Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Playden in East Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Goldspur.

 

[Calthrop]

Linlithgow, West Lothian, also has a church dedicated to St. Michael.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Falkirk in Stirlingshire also lies on the line of the Edinburgh and Glagow Union Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Bodmin, Cornwall, is also twinned with a settlement in the US State of California. Falkirk's "twin" is San Rafael; Bodmin's is Grass Valley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Helston in Cornwall was also a stannary town.

 

[Calthrop]

Someone who must have been almost "done to death" on this game -- but who it seems can still yield a little bit more -- is Charles Kingsley (1819 -- 75): clergyman, university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet; author of The Water Babies, Westward Ho! , and many more works. Part of Kingsley's education was at Helston Grammar School. Later in life he was for a spell, a Canon of Chester Cathedral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Market Rasen in Lincolnshire also has a racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Tealby, Lincolnshire -- three or four miles north-east of Market Rasen -- also lies on the River Rase: a tributary of the River Ancholme, which in turn flows northward to debouch into the Humber.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grasby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Caistor Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Louth, Lincolnshire -- not hugely far from Grasby -- is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Sarthe. Grasby's "twin" is Saint-Remy-de-Sille; Louth's is La Ferte-Bernard.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Utterby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Louth Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Sibsey, Lincolnshire -- four miles north of Boston -- also lies on the A16 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Loanhead in Midlothian also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret.

 

[Calthrop]

A business, seemingly thriving, located in Loanhead: is MacSweens haggis factory (honestly !). A possible rival in the haggis business, can be seen in Simon Cowie's firm, specialising also in the making of this edible; the firm -- we learn -- chiefly based jointly in Perth, and Auchterarder (Perth and Kinross).

 

[DerekC]

Auchterarder is often known locally as "the Long Town" on account of the length of its high street. Longtown in Cumbria has a considerably shorter high street!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stapleton in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Longtown Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Great Baddow, Essex -- very near Chelmsford -- also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Writtle in Essex ans also once administered by the Hundred of Chelmsford.

 

[Calthrop]

I don't find any place named "Wrettle" -- would the reference be to Writtle, just west of Chelmsford? Assuming that to be so: Writtle is of some note as the site of an early, and short-lived, radio broadcasting station (experimental -- early 1920s). Also noteworthy on that general scene, and from early-ish on -- inaugurated 1930, still active today in context of the BBC's chief long-wave broadcasting point -- is Droitwich, Worcestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I don't find any place named "Wrettle" -- would the reference be to Writtle, just west of Chelmsford? Assuming that to be so: Writtle is of some note as the site of an early, and short-lived, radio broadcasting station (experimental -- early 1920s). Also noteworthy on that general scene, and from early-ish on -- inaugurated 1930, still active today in context of the BBC's chief long-wave broadcasting point -- is Droitwich, Worcestershire.

It is indeed Writtle...my typing went astray...

Incorrectly named posting now edited.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Also noteworthy on that general scene, and from early-ish on -- inaugurated 1930, still active today in context of the BBC's chief long-wave broadcasting point -- is Droitwich, Worcestershire.

Nantwich in Cheshire East also has brine springs.

 

[Calthrop]

The annual International Cheese Awards took place in July each year, during the Nantwich Show, until 2019; but the venue for this event has been altered, subsequently to then: to the Staffordshire Showground, a little way north-east of Stafford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hawick in Scottish Borders is also a settlement where the Normans chose to build a motte and bailey castle after their 11th century invasion.

 

[Calthrop]

Hawick is reckoned one of the furthest settlements from the sea in Scotland; another such is Braemar, Aberdeenshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ythanwells in Aberdeenshire also has part of the route of the Pictish drovers road/Roman military road known as the Elsick Mounth within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Kintore, Aberdeenshire -- not quite twenty miles south-east of Ythanwells -- also has in its immediate vicinity, the site of a Roman military camp: Deers Den, and Glenmailen or Ythan Wells, respectively. (Have the impression that these parts were the furthest that the Romans ever reached in Scotland, in any way or shape; though I'm no expert.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rattray in Aberdeenshire is another settlement in that county to have received Royal Burgh status.

 

[Calthrop]

We learn that Rattray has occasionally been -- in times when spelling was less standardised -- rendered as "Rattery". There is of course a village in Devon, three miles south of Buckfastleigh, officially named Rattery. (A place and name featuring, as we know, in GWR annals.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Diptford in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Stanborough.

 

[Calthrop]

Vicar of Diptford for several years in the late 18th century, was one of those polymathic clergymen who seem to have abounded something over a couple of centuries ago: the Rev. William Gregor (1761 -- 1817) -- who as well as being a conscientious parish priest, was a mineralogist, a distinguished landscape painter, and an etcher and musician. His greatest renown, is for his discovering in 1791, the mineral titanium. After his time in Diptford, he served briefly in the parish of Bratton Clovelly, Devon -- in between Okehampton and Launceston, and quite a long way from the better-known seaside Clovelly.