Settlement Association

[341o2]

Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) is also on the A3054

 

[D6130]

Yarmouth is connected by a car and foot passenger ferry service to Lymington, Hampshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Lymington has a Wetherspoons pub called the Six Bells -- opened relatively recently, after a long spell in which the townsfolk and their representatives resisted the getting of a foothold in their high-class settlement, by an outfit so vulgar as Wetherspoons. Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, also has a Wetherspoons pub: called the Bottle of Sack -- Shakespearean reference re his character Sir John Falstaff, who per the plays, did some of his stuff thereabouts.

 

[341o2]

Another Sutton is Sutton Harbour, Plymouth, its original port

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Falmouth in Cornwall also has a marina.

 

[John Griffiths]

Author John Anthony Miller was born in Falmouth but raised in the Southsea district of Portsmouth. Better known by his nom de plume Peter Pook, he wrote a series of very loosely autobiographical comic novels, most of which had the word 'Pook' in the title (eg Pook in Boots). Quite well known in the sixties and seventies, he died aged 60 in 1978 and seems now to be more or less totally forgotten.

 

[D6130]

Glasgow also has a King's Theatre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanarthney in Carmarthenshire also has a noted botanic garden.

 

[Calthrop]

Author John Anthony Miller was born in Falmouth but raised in the Southsea district of Portsmouth. Better known by his nom de plume Peter Pook, he wrote a series of very loosely autobiographical comic novels, most of which had the word 'Pook' in the title (eg Pook in Boots). Quite well known in the sixties and seventies, he died aged 60 in 1978 and seems now to be more or less totally forgotten.

Long ago, I read one of the above by this chap -- Pook's Tale of Woo. I wasn't over-impressed; but I tend to be hard to please in general, in the "fiction" department.

Llanarthney in Carmarthenshire also has a noted botanic garden.

Llangunnor also in Carmarthenshire (just east of Carmarthen) also lies on the B4300 road.

 

[John Griffiths]

The church in Llangunnor is dedicated to St Ceinwr, otherwise Cein, Cain, Keyne, one of the 'saintly daughters' of Brychan Brycheiniog; she despised marriage and became known as Cein-wyry, 'Cein the virgin', giving rise to the name Ceinwr and also Gaynor. She departed her home and lived for many years as a hermit in Keynsham, Somerset, before returning to establish a religious house, possibly in Glamorgan

 

[Calthrop]

The church in Llangunnor is dedicated to St Ceinwr, otherwise Cein, Cain, Keyne, one of the 'saintly daughters' of Brychan Brycheiniog; she despised marriage and became known as Cein-wyry, 'Cein the virgin', giving rise to the name Ceinwr and also Gaynor. She departed her home and lived for many years as a hermit in Keynsham, Somerset, before returning to establish a religious house, possibly in Glamorgan

(Many centuries after the above lady's spell in Keynsham as a holy spinster; the town was the abode of, in contrast, a worldly-frivolity-devoted Batchelor -- Horace of that name, the noted football-pools tipster. I can't figure out any association between old Horace, and another settlement) ... so will take the route of: as with Keynsham -- Chedzoy, Somerset (near Bridgwater) was also the scene of events in the Duke of Monmouth's 1685 abortive rebellion against King James II.

 

[John Griffiths]

Chedzoy until recently had a village pub named the Manor House Inn. There is an establishment of the same name in Haltwhistle , Northumberland.

 

[Calthrop]

Dunsop Bridge, Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire: is Haltwhistle's rival for the claim to be the geographic centre of the island of Great Britain (if I have things rightly, Haltwhistle reckons itself the geographic centre of the whole UK, including Northern Ireland). I'm instinctively sceptical about stuff like this, no matter who lays claim to it...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Mitton in Lancashire also lies of the line of the River Hodder.

 

[Calthrop]

Shrewsbury also has a pub called The Three Fishes.

 

[341o2]

Shrewsbury was the birthplace of Charles Darwin, while staying in London, he conceived the theory of evolution and continued to work on it at Down House where he eventually died, Down House is in Luxted Rd Downe nr Orpington, Kent

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cudham in the London Borough of Bromley was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ruxley.

 

[Calthrop]

There takes place at Cudham, an annual music festival called "Cudham Craic" (I hate that word -- for me, reeks of bogus stage-Irishry). An event in more or less the same bracket, and also with a -- partial, at least -- alliterative element to its name: is held every January at Dumfries; called the Big Burns Supper Festival -- per Wiki, "an international Scottish music and performing arts festival of music, theatre, comedy and cabaret".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also has a camera obscura.

 

[John Griffiths]

Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, also lies on the traditional route of the A1.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bainbridge in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Ure.

 

[341o2]

Bainbridge International is one of the country's leading manufacturers of sailcloth, another established firm is Jekells of Wroxham (Norfolk)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Booton in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the St Faith's Poor Law Union.

 

[341o2]

And rhymes with Hooton on the Wirral

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Neston in Cheshire West and Chester was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Wirral.

 

[Calthrop]

Harking back to a mention of mine in this game, less than a year ago: a detective / thriller writer for whose works I have a fondness, is Kate Ellis -- a prolific author of such novels, the majority of which she sets in the coastal area of south Devon intermediate between Exeter and Plymouth: thinly disguising town-names therein. Often featuring in these " 'tec" 's of hers: are Totnes which she cloaks under the name "Neston"; and Kingswear, which she lets mutate into "Queenswear".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Postbridge in Devon also lies on the line of the River Dart.

 

[Calthrop]

Postbridge would seem to be a focus of reports of the reputed puzzling ?supernatural? phenomenon of the disembodied "Hairy Hands", which are said to materialise at night and force vehicle drivers to relinquish to them, the steering; with vehicle directed off the road, or worse. There have been reports of supposed experiences of a different kind of "hairy strangeness", at the other end of England: at Bolam Lake Country Park near Bolam, Northumberland (some ten miles west of Morpeth); where people have claimed to have seen "Bigfoot"- or "Yeti"-like creatures.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Black Callerton in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Castle Ward Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Walbottle was also a township in the parish of Newburn (formerly Northumberland, now Newcastle upon Tyne).