Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Thornbury, Gloucestershire, also has a Red Lion Inn (and a White Lion in very close proximity).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alton Barnes in Wiltshire is another settlement where a Roman coin hoard was discovered.

 

[Nick_C]

Alton Barnes has a white horse hill carving, which is known to be based on that at Cherhill (Wiltshire).

(It has also twice been transformed into a Zebra!)

 

[Calthrop]

The Down near Stoughton, West Sussex, has also been the location of mysterious "crop circles" -- at the Sussex site, among the earliest reported in Britain (1932).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lower Quinton in Warwickshire also lies on the route of the Monarch's Way long distance footpath.

 

[Calthrop]

Lower Quinton in Warwickshire also lies on the route of the Monarch's Way long distance footpath.

Hoping that here, I'm not "stretching" things past the limits of what's acceptable: the Warwickshire settlement has been the location -- in true and documented real life -- of a murder suspected of having occult connections. In a work of fiction which has long had many keen fans: the same applies to Whitby -- save that in the fictional narrative, the occult is involved, certainly and beyond any doubt.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Henley on Thames also hosts an annual regatta.

 

[Nick_C]

Singer Dusty Springfield has a headstone in Henley cemetary - she was born in West Hampstead, London

 

[John Griffiths]

West Hampstead is one of those places given a faked-up name to make it sound posher than it is; it is not part of Hampstead at all, but of Kilburn. A similar case is the Jesmond Park estate in Newcastle upon Tyne: not part of Jesmond, but of neighbouring Heaton.

 

[Calthrop]

West Hampstead is one of those places given a faked-up name to make it sound posher than it is; it is not part of Hampstead at all, but of Kilburn. A similar case is the Jesmond Park estate in Newcastle upon Tyne: not part of Jesmond, but of neighbouring Heaton.

The structural engineer Ove Arup (1895 -- 1988) was born (though of Danish and Norwegian parents) in the above-bolded area of Newcastle. After his death, his ashes were scattered from the renowned Kingsgate Bridge -- designed by him -- in the city of Durham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ullapool also has noted botanical gardens.

 

[Springs Branch]

Until 1890, Ullapool was located in the oddly-disjointed county of Cromartyshire.
Also formerly in historic Cromartyshire was Strathpeffer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moffat is another Scottish settlement which achieved spa status with associated hotels in the Victorian era.

 

[Calthrop]

Moffat is another Scottish settlement which achieved spa status with associated hotels in the Victorian era.

Yet another Scottish settlement gave its name in a corrupted form, to a kids'-comic-cartoon character: that taken from the above place, is Little Miss [the town's name] -- a play on the name of the nursery-rhyme arachnophobe; mine is King Gussie, from Kingussie.

 

[Nick_C]

Thurso also lies on the A9

 

[Calthrop]

Portavadie (Argyll and Bute) also has significant connections with the Boys' Brigade.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Symbister in the Shetland Islands also has a marina.

 

[Calthrop]

Church Bay is the principal settlement of Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland; which island also has associations with a gentleman named Robert Bruce -- though a different one, from him of the Shetland location (Rathlin allegedly the place of the historical R the B's inspirational spider-encounter).

 

[John Griffiths]

Armoured cruiser HMS Drake sank in the anchorage at Church Bay on 2 October 1917, after being torpedoed by German submarine U-79. HMS Drake had been built 1899-1901 at Pembroke Dock.

 

[Nick_C]

Pembroke Dock has two Martello Towers, as does Rye, Sussex

 

[Calthrop]

Pembroke Dock has two Martello Towers, as does Rye, Sussex

Told of in fiction in a lightly-disguised version, by a well-loved author, long resident in the town; as has been, fully parallel-wise, Tewkesbury (Gloucestershire): the former, E.F. Benson's "Tilling"; the latter, John Moore's "Elmbury".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caersws also lies on the line of the River Severn.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanfyllin (Powys) is also sometimes suggested as the "Mediolanum among the Ordovices" described in Ptolemy's Geography; but it would seem that none of this is known for sure. (Fun fact: the best-known Roman Mediolanum was / is, if course, the modern Milan, Italy.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sheildaig in Wester Ross also has an ancient holy well in its environs.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sheildaig was, it is claimed, founded as a fishing village with the aim of providing sturdy sailors for the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars. Hmmm. Those wars were conclusively ended by the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, which name was adopted by the Royal Waterloo Hotel, on the Irish Sea coast near Crosby, Lancs, opened on the first anniversary of the battle, and which gave its name to the Merseyside district of Waterloo.

 

[Calthrop]

Toller Porcorum (Dorset) also has in close proximity,a wildflower meadow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kingcombe in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Hooke.

 

[Calthrop]

Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, is also a good place to find waxcap fungi.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glenrothes also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The name Glenrothes comes from its historical link with the Earl of Rothes, who owned much of the land on which the new town has been built. The Rothes family seat is Littlecroft, near the village of West Milton, Dorset.