Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

Wroxeter in Shropshire is also located at latitude 52' 40' N.

 

[D6130]

Corbridge in Northumberland was also the site of a sizeable Roman garrison and settlement.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Radcliffe in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[Calthrop]

In less-enlightened bygone times, cock-fighting was a big thing in Radcliffe: according to Wiki, it "took place in local 'hush-shops', generally viewed by invitation only". The same might be supposed to be true of Denbigh; whose cockpit building has been moved to, and is preserved at, the St. Fagans Welsh National Museum of History in Cardiff.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grantchester in Cambridgeshire is another settlement where a barrel rolling competition has been held.

 

[Calthrop]

According to legend, an underground passage runs from the Old Manor House, Grantchester: to King's College Chapel, Cambridge, two miles away. Supposedly, once a fiddler who offered to follow the passage, set off along it playing his fiddle; the music became ever fainter till it faded out altogether -- the chap was never seen or heard of again. There are similar tales told, concerning many places; one such being Kettering, Northamptonshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Diss in Morfolk also has a Corn Exchange.

 

[John Griffiths]

Towcester, Northamptonshire, also has a pub called The Saracen's Head

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abthorpe in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Towcester.

 

[Calthrop]

Cosgrove, Northamptonshire -- just north-west of Wolverton-- is also situated on the River Tove.

 

[John Griffiths]

Brentford, west London, also lies on the Grand Union Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolverhampton was also the scene of a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the Danish Vikings.

 

[Calthrop]

Wolverhampton has a "Sister City" in the US State of Florida: Jacksonville, in the far north of the state. Inverness, Highland, likewise has a Florida Sister City: with great appropriateness, Inverness -- north-west of Orlando.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brighton and Hove was also granted city status in 2000.

 

[Calthrop]

West Bromwich, West Midlands: also has a football team with suffix title "Albion". (My interest in / knowledge of football is effectively nil; but sometimes team names stick in mind.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Warley Wigorn in Worcestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the West Bromwich Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Another settlement with a pleasantly-slightly-bonkers-sounding name, with two alliterative two-syllable words: is Marston Meysey, some way north of Swindon. M.M. is, just, in Wiltshire: immediately west and north, is Gloucestershire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Warley Wigorn used - back in the days when historic county boundaries were valued - to be an exclave of Worcestershire contained within an exclave of Shropshire, albeit with a portion touching the surrounding county of Staffordshire, at the Three Shires Inn. I can't find a handy list of double exclaves at a domestic level (search Baarle Nassau/Hertzog for a nice Dutch-Belgian set), so am reduced to offeriNg Wokingham, commonly thought of as being in Berkshire, half of which was formerly an exclave of Wiltshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Marston Meysey has a pub called The Old Spotted Cow; Waltham Abbey, Herts, used to have one so named.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nazeing in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Waltham.

 

[Calthrop]

Long Clawson, Leicestershire -- some miles north of Melton Mowbray -- also has a horse sanctuary.

 

[John Griffiths]

Long Clawson is one of the places where Stilton cheese is made - though Stilton, Huntingdonshire, is not (and indeed is not allowed to make cheese bearing its own name, not being located in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire).

 

[Calthrop]

Preston, Lancashire, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Gard. Stilton's "twin" is Saint-Christol-les-Ales; Preston's is Nimes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ribchester in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Ribble.

 

[Calthrop]

Ribchester is a settlement which dates from Roman times. Have complained humorously about the Romans' fondness for long tongue-twisting jaw-breaking place names -- "Roman Ribchester" was Bremetannacum Veteranorum; "out of the same stable", Rochester (Kent): Durobrivae Cantiacorum.

 

[D6130]

Richmond in North Yorkshire also has a large Norman castle.

 

[johnnychips]

Muker also lies on the River Swale.

 

[Calthrop]

Pontarddulais, Swansea, also has a pub called the Farmers' Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hendy in Carmarthenshire also lies on the line of the River Loughor.

 

[John Griffiths]

Llangennech in Carmarthenshire is also served by the L3 bus route.