Settlement Association

[cjp]

There is also a pier to be found at Weston-Super-Mare, Birnbeck Pier.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Porlock in Somerset also has the remains of an Iron Age Camp.

 

[Welshman]

The Person from Porlock was an unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, disturbing his thoughts while he was writing Kubla Khan. Coleridge was living at the time at Nether Stowey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skilgate is another settlement to have been previously administered by the ancient Hundred of Williton and Freemanners.

 

[cjp]

Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, also has a Townsend Farm

 

[Darren R]

Time for a long-winded one, I think!

At the time of Edward the Confessor, the Manor of Bromsgrove was held by Edwin, Earl of Mercia, but forfeited to the Crown after the Norman Conquest as a result of his rebellion against King William. Edwin's lands mostly centred around Gilling West in his brother's Northumbrian Earldom, but were forfeited in 1071 and renamed Richmondshire.

Edwin is mentioned in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, when the mouse attempts to dry itself and other characters by reciting a piece of dry English history.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was, of course, written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the nom de plume Lewis Carroll. Dodgson's father was a country parson at the time of his birth, although he later rose to the rank of Archdeacon, which post he held in Richmond North Yorkshire, where Charles also went to school.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Muker also lies on the line of the River Swale.

 

[Darren R]

Muker is featured in an episode of All Creatures Great and Small ("Hampered", Series 7, Episode 11, in which the hapless Herriot has to act as judge at the Darrowby Vegetable Show. The Vegetable Show scenes were filmed in Muker.)

Most of the scenes set in Darrowby, however, were filmed in Askrigg in North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clava in Inverness-shire also has a Bronze Age ring cairn within its environs.

 

[Welshman]

Time for another long-winded-one!

Add "Clava" to a mid-Wales town to get balaclava..

Balaclavas are usually associated with the Crimean War, but according to Richard Rutt in his History of Handknitting, the name was not used until 1881.

Richard Rutt, in his spare time between writing books and knitting his own mitres, was also Bishop of Leicester [under whom it was a privilege and pleasure to serve.]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Garstang in Lancashire also lends its name to a cheese......and it is a most delicious blue cheese.

 

[Darren R]

Garstang is home to the ruins of Greenhalgh Castle. Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, had the castle built in 1490 to provide defence for his estates in the area. His second wife was Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Calver also lies on the line of the River Derwent.....the Derbyshire one, that is

 

[cjp]

York
Derby - Derbyshire
York - Yorkshire

 

[Darren R]

The Archbishop of York uses "Ebor" as his surname in his signature, derived from Eboracum, the latin name for the city. Similarly, the Bishop of Salisbury styles himself as "Sarum" also from the latinised name of the original settlement.

 

[cjp]

Wells, Somerset, is a another Cathedral city

 

[Darren R]

The Bishopric (or should that be See?) of Wells is twinned with Bath.

(As in "The baby-eating Bishop of Bath & Wells" for those who know their Blackadder! )

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chelsea also lends its name to a bun.

 

[cjp]

Chelsea's home ground is Stamford Bridge so Stamford

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln was another of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw.

 

[cjp]

Lincoln was another of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw.

Robin Hood's men wore Lincoln Green so Green Street Green

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leaves Green is something other than arboreal in the London Borough of Bromley.

 

[Welshman]

Leaves Green had a coal tax post.
These were scattered around London's boundaries, and a house for the coal tax-collector was built near Rickmansworth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whauphill in Dumfries and Galloway also has an agricultural co-operative.

 

[Darren R]

You've set quite a challenge with this one Paul! If I may quote the Whauphill article from Wikipedia in full:

Whauphill is a small village located in the Machars, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

The Machars is a small peninsula in Galloway, through which Saint Ninian first brought Christianity to what was later to become Scotland, founding a small church at nearby Whithorn. However, very little is known about Saint Ninian. Traditionally he is dated to the 4th - 5th century, but the earliest mention of him in a written document is in a short passage of "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People," written by Bede in circa 731.

The "Vita Sancti Niniani" is a Christian hagiography written by Aelred, abbot of Rievaulx in the mid-12th century using two earlier Anglo-Latin sources.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Witton is another settlement where a Cistercian Abbey was built....this being Jervaulx Abbey

 

[cjp]

East Witton is another settlement where a Cistercian Abbey was built....this being Jervaulx Abbey

A Greater London hononym, lacking direction, is Whitton

 

[Welshman]

The Royal Military School of Music [RMSM], is situated in Whitton.
This is not to be confused with the Royal School of Church Music [RSCM], which has headquarters in Salisbury.

[although in the 1662 Prayer Book we still pray for the Church Militant!]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Another gem from the Paul Sidorczuk weighty tome on arcane facts....

Sixpenny Handley in Dorset also had historial links to market gardening

 

[cjp]

Not too far away the church at Tollard Royal also has a tower