Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Bickley Moss, Cheshire West and Chester -- a few miles north of Whitchurch -- also lies on the long-distance footpath called the Sandstone Trail.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Malpas in Cheshire West & Chester was also once administered by the Higher Division of the Hundred of Broxton.

Spelling mistake now corrected.

 

[Calthrop]

Born in Malpas was the Anglican churchman Reginald Heber (1783 -- 1826) -- perhaps best-known as a hymn-writer (a couple of his: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty; and From Greenland's Icy Mountains [rather out of favour nowadays -- seen as condescending toward the world's less-developed regions and their peoples]). For final few years of his shortish life, Heber was Bishop of Calcutta, India; prior to which he spent a longish term as Rector of Hodnet, Shropshire -- some miles south-west of Market Drayton.

 

[DerekC]

In the early 1970s the landlord of the Bear Inn, Hodnet had the bright idea of acquiring some real bears to attract customers. The first two sadly died - it is said as the result of an overdose of alcohol and pickled onions. Their replacements turned out to be bad tempered and untrainable and they were on the verge of destruction when saved by the RSPCA and donated to the zoo at Newquay, Cornwall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackpool is also a seaside resort that has a zoo as one of its attactions.

 

[341o2]

Bournemouth also had a Winter Gardens Theatre

 

[Calthrop]

P.C. Wren (1875 -- 1941), author of the "classic" novel about the French Foreign Legion, Beau Geste; lived for a considerable while in Bournemouth. He is buried in Amberley, Gloucestershire (near Stroud).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dobcross in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

Dobcross used to have a pub -- now defunct -- called the Nudger; for sure, one reckons, the only thus-named pub in the land. Stalybridge, Tameside, Greater Manchester -- just a little distance away -- has a pub with a unique name in the UK, which is also the longest pub name therein: The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Marsden in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.

 

[D6130]

The summit level of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal passes through the longest canal tunnel in the UK. At more than three miles long, the Standedge Canal Tunnel runs parallel to - and at a lower level than - the adjacent rail tunnels and links Marsden with Diggle in Tameside Borough, Greater Manchester.

 

[Calthrop]

"Harry Potter" characters sharing the names of settlements -- both in the north of England, in this case. There's the wizard Daedalus Diggle; and the student Terry Boot (as in the village in Eskdale, Cumbria): both on the side of the "goodies" in the conflict whose course the books follow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

New Abbey in Dumfries and Galloway also has a water corm mill that is open to the public.

 

[Springs Branch]

The village of New Abbey takes its slightly misleading name from the Abbey of Dulce Cor, better known as Sweetheart Abbey - a Cistercian monastery founded in 1275.
Another venerable institution with a name which is now possibly confusing to some is New College (founded 1379) in the University of Oxford.

 

[341o2]

Swindon also has a greyhound racing track

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cricklade in Wiltshire was also served by the North Wilts Canal.

 

[341o2]

The Royal Mint was formerly located at Cricklade, today, following decimalisation, it is located at Llantrisant

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontyclun in Rhondda Cynon Taf also lies on the line of the River Ely.

 

[Calthrop]

The Royal Mint was formerly located at Cricklade, today, following decimalisation, it is located at Llantrisant

Certain disrespectful folk, regarding Llantrisant as not one of Britain's livelier settlements; adapt the well-known Polo-mint advertising tag, to "Llantrisant: the hole with the Mint".

Pontyclun in Rhondda Cynon Taf also lies on the line of the River Ely.

The above-bolded's name comes from the Welsh for "bridge on the River Clun"; which stream flows into the River Ely at the settlement in question. Some sixty miles roughly northward, there is another River Clun; this one in England, if not by a very long way (one takes it that the name "Clun" is likely pronounced differently for each river; with different conventions for spelling vis-a-vis pronunciation, re Welsh and English). The English Clun runs through various settlements whose names are taken from its name in one way or another; and have been affectionately dubbed "the quietest places under the sun". One of these is Clunton (Shropshire).

 

[John Griffiths]

Clunton has a community-owned pub called The Crown. Hesket Newmarket in Cumbria has a community -owned pub called The Old Crown.

 

[Calthrop]

Hesket Newmarket lies just within the Lake District National Park. Grange-Over-Sands, Cumbria, lies just outside it.

 

[DerekC]

From Kents Bank, part of Grange over Sands, at low tide and as long as you have a reliable guide you can walk nearly eight miles across the sands of Morecambe Bay to Hest Bank in Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Urswick in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Lonsdale.

 

[Calthrop]

Little Urswick in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Lonsdale.

"Uxbridge English Dictionary" department: the above-bolded features in the book on that theme, The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd -- "Little Urswick: The member of any class who most inclines a teacher towards the view that capital punishment should be introduced in schools". Frankly, I'm not impressed by this one; it strikes me as at once abstruse, feeble, and over-elaborate. A thing which I've mentioned before in this game: for my money, nobody did this form of humour better or with a lighter touch, than the late Paul Jennings. One of his definitions of the kind -- "Beccles [Suffolk]: an ailment afflicting sheep".

 

[341o2]

Bungay is also on the course of the River Waveney, part of the Norfolk Broads

 

[Calthrop]

Bungay is the only town in the UK still to have a town reeve: whose function is to serve as the town's figurehead, and to run the town trust from which each reeve selects the following reeve. Ashburton, Devon, has a "related" official, the portreeve, who notionally possesses authority -- political, administrative, or fiscal -- over a town. (The "port" bit indicates a market town or walled town -- nothing to do with transport by water). I suppose all this stuff makes some kind of sense to those involved...

 

[341o2]

I have already done Lymington's open air pool, another is located at Petersfield, both Ashburton's and Petersfield's are heated

 

[D6130]

The city of Kingston-upon-Hull (commonly abbreviated to Hull) also has an equestrian statue of King William III in its market place.

 

[Calthrop]

Andrew Marvell (1621 -- 78) -- poet and "politically involved person" -- is strongly associated with Hull; inter alia, for which he was for a while MP. He was born in Winestead, East Riding of Yorkshire: some ten miles east of Hull, and a few miles from Withernsea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bobbingworth in Essex also has a church that this dedicated to St Germain.