Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

There is also a hostelry called the 'Radnorshire Arms' in Presteigne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hampton Bishop in Herefordshire also lies on the line of the River Lugg.

 

[John Griffiths]

East Leaks, Notts, is another place where European Bee-eaters have attempted to nest.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Leaks, Notts, is another place where European Bee-eaters have attempted to nest.

I can only trace a settlement with the name of East Leake in Nottinghamshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

I could blame naughty old autocorrect, but my failure to check is the fault. It is indeed East Leake.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saltash also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of the Angels.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Tamar Bridge, which links Saltash (and the rest of Cornwall) to Plymouth and points east, was opened in 1959. It was built by the Darlington based Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Co.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Balby in South Yorkshire also has historical connections to Quakerism.

 

[John Griffiths]

Willington Quay, North Tyneside, also has a rope and cable works.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wallsend also lies on the line of the River Tyne.

 

[John Griffiths]

Gordon Sumner, the musician known as Sting, was born in Wallsend but now lives at Lake in Wiltshire (when he's not at his gaff in Italy).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Harnham in Wiltshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Alderbury Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Harnham Hill is the location of a Freeview broadcast TV transmitter providing local coverage. A similar but more powerful transmitter at Hannington in Hampshire also provides some coverage in the area.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Elland in West Yorkshire also has a Silver Band.

 

[Springs Branch]

Sowerby Bridge is also on the course of the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Todmorden also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.

 

[Springs Branch]

Glossop is another town whose postcodes are associated with a postcode area based in a different county.
(Todmorden and Glossop are in the OL (Oldham) and SK (Stockport) postcode areas respectively)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Merton also has historical links to calico printing.

 

[Calthrop]

The London Borough of Hackney also has a "sister city" in Texas.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saint John in Jersey also incorporates a Maltese Cross in its town coat of arms.

 

[Calthrop]

A large prehistoric stone in Saint John parish, Jersey, is called the "Centre Stone" because of its being supposed locally to mark the island's central point -- modern geographical calculations disagree. On associated lines, Haltwhistle (Northumberland) claims to be at the geographical centre of the UK; various commentators are sceptical concerning this claim.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skelmanthorpe in West Yorkshire was another of site chosen during the Survey of English Dialects.

 

[Calthrop]

Ugly events involving interaction between local people, and navvies employed on construction in the neighbourhood, also occurred in Sampford Peverell (Devon). (Railway navvies at the Yorkshire settlement; at the Devon one, some sixty years earlier, they were digging a canal.)

 

[John Griffiths]

Part of the Old Rectory in Sampford (demolished in 1836 for some surprisingly late canal construction) was medieval, built as a manor house for Margaret Beaufort, the formidable ma of Henry VII. She was born at Bletsoe Castle in the Bedfordshire village of Bletsoe.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Bletsoe is a village and civil parish in Befordshire and is on the A6. This is one of the main historic north–south roads in England, and runs from Luton in Bedfordshire to Carlisle in Cumbria, although it formerly started at a junction with the A1 at Barnet.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Totteridge was also once under the jurisdiction of the Barnet Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Totteridge Millhillians CC are located just off Totteridge Green, and play in the Saracens Hertfordshire Cricket League. One of their opponents are West Herts CC, who play at the Hit or Miss Cricket Club ground at Penn Street, Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

 

[Calthrop]

The author and mystic Arthur Machen (1863 -- 1947) lived in Amersham during the later part of his life, and is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery there. He attended a boarding school in Hereford.

 

[John Griffiths]

The journalist and broadcaster Gilbert Harding (1907-1960), a stalwart of 'What's My Line?' and, in a gentler, kinder era, known as 'the rudest man on television', was born in Hereford. For much of his later life he lived in Twickenham.

 

[Calthrop]

A few centuries earlier, the poet Alexander Pope also lived in Twickenham for the later part of his life; in fact died there, and is buried in St. Mary's Church there. He spent some of his childhood in Binfield, Berkshire.