Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

204 men and boys killed in the Hartley colliery disaster of 1862 are buried in the churchyard of St Alban's, Earsdon. An even more catastrophic disaster was that which took place at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, Glamorgan, in 1913, killing 439.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Port Sunlight in Merseyside also has a Grade I listed war memorial.

 

[John Griffiths]

Port Sunlight was built by the soap magnate William Lever; he also purchased the estate of South Harris in the Western Isles and renamed the village of Obbe as Leverburgh, hoping to transform it into a fishing port to supply his Macfisheries chain of fish shops.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tarbert is another settlement on the Isle of Harris.

 

[Calthrop]

There are a number of settlements in Scotland called Tarbert or Tarbet -- strongly tending to be in the historically, or still-, Gaelic-speaking west of the country: the name coming from the Gaelic tairbeart = isthmus. Places with the name, will generally be located at an isthmus-point: as is the case with the Harris one above; and with Tarbet, Argyll & Bute -- on the narrow neck of land between Loch Long (arm of the Clyde estuary) and the inland Loch Lomond.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newborough in Anglesey is also a settlement where red squirrels are found in its wooded environs.

 

[Springs Branch]

Burwell in Cambridgeshire also has an agricultural museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Burwell has a youth football club called the Burwell Swallows. The football club (adults, I gather) of St. Monans, Fife (East Neuk thereof) is likewise called the St. Monans Swallows.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cellardyke in Fife also lies on the route of the long distance footpath known as the Fife Coastal Path.

 

[Springs Branch]

. . . Fife (East Neuk thereof) . . .

That’s my new word / bit of geography learned today

Cellardyke in Fife also lies on the route of the long distance footpath known as the Fife Coastal Path.

Stagecoach East Scotland’s bus service 95 passes through Cellardyke on its route between Leven and St Andrews

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Virginia Water in Surrey also has a noted golf course.

 

[johnnychips]

Bill Bryson used to live in Virginia Water and also Kirkby Malham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Musselburgh in East Lothian also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.

 

[D6130]

Sedgefield in Co. Durham also has a racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Stupid quoting mechanism on this site ! -- for me, it can very easily go highly wrong.

@Springs Branch writes, re East Neuk of Fife: "That's my new word / bit of geography learnt today".

I learnt of the East Neuk, from being a fan of the thrillers of Val McDermid: who herself comes from roughly those parts; as does her heroine DCI Karen Pirie -- who also does her detecting stuff in that general part of Scotland.

 

[Calthrop]

Sedgefield in Co. Durham also has a racecourse.

Worcester also has a namesake settlement in the Western Cape area of South Africa. Sedgefield in the Western Cape, is so named because its "founding father" was the 19th-century politician and industrialist Henry Barrington, who was born in the Co. Durham Sedgefield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maidstone in Kent was also the site of a battle during the English Civil War.

 

[Calthrop]

Maidstone has a museum of horse-drawn carriages; as has Arlington, North Devon -- located between Barnstaple and Lynton, but not on the course of a certain one-time public-transport route .

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Parracombe in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Shirwell.

 

[Kiryu]

Parracombe's St Petrock's Church is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, as is All Saints' Church in Leicester.

 

[johnnychips]

Manchester also has a football team named ‘City’.

 

[Kiryu]

Corbridge was also established in the 1st century.

 

[Calthrop]

The glass doors giving entrance to St. Andrew's parish church, Corbridge, were given by the comedian and actor Rowan Atkinson; who was born not very far away, at Consett, County Durham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Allensford in County Durham also lies on the line of the River Derwent.

 

[Springs Branch]

Corbridge in Northumberland is also on the route of the A68 trunk road (although there is now a bypass taking the main road around Corbridge itself)

 

[Kiryu]

West Kirby (Merseyside) also has a bus route numbered 685.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southport in Merseyside also has a marine lake.

 

[John Griffiths]

Chislehurst also has associations with Emperor Napoleon III: lived in both, died in the latter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[John Griffiths]

Music hall star Harry Relph (1867-1928), better known as Little Tich, was born in Cudham; he died aged sixty at his home in Hendon, NW London, of a stroke possibly brought on by complications from an on-stage accident he suffered the previous year.