Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hetton-le-Hole was also once under the jurisdiction of the Houghton-le-Spring Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Hetton-le-Hole's name is said to derive, tortuously, from Anglo-Saxon Heppedune = Bramble Hill. The same member of the vegetable kingdom features presumably, in the name of the hamlet of Brambledown, Isle of Sheppey, Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eastchurch was also once under the jurisdiction of the Sheppey Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

Coltishall in Norfolk is also home to one of Her Majesty's Prisons.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belaugh in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Bure.

 

[Calthrop]

Brockhampton (Herefordshire) also lies on the isthmus, as it were, of a loop in the course of a river of some significance. (Hope this feature is "different" enough to pass muster.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upton Bishop in Herefordshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Greytree.

 

[Calthrop]

Francis Tebbs Havergal, clergyman and local historian, was vicar of Upton Bishop from 1874. His sister Frances Ridley Havergal (1836 -- 1879), a hymn-writer of some renown: is buried at Astley, Worcestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pensax in Worcestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Martley Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Name-origins: there are indications from Celtic place-names still remaining in some strength in this area of England (including Pensax: Welsh pen = hill, plus sais / sax = Saxon), that a considerable Celtic-speaking population remained in this area after the Anglo-Saxons took over and started running things. Further evidence adduced for this, from the name of the nearby River Teme: often-occurring Celtic river name -- Tamesis = "the dark one" -- also occurring in River Tame (not far away, just on the other side of Birmingham); and London's Thames; and presumably its tributary the Thame: which flows through the same-named town of Thame, Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whalley in Lancashire was another site chosen in which to erect a Cistercian Abbey.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Of particular interest in the Anglican Church of St Mary and All Saints, Whalley is the furniture. The most spectacular piece is St. Anton's Cage, a private family pew next to the Lady Chapel, made originally for the Nowell family of Read, near Padiham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Horsham also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

At the west end of Horsham town centre, there used to be a kinetic water sculpture called the 'Rising Universe', colloquially known as 'The Shelley Fountain'. It was designed by Angela Conner, and erected to commemorate the poet Percy Bysshe Shelly, who was born at Field Place in Broadbridge Heath, two miles west from Horsham centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Par in Cornwall also has a Plymouth Bretheren Meeting Room.

 

[Calthrop]

Westward Ho! (Devon) also lies on the route of the South West Coast Path.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ayr also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

Ice hockey -- rather a minority sport in the UK -- is also quite big in Coventry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ipswich also has a transport museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Cambridge also has a town in the western part of Jamaica, named after it -- in fact, just a couple of miles down the road from Ipswich. (There are also in the same area of the island, settlements called Maggoty and Anchovy: which names delight me.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheltenham also hosts a folk festival.

 

[Calthrop]

The writer James Elroy Flecker (1884 - 1915), best known for The Golden Road to Samarkand, attended Dean Close School, Cheltenham; he was born in the London Borough of Lewisham.

 

[Springs Branch]

The A20 road passes through Lewisham on its route between New Cross (just to the northwest of Lewisham) to Dover.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The British naval officer Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth GCB fought during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was born in Dover on 19th April 1757, and died on 23rd January 1833 in Teignmouth, Devon, aged 75.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunsford in Devon also lies on the line of the River Teign.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The hamlet of Butts is about one mile west of Dunsford, and generally considered to be part of the village, as is Reedy, a similar distance to the East.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doddiscombsleigh in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Exminster.

 

[Calthrop]

Doddiscombsleigh has a pub called the NoBody Inn. On not-dissimilar wordplay lines: there is at Symonds Yat, Herefordshire, the Wye Knot Inn.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Symonds Yat is on the River Wye, as is Builth Wells.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangammarch Wells is also one of the quartet of spa villages of Mid-Wales.