Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Penhow has, I learn, a churrascaria = Portuguese barbecue place. There is also a Portuguese restaurant in Norwich.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sculthorpe in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Wensum.

 

[DerekC]

Shapwick in Somerset also has a wildlife reserve managed by the Hawk & Owl Trust

 

[John Griffiths]

Churchill Julius had been vicar of Shapwick in the mid 1870s before going to the antipodes and eventually becoming Archbishop of New Zealand. He was born in 1847 in Richmond, SW London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Perth is also a settlement that was chosen as a site for a Carthusian Priory.

 

[Calthrop]

Churchill Julius had been vicar of Shapwick in the mid 1870s before going to the antipodes and eventually becoming Archbishop of New Zealand.

Perth is also a settlement that was chosen as a site for a Carthusian Priory.

Back to "Antipodean" theme: another Scottish settlement with one named after it in British territory on the other side of the globe, is Ayr -- its namesake being in Queensland, near Townsville.

 

[Springs Branch]

Prior to bus deregulation in 1985, Western SMT operated bus services throughout western Scotland.
The operator had over a dozen depots, including in Ayr and at Port Ellen on Islay.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nesting on Whalsay (Shetland) also has noted standing stones.

 

[Calthrop]

Alexander Levie (1865 - 1955), a veterinary surgeon of some note, was born in Nesting. He died at Quarndon, Derbyshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bridlington is another settlement with a chalybeate spring water source.

 

[Calthrop]

Bridlington is another settlement with a chalybeate spring water source.

Bridlington's motto is Signum Salutis Semper = "Always the bringer of good health". Its fellow-North Sea resort Skegness has one rather on the same theme; but less lofty, and in the plebeian tongue: "Skegness is so bracing".

(My italics in the quote above: for a long time -- having seen the word concerned, in print, but never heard it spoken -- I thought it was pronounced "chaily-beet".)

 

[Springs Branch]

Bangor, Co. Down also has a RNLI lifeboat station.

 

[Calthrop]

Donaghadee, Co. Down, lies six miles east of Bangor -- a fact which is commemorated in the chorus of a favourite "Orange" song.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Castlebar in County Mayo is another settlement that was involved in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

 

[DerekC]

The name "Castlebar" commemorates the de Barry family of Cambro-Norman origin who were part of the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1170. Their name is also the origin of that of the town of Barry, South Wales

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tyne Dock in South Shields was also historically involved with the large-scale exporting of coal.

 

[John Griffiths]

'Wor Kate' (Catherine Cookson) hailed from Tyne Dock. She took up writing while living in Hastings where her husband was a schoolmaster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crickhowell also hosts an annual festival of music and the performing arts.

 

[Calthrop]

Sir George Everest -- the geographer and surveyor after whom the mountain is named -- may have been born near Crickhowell; or possibly in Greenwich. He is buried at Hove, East Sussex. (Correct pronunciation of his name is "EEV-rest"; but of the mountain concerned, is "EV-er-est".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Morecambe is also a settlement with a Bronze Age barrow within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Clitheroe is also the birthplace of a comedian who "did his stuff" under the place's name -- but unlike Eric Morecambe; Jimmy Clitheroe's stage name, was also his real name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln was also the scene of a 12th century battle during the English Civil War period known as The Anarchy.

 

[Calthrop]

Can't resist another couple of daft clerihews-concerning-towns, from the book which we used to have at home.

The Cathedral Chapter of Lincoln
Used to read the Pink 'Un [long-ago newspaper devoted particularly to horse-racing -- printed on pink paper]
Until its ceasing publication,
Whereupon they fell back on The New Statesman and Nation.

And

Ashton-under-Lyne
Is fine
If you keep
Asleep.

(With apologies to the inhabitants of that no doubt excellent community.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ince in Makerfield (to give it its full title) was also the scene of a colliery disaster in 1851.

 

[Calthrop]

Silsden, West Yorkshire, also lies on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gargrave in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Aire.

 

[johnnychips]

Bellingham is also on the Pennine Way.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Churchtown in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.

 

[John Griffiths]

Kew, SW London, also has botanical gardens.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coventry is another settlement where a Carthusian religious house was established.