Settlement Association

[johnnychips]

Dundry also has a set of steep steps leading to the church

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stowey in Somerset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Chew.

 

[Calthrop]

Cranbrook, Kent, also has a hymn tune named after it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Herringfleet in Suffolk also has a good example of a Smock Mill.

 

[Calthrop]

Begging pardon for a degree of levity: Codsall (Staffordshire) also has a name, the first part of which is that of a marine fish species; though for sure in the case of the (way inland) Staffordshire settlement, the reference is non-piscine. Name is thought to come from the Anglo-Saxon Cod's halh -- the nook of land belonging to a man named Cod(!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stillington in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[Calthrop]

Vicar of the above-bolded settlement from 1745 to 1768 was Laurence Sterne, author of the -- er -- unconventional novel Tristram Shandy, and other works. He was born at Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. (I confess to having found TS unreadable; no doubt a case of "it's not it, it's me".)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Clonmel is the county town and largest settlement of County Tipperary; it is noted in Irish history for its resistance to the Cromwellian army which sacked the towns of Drogheda and Wexford in 1650.

 

[Calthrop]

Drogheda is the eleventh largest settlement by population, in all of Ireland. Its counterpart on that "table" for Scotland, is Kirkcaldy.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

New Galloway was also created a Royal Burgh in the 17th century.

 

[Calthrop]

Letcombe Regis, Oxfordshire, is also a good place for observing Red Kites.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huddersfield also has the site of an Iron Age hillfort within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Harold Wilson, UK Prime Minister 1964 -- 70 and 1974 -- 76, was born in Huddersfield in 1916. He renownedly favoured the Isles of Scilly as a holiday venue; and is buried in Old Town, island of St. Mary's in that group.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Although Old Town is thought to be the oldest settlement on St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly, Hugh Town is the largest settlement of the same island.

 

[Springs Branch]

The port facilities in Hugh Town are at St Mary's Harbour.
Another "harbour" with the same name (albeit on a canal, not the Atlantic Ocean) is St Mary's Marina at Rufford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tarleton also lies on the line of the River Douglas.

 

[Springs Branch]

The A59 road between York and Merseyside passes through Tarleton.
The road's western extremity is at Wallasey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to St Hilary.

 

[Calthrop]

The above-bolded settlement holds an annual food and drink festival; Ludlow holds an annual food festival.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cambridge was also subjected to outbreaks of Sweating Sickness in the 16th century.

 

[Calthrop]

Cambridge was also subjected to outbreaks of Sweating Sickness in the 16th century.

Possibly, undergraduates sweating on whether they'd done enough work to pass their Finals ?

Cambridge lies, obviously, on the River Cam. There is a smaller (12 miles long) River Cam in Gloucestershire: running through, among other settlements, Dursley; debouching finally into the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal / Severn estuary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

One now on our local patch...

Macclesfield also has a church that is dedicated to St James the Great.

 

[Calthrop]

Vera Brittain -- author, socialist, and pacifist; wrote movingly about World War I and her experience of it -- lived for some of her childhood, in Macclesfield. She died in 1970, in Wimbledon (London Borough of Merton).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eastbourne also hosts a noted tennis tournement.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

A personal one here (I'm the Secretary) .... Great Yarmouth has also been the venue for the Annual Council Weekend for the Federation of Stedfast Associations of the Boys' Brigade.

 

[Calthrop]

Being jocular-verging-on-frivolous: in the past year, Birmingham has also been raised in an Original Post on "General Discussion" on these Forums: both, implying that the town / city concerned had a reputation as a somewhat dodgy place. General consensus seemed to be: re Birmingham (thread title -- "Is Birmingham OK?"): Birmingham is indeed basically OK, though it has its downsides. Opinions re Great Yarmouth tended toward feeling that -- the town's positive aspects, notwithstanding -- it is nowadays a rather sad, run-down, disadvantaged community, characterised by much sub-optimal behaviour.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bournemouth also has a Symphony Orchestra.

 

[Calthrop]

The Anglophile American humorous / factual(?) writer Bill Bryson lived for a time in Bournemouth, where he worked on the local newspaper. From 2003 to 2013, Bryson and his family lived in Wramplingham, near Wymondham, Norfolk -- their house there, the Old Rectory, and its various parts: being used as the framework for his book At Home: A Short History of Private Life.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bourton on the Water also has an illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Bourton on the Water is sometimes called "the Venice of the Cotswolds". It would seem that a number of different cities are at times referred to as "the Venice of the north": a few of these, (unlikely) English ones -- including Manchester.