Settlement Association

[D6130]

Novelist Dame Catherine Cookson (1906-1998) lived in Corbridge for many years. She was born at South Shields....then in Co.Durham.

 

[Fermiboson]

South Shields is separated from North Shields by the river Tyne. Another conurbation which is separated from its correspondingly named conurbation in the opposite cardinal direction by a river is Northleigh and Southleigh, Devon, separated by the River Coly.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cotleigh in Devon is another settlement with a "-leigh" suffix to its name that was also once administered by the Hundred of Colyton.

 

[Calthrop]

That boundless source of interesting and unusual things, Wiki, tells us that in the 19th century the rector of Cotleigh; was also the rector of Barwick, Somerset -- some twenty miles away, just south of Yeovil. Presumably this made some kind of sense to the Church Commissioners ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chilton Cantelo in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Houndsborough.

 

[Calthrop]

Bulkington, Warwickshire -- near Nuneaton -- also has a church dedicated to St. James.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coventry also has historical links to the trade of ribbon weaving.

 

[Calthrop]

Wickford, Essex, also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Rhode Island.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Orsett in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Barstable.

 

[Calthrop]

Orsett has a village lock-up, "removed in the mid-19th century but restored in the mid-20th". Also with a village lock-up (which has, so far as is known, "been there all along") is Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire -- near Melbourne (the Derbyshire one !).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanfihangel-ar-Arth in Carmarthenshire also has the remains of an Iron Age hillfort within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanfihangel-ar-Arth in Carmarthenshire also has the remains of an Iron Age hillfort within its environs.

The above-bolded is one of a closely-knit group of villages, including a tiny and obscure one by the name of Gwyddgrug -- greatly resembling the Welsh name of Mold, Flintshire: Yr Wyddgrug. That one has always tickled me -- because (sorry, Welsh folk) it's one of those Welsh names, like Tonypandy, which sound fine in Welsh; but when read by an English person unacquainted with Welsh, look somewhat goofy.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cardiff also has a Crown Court.

 

[Calthrop]

Nottingham is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Cardiff's "twin" is Stuttgart; Nottingham's is Karlsruhe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tavistock in Devon also has a Goose Fair.

 

[Fermiboson]

Tavistock has a namesake in London, Tavistock Square, complete with a garden and hotel, just south of Euston. South of Paddington is Gloucester Square, which is somewhat more limited in its extent, named after of course Gloucester, the county town of Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northampton also has a Guildhall.

 

[John Griffiths]

St Giles Street in Northampton was declared the 'Best British High Street' in 2015 by the Department for Communities and Local Government; in 2020 the laurels went to the High Street of Treorchy in Glamorgan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mousehole in Cornwall also has a male voice choir.

 

[Calthrop]

Another settlement bearing the name of "where an animal species is found" (Mousehole is, as we're aware, locally pronounced "Mowzle"; but, well, they're strange in Cornwall ): is Foxearth, Essex -- just east of Sudbury and Long Melford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belchamp Otten in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Hinckford.

 

[Calthrop]

Belchamp Otten has a church dedicated to St. Ethelbert and All Saints -- seeming likely to be the only one in Britain with this exact dedication. There are a fair number, though, dedicated just to St. Ethelbert "plain and simple": one such being at Littledean, Gloucestershire -- near Cinderford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flaxley in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of St Briavels.

 

[Calthrop]

The imposing building of Flaxley Abbey, just outside Flaxley, has been a private residence since ceasing to be an abbey, reckonably at the time of the Dissolution. An 18th-century resident thereof was Mary Pope: who gave her name to the hamlet of Pope's Hill, a short distance from Flaxley. In Pembrokeshire, a little way south-east of Haverfordwest, is the similarly-named village of Pope Hill -- presumably nothing to do with the Forest of Dean lady.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ambleston in Pembrokeshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Haverfordwest Por Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Ambleston lies on the Landsker Line -- drawn on the map to differentiate between to its south, the long-English-settled area of West Wales; and to its north, the definitely-Welsh regions. Ambleston was long (though notionally to the south of the line) predominantly Welsh-speaking; and has today, a more-than-insignificant minority of Welsh-speaking inhabitants. Newgale, Pembrokeshire, is also located on the Landsker Line.

 

[DerekC]

Just north of the village of Newgale is a steep sided valley called Cwm Mawr. Just north of the hamlet of Clatter in Powys is another steep sided valley of the same name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gorseinon in Swansea County is another settlement where a Calvinistic Methodist chapel was built.

 

[Calthrop]

Galway is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Morbihan. The "twin" of Gorseinon (plus the "community" of Llwchwr) is Ploermel; that of Galway, is Lorient.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glenarm in County Antrim also has a rowing club.