Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ledbury in Gloucestershire was also once commercially served by the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

The childhood of the poet (and wife of fellow-poet Robert Browning) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 -- 61, was spent in Ledbury; she was born, however, in Coxhoe, County Durham -- a little way south of Durham city.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chrisall in Essex is another settlement in which a Bronze Age axe was discovered.

 

[Springs Branch]

Chrisall is believed to be the location of one of the ghost stories written by M.R. James.

Another real-life settlement appearing in a well-known James short story (as the fictional Seaburgh) is Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brampton in Cumbria also has a Moot Hall.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 2011, Brampton became the 66th town in the United Kingdom and the second in Cumbria to gain Walkers are Welcome status. Crossing the border, the nearest Scottish town which also has this status is Langholm.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Longtown in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Esk.

 

[Calthrop]

I discovered only a little while ago -- that there is another, less well-known, settlement in England but near to an adjacent, different country: settlement by the name of Longtown. This other one is in Herefordshire: about a dozen miles south-west of Hereford, and a couple of miles from the Welsh border.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanberis in Gwynedd also has a Mountain Rescue Team.

 

[Springs Branch]

Threlkeld in Cumbria also has a mining and quarrying museum.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Underskiddaw in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Cockermouth Poor Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Underskiddaw in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Cockermouth Poor Union.

Slightly frantic desperation re this one... the local magnates around Underskiddaw were the Williamson family of Millbeck Hall; one of whom got into bad trouble under accusation of treasonous conspiracy, toward the end of the 16th century. Another and much more recent Williamson -- in all probability nothing to do with these Cumbrian ones; just sharing the name -- was Henry, most famous as the author of Tarka The Otter, but a highly prolific writer with many other books to his name. In the late 1930s, Henry W. -- till then, resident in north Devon -- bought and ran a farm near Stiffkey, Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Toftrees in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Walsingham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Faringdon, Oxfordshire, also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire also holds a weekly outdoor market.

 

[Calthrop]

Lavena Saltonstall (1881 -- 1957), prominent figure in the women's suffrage movement -- to be honest, I'd never heard of the lady before this recent bit of Googling -- was born and spent her childhood in Hebden Bridge. Approximately the second half of her life was spent in Bradford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Camberwell in the London Borough of Southwark also has a College of Art and Design.

 

[Springs Branch]

The London Central bus company (one of the operators of ‘red buses’ on behalf of TfL and a subsidiary of Go-Ahead London) has bus garages located in both Camberwell and Bexleyheath, in south-east London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Richborough in Kent also lay on the route of the Roman road known as Watling Street.

 

[Calthrop]

Richborough in Kent also lay on the route of the Roman road known as Watling Street.

With all due respect to the settlements concerned -- Dunwich, Suffolk: is another essentially small and obscure coastal one; which has nonetheless an Anglican Suffragan Bishop.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Exeter also had a medieval period leper hospital.

 

[John Griffiths]

Norwich was also a target of the Luftwaffe's 'Baedeker raids' bombing campaign in April and May 1942.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool also has both an Anglican and a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

[Calthrop]

Westport, Co. Mayo, also has a namesake settlement in New York State, USA.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Killiney in County Dublin also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

Killiney's name comes from the Irish Cill Inion Leinin = Church of the Daughters of Leinin (presumably not Vladimir Ilyich). The name, with a somewhat similar commencement, of Killybegs, Co. Donegal; is from a different, though also religion-related, Irish root: Na Cealla Beaga = "little cells" -- reckoned referring to early monastic settlements.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire also hosts an annual regatta.

 

[Calthrop]

Henley-on-Thames was hard-hit by the Black Death bubonic plague pandemic of 1348 -- 50: 60% of the town's population are reckoned to have perished. In the same calamity, Bristol also suffered heavily; if a little less so than Henley, with a possible 50% death toll.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bedminster was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bristol Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

The A38 trunk road passes through Bedminster on its route between Bodmin and Mansfield.
Along the way, the A38 also passes through 'Spaghetti Junction' at Gravelly Hill, near Birmingham.