Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanwnnog in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St Gwynog.

 

[Springs Branch]

The TrawsCymru Connect T12 bus route passes through Llanwnnog on its route between Machynlleth and Wrexham.
The T12 bus also calls at Montgomery, Powys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandegla in Denbighshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as Offa's Dyke Path.

 

[Calthrop]

Another of the very many places mentioned in George Borrow's Wild Wales, published 1862, about the author's travels -- chiefly on foot -- through Wales: is Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough.

 

[D6130]

Millom in Cumberland was also a major centre for the production of iron in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

 

[Calthrop]

The poet and author Norman Nicholson (1914 -- 87) was born and essentially lived all his life, in Millom: his works are intimately associated with and relevant to, this "patch" of the north-west of England. After contracting pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of sixteen, he spent two years in a sanatorium at Linford, Hampshire -- just east of Ringwood.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harbridge in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Ringwood.

 

[Calthrop]

Oakham, Rutland, also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire also has a Buttercross.

 

[John Griffiths]

Abbots Bromley is known for its traditional Horn Dance, performed each year on the first Sunday after 4 September. The Furry Dance is similarly performed each year in Lympstone, Devon.

 

[Calthrop]

The pirate John Nutt -- an Englishman, active on both sides of the North Atlantic in the earlier part of the 17th century -- has associations with Lympstone. His more famous counterpart some decades later, Edward Teach alias Blackbeard: is reckoned probably to have been born and spent his early life, in Bristol.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Westbury-on-Trym was also once administered by the Bristol Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Westbury-on-Trym used to have a pub (now defunct) called the Foresters Tavern. Billingshurst, West Sussex, has a pub -- still active -- called the Foresters' Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ockley in Surrey also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Stane Street.

 

[Calthrop]

Nicholas Culpeper (1616 -- 54), prominent herbalist, botanist, physician, and astrologer: was born in Ockley; but spent his boyhood in Isfield, East Sussex -- north-east of Lewes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hamsey in East Sussex also lies on the line of the River Ouse.

 

[Calthrop]

Holbeach, Lincolnshire, also lies on the Greenwich Meridian.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[John Griffiths]

Freiston, Lincolnshire, is also defended by a Ruck machine gun post - one can never be too careful.

 

[Calthrop]

Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

Seaford, East Sussex, also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Delaware.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hailsham in East Sussex also lies on the line of the River Cuckmere.

 

[Calthrop]

Heathfield, East Sussex -- only a few miles north of Hailsham -- is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Seine-Maritime, "just across the water". Hailsham's "twin" is Gournay-en-Bray; Heathfield's is Forges-les-Eaux.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ice dancer and Olympic gold medallist Jayne Torvill lives in Heathfield; she was born in Clifton in the city of Nottingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hurdsfield in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Springs Branch]

Marple in Greater Manchester is also on the route of the Macclesfield Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bingley in West Yorkshire also has a noted canal rise of locks.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bradford-born author John Braine (1922-86) worked as a librarian in Bingley before the success of his novel Room at the Top, the setting of which was based on Bingley (fictionalised as Warley). He subsequently moved south to live in Woking, Surrey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Plucks Gutter in Kent also has Bronze Age burial barrows within its environs.

 

[John Griffiths]

Lisbellaw, County Fermanagh, also has a pub called the Dog and Duck.

 

[Calthrop]

Fairford, Gloucestershire, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.