Settlement Association

[A0]

Between 1966 and 1974 Tavistock's MP was Michael Heseltine, who subsequently was MP for Henley on Thames.

 

[Calthrop]

Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, also has a pub called the Old Bell.

 

[johnnychips]

David Beckham used to live in a mansion near Sawbridgeworth. He used to play for Manchester United.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ramsbottom also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

[A0]

Ramsbottom had a trolleybus system, unusual in that it didn't replace a tram network. The same applies to Middlesborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upleatham in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Langbaugh Wapentake.

 

[Springs Branch]

Kettleness in North Yorkshire was also historically a site of ironstone mining.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goldsborough in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Langbaugh Wapentake.

 

[Springs Branch]

Observation: We seem to have repeated an identical association (. . . Langbaugh Wapentake) rather sooner than the quiz rules allow.

Rules:

• Repeating any of the previous three clues or names of settlements in a link is forbidden (you can of course quote a previous post)
• Associations provided should be clearly dissimilar to each of the previous three associations.
• . . . .

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kettleness in North Yorkshire was also historically a site of ironstone mining.

The quiz should continue from this posting.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Just a note to @EbbwJunction1, about an error of mine yesterday (28/4), which I have only just realised. Responses to @AOwen's post #30,626, featuring Ely: I followed on from that one, with Wells. You did likewise, with Potters Bar -- beating me by a minute; which I have honestly failed to notice, until now. My "Wells" one was thus technically out of order, and I should have struck it out: you however, very forbearingly, just followed on from my Wells. Apologies !

No problems!

Kettleness is on a trail (launched in 2015) established between Whitby and the hamlet with tales of the supernatural, some imagined and some claimed as real, such as a black dog (known as a barghest), which supposedly influenced Bram Stoker to put a black dog in his novel, Dracula. Also in the book, Mina watches the sunset over the headland of Kettleness from the town of Whitby. In the 1950s, a vicar supposedly met the barghest that haunted the area around Kettleness, and used holy water to banish the spirit.

 

[Calthrop]

Whitby; and Naas, Co. Kildare; are both characterised, heraldically, by snake / serpent motifs (in the Irish town's case, St. Patrick notwithstanding ). Whitby's coat of arms features on the shield, three green things which look like coiled-up snakes. It seems that they really represent ammonites -- something plentiful on this fossil-rich coast: a fossilised creature which looks like a coiled snake, but in fact isn't (dealers in fossils often carved snakes' heads on ammonites, to make them more glamorous and thus increase the price). Since 1935, the coat of arms has featured these three "falsified ammonites"; before that date, it didn't -- Wiki is unclear on quite how.

The town seal of Naas features a single snake (not coiled-up): with the motto Prudens ut Serpens ("wise as serpents and harmless as doves", etc.). Whitby's Latin motto has nothing to do with snakes.

 

[A0]

According to Wikipedia, Naas has Ireland's largest branch of Tesco. Walkden (Greater Manchester) has the UK's largest branch of Tesco.

 

[Calthrop]

Walkden used to have a prominent clock, once by the National Coal Board offices (clock now taken down, displaced by the mega-Tesco), renowned for its being "fixed" to, at 1 P.M., strike not once, but thirteen times. This modification made, according to the account: because of local coal-miners, needing a signal of 1 P.M. as the end of their lunch break and time to resume the working day; complaining that they tended not to hear just the one "ding" for one o'clock. It has been suggested that this oddity may have inspired George Orwell -- in these parts in the late 1930s, gathering material for his The Road To Wigan Pier -- re his first sentence in Nineteen-Eighty-Four: "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen".

 

[A0]

Wigan has a grade 2 listed War Memorial which was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.

Hawarden in Flintshire also has a Gilbert Scott designed War Memorial.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

According to Mr W Pedia's website, for many years the highest temperature in Wales (35.2°C) was recorded in Hawarden on on 2nd August 1990. Hawarden held this record until it was replaced for a few hours on 18th July 2022 by Gogerddan, an estate near to Trefeurig, Cardiganshire, where a temperature of 35.3°C was recorded. However, later the same day, a temperature of 37.1°C was recorded at Hawarden.

 

[Calthrop]

There are around Trefeurig, several Sites of Special Scientific Interest; tending toward lichens as an especially important feature. There is -- a very long way away -- another SSSI "big on lichen": that of Loch a' Mhuillinn, near Scourie, Highland -- some distance south of Cape Wrath.

 

[A0]

Scourie is on the route of the North Coast 500 which starts and ends at Inverness castle.

 

[Calthrop]

Scourie is on the route of the North Coast 500 which starts and ends at Inverness castle.

Taking it that Inverness city, is what is referred to -- the "castle" bit being incidental -- Milton, Cambridgeshire (just north of Cambridge) also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Florida.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ingoldisthorpe in Norfolk also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[Springs Branch]

Amongst settlements in East Anglia, "The Drift" seems to be a quite common name for local thoroughfares - local etymologists or geographers may be able to explain the reason.

Ingoldisthorpe has a street named The Drift, as does Capel Saint Mary in Suffolk.

 

[Calthrop]

Amongst settlements in East Anglia, "The Drift" seems to be a quite common name for local thoroughfares - local etymologists or geographers may be able to explain the reason.

Nothing to do with a certain event in 1879, I suppose ?

Ingoldisthorpe has a street named The Drift, as does Capel Saint Mary in Suffolk.

Churton, Cheshire -- a little way south of Chester -- also has a pub called the White Horse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Churton, Cheshire -- a little way south of Chester -- also has a pub called the White Horse.

Guilden Sutton in Cheshire West & Chester was also once administered by the Hundred of Broxton.

 

[Calthrop]

Another village -- in a different part of England -- with a two-word name of which the first is "Guilden": is Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire -- a few miles east of Biggleswade.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lewknor in Oxfordshire also lies on the route of the ancient trackway known as the Icknield Way.

 

[A0]

Lewknor's closest railway station was Lewknor Bridge Halt, another place which had a railway station with "bridge" in it was Northampton, which had Northampton Bridge Street.

 

[DerekC]

Northampton is still associated with shoe manufacture. However the British Shoe Company is based in Bath, Somerset.

 

[Calthrop]

Another setttlement whose name is involved in a "double-barrelled" title of a Church of England diocese -- as Bath and Wells -- is Southwell, Notttinghamshire (Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winkburn in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Southwell Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Hackney -- London Borough thereof -- also has a church dedicated to St. John of Jerusalem.