Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

In the past couple of centuries, "lords of the manor" at and around Bobbingworth have been the Capel-Cure family of nearby Blake Hall (which gave its name to the closed Blake Hall station on the Epping -- Ongar railway section). The family's name bears a -- no doubt coincidental and unrelated -- resemblance to that of a settlement in far-off Snowdonia: Capel Curig, Conwy County Borough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Betws-y-Coed in Conwy County Borough also lies on the line of the River Llugwy.

 

[341o2]

Ambleside also has a waterfall, Stock Ghyll Force, a short distance from the village

 

[D6130]

Ambleside is connected by the Stagecoach 555 bus route to Bowness-on-Windermere.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dundee also has a church that is dedicated to St Martin.

 

[D6130]

Ulverston in Lancashire Cumbria Furness & Westmorland also has a prominent memorial on a hill overlooking the settlement.

 

[341o2]

Ulverston is the birthplace of Stan Laurel, one half of the Laurel and Hardy duo. There is a museum dedicated to the pair, and his birthplace is marked with a plaque. Another plaque dedicated to him may be found in Glasgow at the Britannia Music Hall (which survives to this day, being a monument in itself).

 

[Calthrop]

Winchester also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Kentucky.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Otterbourne in Hampshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Buddlesgate.

 

[Calthrop]

Otterbourne has, appropriately, a pub called the Otter. Tamworth, Staffordshire, has one called the Tame Otter -- one suspects a reference to the river on which the settlement lies and which gives it its name; rather than a touch of the Ring of Bright Waters. (Or a pun combining the two ...)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Polesworth in Warwickshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Editha.

 

[DerekC]

The Coventry Canal passes through Polesworth. If you follow the towpath north west for about 15 miles you will cross the county boundary into Staffordshire and reach Fradley Junction, where it meets the Trent and Mersey Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Weeford in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lichfield Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The name Wyatt, would seem to be strongly associated with Weeford. The settlement's parish church was rebuilt to its present form in 1802, to a design by the prominent architect James Wyatt (born in Weeford). A century-and-some later, came the Labour politician Woodrow Wyatt (1918 -- 97), latterly created Baron Wyatt of Weeford. Wyatt had a spell as M.P. for the Bosworth constituency; which has always included Market Bosworth, Leicestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hexham in Northumberland was also the scene of a battle during the Wars of the Roses.

 

[Calthrop]

We learn that in the colloquial speech of the Borders, "Hexham" used to be employed as a euphemism for "Hell": as in, "To Hexham wi' you an' ye'r whussel !" [= "whistle"? All a bit odd ...] Also made use of in an ill-wishing context, was Guyhirn (sometimes spelt with "e" after the "n" -- the settlement's one-time rail station was thus spelt), Cambridgeshire, south-west of Wisbech. Following from a regrettable early-19th-century happening involving passions running high, and the putting to death of some Irish labourers at Guyhirn: locals desirous of being unpleasant to someone from Ireland would exclaim "Go to Guyhirn, Pat !"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hucknall in Nottinghamshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.

 

[341o2]

Hucknall is the birthplace of Eric Coates, composer of light music such as The Dambusters March and Calling All Workers.
He died at Chichester in 1957

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Exeter also has the unusual combination of a cathedral and a ship canal.

 

[341o2]

Portland also has a prison

 

[D6130]

Felixstowe in Suffolk is another location where the UK government are currently planning to moor barges to temporarily house asylum-seekers.

 

[DerekC]

Felixstowe was once the home of an experimental flying boat development base and had a number of WWI aircraft named after it, culminating in the Felixstowe Fury, a five-engined triplane, at the time the largest British aircraft. Perhaps the most famous British flying boat of World War II was the Short Sunderland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tangmere in West Sussex also has an aviation museum.

 

[341o2]

Littlehampton is also on the route of the A27

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gloucester also has a church that is dedicated to St Catherine.

 

[Calthrop]

Bedford also has (sort-of) a namesake settlement in the US State of Massachusetts. (The two American settlements -- Gloucester and New Bedford -- also both happen to be major fishing ports.)

 

[John Griffiths]

Littlehampton once had a ferry service to Honfleur in Normandy, but that did not lead to Honfleur choosing Littlehampton as a twin town - that honour went to Sandwich in Kent.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bedford has a sizeable community of Italian origin/descent, moving to the area to work in the brick making industry thereabouts. An earlier Italian community settled in the Clerkenwell area of London.

 

[341o2]

I was in the process of saying much the same, next stop would have been Reading, but now Friern Barnet as it also has a St John's church (full title St John the Evengelist)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Acton in the London Borough of Ealing was also once administered by the Hundred of Ossulstone.