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[Calthrop]

Holdenhurst's name is reckoned to come from Old English holegn = holly, and hyrst = grove / wood -- wood where holly grows. Further north, "hollin" is an old word for holly; thus a parallel in Shropshire: Hollinwood near Whitchurch.

 

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[Xenophon PCDGS]

I have a query on the previous posting in terms of geographical location.

 

[DerekC]

Salcombe is also in the 8th postcode district of a south coast postcode area

I think you are mixing up Hollinwood, Oldham (OL8) with Hollinwood, Shropshire (SY13) - Salcombe being TQ8. (And neither Hollinwood is on the south coast)

 

[Springs Branch]

Taking the last valid post as . . . .

Holdenhurst's name is reckoned to come from Old English holegn = holly, and hyrst = grove / wood -- wood where holly grows. Further north, "hollin" is an old word for holly; thus a parallel in Shropshire: Hollinwood near Whitchurch.

For the casual observer, there does not seem to be a lot of interest in Hollinwood, Salop.

However the main road through the village is named Platt Lane. A thoroughfare with the same name can be found in the Greater Manchester settlement of Westhoughton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Golborne in Greater Manchester also had a colliery on the Lancashire Coalfield.

 

[Calthrop]

The Anglo-Irish Colonel Thomas Blood, a dodgy character who during the reign of Charles II, tried to steal the Crown Jewels (Charles thought it was all rather a laugh, and pardoned him): lived in the later stages of his life, at Holcroft Hall in Golborne. In his youth, he dwelt near Dunboyne, Co. Meath.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hathern in Leicestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[Calthrop]

Hathern is home to the Swift Sock Factory, one of only a small number of independent sock manufacturers left in the UK -- "who knew?". Also of note in the lore of attire for nether limbs -- and not hugely far away -- is Calverton, Notts. (near Gedling): birthplace of William Lee (1563 -- 1614) who invented the knitting device called the stocking frame, thus revolutionising the making of stockings.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pewsey in Wiltshire is also a settlement where a Roman coin hoard was discovered.

 

[Calthrop]

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire; also lies in a Vale which bears its name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Aylesbury.

 

[341o2]

Aston Clinton has the Bell Inn as does Brook New Forest

 

[Calthrop]

Aston Clinton has the Bell Inn as does Brook New Forest

Oddly enough, there is another small village called Brook in Hampshire: this one not in the New Forest -- it's a little under ten miles north-east of the New Forest Brook; on the A3057 road north of Romsey.

 

[Springs Branch]

Brook (Hants.) is along the course of the River Test, a 40-mile stream passing wholly through Hampshire, with its source at the village of Ashe.

 

[Calthrop]

Brook (Hants.) is along the course of the River Test, a 40-mile stream passing wholly through Hampshire, with its source at the village of Ashe.

There's rather a lot of Hampshire !

Newark, Nottinghamshire, also has a church dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[johnnychips]

Bury St Edmunds also has a sugar beet factory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lavenham in Suffolk also has historical connections to the medieval woollen trade.

 

[Calthrop]

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's experimental film Apotheosis was shot in Lavenham in 1969. Four or five years earlier the Beatles' film Help ! was made; with shooting in assorted locations, including close by Stonehenge -- nearest settlement Amesbury, Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bulford in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Amesbury.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of England parish church of St Leonard, Bulford, is from the late 12th century and is a Grade I listed building. Alterations and restorations have been made several times, the last being between 1902 and 1911, when the work was directed by the Marlborough based Gothic Revival architect Charles Edwin Ponting FSA (1850–1932). An earlier work of his is St. Giles' parish church, Stanton St Quintin, Wiltshire, where he rebuilt the Chancel in 1888.

 

[Calthrop]

Also distinguished by a grisly, and true, tale of murder; and the hanging of the guilty party; in times gone by -- is Combe, Berkshire (south-west of Newbury): the relevant point there, Combe Gibbbet (still with a physical representation of same) on Inkpen Beacon. Stanton St. Quintin's doings of this kind, were in 1764; Combe's, in 1676.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yateley in Hampshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Swithun.

 

[Calthrop]

We find that Yateley's name is derived from the Middle English yate = gate, and lea = forest clearing: the gate concerned, having been into Windsor Forest / Great Park. From the modern map: said sylvan area would seem to have diminished drastically, since the settlement was named. Englefield Green, Surrey, appears still to be on the very edge of the Great Park.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thatcham in Berkshire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption.

 

[Calthrop]

Salisbury is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Thatcham's "twin" is Nideggen; Salisbury's is Xanten (the only German town whose name begins with "X").

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln is another settlement that has a cathedral in which there is a copy of the original Magna Carta document.

 

[Calthrop]

The name of Hayes (London Borough of Hillingdon), also is -- as well -- that of the surname of a 19th-century U.S. President.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swanmore in Hampshire also has historical connections to brick-making.

 

[Calthrop]

Middlesbrough also has a church dedicated to St. Barnabas.