Settlement Association

[High Dyke]

Whippingham also falls in the Portsmouth postcode area (PO) group

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nurstead in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Mildred.

 

[Deerfold]

Longfield also has a soccer team that competes in the North Kent Sunday League.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Croome d'Abitot also had a church that was dedicated to St Mary Magdalene

 

[Deerfold]

Croome d'Abitot shares a joint parish council with Severn Stoke.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trewiddle in Cornwall was another scene of a find of Saxon coinage

 

[Welshman]

Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, born in Penzance, lived for some time in Trewhiddle House.

 

[Class172]

Time for another one of my road connections. At the other end of the A30 (which runs through Penzance), is Staines.

 

[High Dyke]

Staines came to popular culture with the urban character Ali-G. He was a creation of the comedic actor Sacha Baron Cohen who attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree.

 

[Darren R]

Shepperton is another settlement with a film studio complex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashton Keynes in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Thames

 

[Welshman]

As opposed to Milton Keynes, which doesn't!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Telford is another one of the British New Towns.

 

[Welshman]

Thomas Telford was born near Eskdalemuir.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upottery in Devon also has a Buddhist monastery.

 

[cjp]

Which makes me think of The Potteries in which one town is Stoke

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Haywood also lies on the line of the River Trent.

 

[Welshman]

Thomas Trubshaw, [who,incidentally, lived for only 40 years] also designed the parish church at Hilderstone, in addition to that at St Stephens's, Great Haywood.

 

[cjp]

Thomas Trubshaw, [who,incidentally, lived for only 40 years] also designed the parish church at Hilderstone, in addition to that at St Stephens's, Great Haywood.

The Severn Trent water co also supply Coalport a source of fine china and other pottery products

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ironbridge also has a noted cast-iron bridge.

 

[cjp]

Ironbridge also has a noted cast-iron bridge.

Thomas Telford was responsible for the iron bridge at Buildwas and other many engineering works, there is tablet on a house commemorating his canal building on a house at Clachnaharry

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fort Augustus also lies on the line of the Caledonian Canal.

 

[cjp]

Fort Augustus also lies on the line of the Caledonian Canal.

The canal makes use of Loch Ness.
On the south bank of the loch is Dores

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunkeld and Birnam is another Scottish settlement to host a music festival

 

[cjp]

Birnam brings to mind Birnham Woods which makes me think of the Scottish Play and the famous bard so
Stratford Upon Avon

 

[Welshman]

Bradford-on-Avon is another settlement where there could be confusion between it and a settlement of the same name but without the suffix.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ditcham in Hampshire also has a tithe barn.

 

[johnnychips]

Langley (Norfolk), as both have an independent school. Ditcham's is called 'Ditcham Park', while Langley School's address is Langley Park.

 

[Class172]

Sharing its name in part is Langley Green.

 

[johnnychips]

Halifax was the birthplace of famous boxer Richard Dunn, as Langley Green was to Alan Minter.