Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Shefford in Berkshire also has a church with a round tower.

 

[341o2]

New Milton Hampshire also has a round tower as its most recognisible landmark, the water tower. Peregrine falcons nest on it

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leyland in Lancashire also has a motorcycle museum.

 

[DerekC]

Grimethorpe, like Leyland, is home to a famous brass band.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Milngavie in East Dumbartonshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Luke.

 

[John Griffiths]

Milngavie is the southern end of the West Highland Way; Fort William is the northern end.

 

[Springs Branch]

The important A82 road passes through Fort William en route from Glasgow to Inverness.
Another settlement along the A82 (and signposted for some distance) is Crianlarich.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Crianlarich has been a major crossroads for north- and westbound journeys in Scotland since medieval times. As such, it is designated a primary destination in Scotland, signposted from as far as Glasgow in the south, Perth in the east, Oban in the west and Fort William in the north. In the 1960s there was even a direction sign for Crianlarich at Swiss Cottage in Camden, London.

 

[Calthrop]

What could be seen as another borrowing of the name of a Continental nation, to make part of a place-name: French Street in Kent (near Westerham).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

What could be seen as another borrowing of the name of a Continental nation, to make part of a place-name: French Street in Kent (near Westerham).

Should you be using Westerham as your link, please? As far as I can see, French Street is just that, a street rather than a settlement.

 

[Calthrop]

Should you be using Westerham as your link, please? As far as I can see, French Street is just that, a street rather than a settlement.

I found the abovementioned French Street in the Michelin Britain Road Atlas; which shows it as per its "village or hamlet" symbol: as one such, just outside Westerham; and refers to it "thus and there", in its "Index to"...places. I confess to having in haste, taken that as authoritative -- didn't check with Wiki: I now see that Wiki gives it just as a street in the environs of Westerham -- not as a settlement in its own right.

Can I ask for a view / decision from the rules; or the general "feeling of the meeting"; on this one? If it's "thumbs down" to French Street, I'll see scrapping my post #20,978.

 

[John Griffiths]

Looking at the OS website, it seems to be a hamlet, some distance and separated by woodland from Westerham. The name French Street on that is clearly intended to name the settlement, not the road.

 

[OxtedL]

This is near me - I consider French Street a settlement. And one with terrible phone reception.

 

[Springs Branch]

Sounds like an example of the perils of modern technology. If you rely on Google Maps or Wiki, you would come to the same conclusion as @EbbwJunction1 - it's shown only as a road named French St.
However when you refer to a good old paper map - e.g. my AA Road Atlas - then French Street is clearly shown as a settlement.

So it's a "Good News and Bad News" story - French Street is confirmed as a distinct settlement, but one so tiny it's hard to find any associations - so I'll resort to that last refuge of scoundrels.....

Weston-super-Mare is also at latitude 51° 20' N.

 

[Calthrop]

Reading it thus, that French Street is vindicated as a settlement (though I'd have been fine with it, had things gone the other way) --

Weston-super-Mare is one of those places which have got rather odd nicknames, from things associated with them. Mariners -- both Royal, and Merchant, Navy -- long called Weston-super-Mare, "Aggie-on-Horseback". This after Agatha Weston, a very zealous and pious lady long highly active in the campaign to set up and run the Missions to Seamen -- aimed benignly at those notoriously riotous and ungodly folk: who regarded "Aggie" as being there, basically on a hiding to nothing; but had a wryly affectionate regard for her. So -- [Agatha] Weston, super [riding on] female horse.

Gosport has long been nicknamed "Turk Town". This because of a courtesy visit there in 1850 -- 51, of two ships of the then Ottoman Navy. In the course of same, a number of those ships' crewmen caught cholera, and died: they, and other members of the ships' companies killed in training accidents, were buried in the grounds of Gosport's Haslar Hospital -- hence the (seeming to me basically affectionate) "Turk" name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newbury in Berkshire also had a Mesolithic-period settlement that included hunting camps erected within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Kilmarnock also has a twin town in the French departement of Gard. Newbury's is Bagnoles-sur-Ceze; Kilmarnock's is Ales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Low Walworth in County Durham also has a building that has served as a dower house.

 

[Springs Branch]

Alresford in Essex also has a Grade II listed farmhouse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Bromley in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Tendring.

 

[John Griffiths]

Canewdon, also in Essex, was was also the location of an early 'Chain Home' radar station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Stanion in Northamptonshire alsi has an illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Little Stanion is, we learn, something very new -- a "committed new village" under the aegis of Corby Borough Council: the village is essentially under construction, the first houses having been completed in 2008. The village of "just plain" Stanion, a short way south-east of Corby, is much older.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mevagissey in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[Calthrop]

Mevagissey was the location for filming of the first programme in the BBC2 cookery series Two Fat Ladies; the Ladies being the ebullient and eccentric duo Clarissa Dickson Wright / Jennifer Paterson. Pre-TV stardom, Paterson had worked for a time as the matron of a girls' school near Reading.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thirsk in North Yorkshire also has a Quaker School.

 

[Calthrop]

Thirsk in North Yorkshire also has a Quaker School.

My favourite exponent of the game now known as "Uxbridge English Dictionary", is the humorist Paul Jennings, who latched on to this idea many years ago; and in my opinion, engaged in it with a delicate touch which not all who do, exhibit. I love his "definition" of Thirsk -- "a desire for vodka"; also of Lostwithiel -- a vagrant or ne'er-do-well, of a totally gentle and harmless kind.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Helston was another of the Cornish stannary towns.

 

[Calthrop]

Truro is also twinned with a settlement in Brittany, France. Helston's "twin" is Plougasnou; Truro's, Morlaix.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lichfield also has a cathedral with three spires.