Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

There is another Borley -- in Essex, right on the Suffolk border, near Sudbury -- whose Rectory has in times past had some fame as "the most haunted house in England".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Saling in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Hinkford.

 

[Calthrop]

There was once, on the village green at Great Saling, what was generally reckoned the largest elm tree in England: like the great majority of its species, it perished in the Dutch elm disease "epidemic" of the 1970s. One of the few surviving mature elm trees in Britain, is in Cossington Street Recreation Ground in Leicester.

 

[D6130]

Gloucester also gives its name to a variety of cheese.

 

[Calthrop]

Further, re cheese matters: Gloucester was formerly twinned with Gouda in the Netherlands; but that arrangement ended in 2015. A twinning which still endures, with another Dutch settlement of significance on the cheese scene, is that between Alkmaar; and Bath.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chelsea also lends its name to a type of bun.

 

[D6130]

Thomas Crapper - inventor of the modern flush toilet - had his pottery factory in Chelsea. He was born in Thorne, now in South Yorkshire....but then in the West Riding, IIRC.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fishlake in South Yorkshire was also once administered by the Lower Division of the Strafforth and Tickhill Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Amble in Northumberland also has a church dedicated to St. Cuthbert.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Felton in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Coquet.

 

[Calthrop]

The novelist E.M. Forster (1879 -- 1970) had relatives at Felton, with whom he spent enjoyable summer holidays around the age of twenty: "fictionalised" in his novel The Longest Journey. Forster's childhood was spent at a country house near Stevenage, Hertfordshire -- said house was the model for the title dwelling of probably his most renowned novel, Howards End.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bath is also a settlement where a hoard of Roman silver coinage was discovered.

 

[Calthrop]

Bath's coat of arms has a bear as one of its supporters (the other is a lion). The supporters on the coat of arms of Warwick are two bears -- one on each side of the shield.

 

[D6130]

Arundel in West Sussex also has a fully-intact medieval castle.

 

[John Griffiths]

Arundel's Roman Catholic cathedral was designed by architect Joseph Hansom (it is compulsory here to add the words 'best known for inventing the Hansom cab'). Hansom and A M Dunn were responsible also for the spire of the Roman Catholic cathedral in Newcastle upon Tyne (the rest of it having been designed by A W Pugin).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wallsend in Tyne and Wear also lies on the line of the River Tyne.

 

[D6130]

Sunderland in Tyne & Wear was also once a major centre of the shipbuilding industry.

 

[Calthrop]

Sunderland has a namesake settlement in Ontario, Canada -- not very far north of Toronto. Some thirty miles up the road in those parts, is a namesake settlement of Brechin, Angus.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Inveraray in Argyll and Bute was also created a Royal Burgh in the 17th century.

 

[D6130]

Inverary in Argyll and Bute was also created a Royal Burgh in the 17th century.

If I may be so bold as to correct your spelling to 'Inveraray', Ripon in North Yorkshire also has a former gaol which has been opened to the public as a tourist attraction.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whixley in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Upper Division of the Claro Wapentake.

 

[D6130]

Coulsdon in Surrey was also once the location of a large psychiatric hospital.

 

[Calthrop]

The Wiki entry on Coulsdon claims to give a huge variety of spellings of the name -- literally a couple of dozen -- having appeared over the centuries; with final informational gem, about name possibly being derived from the Celtic or primitive Welsh cull, "meaning leather bag, scrotum, bosom, womb or belly". I'm convinced that now and again, somebody bent on "having a laugh" sneaks crazy stuff of their own invention, past Wiki's guardians... In apparently more sober fact: a settlement with considerably varied times-past spellings -- though certainly not in the dozens -- is Crowland (alias Croyland), Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glinton in Cambridgeshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Peterborough Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Benedict's Church at Glinton has a spire which is generally acclaimed as magnificent. It is the subject of a poem by the peasant-poet John Clare (1793 -- 1864), who lived in the area. Clare's life was not a very happy one; his last years were spent -- though under a relatively humane regime -- in the lunatic asylum at Northampton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex also has a church that is dedicated to St Alban the Martyr.

 

[Calthrop]

The more southerly part of Westcliff-on-Sea was, up to the mid / late 19th century, known as Milton or Milton Hamlet. Great Britain boasts an enormous number of settlements called just plain Milton; plus many others going by "Milton plus a second name". Among the "just plain" ones is Milton, West Dunbartonshire -- just east of Dumbarton.

 

[John Griffiths]

Balerno, City of Edinburgh, also has an SSPCA animal rescue centre.

 

[Calthrop]

Lack, co. Fermanagh -- near Irvinestown -- is also close by a nature reserve with as a salient point of interest, sphagnum bog (the Scottish, and Northern Irish, reserves concerned are named Red Moss, and Meenadoan, respectively).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oughterdrum is also a townland in County Fermanagh.