Settlement Association

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Aberystwyth is also the venue of a cricket match involving the Forty Club Wales and the local club's players.

 

[Calthrop]

The late Paul Jennings, humorist, can be useful in this game. He wrote a lengthy, pleasingly daft verse on the oddities of British place-name pronunciation: in which Aberystwyth featured; also Stiffkey (Norfolk) -- he marvelled at its rhyming with "Newquay".

 

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The village of Stiffkey is remembered as the parish whose Rector, Harold Davidson, faced charges of immorality and was defrocked in 1932. He was a popular priest in the area and the villagers asked his family to allow him to be buried in Stiffkey when he died (rather improbably, after he was mauled by a lion), rather than in the family tomb in Sholing, Southampton, where he was born; they have cared for his grave for many years.

 

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Itchen was also once under the jurisdiction of the Southampton Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

It costs 80p (peak) or 70p (off-peak) to drive your car over the toll bridge between Itchen and Southampton.

A bargain in comparison is the 12p charged (and temporarily waived due to COVID) to cross the Manchester Ship Canal toll bridge at Warburton in Greater Manchester.

 

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The Channel 4 archaeological programme Time Team has also been active at Dinnington, Somerset.

 

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The Anglican Church of St Nicholas in Dinnington was built in the 15th century, and is a Grade II* Listed Building. The parish is part of the Benefice of Merriott with Hinton, Dinnington and Lopen within the Diocese of Bath and Wells.

 

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Chedworth in Gloucestershire is another settlement where a Roman villa floor tiled mosaic was discovered.

 

[Calthrop]

Chedworth has a pub called the Seven Tuns. Hostelries with the "Three Tuns" name are of course legion; but other numbers re same, in that connection, are rare. Broadstairs once had a Five Tuns pub -- demolished in 1912.

 

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Sarre in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Ringslow.

 

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Outwood near Redhill in Surrey also had until relatively recent years, a commercially operational windmill.

 

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Halesowen also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

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Atherton, Greater Manchester, was also prominent in the past for nail-making.

 

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Worthing also has a church that is dedicated to St George.

 

[DerekC]

The Worthing area contains a concentration of Neolithic flint mines. Much better known, however, are the mines at Grimes Graves near Brandon in Norfolk

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Santon Downham was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Grimshoe.

 

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Santon Downham was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Grimshoe.

(My italics -- an incompetent cobbler's copious output? [Sorry !])

The headquarters of Britain's Forestry Commission was for a long time, at Santon Downham. The Commission's National Office is now in Bristol.

 

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Acton Turville in Gloucestershire lies at the other end of the River Avon.

 

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Public transport in Acton Turville is limited, with the main transport link being the local bus service. The local bus service is named "Coachstyle", with a total of twelve bus links between several locations, including Hullavington.

 

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Batheaston also lies on the route of the Roman road, known as the Fosse Way.

 

[Calthrop]

Batheaston is the junction-point of the Bristol Avon, and its tributary the Bybrook River: which further up its course, flows through the famously picturesque -- and much-used as a film location -- village of Castle Combe, Wiltshire.

 

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Tongue in Sutherland also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

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Badbea (Caithness) is also a coastal location to which, during the Highland Clearances, folk evicted from further inland were resettled.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Berriedale also lies on the route of the long-distance walking trail known as the John O'Groats Trail.

 

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The above-bolded settlement is given as "place of death" on the death certificate of Prince George, Duke of Kent -- younger brother of Edward VIII and George VI -- killed in a military air-crash in 1942. He was born at the royal venue of Sandringham, Norfolk.

 

[John Griffiths]

Two monarchs - George V and George VI - died at Sandringham. Another place where two monarchs popped their jewel-encrusted clogs is Richmond Palace in Richmond, London (Henry VII and Elizabeth I)

 

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The above-bolded London-area location is twinned with Richmond (Virginia). Also twinned with an identically-named US community is Andover, Hampshire: its "twin" being Andover (Massachustts).

 

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Penton Mewsey in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Andover.

 

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Holy Trinity Church, Penton Mewsey, is part of the Pastrow Family Benefice, a collection of churches in and around the villages of Andover, North Hampshire. Another member of the Benefice is St. George's Church, Enham Alamein.

 

[Calthrop]

Another settlement named / renamed after a victory of British arms in foreign parts, is Quebec (County Durham).