Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

A.G. Street (1892 -- 1966) -- farmer, broadcaster, and prolific author -- owned and operated Ditchampton Farm at Wilton. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, West Lavington (near Devizes).

 

[John Griffiths]

Alderholt, Dorset also has a pub called The Churchill Arms.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The main road running through Alderholt is the B3078, which connects the village to Fordingbridge and Shaftsbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sopley in Hampshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Avon Valley Path.

 

[Calthrop]

At Sopley is Moorlands College, a prominent evangelical theological seminary. A kindred, and better-known, establishment -- albeit of a very different persuasion -- is at Maynooth, Co. Kildare.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Robertstown in County Kildare also hosts an annual vintage and antiques fair.

 

[Calthrop]

Edenderry, Co.Offaly, also lies on the Grand Canal: main route just south of the town, to which there is also a short branch of the canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clontibret in County Monaghan was also the scene of a battle during the Earl of Tyrone's Rebellion that lasted from 1593-1603.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bontddu in Gwynedd is also located in an area where gold is found.

 

[Calthrop]

Bontddu in Gwynedd is also located in an area where gold is found.

Ha ! back to Ireland, if I can halfway manage it -- Banbridge, Co. Down, also has a pub called the Halfway House.

 

[John Griffiths]

Banbridge was the birthplace of Captain Francis Crozier, captain of HMS Terror and second in command of the ill-fated 3rd expedition to identify the North West Passage. That expedition was led by Sir John Franklin, born in the Lincolnshire village of Spilsby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Huddersfield is the birthplace of two-time British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who was first elected to Parliament in 1945 for the seat of Ormskirk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Altcar in West Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ormskirk Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Great Altcar is on the B5195 road, which begins at Formby in Merseyside and ends at a junction with the A59 road near Ormskirk.

 

[Calthrop]

The novelist Beryl Bainbridge spent her childhood in Formby; some of her education, was in Tring (Hertfordshire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northchurch in Hertfordshire also was on the route of the Sparrows Herne turnpike.

 

[Calthrop]

Lapworth (Warwickshire) is also located on the Grand Union Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Biddulph in Staffordshire also has a National Trust site.

 

[Calthrop]

According to one theory, Biddulph's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon Bidulfe = wolf-slayer. Another settlement with a name reflecting mankind's age-old war with Canis lupus, is Wolvey (Warwickshire): from Anglo-Saxon Wulf-haeg: an enclosure to keep wolves out.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[DerekC]

Sligo is the site of many ancient structures including a Neolithic causewayed enclosure similar to the one at Windmill Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fritham in Hampshire also has a bowl barrow within its environs.

 

[johnnychips]

I remember cycling there when I was a student at Southampton University. The pub, the Royal Oak, had barrels at the bar, no pumps. Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester also has a Royal Oak.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heaton Mersey (one of the four Heatons in Stockport) also lies on the line of the River Mersey.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The main thoroughfare through Heaton Mersey is the A5145 Didsbury Road; this, unsurprisingly, passes through Didsbury on it's way north westerly to Stretford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Weymouth in Dorset also has a clock tower.

 

[Calthrop]

Weymouth is situated at the mouth of the Dorset River Wey-- as one would expect. There's another River Wey, further east in southern England; on which lies Godalming, Surrey.

 

[Springs Branch]

Godalming is mentioned frequently in David Nobbs' novel The Return of Reginald Perrin.
In the first of the trilogy, The Death of Reginald Perrin, Perrin commutes daily to work at Sunshine Desserts from the fictional London suburb of Climthorpe, which has been associated with the real-life Teddington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chertsey in Surrey also has a lock on the River Thames.