Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Whoops....who put 'i' next to 'u' on my keypad? Maybe it's home to lots of computer whizzkids....or would that be 'byte'. Let's try 'Bute' then!

Tell me about it ! The immediate juxtaposition of 'u', 'i', and 'o', has caused me much misery over the decades. Various stuff which I've read -- factual-ness not guaranteed: the keyboard top line QWERTYUIOP having come about in earliest times of invention of typewriter, because it was what worked out best logistically / constructionally, concerning "spread of letters" in the machine. Have seen whimsical suggestion that "qwertyuiop" would be a good onomatopoeic word for a corkscrew: "q-wert" = sweat-breaking struggle to dislodge and shift the cork; "yui-OP !" = triumphant sound of cork coming out.

Rothesay ... also has a pier.

In August 2018, trials were held with the Donald Campbell Bluebird Hydroplane, on Loch Fad (inland loch, very near Rothesay); the first time that the vehicle had been in the water, since its recovery -- after the 1967 accident in which Campbell was killed -- from Coniston Water, hard by Coniston, Cumbria.

 

[D6130]

Cragg Vale, near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire is also home to a microbrewery (two in fact!)

 

[Calthrop]

Another Cragg Vale enterprise -- of fairly recent date, but vigorous -- is the Preserve Shop: retailer of jam jars, jam making equipment, and kitchenware for home preserving. One sees a counterpart of it "way down south" -- in Harts of Stur, based at Sturminster Newton, Dorset -- dealing large-scale, both in situ and online, in "everything jam".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wimborne Minster in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[D6130]

The actual minster church at Wimborne has two towers, as does the abbey church at Wymondham in Norfolk.

 

[Calthrop]

Wymondham features in one of the -- in my opinion, splendid -- historical / murder-mystery novels by C.J. Sansom, set in the turbulent years of the 16th century toward the end of Henry VIII's reign, and following therefrom; central character, the rather luckless lawyer Matthew Shardlake. Another of these novels involves -- admittedly rather marginally -- Ipswich, Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hastings in East Sussex also has a Society of Friends meeting house.

 

[Calthrop]

Fullerton, Hampshire -- a little way south of Andover -- also has a namesake settlement in the often rather neglected U.S. State of Nebraska.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cottonworth in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Anton.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Cottonworth lies on the A3057 road between Andover and Romsey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leckford in Hampshire was also once administer by the Hundred of King's Somborne.

 

[Calthrop]

Leckford is situated on the Test Way long-distance footpath (in the main, following the River Test and tributaries thereof). The path begins in -- just -- West Berkshire: at Walbury Hill, a contender for the title of highest point in south-east England. Path soon crosses the county boundary into Hampshire: the first village on it in that county, is Linkenholt -- a little under ten miles north of Andover.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blaina in Blaenau Gwent also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[John Griffiths]

Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear, also has a pub named The White Lion.

 

[D6130]

Hetton-le-Hole in Co. Durham (or Tyne & Wear?) was also a major mining centre in the Durham coalfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crook in County Durham is also a former small settlement that increased rapidly in size from its original one as a result of mining development.

 

[Calthrop]

The North of England's first purpose-built cinema, the Electric Palace in Crook, opened in 1910: building still stands, but -- it seems -- no longer functions as a cinema. Scotland's first purpose-built cinema: the Hippodrome in Bo'ness (full name Borostounness), now in Falkirk council area, opened 1912. After a long spell in other roles, the Hippodrome was restored and re-opened as a cinema a decade or so ago.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Old Kilpatrick in West Dunbartonshire also lies at the other end of the Roman Antonine Wall.

 

[Calthrop]

Reflected in the name of Old Kilpatrick: it is one of various places, which have been suggested according to tradition, as that where St. Patrick (Great Britain-born) was in the 5th century, captured and taken as a slave to Ireland. Another "reputed, with alternatives" matter re the same gent: one reputed site of his grave is at Downpatrick, Co. Down.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wroxton in Oxfordshire was also chosen in medieval times as a settlement in which to establish a religious house for the order of Augustinian Canons.

 

[Calthrop]

Wroxton has associations with Lord North, and family thereof: North was Prime Minister of Great Britain 1770 -- 82; he is buried at Wroxton's parish church of All Saints, and the village had a pub, now closed, commemoratively called the North Arms. Per Wiki, Lord North "led Britain through most of the American War of Independence" (many opine that he did that, incompetently -- result, the Americans won, and threw us out). Associatable with the same conflict, is the pub in Woodstown, Co. Waterford -- a few miles south-east of Waterford city -- called the Saratoga Bar.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Balmaghie in Kirkcudbrightshire is another settlement where a noted Viking treasure hoard was discovered in its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

A holiday self-catering undertaking near Balmaghie, styles itself Balmaghie Dog Friendly Lodges. Malton, North Yorkshire, has been officially acclaimed by those in the "fancy", as the dog-friendliest town in Britain. (This factor would tend to discourage me -- not a great dog-lover -- from visiting these places !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scawton in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Rydale Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Farndon in Cheshire West also has a pub called the Hare.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corwen in Denbighshire also lies on the line of the River Dee.

 

[Calthrop]

Hockliffe, Bedfordshire -- between Milton Keynes and Dunstable -- also lies on the A5 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Totternhoe in Bedfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Manshead.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiki -- often a source of unintentional mild comedy -- says of Totternhoe village, that it "is long and thin and is separated into three parts" (like Gaul in the ancient Roman writings ). Something of a similarity seen here with Shipdham, Norfolk -- five miles south-west of Dereham -- which we learn is "known to be the longest village in its county".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sherburn in Elmet in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.