Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

TransCymru bus service T3 passes through Llandrillo en route from Wrexham to Barmouth via Dolgellau.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhyd-y-maen in Gwynedd also lies on the line of the River Wnion.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The B4410 runs between the A498 north of Prenteg, through Rhyd-y-maen and onto the A487 near Maentwrog.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dolwyddelan also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Sarn Helen.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The castle at Dolwyddelan is in the care of Cadw, as is the one at Criccieth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Treochy also has hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

 

[Springs Branch]

Treorchy has a noted Male Voice Choir, as does Maesteg.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bagillt also once employed many local men in coal mining.

 

[Nick_C]

Bagillt was the site of the Hawarden Iron Works, which produced the famous Snaefell wheel at Laxey, IOM

 

[John Griffiths]

Shipham, Somerset was also a centre of zinc mining.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kenn in Somerset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Winterstoke.

 

[Calthrop]

Kenn in Somerset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Winterstoke.

The bolded settlement has associations with Bishop Thomas Ken, one of those featuring in the Trial of the Seven Bishops (who fell out with King James II) -- it was on the Ken family's lands. Another of the seven, Bishop Jonathan Trelawny (celebrated in the song) is associated, although in a different way, with Pelynt (Cornwall) -- it was his birthplace.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altarnun in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Nonna.

 

[John Griffiths]

Altarnun was the birthplace of Neville Northey Burnard, a stonemason and celebrated sculptor who turned to drink after the death of his daughter; his marriage fell apart and he became a tramp. Much of his work is in Cornwall but he sculpted a bronze statue of anti-Corn Laws poet and campaigner Ebenezer Elliott in Weston Park, Sheffield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stainforth also lies on the line of the River Don.

 

[John Griffiths]

The name Stainforth means stony ford; Stamfordham in Northumberland means settlement at the stony ford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ringmer in East Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[Springs Branch]

Ex-Prime Minister James Callaghan died in 2005 at his long-time home in Ringmer.
Callaghan was born in 1912 at Copnor.

 

[John Griffiths]

Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear, also has a Station Road which never led to a railway station (and in the case of Houghton, never even led to a railway).

 

[Calthrop]

Houghton le Spring, Tyne & Wear, also has a Station Road which never led to a railway station (and in the case of Houghton, never even led to a railway).

Bernard Gilpin, 16th-century Rector of the bolded settlement, has some renown for his charitable works, and preaching. Another Gilpin of a certain amount of note (though fictional) is John G., hero of the comic ballad by William Cowper, recounting the said bod's adventures and predicaments -- taking place largely in Edmonton (London Borough of Enfield).

 

[Nick_C]

Bernard Gilpin, the 'Apostle of the North', is buried in Houghton Le Spring. He grew up in Kentmere, Cumbria.

In the 17th century the then rural Edmonton had a reputation for supernatural activities. In 1621 the villagers accused an old woman, Elizabeth Sawyer, of witchcraft and she was subsequently executed at Tyburn;

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex, close to the current location of Marble Arch and the southern end of Edgware Road in present-day London. It took its name from the Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the River Westbourne, although it should not be confused with the better known River Tyburn, which is the next tributary of the River Thames to the east of the Westbourne. The River Tyburn was a stream in London, which ran from South Hampstead to meet the tidal Thames.

 

[Nick_C]

One of South Hampstead's notable residents is the Australian singer Kylie Minogue, who hails from Melbourne, Victoria. There's also a Melbourne in Derbyshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Albans also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael with St Mary.

 

[Calthrop]

St Albans also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael with St Mary.

St.Ann's (London Borough of Haringey) also shares its name with a geographically distant coastal headland. In the case of the Hertfordshire town, it's St. Alban's or St. Aldhelm's Head on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset; in that of the area of London, it's St. Ann's Head in Pembrokeshire.

 

[johnnychips]

Balby in Doncaster also has a hospital with a dedicated mental health facility.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Darlington is another area with connections to Quakerism.

 

[Springs Branch]

The catalogue retailer Argos has one of its major distribution centres in Darlington.
Another of the company's regional distribution centres is at Lutterworth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cotesbach was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lutterworth Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The suffix "-bach" also features in the name of Sandbach, Cheshire. In both cases, it is reckoned to be from the Old English beche -- stream or valley.