Settlement Association

[D6130]

STIRLING also has a football club with the word 'Albion' in its name. Coatbridge's club is Albion Rovers.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peebles in Scottish Borders was also created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century.

 

[D6130]

Norham in Northumberland is also situated on the River Tweed.

 

[Springs Branch]

One of the last creations of 19th Century artist J.M.W. Turner was a painting Norham Castle, Sunrise, currently held in the Tate Britain's collection.

Another well-known work by Turner depicted a G.W.R. (the original one) steam train crossing the bridge over the Thames at Maidenhead, Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wallingford in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Thames.

 

[Calthrop]

Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Wallingfords's "twin" is Bad Wurzach; Ellesmere Port's is Reutlingen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Falmouth in Cornwall also has a boat museum.

 

[D6130]

WINKLEIGH in Devon also has a pub named 'The Seven Stars'.

 

[Calthrop]

Great Torrington, Devon, also lies on the A3124 road (the A3124's northern end, where it joins the A386, is there).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lostwithiel in Cornwall was also the scene of a battle during the English Civil War.

 

[Calthrop]

Bantry, Co. Cork, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Finistere, in Brittany. Lostwithiel's twin is Pleyber-Christ; Bantry's is Pont-l'Abbe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newlyn in Cornwall also has historical connections to pilchard fishery.

 

[Calthrop]

Littleton (Borough of Spelthorne, near Shepperton, south-westerly parts of Greater London): also has a name similar, though not identical, to that of a settlement in New Zealand. The respective antipodean counterparts are New Lynn, a suburb of Auckland; and Lyttelton, the port for Christchurch, South Island.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandringham in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.

 

[Calthrop]

Brancaster, Norfolk: is also on a bus route worked by the bus operator Lynx.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Halkyn in Flintshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[Calthrop]

Much lead from the mines around Halkyn, was used to roof the castle of Rhuddlan, Denbighshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clawddnewydd in Denbighshire also lies on the line of the River Clwyd.

 

[johnnychips]

Bamford in Derbyshire also has a community-owned pub. (The Glan Llyn in Clawddnewydd, the Angler’s Rest in Bamford).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fernilee in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chapel-en-le-Frith Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

Fernilee is located on the A5004 road which was, until a substantial bypassing programme in the area, the route of the A6 trunk road.

Another settlement formerly on the A6, now bypassed with the original route downgraded to a B-road, is Bamber Bridge, south of Preston in Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wythenshawe in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Aidan.

 

[John Griffiths]

Wythenshawe was designed by planner and architect Barry Parker, who, with his colleague and brother-in-Law Raymond Unwin, was also responsible for designing New Earswick, York.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dinas Powys in Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[Calthrop]

Goulceby, Lincolnshire -- seven miles south-west of Louth -- also has a pub called the Three Horse Shoes.

 

[John Griffiths]

Goulceby was the birthplace in 1818 of William Marwood, the executioner who developed the 'long drop' method of hanging. Another well-known hangman was Albert Pierrepoint, born in 1905 in Clayton, West Yorkshire.

 

[Springs Branch]

Clayton was a terminus for one of Bradford City Transport's trolley bus routes (the number 37).

Another of Bradford City Transport's trolley bus services was the 42 to Idle, West Yorks.

 

[Calthrop]

Silliness which it's hard to resist -- quite likely apocryphal / dreamed-up, unfortunate -- or potentially so -- names based on place-names, for associations / institutions. One such being, re the Yorkshire settlement, the Idle Working Men's Club. Also, the Women's Institute: standard nomenclature for local branches of same, is after the pattern of, say, the Borchester Women's Institute. Supposedly, a couple of settlements got special permission -- to avoid embarrassment -- for an alternative name-pattern: "the W.I. (*** Branch)". This was told of Ugley in Essex; and of Loose, Kent (just south of Maidstone).

 

[John Griffiths]

Loose has a pub named The Chequers, as formerly did Isleworth in west London.

 

[Calthrop]

"Low-hanging fruit" -- in the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot, Isleworth is often mentioned as the home town of the character Chief Inspector Japp. On the detective-fiction theme; in Val McDermid's thrillers, which I delight in: her police-detective character Karen Pirie (the following, is re the books; not the recent telly-adaptation thing) -- a stroppy lady who takes no c*ap from anybody -- comes from "humble but upright" roots in Methil, Fife.