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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Snodland in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
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Going back to a post not quite a month ago: things concerning place-names, and those wretched Normans what couldn't talk proper, and had trouble pronouncing "sn" -- with settlements with names, pre-Conquest, associated with their chieftains with names such as Snodd / Snodda / Snaet: the Normans removed the initial "s" -- a likely example of this, is Neatishead, Norfolk -- the place of "Snaet's household". "Snodland" reckoned to mean in the old tongue "cultivated land connected with Snodd or Snodda" -- for whatever reason, the Normans would seem to have left this one alone.
 
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West Chiltington has three vineyards within its parish boundaries: the most famous being that of Nyetimber -- based on an old manor house which is reputedly part of the dowry of Anne of Cleves when she married Henry VIII. I have rather a soft spot for Anne -- reckonably Henry's most fortunate wife, even though the marriage didn't work out. Henry and Anne met in person for the first time on New Year's Day 1540, at Rochester, now in Medway. It was not a very auspicious meeting: what with a mild jape on the King's part, which Anne didn't "get"; and, "first impressions", he did not greatly take to her.
 
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The US State of Massachusetts is very useful in this game -- it sometimes seems that every other settlement in that State, has a namesake in the British Isles. Trying to find such a pairing not hitherto used: like Weymouth, Bethel in Anglesey -- hard by Bodorgan rail station -- has a Massachusetts namesake (admittedly, one guesses that that last settlement's naming was home-grown and "religious": nothing to do with any place in Britain).
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Llechcynfarwydd in Anglesey was also once under the jurisdiction of the Anglesey Poor Law Union.
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Little-known Celtic saints, with only one, respectively, known-of church dedicated to them: re the above settlement, it is St. Cynfarwy; hence the name. Cornwall has a counterpart, in St. Tetha and her church: parish church of the eponymous St. Teath, Cornwall -- six or seven miles north-east of Wadebridge.
 
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Porthleven has considerable associations with Guy Gibson -- commanding officer of the famous World War II "Dam Busters" operation (and owner of the unfortunately-named dog). It was the home town of Gibson's mother; and Gibson often visited the town during the war. Gibson began his flight training with the RAF, in 1936: at that arm of the Services' station at Yatesbury, Wiltshire -- four miles east of Calne.
 
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One of Clane's main thoroughfares is called Prosperous Road: not signifying a highway which is doing very well for itself; but, its leading towards the settlement a very few miles to the west, called Prosperous, Co. Kildare. Only in Ireland...
 
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A little way west of Rush; is the also pleasingly brief-monosyllabically-named community of Lusk, Co. Dublin. (Giving the splendidly-named Rush & Lusk station, on the Dublin -- Belfast main line.)
 
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Bruisyard used to have a vineyard, but it closed in 2002 (did the grapes get bruised? ha ha). A Suffolk settlement which still has an active vineyard -- title thereof, Burnt House -- is Great Finborough, three miles south-west of Stowmarket.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Creeting Bottoms in Suffolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Stow Poor Law Union.
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Coming on to the game just after getting up, and not fully awake / alert: I at first mis-read the above as Creeping Bottoms, and the Slow Poor Law Union.

Am taking the liberty of shifting to C. B.'s larger neighbour, Creeting St. Mary: which has a pub / restaurant called the Highwayman. On that general theme: Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, has one called the Dick Turpin.
 
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Namesake settlements to the rescue: Belfast has one in the South Island of New Zealand; as does Christchurch, Dorset -- with the N.Z. places, the former is essentially a suburb of the latter.
 
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