Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Calne in Wiltshire is another settlement where a meeting of the Anglo-Saxon council of political leaders known as the Witenagemot was held

I have a feeling that this posting may have been intended as an association to the last-but-one posting, as I spent absolutely ages in researching it based upon the old settlement of Enham..

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Calne in Wiltshire is another settlement where a meeting of the Anglo-Saxon council of political leaders known as the Witenagemot was held

I have a feeling that this posting may have been intended as an association to the last-but-one posting, as I spent absolutely ages in researching it based upon the old settlement of Enham..

Well, there's certainly a Witenagemot connection between Enham Alamein and Calne, but none between the former and Quebec, County Durham, so I think that the latter will be the place to continue from.

So, that being the case, let's try this: The village takes its unusual name from the more famous Canadian city of Quebec; another example is the village of Toronto, also in County Durham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Butterknowle was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bishop Auckland Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Butterknowle was home to the Butterknowle Brewery (1990-98), a bright star in what was then the real ale desert of NE England. Another settlement that lent its name to a small NE brewery is Wylam, Northumberland (though Wylam Brewery is now based in Newcastle, in the Palace of Arts, the only surviving structure of the 1929 North East Coast Exhibition)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Wylam is famous for the being the birthplace of George Stephenson, one of the early railway pioneers. His birthplace can be found on the north bank of the River Tyne, east of the village centre. The steam locomotive engineer Timothy Hackworth, who worked with Stephenson, was also born here; his house is at Shildon, County Durham.

 

[Calthrop]

Some ten years into the twentieth century, both Shildon; and Tonypandy, Mid Glamorgan; saw episodes of intense industrial unrest. involving a degree of violence.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stogumber in Somerset also once had a fulling mill.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wraxall is another village in Somerset with a Grade I listed church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abbots Leigh was also once administered by the Hundred of Portbury.

 

[John Griffiths]

A popular hymn tune is known as 'Abbots Leigh'. Another settlement which gave its name to a renowned hymn tune is Gresford in Clywd ('Gresford' or 'The Miners' Hymn', composed in tribute to the 266 killed in the Gresford mine disaster of 1934).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Andrews in Fife also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a comical parody of Edgar Allan Poe's poem Annabel Lee, set at the University of St. Andrews. Poe -- with his adoptive parents -- had a sojourn 1815 - 20, in the UK; for a short while then, he attended school in Irvine, North Ayrshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Irvine Burns Club was originally formed in the Milne's Inn (now The Crown Inn), and is now based in Wellwood House, Eglinton Street, Irvine and has an unbroken history dating back to June 1826. The first club president was Dr John Mackenzie, who had been a doctor in Mauchline, East Ayrshire, and was known to Robert Burns.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanrwst also has historical connections to clock-making.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanrwst was at one time Wales's eighth largest town. That position has been held in more recent times, by Barry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colchester is another settlement where Roman lead coffins have been discovered.

 

[Calthrop]

Various origins have been suggested for the origin of the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty": one such, having to do with the siege of Colchester in the English Civil War -- Parliamentarians besieging Royalists -- one particular large and powerful cannon of the latter's, dubbed "Humpty Dumpty" by the belligerents, did a lot of damage to the opposition until they managed to knock it off its perch. A settlement with more direct involvement with a nursery rhyme, is of course Banbury.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

{This is a bit I like: In 1377 a pardon was given to a Welshman, who was wanted for killing another Welshman, after the accused person had taken sanctuary in St Mary's Parish Church, Banbury.}

Anyway, back on topic ... St Mary's Parish Church, Banbury was built in the 1790s to replace the Medieval one damaged during the English Civil War. It was designed by Samuel Pepys Cockrell who, in 1803, designed a new tower for St Anne's Church, Soho, London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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[John Griffiths]

Wakefield also shares its name with an area of New York City (it's in the Bronx)

 

[Calthrop]

Concerning generally "sweet-type" foodstuffs: Wakefield and surrounding area have been celebrated from way back, as a centre for the growing of rhubarb -- Pontefract not far away, ditto re liquorice.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wetherby also has a racecourse located on the same line of longitude (1° 20' W).

Coincidentally, so does Newbury - although that's just for info, not part of this association.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tadcaster also lies on the line of the River Wharfe.

 

[Springs Branch]

Transdev's Coastliner bus route 843 passes through Tadcaster en route from Leeds to York and Scarborough.
The bus also passes through the village of Rillington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skirpenbeck was also once administered by the Buckrose Wapentake.

 

[DerekC]

The Barlam Beck, for which Skirpenbeck is named, flows into the River Derwent just downstream of the village. The Derwent flows into the Yorkshire Ouse at Barmby on the Marsh

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanellen in Monmouthshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Helen.

 

[Calthrop]

Hoping I'm not being too presumptuous in "stretching" procedures a little, in the interests of maybe a bit of opening-up... Thomas Phillips (1801 - 67) -- lawyer, politician, businessman, philanthropist, defender of the Welsh language, and briefly Mayor of Newport -- is buried in Llanellen; he was born, however, in the similarly-named village of Llanelly, some five miles to the west. The just-named settlement has, of course, a much larger quasi-namesake a good deal further west still, in fact in Carmarthenshire: Llanelli (officially spelt "Llanelly" until 1966).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swansea also has associations with the tinplate industry.

 

[Calthrop]

Swansea also has associations with the tinplate industry.

The inhabitants of Swansea are sometimes referred to as "Swansea Jacks". Those of Dublin are sometimes referred to by folk elsewhere in Ireland (a bit disparagingly, seeing the Dubliners as city slickers of doubtful morals / honesty) as "Dublin Jackeens".