Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

In Lanlivery parish, is Tangier -- a suburb of Lostwithiel. Another settlement sharing the name of a North African city, is Alexandria (West Dunbartonshire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Balloch in West Dunbartonshire also lies on the line of the River Leven.

 

[Calthrop]

There is another River Leven, south of the border in Cumbria; linking Lake Windermere with the sea -- it flows through Haverthwaite.

 

[DerekC]

Pontneddfechan in Powys, like Haverthwaite, was once home to a gunpowder works.

 

[Calthrop]

Pontneddfechan is the southernmost settlement in the county of Powys. Llechrydau is the northernmost.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llawnt in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Morda.

 

[Calthrop]

Llawnt's name comes from the Middle Welsh, via borrowing of the English "lawn": meaning "green" -- named after a piece of green land in the centre of the village. On general "green" theme: about twenty miles westward into Shropshire from Llawnt, is the hamlet of Green Lane -- "crow-wise", between Shrewsbury and Market Drayton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Child's Ercall in Shropshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Drayton Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Michael's Church, Child's Ercall has a 12th Century doorway, a 13th Century arcade and 14th Century aisle, as well as stained glass by Charles Eamer Kempe (1837 - 1907), a Victorian designer and manufacturer of stained glass. Another church of a similar name with his glass is the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern, which is a village in Monmouthshire, between Abergavenny and Monmouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanvapley in Monmouthshire also lies on the line of the River Trothy.

 

[Calthrop]

Misterton, Nottinghamshire, also has a pub called the Red Hart. ("White Harts" are very numerous -- red ones, less so.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bawtry in South Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Idle.

 

[Calthrop]

Great Casterton, Rutland, is also on the route of the Roman Ermine Street.

 

[Springs Branch]

Rutland is famously a small county, but is not without its share of Grade I-listed buildings.
There's the church in Great Casterton, and about three Grade I Listed properties in Lyddington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Greetham in Rutland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Oakham Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The oldest parts of the Church of England Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Greetham are Norman, but the church today is largely as it was rebuilt in the 13th–15th centuries. It was restored in 1897 by Jethro Anstice Cossins (1830 - 1917), an English architect who practiced mainly in Birmingham. The church seems to be somewhat of an exception, as is the Town Hall in Darlaston, a Queen Anne Style building opened in 1888.

 

[Calthrop]

Trent, Dorset (near Sherborne and Yeovil) is another of the many places where the future King Charles II was given shelter and concealment in the course of his escaping from the country after the Battle of Worcester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Poyntington in Dorset was also once administered by the Hundred of Horethorne.

 

[Calthrop]

The ashes of William Launcelot Scott Fleming (1906 -- 1990) -- who combined, unusually, the roles of Anglican bishop, and explorer and geologist (he spent a considerable amount of time in Antarctica) are interred in the churchyard at Poyntington, where he spent his retirement. He was educated at Rugby School.

 

[DerekC]

Rugby cement works came sixth in Channel 4's TV series Demolition which asked people to vote for the buildings that they would most like to see demolished. Top of the list was Cumbernauld town centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penmon in Anglesey also has a dovecote within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Penmon would seem to be the easternmost settlement in Anglesey. Being maybe a bit "precious" about drawing distinction Anglesey / Holy Island; the westernmost settlement in "Anglesey proper" would appear to be Llanfwrog.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanbadrig in Anglesey was also once administered by the Hundred of Cemais.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Portions of the 2006 movie Half Light starring Demi Moore were filmed in Anglesey and Gwynedd, although the movie is ostensibly set in Scotland. Llanbadrig was one location; the Tŷ Coch Inn, Porthdinllaen, Gwynedd was another.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberystwyth also has the site of an Iron Age hill fort within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Aberystwyth also has the site of an Iron Age hill fort within its environs.

I always have problems in this game, thinking of a follow-on to Aberystwyth. Am going to fall back on my old friend the late prose-and-verse humorist Paul Jennings; and an excerpt from his long, and ingeniously-rhymed, verse about British place-names, "spelling versus pronunciation", and the ability thereof to baffle and disconcert tourists from elsewhere --

"The Welsh have funny names your tongues to twist with,
Like Penmaenmawr and Gwlch and Aberystwyth..."

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhosesmor in Flintshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Paul,

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The B5123 runs through Rhosesmor on it's way north from the A541 to a junction with the A55 North Wales Expressway just outside Pentre Halkyn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangelynin in Gwynedd also has historical connections to lead mining.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet John Morgan (also known as John Morgan Matchin or John Morgan of Matchin) was born on 7th February 1688 at Llangelynin, the younger son of the local curate. He studied at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1704 to 1708, and was ordained in 1709 and spent a year as curate of Llandegfan, Anglesey and from 1710 to 1713, he was curate of Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire. In 1713 he became curate (and, in 1728 the vicar) of the village of Matching, Essex, a position he held until his death in February 1733 or 1734.