Settlement Association

[EbbwJunction1]

Little Isleham lies on the B1104, which runs from from Prickwillow to Chippenham (the Cambridgeshire version, not the one in Gloucestershire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mildenhall also lies on the line of the River Lark.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Mildenhall CC was established in 1876 and plays in the East Anglian Premier Cricket League at Wamil Way. One of their opponents in the 2021 season will hopefully be Great Witchingham CC, who play at Walcis Park, Fakenham Rd, Lenwade, Norwich.

 

[johnnychips]

Parson Woodforde often talked in his diaries of taking the Lenwade Chaise to Norwich. He lived at nearby Weston Longville.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsoken in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Calthrop]

Weddington (area of Nuneaton) is also 103 miles from London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chilvers Coton is another area of Nuneaton that once came under the jurisdiction of the Nuneaton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Chilvers Coton is another area of Nuneaton that once came under the jurisdiction of the Nuneaton Poor Law Union.

The above-bolded settlement appears in fictionalised form in George Eliot's novel Scenes of Clerical Life, under the name of Shepperton. The real Shepperton is in Surrey, on the River Thames, about 15 miles south-east of central London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Elstree also had film studios where British films of a certain era were made.

 

[Nick_C]

Elstree was also the home to LT's Aldenham Bus Works, which handled bodywork and chassis - engines and running gear were maintained at their other works in Chiswick.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race takes place on the Championship Course on the Thames between Chiswick Bridge and Putney Bridge

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashbourne in Derbyshire is another settlement where almshouses were built.

 

[Nick_C]

Ashbourne is home to an annual game of Royal Shrovetide Football, in which the entire town becomes the playing field. A similar annual game is the Shrove Tuesday game in Sedgefield, County Durham

 

[Calthrop]

In the above-bolded settlement is the country house / estate, several centuries old, of Hardwick Hall (now a hotel). The nearest settlement to the better-known stately home bearing that name, is the hamlet of Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Port Glasgow also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Port Glasgow has played host to several successful football clubs; the current club is Port Glasgow JFC, who now play at a new stadium at Parklea, Port Glasgow, following a spell playing their home games at Ravenscraig Staidam and Battery Park in nearby Greenock.

 

[Calthrop]

The above-bolded settlement was long prominent in sugar refining; Cantley, Norfolk, still is.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[John Griffiths]

St Walstan, patron of agricultural labourers, born in Bawburgh, is also associated with Taverham, where he worked

 

[Calthrop]

Sittingbourne, Kent, has also been a notable location for paper-milling.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldridge in the West Midlands also has a historical link to brick-makng.

 

[Springs Branch]

Lossiemouth was another place where a gold postbox could be found - painted to commemorate 2012 Olympic & Paralympic gold medals and located in settlements associated with the medal winners.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dingle in County Kerry also has a church that is dedicated to St James.

 

[Calthrop]

The above-bolded settlement's name in Irish, is "Daingean" (abbreviated form). There is elsewhere in the Republic of Ireland, another Daingean -- in County Offaly (pre-1922, Philipstown in King's County).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pollagh in County Offaly also lies on the line of the Grand Canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

Kirkbride in Cumberland was also a centre of peat extraction.

 

[Calthrop]

Narberth, Pembrokeshire, also has a pub called The Bush.

 

[Springs Branch]

The A478 passes through Narberth on the road's route from Tenby to Cardigan.

 

[Calthrop]

Heathfield (East Sussex) also holds in April, a time-honoured annual celebratory / commercial event.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pendeen in Cornwall also has a Silver Band.