Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Assynt in Sutherland also has the remains of an Iron Age broch within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

It is suggested that Assynt's name may come from the Old Norse for "ridge end" (there are alternative theories). A place-name further south in Great Britain with an Old Norse origin, is Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire: from the Old Norse for "Skuma's Homestead".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corby in Northamptonshire also overlies large deposits of iron ore.

 

[Calthrop]

Sandown, Isle of Wight, also played a part in World War II's Operation PLUTO (Pipe Line Under The Ocean): to convey oil across the English Channel in support of the Allied 1944 invasion of the Continent. Corby's steelworks made the steel tubes for the pipeline; which initially not very successfully, was deployed to run from Sandown to Cherbourg. (This replaced a few months later, by a shorter and more effective pipeline from Dungeness to Boulogne.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shanklin on the Isle of Wight also hosts an annual carnival.

 

[Calthrop]

Charles Darwin (1809 -- 82) wrote his Origin of Species in the course of a long sojourn in Shanklin. He was born in Shrewsbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitchurch in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Alkmund.

 

[Calthrop]

Lanark, South Lanarkshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Seine-Maritime. Whitchurch's "twin" is Neufchatel-en-Bray; Lanark's is Yvetot.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cupar in Fife historically was also once a County Town in Scotland.

 

[Calthrop]

Cupar Golf Club has a nine-hole course; reckoned probably the oldest such in the world. Wincanton, Somerset, also has a nine-hole golf course.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cartmel in Cumbria also has a racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Cartmel has a posh restaurant called L'Enclume -- French for "The Anvil". At Congham, Norfolk -- a little way east of Kings Lynn -- there is a pub / restaurant named (in English !) The Anvil.

 

[John Griffiths]

Snailwell in Cambridgeshire is also a venue for snail racing.

 

[Calthrop]

Hence its name, no doubt -- Wiki's article on the village says nothing about snail racing; but there's no way, Mr. Griffiths, that I'd suspect you of "speaking with forked tongue" ! I seem to be in the relatively ho-hum realms of "chubs and perches" -- Snailwell's church is one of the only two round-tower ones in Cambridgeshire; the other is that of Bartlow -- a fair way south-west, only just in Cambridgeshire (and of some one-time rail significance).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Helions Bumpstead in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Chilford.

 

[Calthrop]

Fancy might paint the "Helions" part of Helions Bumpstead, as indicating the village as being inhabited by disorderly, riotous and generally ill-behaved types, i.e. "hellions". The reality is somewhat tamer: the word comes from a participant in the Norman Conquest, Tihel de Herion, corrupted to "Helion" (he came originally from the settlement now called Hellean, in Brittany [departement of Morbihan]): Tihel having been rewarded for his Conquest-type services by King William I, with the then Manor of Bumpstead. A location of doings on the part of genuine "hellions": has been Medmenham in Buckinghamshire, between Henley-on-Thames and Marlow. The notorious 18th-century Hellfire Club of rakes, libertines and general loose-livers -- "prime mover" therein, Sir Francis Dashwood -- for a while based themselves for their dissolute revels, at the former Medmenham Abbey: calling themselves the Monks of Medmenham; these antics seemingly including "obscene parodies of religious rites".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lampeter in Ceredigion also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter

 

[D6130]

Aberystwyth is another settlement in Ceredigion that is home to a college of the University of Wales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangoed in Anglesey also has the site of a Celtic hill fort within its environs.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Edith Ellen Henrietta Massey (1863–1946) and Gwenddolen Elizabeth Evileen Massey (1864–1960), known as the Massey Sisters, were two Welsh artists and botanists who created a unique record of the plant-life of Anglesey in the late 19th and early 20th century; they lived at Cornelyn Manor, near Llangoed. Neither sister married or had children and their estate was inherited by their nearest surviving relative Sybil Mary, whose mother was a niece to the Massey Sisters' mother. After Mary's death, the collection of watercolour paintings was bought at auction by Anglesey Borough Council for £2,000 in 1982. The sisters' paintings are held by Oriel Ynys Mon in Llangefni, where a selection of them are on permanent display.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gravesend in Kent also has a clock tower.

 

[Calthrop]

Gravesend -- or its new "incarnation" of the Borough of Gravesham -- is twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Nord; as is Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire. Gravesend's "twin" is Cambrai; Middlesbrough's is Dunkirk (Dunkerque).

 

[Henffordd]

Newport also has a transporter bridge.

 

[Calthrop]

There is at Newport Cathedral, a drinking fountain inaugurated in 1913 by the British Women's Temperance Association. It has a counterpart in the Temperance Fountain in Malvern, Worcestershire -- erected by friends and members of the BWTA.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brighton in East Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Matthias.

 

[D6130]

Machynlleth in Powys also has a clock tower.

 

[Calthrop]

Machynlleth is one of those Welsh place-names which seem to be particular "bogeys" for many English folk who find anything Welsh-language-related, a sore trial: doesn't seem to me such a big problem; but maybe -- without wishing to boast -- I have a better grasp of Welsh spelling / phonics, than do many "Saxons". Another settlement giving such bother to many English, is Bettws-y-Coed, Conwy County Borough -- sometimes pronounced by the non-au-fait, as "Betsy Co-ed" -- young lady named Elizabeth, educated at an establishment catering to pupils of both genders?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanrhychwyn in Conwy County Borough was also once administered by the Hundred of Nant Conway.

 

[Calthrop]

According to legends (of doubtful veracity) concerning the great Welsh bard Taliesin (fl. in 6th century AD): he was a resident of the Llanrhychwyn area -- maybe even born there; and was as a youth, raised at the court of the king Elffin ap Gwyddno, at Aberdovey / Aberdyfi, Gwynedd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanwrin in Powys also lies in the line of the River Dyfi.