversialist Malcolm Muggeridge, lived in Robertsbridge. He was born in Sanderstead, now in the London Borough of Croydon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Compton Verney in Warwickshire also has Bronze Age circular barrows in its environs.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

It appears that the village of Compton Verney was demolished in the 15th Century, and the main part of it became the manor house of the same name. The Verney family lived there for a long time, but adverse financial circumstances forced them to let the house from 1887 to various tenants. It was finally in 1921 to the Leeds soap magnate Josph Watson of Linton Spring near Wetherby in Yorkshire, who actually never lived in the house as he died in 1922 of a heart attack whilst hunting nearby with the Warwickshire Foxhounds. His eldest son and heir Miles Watson (1899–1968) became the last resident of the Manor, but only for a short while; he soon sold it and moved to Plumpton Place, a Grade II* listed Elizabethan manor house in Plumpton, Sussex.

 

[Springs Branch]

Camilla Shand, later in life to become the Duchess of Cornwall, grew up in the former rectory at Plumpton.
She now lives with her husband at their country estate, Highgrove House, which is located at Doughton near Tetbury in Gloucestershire.

 

[Calthrop]

Westonbirt, with its famous Arboretum, lies also on the A433 road; a little way down it, from Doughton.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Alrewas is also the location of a famous Arboretum, in the case the National Memorial Arboretum.

 

[Calthrop]

Amcotts, North Lincolnshire, also lies on the River Trent.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The B1392 passes through Amcotts on it's way from Althorpe to Eastoft.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ripponden in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Bartholemew.

 

[Calthrop]

Hindley, Greater Manchester, is also on the A58 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aughton in West Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of West Derby.

 

[johnnychips]

Doncaster also has a Christ Church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thurrock in Essex also had a medieval woolmart building.

 

[Calthrop]

We learn that Thurrock's name comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "the bottom of a ship". By a bit of tortuous and rather dreadful wordplay, one could thus see an association with Keele, Staffordshire: which is also Anglo-Saxon, but nothing to do with ships (the place is, after all, way inland) -- it's derived from cy-hyll = "cow hill".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shawbury in Shropshire also lies on the route of the A53 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Wem, Shropshire, also lies on the River Roden.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tring in Hertfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[Calthrop]

Various sections of prehistoric bank-and-ditch earthworks -- precise origin and purpose uncertain -- are found in assorted locations in the chalk uplands of southern England; and share the name of Grims Ditch or Grims Dyke. One such, is bisected by Tring town; there is another near Upton, Hampshire (some miles north of Andover).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 2000, The Upton Clock Tower was built at the Upton Crossroads to celebrate the new Millennium and represent the town pride.
One of the town of Tredegar (in Blaenau Gwent)'s main attributes is the Town Clock, which dominates the southern part of the town centre. It was made by J B Joyce & Co. of Whitchurch, Shropshire and erected in the 1858. It was the idea of Mrs R P Davies, the wife of the Manager of the Tredegar Ironworks, who had decided that she wanted to present a "lofty illuminated clock", and decided that it would be erected in the Circle, Tredegar.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackwood in Monmouthshire also lies on the line of the Sirhowy River.

 

[johnnychips]

Coal Aston also has a Boys’ Brigade group.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holymoorside in Derbyshire also celebrates an annual well dressing.

 

[DerekC]

Warnford in Hampshire also once possessed a mansion called "Belmont", in both cases now demolished.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corhampton in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Meon.

 

[Calthrop]

The "joint village"" of Farringdon, Hampshire -- a little way south of Alton -- comprises closely-neighbouring Lower, and Upper, Farringdon. Lower Farringdon lies, like Corhampton, on the A32 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dockenfield in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Alton.

 

[Calthrop]

Dockenfield is close to the Alice Holt Forest. Investigation would seem to show that there was never a lady called Alice Holt: most favoured explanation of the name involves its being a corruption of Aelfsige, Bishop of Winchester as at AD 984; his See had rights over the forest, and was responsible for its land on behalf of the king.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sturminster Newton in Dorset also has a working watermill.

 

[Calthrop]

Sturminster Newton in Dorset also has a working watermill.

My favourite "go-to": Christchurch (Hampshire) also has a twin town in the French departement of Manche, in Normandy. S. N.'s "twin" is Montebourg; Christchurch's, St.-Lo.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hordle in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Christchurch.