Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Purely coincidentally, no doubt; but Sixmilecross, Co. Tyrone, has a rather associative name.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sixmilecross is situated in the historic barony of of Omagh East and the civil parish of Termonmaguirk; another civil parish in the same barony is Drumragh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Castlemagner in County Cork also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Castlemagner GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) club plays in the Duhallow division in both Gaelic Football and Hurling competitions, as does Kanturk GAA; they are based in the town of Kanturk, County Cork.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Strabane in West Tyrone also has a Church of the Immaculate Conception.

 

[Nick_C]

Belleek also lies on the border between Northern Ireland and Eire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballyshannon in County Donegal also lies on the line of the River Erne.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Irish blues and rock multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Rory Gallagher was born in Ballyshannon on 2nd March 1948. After an illness, he
died on 14th June 1995 in King's College Hospital, London, aged 47.He is buried in St Oliver's Cemetery, on the Clash Road just outside Ballincollig near Cork City.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lydford in Devon also once had a gunpowder mill.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Great Torrington is also on the route of the A386 road between Plymouth and Appledore.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Amberley also has a heritage museum.

 

[Nick_C]

Ascot was also a filming location for the James Bond film "A view to a kill"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wells also has a religious building that incorporates a Tree of Jesse window.

 

[johnnychips]

John Keate, born in Wells, became headmaster of Eton and once birched 80 boys in a day.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hedgerley was also once under the jurisdiction of the Eton Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

There's also a White Horse Inn in Holmfirth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brighton is also where some very early British films were produced.

 

[Calthrop]

Plymouth also has a namesake on the east coast of the USA (Brighton's is -- to be exact -- Brighton Beach in Brooklyn).

 

[Nick_C]

Devonport, Plymouth, is the largest Naval base in Western Europe. The Royal Navy has two others, Portsmouth and Clyde (aka Faslane). The closest civilian settlement to the latter is Garelochhead

 

[Calthrop]

Allhallows-on-Sea, Kent, has also been in the past (in Allhallows's case, for a fairly brief period) a favoured quite-nearby location for seaside breaks, for many people from the nearby big city -- re Allhallows, London; re Garelochhead, Glasgow. Changing circumstances and conditions, caused both places mostly to lose that role.

 

[johnnychips]

Burnham on Sea also has a Haven holiday park. (I hope this isn’t too close to @Calthrop ’s seaside break - I am thinking of caravans).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Langport in Somerset is also on the line of the River Parrett.

 

[Calthrop]

Langport in Somerset is also on the line of the River Parrett.

The Battle of Langport, 10th July 1645, was the last significant battle in the first phase of the English Civil War (Parliamentarian victory). The war's first battle of any magnitude (an indecisive one) was Edgehill, 23rd Oct. 1642 -- nearest settlement Radway, Warwickshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beckwithshaw also has a church whose bells were cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

 

[Calthrop]

Pengam (Caerphilly county borough) also has a pub called the Smiths Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanbradach also lies on the line of the Rhymney River.

 

[John Griffiths]

Llanbradach had a public house named the De Winton Hotel (closed in recent years); there is still a pub bearing the same name in Tonypandy in the Rhondda.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llynypia is another settlement that was affected by events that occurred during the miners strike in 1911.

 

[Calthrop]

Llynypia is another settlement that was affected by events that occurred during the miners strike in 1911.

The name means in Welsh, "The grove of the magpie". Another settlement with a name (probably) derived from a species of bird is Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire -- reckoned to mean "swan stream".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worcester also has a church that is dedicated to St Swithun.