Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Calthrop]

The Kinnerton Confectionery Company was founded in 1978, in Fakenham -- not, as one might reasonably enough have imagined, in Higher Kinnerton, Flintshire; or that settlement's neighbour Lower Kinnerton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Marazion in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints,

 

[Calthrop]

"Semper Eadem" [="always the same"] is the motto of the borough of Marazion, and also of the city of Leicester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derby also lends its name to a variety of cheese.

 

[Calthrop]

Durham's name is also "popularly and proverbially" coupled with that of a domestic animal species. The Derby Ram -- reckoned a creature of folklore; and the Durham Ox, which was a factual, real live neutered male bovine, fl. around the year 1800 -- widely admired in the region for its shape, size and weight: was an early example of what became the Shorthorn breed of cattle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also has botanical gardens.

 

[DerekC]

Edinburgh is the location for Holyrood House, the monarch's official Scottish residence. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent in Wales, although Caernarfon Castle was once a royal residence and is still owned by the Crown.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lacock in Wiltshire also has an agricultural college.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Lacock is owned almost in its entirety by the National Trust. Another village in private ownership is Clovelly, which is owned by John Rous, who inherited it in 1983. The village "has mainly been in the Hamlyn family since 1738", and he is of that line.

(Foe the purposes of this, I have taken "private" to mean something that is not the responsibility of the local council)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Westward Ho! in Devon also lies on the route of the South West Coast Path.

 

[Calthrop]

Jaywick, Essex, is another settlement which is essentially "artificial" -- created for the purpose of being a seaside resort. (Not with resounding success, in either case; though the Devon location has done better than its more easterly counterpart.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hunstanton in Norfolk also had a death total in excess of 30 caused by the 1953 North Sea flood.

 

[Calthrop]

Re settlement names: it's perhaps a bit surprising that neither Hunstanton; nor St. Germans, Cornwall; were renamed during the First World War -- except that we Brits do not, as a rule, engage in that particular kind of stupidity.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tideford in Cornwall also lies on the line of the River Tiddy.

 

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Arundel, West Sussex, also has a major road called Mill Road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pallingham in West Sussex also lies on the line of the River Arun.

 

[DerekC]

The Wey and Arun Canal once linked the Arun at Pallingham to the Wey at Shalford, Surrey (and might one day do so again)

 

[Calthrop]

The River Tillingbourne, coming from further east, joins the River Wey at Shalford. Half-a-dozen miles or so east of Shalford is the renownedly picturesque village of Abinger Hammer; located on the Tillingbourne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brandeston in Suffolk also has a post-mounted metal-sculptured image village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Brandeston features prominently, under its own name, in the 1966 novel by Ronald Bassett, Witchfinder General; this being based on the witch-hunting career during the English Civil War, of Matthew Hopkins, who is generally referred to under the same title as that of the book. Hopkins's activities, mostly in East Anglia, resulted in a great number of persons being executed for witchcraft -- with many confessions obtained by dubious means, even should one share the man's general beliefs about the Black Arts. Hopkins spent his last years at Manningtree, Essex; dying there in 1747.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dedham in Essex also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[Calthrop]

Quoting verbatim from Wikipedia in the absence of other inspiration: "In 1937, Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines founded the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Dedham. When, however, this burnt down, they moved to Hadleigh, Suffolk."

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Launton in Oxfordshire is also a settlement that has a church with a Sanctus Bell.

 

[Calthrop]

Bundoran, Co. Donegal, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Manche. Launton's "twin" is Gavray; Bundoran's, Granville.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newquay in Cornwall is another settlement that is popular with surfing devotees.

 

[DerekC]

The Duchy of Cornwall has built a development at Tregunnel in Newquay which is sometimes unkindly called Surfbury by analogy with the Poundbury new village in Dorset which features similar designs.

 

[Springs Branch]

In 2009, the fire station at Poundbury was a nominee for that year's Carbuncle Cup (an architectural award for the ugliest building built that year).

Another Carbuncle nomination for ugliest building that same year was Queen Margaret University at Musselburgh in East Lothian.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Musselburgh is home to Musselburgh Links Golf Course, which have been acknowledged as the oldest continuously played golf course in the world. The links are a former venue of The Open Championship, although it has not been held there since 1889. The first Open Championship was played on 17th October 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire, over three rounds of the twelve-hole course.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has an international airport.