Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thrumpton in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basford Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

It turns out that there are two Thrumptons in Nottinghamshire. The other one is a suburb of Retford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bawtry in South Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Idle.

 

[Calthrop]

Quite often cited by me in one context or another: one of my favourite humorous writers, the late Paul Jennings. This gentleman was fond of messing about in various ways, with British place-names; including a, to me, delightful touch with what is nowadays known as the "Uxbridge Dictionary" game. On this track, he gave Bawtry the meaning of cold / raw / blustery weather-wise; as "a bawtry day". His treatment of Bovey Tracey, Devon, found for it the meaning of headstrong or wilful -- "none of your bovey-tracey ways here, Miss !"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Bovey in Devon also lies on the line of the River Bovey.

 

[Calthrop]

A "pet peeve" of mine, is "things to do in..." advertising spreads, which stretch their nets far more widely than for "in" to be, at least re some of the attractions, remotely appropriate. As for instance, a Net entry outright labelled "Best Beaches in North Bovey, Devon". Eh? -- the Boveys are very definitely inland -- with some of this item's recommended beaches being as far away as Salcombe. An example of this, far off to the north, which I've mentioned before in the game: a small location in south Scotland, one of whose cited "things to do in", was twenty miles away at Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Comrie in Perthshire is also a Scottish settlement that had a prisoner-of-war camp established within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire: is also more subject to earth tremors, than the British average for same.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edwinstowe in Nottinghamshire also lies on the line of the River Maun.

 

[Calthrop]

According to the Robin Hood legends, Robin married Maid Marian in St. Mary's Church, Edwinstowe; and died at Kirklees Priory, Clifton, West Yorkshire (near Brighouse), Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale -- poisoned by his aunt the Prioress, who had been suborned to do so.

 

[D6130]

Otley in West Yorkshire also has a pub called the Black Horse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swillington in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Skyrack Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Near Swillington is Leventhorpe Vineyard, established in 1986; has been recommended by Rick Stein. It was until recently, the northernmost commercial vineyard in Britain; however, there is now one further north, near Malton (North Yorkshire).

 

[341o2]

Malton had a former racecourse, now used by Richard Fahey for training, (his stables are within the grounds), another former racecourse was at Folkestone. Its closure in 2012 was supposed to be temporary but the site is now the Otterpool Garden town

 

[Calthrop]

I recall from the Billy Bunter books, that two uncles of Billy's occupied a prominent place in his mind: because of his perpetually hoping / expecting to receive hampers of food from them (which if memory serves me rightly, seldom if ever happened). They were his Uncle Carter and his Uncle Tuck; one lived in Folkestone, the other in Twickenham (now London Borough of Richmond) -- but at this distance in time, I don't remember which dwelt where.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cardiff also has a national Rugby Union stadium.

 

[Calthrop]

For much of the 19th / early 20th century, there was controversy with strong feelings, over the envisaged "disestablishment" of the Church of England in Wales: which finally came officially to pass, at the time (coincidentally) of the First World War. A minor issue in this matter, involved the considerable number of church parishes which were part in Wales and part in England: the parishioners of each, were given the opportunity to vote as to whether they wished to stay C of E "pure and simple", or go with the newly disestablished Anglican Church in Wales. Out of the nineteen parishes concerned, only one took the latter option: Llansilin, now in Powys -- a few miles west of Oswestry. Around the time of things being thus resolved, G.K. Chesterton wrote a satirical poem, suggesting that the entire business was really a bit silly; and that Britain and the world were confronted with far more serious matters, more worthy of concentrating on. The poem contains a glancing reference to a hypothetical curate in Cardiff.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cribyn in Ceredigion also has a church that is dedicated to St Silin.

 

[Calthrop]

Llansawel, Carmarthenshire, is also located on the B4337 road.

 

[341o2]

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Eynsford also has a Plough Inn

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Taunton in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to St Martin of Tours.

 

[Calthrop]

Taunton and Colchester, Essex, both feature army barracks named after locations in the Indian-sub-continent area -- both spelt after the fashion of a century or more ago, not in the places' standard modern spelling. Taunton has (no longer in Army use, part-demolished, remainder preserved as a monument) Jellalabad Barracks -- named after Jalalabad (Afghanistan) and the 1842 battle there involving British forces; Colchester -- still a functioning Army establishment -- Goojerat Barracks; after the Indian State of Gujarat.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hexham in Northumberland also has medieval links to the leather trade.

 

[Calthrop]

Towton in North Yorkshire -- near Tadcaster -- was also the location of a Wars of the Roses battle in which the Yorkists were victorious.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birkin in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Barkston-Ash Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Birkin's chief son of note, is the political philosopher Thomas Hill Green, 1836 -- 1882 (who I admit I'd never heard of before Googling the settlement just now). Born in Birkin, son of the rector; he studied at Balliol College, Oxford, of which he subsequently became a Fellow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackbird Leys in Oxfordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Oxford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Bitterne, suburb of Southampton, might be thought also to have a name with an ornithological flavour; it is reckoned, though, that this settlement's name is probably not to do with the bird -- a couple of more-likely different derivations, from Old English, are suggested.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nelson in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Saviour.

 

[341o2]

And was linked to Burnley by the Burnley, Colne, and Nelson bus company, now taken over by Transdev Blazefield