Settlement Association

[341o2]

Southwell is a minster town as is Reading

 

[341o2]

Wiki says, in its delightfully prim way, "Nempnett Thrubwell's curiously comedic name makes the village something of a famous local attraction". Long ago, the humorist Paul Jennings felt similarly: he included this settlement in a list of bizarrely-named English villages, which also included Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire (near Haverhill).

Nempnett Thrubwell was the subject of a Wurzels number

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southwell is a minster town as is Reading

This is the posting from which matters should resume.

 

[DerekC]

A visit to Reading prompts thoughts of Huntley & Palmer's biscuits which used to be made there. Competitor Peak Frean had their main factory in Bermondsey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tooting was also once administered by the Hundred of Brixton.

 

[Springs Branch]

In the 1970s TV sitcom Citizen Smith, Tooting was the base for the main protagonist's far-left activist group, the Tooting Popular Front.
Allegedly, the series' writer, John Sullivan, loosely based this fictional organisation on the contemporary real-life Workers' Institute of Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought, which was based in Brixton.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Brockley is also mentioned in a Linton Kwesi Johnson poem

 

[Springs Branch]

The Brockley Brewing Company is a craft brewery located in Brockley.
Hesket Newmarket in Cumbria also has an eponymous small local brewery.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harbybrow in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wigton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Harbybrow is in the parish of Allhallows: which has a namesake at the other end of England -- Allhallows, Kent, between the Medway and Thames estuaries: comprising the ancient village of Hoo All Hallows, and the never very successful would-be resort of Allhallows-on-Sea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gainsborough in Lincolnshire also has a noted church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Calthrop]

It is thought probable that the town of St. Ogg's in George Eliot's novel The Mill On The Floss, is a fictionalised version of Gainsborough. In similar wise, "Middlemarch" in the same author's novel of that name, is reckoned likely to represent Coventry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kew in the south-eastern part of the London conurbation was another settlement that was chosen to build a Carthusian order religious house.

 

[Calthrop]

The splendidly-named poet Stephen Duck (1705 -- 56) lived for a while at Kew. He was born in Charlton, Wiltshire, near Pewsey. (He is commemorated annually by the Duck Feast, held at the Charlton Cat Inn in the village of his birth.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Draycot Cerne in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Malmesbury.

 

[Calthrop]

The clergyman and diarist Francis Kilvert was a frequent visitor to Draycot Cerne. Kilvert is best known for his diaries of Welsh Marches rural life at the time, written during his spell (1865 -- 72) as curate of Clyro, Powys (near Hay-on-Wye).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skipton in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

One learns that Skipton means "sheep-town" in the appropriate dialect. Another settlement with a name connected with creatures common in animal husbandry (if in a presumably less direct way) is Cowes, Isle of Wight. Many centuries ago, there were just off the shore by the town, a couple of distinctive sandbanks whose shape reminded people of cows, lying down -- "hence the name".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salcombe in Devon also hosts an annual yacht club regatta.

 

[341o2]

Salcombe has its own distillery, famous for its gin, as does Portsmouth, producing rum as well as gin

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worcester also has a church that is dedicated to St Swithun.

 

[Calthrop]

Lincoln also gives its name to a college of Oxford University.

 

[godfreycomplex]

A crime committed in South Tottenham was also the subject of an episode of the erstwhile BBC programme “Crimewatch File”

 

[EbbwJunction1]

South Tottenham occupies parts of the N15 and N17 postal districts; Seven Sisters is also part of the former.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saltersford in Lincolnshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Ermine Street.

 

[Calthrop]

Saltersford in Lincolnshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Ermine Street.

I cannot find direct reference to Saltersford as a settlement as such; but Wiki indicates that the name and location would seem to have the same identity as the village of Little Ponton: on the River Witham just south of Grantham. The actor Richard Todd (1919 -- 2009) lived in Little Ponton, and is buried in the churchyard there; he was born in Dublin.

 

[Springs Branch]

The name Dublin originates from the Gaelic dubh linn, which translates into English as Blackpool.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester also has a zoo.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Chester is one of the best-preserved walled city in Britain. There are also substantial remains of the original walls in the village of Caerwent in Monmouthshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Caerleon some seven miles west of Caerwent, also has historical associations with the interaction between the Romans and the local Silures tribe. The two settlements are on the sites of the Roman ditto, of Isca Silurum and Venta Silurum respectively.