Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doddinghurst in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Barstable.

 

[Calthrop]

Doddinghurst used to have a pub called the Willow -- the premises now converted into a restaurant with the in my opinion rather pretentious name of Kervan Kitchen. Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, still has a pub called the Willow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ducklington on Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Windrush.

 

[Calthrop]

Horley, Surrey, also has a church dedicated to St. Bartholomew.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Littledean in Gloucestershire was also the site of an early post-Norman invasion ring and bailey castle.

 

[Calthrop]

Littledean in Gloucestershire was also the site of an early post-Norman invasion ring and bailey castle.

Re a feature of Littledean, which we had only in June (but I find nothing to tell of Littledean, other than the two things mentioned in that June sequence) -- also with a church dedicated to St. Ethelbert: the seemingly "inseparable-twin" settlements of Alby with Thwaite, Norfolk (south of Cromer).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Limpenhoe in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Aylesham Poor Law Union.

 

[341o2]

Reedham (Norfolk) is also on the course of the River Yare

 

[Calthrop]

Often a Godsend if one finds oneself struggling with a name-ending-in-"ham" settlement: the Navy's "Ham" class minesweepers. One was named after Reedham; another after Neasham, County Durham (near Darlington).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Croft-on-Tees in North Yorkshire unsurprisingly also lies on the line of the River Tees.

 

[John Griffiths]

Shotley Bridge in County Durham was also the location of one of England's lesser spas.

 

[Calthrop]

Buried at Shotley Bridge is the Italian writer, historian, poet and artist Avro Manhattan (1914 -- 90). Not his original surname; he dwelt in Britain from the mid-1930s onward: having left Italy, where he had been an opponent of Mussolini's regime. Manhattan and his wife -- whom he met and married well into his life in Britain -- long lived in South Shields, Tyne and Wear. Shotley Bridge was his wife's home town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hartlepool in County Durham also has a church that is dedicated to St Hilda.

 

[Calthrop]

Issues of monkeys being regarded as on a par with humans (with sad consequences for the monkeys): the famous cliche about Hartlepool is of course the tale from the Napoleonic Wars, of a French warship's foundering near the town -- a pet monkey from the ship, which survived the event, was mistakenly identified as a French belligerent, by locals; who accordingly hanged the creature. (Hartlepool people -- rather than feeling ridiculed by this tale -- seem to get as much fun from it, as anybody else.) Reckonably at an earlier date, a similar thing was done at Boddam, Aberdeenshire -- in this case, from policy rather than cluelessness. A ship was wrecked off Boddam; only a monkey survived from its complement -- with the rule that villagers could claim salvage rights only if there were no survivors from the wreck concerned -- local guys duly hanged this monkey: a deed commemorated, one gathers, in a traditional song from the area.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stony Littleton in Somerset is also a settlement with a Long Barrow within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Stony Littleton in Somerset is also a settlement with a Long Barrow within its environs.

The above-bolded would seem to be too tiny a place to feature on maps; there is however a settlement a long way to the north, with a very similar name, and decidedly more substantial: Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire -- a few miles north of Bakewell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bowness-on-Windermere in Cumbria also has a church that is dedicated to St Martin.

 

[341o2]

Bowness in Windermere is the fictional "Rio" in Swallows and Amazons, while "Kanchenjunga" is the Old Man of Coniston.
A circular walking route to visit the summit begins and ends at Coniston, Cumbria

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brigham in Cumbria also has historical connecting to copper mining.

 

[Calthrop]

Brigham in Cumbria also has historical connecting to copper mining.

St. Brides, Pembrokeshire (way out on the coast, not far from Skomer Island) has also -- unsurprisingly -- a church dedicated to St. Bridget.

 

[DerekC]

There is a River Bride in Dorset, which doesn't have anything to do with St Bridget, the name being derived from Brythonic Brydi - "boiling" and presumably referring to its flow character rather than its temperature! It rises at Littlebredy (and surprisingly, doesn't get as far as Bridport before flowing into the sea).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nether Alderley in Cheshire East is another settlement where an example of a walled garden can be seen.

 

[Calthrop]

The A34 road runs through the parish of Nether Alderley. The same road runs -- or at least, did before the days of bypasses -- also through Whitchurch, Hampshire.

 

[DerekC]

Wikipedia lists nine places named Whitchurch in Britain. Whitchurch in Shropshire is probably the best known. Much less well known is that Whitchurch was once the name of the area now called Canons Park in the London Borough of Harrow. (The local church is sometimes still referred to as St Lawrence, Whitchurch)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Church Stretton in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Lawrence.

 

[D6130]

Malham in North Yorkshire is also a noted centre for walking holidays.

 

[Calthrop]

Bowes, County Durham, is also located on the Pennine Way long-distance footpath (in Bowes's case, on an "optional variant" thereof).

 

[341o2]

Bowes used to be in Yorkshire, likewise Christchurch used to be in Hampshire, but now in Dorset following the reorganisation of local government in 1974 (which also caused Bowes to be in co Durham)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Calthrop]

Sopley's Parish Church (dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels) is constructed from ironstone rubble, dressed with Binstead stone from the Isle of Wight -- Binstead being a village on that island, just west of Ryde.