Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunfermline in Fife also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret.

 

[DerekC]

Coalville, like Dunfermline, houses an Amazon distribution centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Overseal was also once administered by the Hundred of West Goscote.

 

[Calthrop]

Rowlands Castle, Hampshire, also has a Robin Hood Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowplain in Hampshire is also situated in the once heavily forested ancient area known as the Forest of Bere.

 

[Calthrop]

Another village whose name's first syllable is "cow" (in either case, one reckons not necessarily to do with milk-and-moo-creatures) is Cowbit (near Spalding, Lincolnshire). This settlement is locally pronounced "Cubbit".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quadring was also once under the jurisdiction of the Spalding Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Quadring's name derives -- rather wonderfully, I feel -- from the Old English cwead-hafer-ingas = muddy settlement of someone named Haefer. With a name on an apparently similar theme, is Mirehouse (Cumbria; near Whitehaven).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Paddlesworth in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Benedict.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Paddlesworth was a sighting-point for the Anglo-French Survey between 1784 and 1790, which linked the Royal Greenwich Observatory with the Paris Observatory. A chain of readings was made from high points between the two observatories, including locally from St Peter's Church, Swingfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alkham in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Folkestone.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Alkham is a village and Civil parish in the Dover district of Kent; within the parish are the settlements of Chalksole and Ewell Minnis.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coldred in Kent was also once under the jurisdiction of the Dover Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Children from Coldred attend the primary school at Shepherdswell, which is less than 1 mile to the northwest.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goodnestone also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath called the Miners Way Trail.

 

[Calthrop]

Goodnestone also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath called the Miners Way Trail.

Adjacent to the village is the mansion of Goodnestone Park: daughter of aristocratic owner of which, married Jane Austen's brother; Ms. A. visited the couple there on sundry occasions. Another settlement associated with "the divine Jane" is of course Chawton, Hampshire, where she spent the later part of her life. (Another novelist whom I find unreadable -- the fault here must for sure lie with me, not her.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wrea Green in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Nicholas Church, Wrea Green was rebuilt in 1848 and 1849 by the Lancaster architects Sharpe and Paley at a cost of about £1,600 (equivalent to £170,000 as of 2019). It opened on 23 September 1849 but was not consecrated until 4 May 1855. Among other early works by the practice is St Patrick's Church, Preston Patrick, Cumbria, built between 1852 and 1853.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigton in Cumbria also has a Friends Meeting House.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg of Wigton, CH HonFRS FBA FRSL was born on 6th October 1939 in Carlisle and raised in Wigton, where he attended the local primary school.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsingham also has a Russian Orthodox Church.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The River Stiffkey flows through the parish, from south to north, passing to the east of bulk of the village of Walsingham. It runs through North Norfolk from its source near the village of Swanton Novers to flow out into the North Sea on the North Norfolk coast near the village of Stiffkey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crickhowell also has a church that is dedicated to St Edmund.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Crickhowell is the site of one of the many crossings of the River Usk; another (the highest) crossing is that of Pont ar Wysg (or Bridge on the Usk) which carries the moorland road west from Trecastle, Powys to Twynllanan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brinklow in Warwickshire was also chosen as the site of a 11th century Norman motte and bailey castle.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Brinklow is astride the Fosse Way, which now follows the B4455 across Warwickshire; another place through which the modern and old roads run is Stretton-under-Fosse.

 

[Calthrop]

Brinklow is astride the Fosse Way, which now follows the B4455 across Warwickshire; another place through which the modern and old roads run is Stretton-under-Fosse.

The Wiki entry for Stretton-under-Fosse says "not to be confused with Stretton-on-Fosse" (and vice versa). The "on" settlement is on the Warwickshire / Gloucestershire border, thirty miles south-west of the "under" one, along the old and modern roads -- with the latter, off the B4455 and on to the A429.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ilchester in Somerset also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Fosse Way.

 

[Calthrop]

There is also a Royal Naval Air Station near Helston, Cornwall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lostwithiel was another of the Cornish stannary towns.