Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A challenge that I will gratefully accept.....

Bryngwran in Ynys Mon also has a church with Grade II* listed status. (It is dedicated to St Peulan).

 

[Strathclyder]

Hardmead, Milton Keynes also has a church under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches charity.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Astwood is a neighbouring settlement with some properties also having thatched roofs.

 

[Darren R]

Bow Brickhill is also a civil parish within the Borough of Milton Keynes.

 

[Strathclyder]

Stoke Hammond is also in the MK17 postcode district.

 

[cjp]

Mount Pleasant, London, is in Clerkenwell. (There is large farm called Mount Pleasant at Stoke Hammond)

 

[Darren R]

(Spent ages on this one - it's a bit tenuous but stick with me!)

The Disney family were once influential in the parish of Stoke Hammond. A descendant is Walt Disney, one of whom's most famous films is Fantasia. The music for the soundtrack of said film was conducted by British-born Leopold Stokowski, who was a fellow organ student at the Royal College of Music with the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Vaughan Williams was born in the village of Down Ampney in Gloucestershire.
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Mount Pleasant, London, is in Clerkenwell. (There is large farm called Mount Pleasant at Stoke Hammond)

Damn - beaten to it! Okay then:

Clerkenwell was the original home of Charterhouse School, but in 1872 it moved to its present site in Godalming, Surrey.

 

[cjp]

Westminster also has a convent (Tyburn near Marble Arch)

 

[Darren R]

Just across the road from the western entrance to Westminster Abbey is Tothill Street, whose name still reflects the small hill (barely noticeable today) upon which the Abbey stands, along with the surrounding buildings to the west.

Tothill is also a small hamlet in Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Merstone on the Isle of Wight also has a Grade II listed building within its environs.

 

[cjp]

Blackfield also has a road called Chapel Lane

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hook is another settlement where traditional mud cottages were once built.

 

[cjp]

next, by Hook or by Crook

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigan also has a long historical connection with coal mining.

 

[cjp]

Southend's pier is somewhat longer

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Farnborough also hosts an airshow

 

[High Dyke]

Repton also had an Abbey that dates from Anglo-Saxon times

 

[cjp]

Harrow also has a well known public school

- which of course really means a private school such is the wonder of our language

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bretby is another Derbyshire settlement with a church dedicated to St Wystan.

 

[cjp]

Bretby is another Derbyshire settlement with a church dedicated to St Wystan.

I think I just beat you to it with Harrow

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sale also has a church dedicated to St Joseph.

 

[johnnychips]

Tintwistle was also historically situated in Cheshire, but is now in a different local authority.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stithians in Cornwall also has a brass band.

 

[Darren R]

Bakewell in Derbyshire is another town that hosts an Agricultural Show. (Not many of them left these days. :cry

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chorley is also famous for one of its delicacies

 

[johnnychips]

Eccles (Greater Manchester) also gives its name to a sweet confectionery. Beat me to it Paul! So Chorley it is.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also received refugees fleeing from the 4th century Diocletianic Persecution

 

[Darren R]

Nearby Blackburn also used to have a large Royal Ordnance Factory.

 

[High Dyke]

The famous 'Eccles', a character in the Goon Show was played by Spike Milligan. Spike is buried in the churchyard at Winchelsea.

Jack Walker was a notable resident of Blackburn. He founded the steel firm Walkersteel, which had a depot in Grantham.

 

[Darren R]

Isaac Newton went to school in Grantham. He went on to become MP for Cambridge University.