Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Rival claimants to being the site of Boudicca's victory over a detachment of the Roman Ninth Legion in 60/61 AD: are Great Wratting; and Sturmer (Essex), three miles to its south.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wixoe in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[Calthrop]

Forres in Moray, also has a church dedicated to St. Leonard.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Montrose in Angus was also created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century AD.

 

[Calthrop]

Brighton, East Sussex, also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Colorado.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoke-on-Trent also has a church that is dedicated to St Matthias.

 

[D6130]

Worcester was also once a major centre for the production of porcelain.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster also has a meeting house of the Society of Friends.

 

[Calthrop]

Hertford also shares its name with a college of Oxford University.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ponders End in north London also lies on the line of the River Lee Navigation.

 

[Calthrop]

We seem to have confusion here -- my struck-out post #34,658 was meant to follow from @D6130's "Worcester"; @Xenophon PCDGS, you beat me to it, hence my striking-out; now in effect, we'd appear to have two successive posts by you.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We seem to have confusion here -- my struck-out post #34,658 was meant to follow from @D6130's "Worcester"; @Xenophon PCDGS, you beat me to it, hence my striking-out; now in effect, we'd appear to have two successive posts by you.

This matter is now resolved, as I have now struck-through the latter of my two postings.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster also has a meeting house of the Society of Friends.

This is where matters should re-commence.

 

[Calthrop]

This matter is now resolved, as I have now struck-through the latter of my two postings.

This is where matters should re-commence.

Lancaster also has a meeting house of the Society of Friends.

Thank you.

A somewhat ghoulish one: but -- "Buck" Ruxton (1899 -- 1936), marital murderer, lived and practiced in Lancaster. He has a more famous sort-of counterpart, in Hawley Harvey Crippen (1862 -- 1910), popularly but inaccurately known as "Dr. Crippen" (he was a homeopath, not a qualified MD): hanged at Pentonville Prison -- which is not actually in Pentonville, but in Barnsbury, London Borough of Islington.

 

[John Griffiths]

Tony Blair lived in Barnsbury, and also - while MP for Sedgefield - in Trimdon Colliery, County Durham.

 

[Calthrop]

Trimdon Colliery is of melancholy note, for the explosion at said colliery in 1882, involving the deaths of many miners. This event is lamented in a song written by the "Pitman Poet" Tommy Armstrong (1848 -- 1920); whose great output of songs and verses covers a variety of moods, and local subjects. A song by Tommy A. in humorous vein, is Wor Nanny's a Mazer: involving the doings of a couple from Rowlands Gill, Tyne and Wear.

 

[John Griffiths]

Rowlands Gill developed as a pit village from the mid 19th century, and also from the 1890s as a middle class commuter village, following the development of the Smailes Estate by the Northern Allotment Society, which also (inter alia) was responsible for establishing the village of Westerhope, In Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1891.

 

[Calthrop]

Getting slightly frantic (finding little or nothing about Westerhope, to latch onto) -- thereby, playing maybe a bit dirty. There are, a long way south of Tyneside, a couple of settlements with a very-similar-but-shorter name: Westhope. Oddly, rather close together -- one in Shropshire, the other just over twenty miles due south, in Herefordshire. I'll be sporting, and choose the more northerly one -- which would seem to have "more to tell about" than the other. Thus: Westhope, Shropshire (three miles north-east of Craven Arms).

 

[johnnychips]

Westhope Manor was designed by Guy Dawber, who was born in King’s Lynn.

 

[Calthrop]

King's Lynn and environs are the setting for a crime-novel series by Elly Griffiths: heroine thereof, the forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway. Another lady crime author whose novels -- as with those by Ms. Griffiths -- blend present-day villainy and its combating, with doings in times past per history and archaeology: is Kate Ellis -- author of a series of such works set in South Devon, involving settlements there clearly recognisable, with thinly-disguised names. These novels by Kate E. have as principal figures, DI Wesley Peterson and his boss DCI Heffernan -- both excellent guys, but very different in character -- of the C.I.D. in "Tradmouth", which is very plainly Dartmouth, Devon.

 

[johnnychips]

Nottingham has also been featured in a YouTube video by the excellent presenter ‘The Tim Traveller’.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Historically, the requirement for city status was the presence of an Anglican (Church of England) cathedral; however, Nottingham does not have one of these, having only been designated a city in 1897 in celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. From around AD 1100, Nottingham was part of the Diocese of Lichfield, controlled as an archdeaconry from it's cathedral. In 1837, Nottingham's archdeaconry was placed under the control of the Diocese of Lincoln and, in 1884, it was incorporated into the newly created Diocese of Southwell which it is still part of today. The bishop is based at Southwell Minster.

 

[D6130]

Sedgefield in Co. Durham also has a racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Malmesbury, Wiltshire, also has a namesake settlement in the Western Cape area of South Africa.

 

[D6130]

Dunfermline in Fife also has a partially-ruined abbey now used as a parish church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liphook in Hampshire also has an Amateur Dramatic Society.

 

[Calthrop]

Petersfield, Hampshire, also lies on the B2070 road.

 

[D6130]

West Farleigh in Kent also has a pub named 'The Good Intent'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nettlestead in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Twyford.

 

[John Griffiths]

Nettlestead Green, which counts (I hope) as part of Nettlestead, has a pub called The Hop Pole Inn, as does Bewdley, Worcestershire.