Settlement Association

[LSWR Cavalier]

Bricklehampton lies near Bredon Hill, which inspired A E Housman to write a poem
He also wrote of Clee Hill, under which Cleobury Mortimer nestles, it sadly no longer has a rail service to Ditton Priors

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rubery in Worcestershire also lies on the line of the River Rea.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Although born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the author Jonathan Coe was brought up in Rubery.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Sir Edward Elgar lived in Malvern
When he received the news that he was to be knighted, he cycled to Bromsgrove to tell his dad

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxworth also participates in the traditional custom of Well Dressing.

 

[Springs Branch]

Whittle-le-Woods is also on the route of the A6 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shrewsbury also has a church that is dedicated to St Chad.

 

[johnnychips]

Durham is also situated on a river meander.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Penrith is also a small settlement with a better train service than it deserves, by virtue of lying between MIPs, more important places

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mungrisdale was also once under the jurisdiction of the Penrith Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

Mungrisdale's village pub (The Mill Inn) is owned by Robinsons brewery.
Another Robinsons pub is The Fox Inn, in the Derbyshire village of Brookbottom.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hague Bar also lies on the route of the footpath known as the Goyt Way.

 

[Nick_C]

Hague bar is the westernmost village in Derbyshire - Hodthorpe is the easternmost

 

[py_megapixel]

Streethouse, West Yorkshire, is another village that has a Working Mens Club.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Colwall the home of womens cricket also has a cricket club

 

[John Griffiths]

Colwall is claimed to be the longest village in England; Kirkcaldy in Fife is another British settlement known for its length, nicknamed 'the Lang Toun'.

 

[py_megapixel]

Kirkcaldy has a hospital operated by NHS Fife. NHS Fife operates some other hospitals, including Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline.

 

[Calthrop]

In the sad but slightly Monty-Pythonishly surreal ballad of Sir Patrick Spens, Dunfermline is where, in the first verse, the king sits "drinking the blude-red wine". Dundee, a fair distance to the north-east, also has verse-related associations; but of a different kind: as the home of William McGonagall, notorious as one of the most dreadful "poets" ever, probably in any language -- his material being often to do with his native city.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Perry Barr also has a Russian Orthodox church.

 

[Calthrop]

I gather that Perry Barr's name is nothing to do with dispensing pear-cider; in fact it means "small hill" -- the "Perry" (small) part, coming from the Latin parva = small. A certain number of English villages are also called " **** Parva" (the actual Latin word, un-corrupted; often paired with a neighbouring village, [ditto] Magna. Not all that far from Perry Barr are, south of Leicester: Ashby Parva; and its companion Ashby Magna.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brascote in Leicestershire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Guthlaxton.

 

[Calthrop]

Brascote is too small a place to feature in the Michelin 1:220,594 road atlas of Great Britain. The same applies to the wonderfully-named hamlet of Wigwig in Shropshire (near Much Wenlock).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The hamlet of Tugford in Shropshire was also one of the original administered areas of the ancient Hundred of Patton, which then itself joined with another Hundred to become the later Hundred of Munslow.

 

[Springs Branch]

One of the small handful of streets in Tugford is named Marshgate.
Another (less rural) settlement with a street named Marshgate is Widnes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Helens also lies on the line of the Sankey Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Helens, Lancashire, has a very different counterpart in a very different part of England: St. Helens, Isle of Wight.

 

[Nick_C]

St Helens once, briefly, had a train ferry connection to Langstone on the Hayling Island branch

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Herne Bay also has a sailing club.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Seaside Museum at Herne Bay exhibits an example of one of Sir Barnes Wallis's dam-busting bouncing bombs, which the RAF had tested off the coast nearby during World War 2.

Another historic bouncing bomb, recovered from a test site in a Scottish loch, is on display at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum at London Colney, Hertfordshire.

 

[Nick_C]

German spy Karel Richter was caught in London Colney in 1941. He was sent to a prison camp in Latchmere House, which lies in Ham, South London