Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tilbury-juxta-Clare in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hastead Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

Tilbury-juxta-Clare is the location of the Red Barns tractor repair workshop.

Another similar business in the farm machinery trade is Tractor Spare Parts Ltd, based in Alstonefield Staffordshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The poet and writer Charles Cotton (1630 – 1687), best known for translating the work of Michael de Montaigne from the French, for his contributions to The Compleat Angler and for the influential The Compleat Gamester , was born in the village of Alstonfield. He lived in nearby Beresford Hall, and practised his sport of fishing on the trout and grayling of the River Dove from his Fishing House, built in 1674 on the banks of the River Dove near Hartington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cookstown in County Tyrone also has a Neolithic stone circle within its environs.

 

[Springs Branch]

Small Heath in Birmingham also has a Roman Catholic secondary school named for the Holy Trinity.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sebastapol in Torfaen County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to St Oswald.

 

[Calthrop]

Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, also has (or has had -- it's currently closed) a pub called The Open Hearth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corby in Northamptonshire also overlies geological deposits of iron ore.

 

[Calthrop]

Northampton is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Vienne. Northampton's "twin" is Poitiers; Corby's is Chatellerault. One feels that this last place should, as well, be twinned with Chatelherault in Scotland -- just south-east of Glasgow, and with an open rail station; but the Scottish place is not an actual settlement as such. It is in fact called after the town in Vienne, or at least the Duke thereof -- this coming from 16th-century diplomatic stuff, involving an early episode of the complicated life-story of Mary Queen of Scots.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gloucester also has a Guildhall.

 

[Calthrop]

Worcester -- not very far up the River Severn, and named "in rather similar wise" -- also has a namesake settlement in the U.S. State of Massachusetts. (How the Massachusetts-ites pronounce them? -- one is maybe happier not knowing ... )

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Shields in Tyne and Wear is also a settlement with a Spiritualist Church.

 

[D6130]

North Shields is connected by a passenger ferry across the River Tyne to South Shields.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Porthcawl in Bridgend County Borough also has a land-based lighthouse.

 

[Calthrop]

Margate, Kent: also has traditionally, some renown concerning raucous seaside fun for, shall we say, those from the less sophisticated-and-cultured echelons of society -- splendid folks, of course ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheddar in Somerset also has a noted shell grotto.

 

[D6130]

Garstang in Lancashire is also noted for the manufacture of cheese.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Matlock in Derbyshire also has a canoe club.

 

[D6130]

Bath in Somerset is also overlooked by a hilltop 'folly' castle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kelston in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Bath Forum.

 

[DerekC]

Sir John Harington, inventor of the flush WC*, is buried in the churchyard at Kelston. The prototype unit was, however, installed at Richmond Palace (Surrey) for the use of his godmother Queen Elizabeth I.

*- Note that the remains of a 2,400 year old flush WC have been found recently in China

 

[Springs Branch]

Richmond was formerly the location of the Star and Garter Home - a military hospital and nursing home for servicemen injured in World War 1 (the building has now been taken over for redevelopment as apartments).

Another re-purposed military hospital (now Wheatley Park School) was the Military Hospital Wheatley, at Holton, Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nether Winchendon in Buckinghamshire also lies on the line of the River Thame.

 

[Calthrop]

Sir John Harington, inventor of the flush WC*, is buried in the churchyard at Kelston. The prototype unit was, however, installed at Richmond Palace (Surrey) for the use of his godmother Queen Elizabeth I.

*- Note that the remains of a 2,400 year old flush WC have been found recently in China

My brother, who has a "robust" sense of humour; has hung up in the loo, a "pictorial anthology" of his own composing, to do with things lavatorial -- including a small portrait of Sir John Harington, with a paragraph about -- as above -- his supposed invention, and Elizabeth I. Remark added by brother, to the effect that Sir J.H. is the reason for the American colloquialism "the john", for the toilet. Anything's possible, I suppose...

Nether Winchendon in Buckinghamshire also lies on the line of the River Thame.

Gosforth (Tyne and Wear -- not the Gosforth in Cumbria) also has a church dedicated to St. Nicholas. (One concerning St. Nicholas's churches by me yesterday, too -- sorry about that.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fenham in Tyne and Wear was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Arthur's Hill is a also district of Newcastle upon Tyne, and lies approximately 1 mile west of the City Centre; it is bordered by Fenham to the west.

 

[Calthrop]

Long ago, what is now Arthur's Hill was called Westgate. There is a different Westgate, at the other end of England: Westgate-on-Sea (Kent); near to (once again !) Margate.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The parish church of St Saviour was built to the designs of the architect Charles Beazley in 1884. Some twenty years before, in 1864 – 1865, he had designed the parish church of St Mark, Cold Ash in West Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wasing in West Berkshire was also once under jurisdiction of the Newbury Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

At the risk of accusation of "doing a @Calthrop":-

Arundel in West Sussex also has a church dedicated to St Nicholas.


In my defence, there are allegedly 500 or more St Nicholas' churches in Britain, so not that hard to come across one.