Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Blantyre is bounded by various watercourses: two of them unattractively named -- the Rotten Calder and the Rotten Burn. I have no explanation for the "Rotten" name -- per Wiki, the little Rotten Calder river looks quite rural, through pretty scenes, and is in fact, at least clean enough to have fish in it ! Far to the south, there is another watercourse which is seemingly more pleasant than its name might suggest: in the Norfolk Broads area, the Muck Fleet -- a very shallow and totally un-navigable tributary of the River Bure, draining several "lesser" broads. Chief settlement of this "patch" of the region, is Fleggburgh -- aka (same village, different names) Burgh St. Margaret, Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belaugh in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Bure.

 

[Calthrop]

(Incidentally, Belaugh also has a Broad not navigably part of the overall Broads waterway network.) We learn that John Betjeman has stated that his lifelong passion for churches was first inspired by the view from the river, of St. Peter's Church, Belaugh, on its modest eminence. Another church mentioned approvingly by Betjeman is St. John the Baptist's, Waberthwaite, Cumbria (a little way south of Ravenglass).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Another "-thwaite" suffixed settlement in Cumbria is that of Applethwaite which was also once under the jurisdiction of the Cockermouth Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Applethwaite gets a glancing mention in a short story by the writer Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 -- 65) -- The Old Nurse's Story; Applethwaite is said nurse's native village. Elizabeth Gaskell died at Holybourne, Hampshire (near Alton).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hartley Maudit in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Alton.

 

[Calthrop]

I'm not sure whether this submission will be allowable; but I'll try. Hartley Mauditt (the second "t" appears to be in general use) is per Wiki, a bit of an odd one -- it's said to be classed as an abandoned village; but it still has a very small permanent population -- several houses. Seemingly, something of a contradiction in terms? Another "abandoned but not abandoned" settlement, in a different way: is the island of St. Kilda, northern Scotland (about 50 miles west of Lewis / Harris). After its having been inhabited for many centuries; the few remaining inhabitants, by then in a distressed condition, were -- basically voluntarily -- evacuated in 1930. Since the 1950s, St. Kilda has been populated again, but on a different basis, and by temporary individual dwellers -- military personnel, connected with an experimental missile-tracking range elsewhere in the Outer Hebrides; and scientists / naturalists: these folk are there in fluctuating numbers, widely varying between roughly 20, and 70.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The final members of the original population of St Kilda were evacuated on 29th August 1930 when the SS Harebell took the remaining 36 inhabitants to the peninsula of Morven on the Scottish mainland, where they were relocated to Lochaline, which is the main village.

 

[Calthrop]

The final members of the original population of St Kilda were evacuated on 29th August 1930 when the SS Harebell took the remaining 36 inhabitants to the peninsula of Morven on the Scottish mainland, where they were relocated to Lochaline, which is the main village.

(And quite a number of them, then got work with the Forestry Commission around Lochaline -- a little ironically, since their home island is so rugged / windswept that they hardly knew what a tree was.)

Just outside Lochaline is the church named the Kiel Church: nothing to do with German ship canals; but a contraction of the Gaelic Cille Choluimchille -- "religious cell, or monastery, of St. Columba": which 6th-century saint did missionary work there. Another location with a nomenclatorial link with Saint Columba (who originally came from, and began his ministry in, the north of Ireland) is the city of Londonderry alias just Derry -- where the saint founded a monastery. This settlement is of course the subject of endless dispute about what it should be called. Its full one-time Irish-language name was Doire Colm Cille = Oak Grove of St. Columba.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boars Hill in Oxfordshire also has a Carmelite retreat centre.

 

[Calthrop]

Bit of a feeble response, I feel; but as have remarked on before -- place-names seemingly referring to "the brute creation", most usually are not ! "The all-knowing" says "neither yea, nor nay" here -- however -- it could be imagined: things porcine involved re both Boars Hill; and Swineshead, Lincolnshire (between Boston and Sleaford).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dogdyke in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Boston Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Yet more brute creation, I'm afraid -- names "looking like, but probably not" (re the two here, no definite info findable one way or the other). Concerning "semi-alliterative within word" place-names, and mankind's two generally most popular companion animals -- a contrast / match can be seen re Dogdyke; and Catcleugh, Northumberland (a few miles south-east of the road Border crossing at Carter Bar).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Byrness in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bellingham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Tow Law, County Durham, is also situated on the A68 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Spittal in Caithness also has a wind farm within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

There is another Spittal, far away from the Caithness settlement; this other one being in Pembrokeshire, some five miles roughly north of Haverfordwest.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llys-y- Fran in Pembrokeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Dungleddy.

 

[Calthrop]

Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire -- about midway between Northampton and Rugby -- is also close by a reservoir, bearing the settlement's name, which affords good fishing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Warminster in Wiltshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Denys.

 

[Calthrop]

New Brighton, Merseyside, also has a namesake settlement in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania. (Warminster is, additionally, twinned with its Pennsylvanian namesake.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dover in Kent is another settlement where a coastal defence battery was situated.

 

[Calthrop]

In the "naming" department, Dover has a Scottish counterpart: Aberdour, Fife -- which seems to show up quite frequently in the game. Dover takes its name from the little River Dour, which reaches the sea at Dover harbour. Aberdour, on the Firth of Forth, is at the mouth of the Dour Burn; and named accordingly.

 

[D6130]

Strathaven in South Lanarkshire also has a ruined castle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huntly in Aberdeenshire was also created a Burgh of Barony in the 15th century.

 

[Calthrop]

George MacDonald (1824 -- 1905), "often regarded as the founding father of modern fantasy writing" -- among his more acclaimed works, The Princess and the Goblin and At The Back of the North Wind -- was born in Huntly. He spent his last years in Haslemere, Surrey.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Bartholomew's Church, Haslemere is thought to have been founded as a chapel in the 13th century, and the square tower at the west end is thought to date from this period. The remainder of the building dates from a reconstruction by the surveyor and architect John Wornham Penfold (1828 - 1909) in 1871. As well as buildings, he designed the hexagonal British Post Box in 1866, which is now known as the Penfold Box. Genuine Penfolds can be seen in a number of places, including at the British Postal Museum & Archive Store in Debden, Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arkesden in Essex was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Uttlesford.

 

[Calthrop]

Arkesden has a pub called the Axe and Compasses. Great Leighs, Essex -- not very far away: between Chelmsford and Braintree -- has one with the not altogether dissimilar name of the Square and Compasses.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Orchard Portman in Somerset is also the location of a thoroughbred horse racing racecourse.