Settlement Association

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Belsize Park is mentioned in the Hitchcock thriller, Dial M for Murder (1954) by the lead character Tony Wallace (played by Ray Milland) when coercing his accomplice, C A Swann into murdering his wife. Ray Milland was born as Alfred Reginald Jones in Neath on 3rd January 1907.

 

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The 5th-century Saint Illtud is reckoned to have visited the Neath area and established a settlement there. The said saint has also strong associations with the town in Glamorgan where he founded a monastery and school: in Welsh and English respectively, Llanilltud Fawr / Llantwit Major. (Via misinterpreting the English version -- musings on whether one can be both a saint and a twit, can lead to mixed feelings .)

 

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Llanharry in Rhondda Cynon Taf also has a church that is dedicated to St Illtyd.

 

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Faversham, Kent, also has a pub called the Bear.

 

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Waltham Abbey was also the site of a Royal Gunpowder Mill.

 

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Louth also sits astride the Greenwich Meridian.

 

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Inhabitants of Louth are known as Ludensians: from the town's Latin name from Roman times -- Lude or Luda. In a similar vein, inhabitants of Manchester are Mancunians: from the settlement's Roman-era name, Mancunium.

 

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Inhabitants of Louth are known as Ludensians: from the town's Latin name from Roman times -- Lude or Luda. In a similar vein, inhabitants of Manchester are Mancunians: from the settlement's Roman-era name, Mancunium.

The Oxford University Press state the Roman name for the fort and town to be Mamucium. That notwithstanding and all being equal in the eyes of the law, Rochdale also has a noted town hall.

 

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In the good old days of municipally-owned bus fleets, Rochdale Corporation's vehicles carried a cream and blue livery.
The same two colours were used by the corporation buses in Barrow-in-Furness.

 

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Bolton-le-Sands was also once administered by the Hundred of Lonsdale.

 

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The Lancaster Canal, built in the 1790s, is a major feature of the village of Bolton-le-Sands; it also passes through the village of Hest Bank, Lancashire.

 

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Farleton in Cumbria also lies on the northern section of the Lancaster Canal.

 

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The Oxford University Press state the Roman name for the fort and town to be Mamucium.

Wiki -- rightly or wrongly -- gives "Mancunium" as an alternative.

 

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Farleton in Cumbria also lies on the northern section of the Lancaster Canal.

Farleton used to have a pub named "The Duke" -- now a dwelling-house. Buxton still has a pub named "The Duke".

 

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Ashford-in-the-Water also lies on the line of the Derbyshire River Wye.

 

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Fifehead Neville (Dorset) also has a packhorse bridge.

 

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Child Okeford was also once under the jurisdiction of the Sturminster Poor Law Union.

 

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The steep slopes of Hambleton Hill near Child Okeford were used for "rehearsal" purposes for the troops of General James Wolfe, for their capture of the city of Quebec in 1759. In a parallel situation, beaches near Slapton (south Devon) were similarly employed in 1944, re the forthcoming D-Day landings (an exercise which itself unfortunately involved considerable loss of life).

 

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Slapton Sands beach itself is a bar: the material that makes up the beach was pushed up by the rising sea levels during the Flandrian transgression after the last glacial period (from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago). Beaches formed like this are reworked by coastal processes now but are not supplied by enough material to recreate them, should material be removed. This had terrible consequences nearby at the village of Hallsands in South Devon where most of the beach was removed as building material for Devonport dockyards, leaving the village exposed to storms. It was struck by a storm in 1917 and most of the village was washed away, although no villagers were killed.

 

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Amroth in Pembrokeshire also has the remains of a petrified forest on its beach area.

 

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Amroth could be seen as a real, British settlement name "embroidered on" by J.R.R. Tolkien, to make a place-name in The Lord of the Rings; the same applies to Bucklebury, Berkshire. Dol Amroth is the seacoast citadel of Prince Imrahil, a noble of Gondor; in the hobbits' Shire, the big River Brandywine is crossed by the Bucklebury Ferry (the Berkshire village would seem not to feature a ferry).

 

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Nunthorpe-in-Cleveland also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

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Arthur Dorman one of the founders of construction company Dorman Long, builders of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, lived in Nunthorpe until his death. His partner Albert deLande Long lived after his retirement and died in Northallerton

 

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North Yorkshire County Council is located in Northallerton.
Elsewhere in Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council's HQ is based in Beverley.

 

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Gosford in Oxfordshire also once had a preceptory of the Knights Hospitaller.

 

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Gosford is in the civil parish of Gosford and Water Easton, which contains the village of Gosford and the hamlet of Water Eaton.

 

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Oxford also has a church that is dedicated to St Frideswide.

 

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Aberdeen is another British settlement, whose name is borne by one in the US State of Mississippi.

 

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The Scottish golfer Paul Lawrie OBE was born in Aberdeen on 1st January 1969, and won the Open Golf Championship at Carnoustie, Angus in July 1999.

 

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Cruden Bay in Aberdeenshire is also said to be the site of a battle by the Scots against an invasion by Danish Vikings.