Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

In 1798, The Plough in Burnham Thorpe was renamed The Lord Nelson. Another pub that was renamed was The Griffin in Broadbottom to The Harewood Arms in the 90s in an attempt to go upmarket.

Compstall -- like Broadbottom, in Greater Manchester and situated on the River Etherow; lies a few miles further down that river, a little way short of the point where it flows into the River Goyt.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester is another north-western England settlement where an athenaeum was established.

 

[DerekC]

The first meeting of the Trades Union Congress was held in Manchester in 1868. This year's will be held in Brighton.

 

[Springs Branch]

Brighton has an eponymous seaside settlement in the Australian state of Victoria.
Just along the coast, another Melbourne suburb shares its name with the Norfolk village of Sandringham.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

HMS Sandringham was one of 93 ships of the Ham Class of inshore minesweepers, which were all named after villages ending in -ham. HMS Mileham was another in the same class named after a village in Norfolk, in this case Mileham.

 

[341o2]

Mileham's name is based on the town's mill, the remains of which can still be seen, there are many other settlements which developed around a mill such as Congleton Cheshire

 

[Springs Branch]

Abergavenny also hosts an annual food festival.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brecon in Powys also has the remains of a Norman castle in its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Sarah Siddons (1755 -- 1831), probably Britain's most-renowned 18th-century actress, was born in Brecon. She and her family lived for a considerable while, in Bath.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swineford in South Glocestershire also lies on the line of the Kennet and Avon Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Kelston also lies on the A431 road, a couple of miles south-east of Swineford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tucking Mill in North Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Bath Forum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Tucking Mill is a small hamlet at the southern end of the Two Tunnels Greenway which follows the disused railway trackbed of the Somerset and Dorset Railway from East Twerton to Midford, crossing the Tucking Mill Viaduct on the way.

 

[Calthrop]

According to Wiki, Midford would seem to be "frontier country, but good". I quote: "Although relatively small, [Midford] extends over two counties (Wiltshire, and Somerset), is part of two Unitary Authorities (Wiltshire, and Bath & North-East Somerset), and is part of five parishes". I would advance as of somewhat similar status (although fairly "weak sauce" in comparison with the village on the one-time Somerset & Dorset rail route): Sutton St. Edmund, between Peterborough and Wisbech, and officially in Lincolnshire. S. St. E. lies, however, pretty much at the meeting-point of three "territories": Peterborough's Unitary Authority, within Cambridgeshire; Cambridgeshire proper; and Lincolnshire.

 

[341o2]

That reminds me of the former Three Counties signalbox on the ECML, as an aside

The name St Edmund, the original patron saint of England, also appears in similar format in the Suffolk town of Bury St Edmunds

 

[johnnychips]

Cantley in Norfolk also has a sugar beet factory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colney in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Yare.

 

[Springs Branch]

Premier League football club Norwich City have their training ground in Colney.
Two other Premier League clubs (Arsenal & Watford) also have their training grounds in the co-incidentally named Hertfordshire village of London Colney.

 

[Calthrop]

Elvington, North Yorkshire -- in the River Derwent valley -- also has an aviation museum.

 

[D6130]

Malton, North Yorkshire, also lies on the line of the River Derwent.

 

[Calthrop]

Malton likes to style itself as "the food capital of Yorkshire". I suspect that a rival for that title would be Helmsley, some fifteen miles to the north-west: the location of a fair number of shops dealing in assorted high-quality foods.

 

[D6130]

The Cleveland Way long distance footpath starts at Helmsley and - after following a 110 mile arc through the North York Moors and down the Yorkshire coast - finishes at Filey.

 

[Calthrop]

The novelist Charlotte Bronte made a number of visits to Filey; was impressed by the area's natural coastal splendours. Charlotte's marriage to Arthur Bell Nicholls, an Irishman, was sadly brief: 1854 -- 55, ended by her death in the latter year, from illness, of what kind is not known for certain. The couple spent their honeymoon in Banagher, Co. Offaly.

 

[D6130]

Limerick also lies on the River Shannon.

 

[Calthrop]

Limerick gives its name to a Treaty, signed in 1691 and ending the war between supporters of James II and William III. Another British Isles treaty named after settlements: is that bizarrely called the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton -- 1328, ending the First War of Scottish Independence. Of the two settlement-names involved here: I'm arbitrarily opting for Northampton.

 

[D6130]

Kendal in Cumbria (formerly Westmorland) also has historical connections with shoe manufacturing.

 

[Calthrop]

Desmond Bagley (1923 -- 1983), author of a fair number of thrillers (which I enjoy, not least because of nicely humorous touches therein), was born in Kendal. He lived in Totnes, Devon, from 1966 to 1976.

 

[D6130]

In recent years, Totnes has gained a reputation as a liberal, free-thinking place attracting people with alternative lifestyles....or, as the locals call them, hippies. Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire has a similar vibe.

 

[Calthrop]

Littleborough, Greater Manchester, also lies on the Rochdale Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowpe in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Salford.