Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

We are told that single-syllable place names are uncommon in Sussex. Another such rarity, along with Hove: is Pett, East Sussex (between Hastings and Winchelsea).

 

[DerekC]

Pett is associated with an area of marshland called Pett Level, part of Romney Marsh. Similarly Huish Level is associated with the village of Huish Episcopi in the Somerset Levels.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winsham in Somerset was also once administered by the East Division of the ancient Hundred of Kingsbury.

 

[Tetragon213]

Follow the B3162 for long enough, and it spits you out at the town of Chard

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goring by Sea in West Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to English Martyrs.

 

[High Dyke]

Goring-by-Sea is in the Rape of Arundel (also known as Arundel Rape). It is one of the rapes, the traditional sub-divisions unique to the historic county of Sussex in England.

In the adjacent Rape of Bramber is the town of Steyning.

 

[Calthrop]

Steyning has a pub called the Chequer Inn. This variation (noun in the singular) of this hostelry-name, appears to be extremely rare -- perhaps unique to the Steyning establishment; but England has an immense number of pubs called the Chequers (plural) -- one such being at Rookley, Isle of Wight.

 

[Tetragon213]

The No.3 Bus connects Rookley with Newport IoW

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowes on the Isle of Wight also lies on the line of the River Medina.

 

[Tetragon213]

Exeter also has a Chain (or Cable) Ferry (never heard of one of them before!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chichester in West Sussex also has both an Anglican cathedral and a ship canal.

 

[Calthrop]

@Xenophon PCDGS -- feel that I am, with some cheek and great ignorance, poaching on territory about which you are very knowledgeable; but -- the old administrative divisions called "Hundreds": there follow, a couple with names which to my sometimes childish mind are a bit comical-sounding. To the south of Chichester, that of Manhood; to the north-east of Strood (Unitary Authority of Medway, Kent), that of Hoo.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Montgomery in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[Tetragon213]

Montgomery shares its name with the WWII general Bernard Montgomery. One battle which he ultimately won was the Battle of El Alamein, and later on, the village of Enham Alamein was named in honour of the battle, as the wounded tended to end up in the Enham area for treatment.

 

[Calthrop]

A somewhat convoluted one; but I find a bit of a shortage of things to say about the above-bolded settlement (we've just had a "church" association). At a meeting at Enham (a very long time before the Alamein business !) of the Anglo-Saxon Witan, in the year 1008: there were drafted and ratified, what became known as the Enham Codes, "detailing the social ordering of England and giving all men the right to law". A better-known piece of such social sorting-out, a little later on: was Magna Carta of 1215, agreed between King John and his barons. This was signed at Runnymede -- which I don't feel "qualifies" here: it being (then and now), a meadow, not a settlement as such. Of the several now extant copies of Magna Carta: one is kept at Lincoln Cathedral.

 

[Tetragon213]

Lincoln Cathedral's spire was once the tallest in the land, until it collapsed. Now, that title belongs to Salisbury Cathedral at 404ft.

 

[High Dyke]

Salisbury also has a copy of the Magna Carta.

An ancient cathedral was north of the present city at Old Sarum. A new cathedral was built near the meeting of the rivers and a settlement grew up around it, which received a city charter in 1227 as New Sarum.

Preferring settlements in bottomland, such as nearby Wilton, the Saxons largely ignored Old Sarum until the Viking invasions led King Alfred (King of Wessex from 871 to 899) to restore its fortifications. Along with Wilton, however, it was abandoned by its residents to be sacked and burned by the Dano-Norwegian king Sweyn Forkbeard in 1003.

Sweyn Forkbeard was King of England for five weeks from December 1013 until his death. Based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Sweyn began to organise his vast new kingdom, but he died there on 3 February 1014

 

[Tetragon213]

Nottingham also lies on the River Trent

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Honiton in Devon also has a historical connection to lace-making.

 

[Calthrop]

Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, also has a church dedicated to St.Paul.

 

[High Dyke]

Folkestone also hosts a film festival.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saltburn-by-the-Sea in North Yorkshire also has a water-powered funicular cliff railway.

 

[Calthrop]

Thurston, Suffolk -- just east of Bury St. Edmunds -- also has a pub called the Victoria. (Saltburn, having been founded by Quakers, was for a long period pub-less.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Snettisham in Norfolk also has a post-mounted hand-carved village sign.

 

[Tetragon213]

The A149 runs through Snettisham, and it spits you out at Great Yarmouth

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bawburgh in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Yare.

 

[Calthrop]

Bawburgh is a few miles west of Norwich -- which area prominent re English mustard, essentially from the firm of Colmans: original site of manufacture of this strain of the condiment, reckoned to have been the mill at the centre of Bawburgh. A variety of English mustard (wholegrain) is also produced at Tiptree, Essex; by the firm bearing that name (principally and more familiarly, renowned for jam-making).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thornton in Lancashire also has a Grade II* listed tower mill.

 

[Tetragon213]

Garstang is also on the River Wyre

 

[Calthrop]

Corstorphine -- suburb of Edinburgh, to the west of the city -- also has a church dedicated to St. Thomas.