Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portobello in the Edinburgh area also has marine gardens.

 

[Calthrop]

Havannah near Congleton, Cheshire; is also named after the location of an 18th-century British success in arms, in the Caribbean.

 

[DerekC]

The River Dane passes through Havannah. Its source is on Axe Edge Moor, a long way from anywhere. The nearest settlement is Burbage, Derbyshire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of High Peak.

 

[Calthrop]

Buxton in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of High Peak.

Attenborough near Nottingham also shares its name with the surname of a wildlife student / film-maker / TV documentary champion of wildlife (Cindy, and David, respectively).

 

[DerekC]

Henry Ireton, parliamentary general and signatory of Charles I's death warrant, was born in Attenborough. He died of plague during the siege of Limerick, his enemies claiming that this was divine retribution for the hanging of a bishop.

 

[Calthrop]

Traditional songs about wild young persons of the male persuasion, viz. "rakes": give an association between Limerick, and Mallow some forty miles to the south -- The Limerick Rake, and The Rakes of Mallow.

 

[341o2]

The Rakes Progress became a series of illustrations by William Hogarth, who also painted two murals, the Pool of Besthada and The Good Samaritan at St Bartholomew's (Barts) hospital Smithfield London

 

[DerekC]

William Wallace, Guardian of the Kingdom of Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence (as depicted in the film Braveheart), was executed at Smithfield. He is believed to have been born at Elderslie in Renfrewshire.

 

[Springs Branch]

Elderslie was once home to a well-regarded carpet manufacturer.
The same is still true of Axminster in Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[DerekC]

The Ivelchester and Langport Navigation was intended to make the River Yeo or Ivel navigable as far as Ilchester, but it was never completed.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

South Perrott in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Parrett.

 

[DerekC]

The River Parrett Trail passes through South Perrott and also the site of the Battle of Sedgemoor near Westonzoyland in Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Othery in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Whitley.

 

[Springs Branch]

Othery lies on the A361 road, the longest three-digit A-road, which runs between Ilfracombe and the Northamptonshire village of Kilsby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunstable in Bedfordshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Watling Street.

 

[Calthrop]

Stamford (Lincolnshire), like Dunstable, once had -- no more in situ -- one of the twelve Eleanor Crosses built by order of King Edward I to commemorate his deceased wife Eleanor of Castile.

 

[D6130]

Like Stamford, Hay-on-Wye also straddles two counties on either side of a river, but in this case it also straddles two countries (England and Wales)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knighton in Powys also has a Victorian clock tower.

 

[Calthrop]

Knighton receives at least one mention (in the instance of which I'm thinking, the versifying rather less than elegant) in A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad series of poems; Ludlow gets a substantial share of that particular action.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tenbury Wells in the border area of Worcester and Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Teme.

 

[Calthrop]

Every year, Tenbury Wells holds a Mistletoe Festival (and large quantities of the plant are sold there on the run-up to Christmas). Concerning the tear-jerking song The Mistletoe Bough (bride playing hide-and-seek hides in chest in attic, can't get out, found as a skeleton years later): there are various apocryphal suggestions as to the place where this supposedly, really happened -- one of such being the rectory at Bawdrip, Somerset (near Bridgwater).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Athelney in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of North Petherton.

 

[Calthrop]

Athelney is strongly associated with King Alfred the Great -- his last stronghold before the tide of war turned in favour of Saxon vis-a-vis Dane. He was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldworth in Berkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wantage Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Also excellent for bluebells in the season, are the Clent Hills in the west Midlands; nearest settlement Halesowen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blanchland in Northumberland is another settlement chosen to be the site of a Premonstratensian Abbey.

 

[Calthrop]

Hexham also lies on the B6306 road -- at its northern extremity.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corbridge in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Tyne.