Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brecon in Powys also lies on the line of the River Usk.

 

[D6130]

Abergavenny/Y Fenni also has the remains of a Norman castle.

 

[DerekC]

Abergavenny likes to call itself the "Gateway to Wales" which seems OK although no doubt subject to dispute. Carlisle was once advertised by the LMS as the "Gateway to Scotland" which I can imagine wasn't too popular with anyone north of Gretna!

 

[godfreycomplex]

There is also a large McVitie’s factory in Harlesden

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moss Side in Manchester also has a large Afro-Caribbean ethnic resident population.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Moss Side contained The Reno nightclub, which was ran by the calypso musician Lord Kitchener, who arrived in the UK on the Empire Windrush, and performed the first two stanzas of his song “London is the Place for Me” on the dock at Tilbury, Essex

 

[Calthrop]

For a while, Daniel Defoe -- of Robinson Crusoe and A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain fame -- operated a brick and tile factory near Tilbury. Defoe was a Londoner; but some of his schooling was of the boarding kind, in Dorking.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Broadclough in Lancashire also lies on the route of a turnpike that was authorised by a Turnpike Trust Act of Parliament that received Royal Assent in 1755.

 

[Calthrop]

The important archaeological site of Broadclough Dykes, near the above-bolded settlement; is one of a very large number of locations suggested, for the -- broadly acknowledged as historically authentic -- 10th-century battle of Brunanburh (Anglo-Saxons versus Gaels and Norsemen). One of the many alternatively suggested venues, is Bromborough in Cheshire.

 

[godfreycomplex]

There is also a large breakfast cereal factory in Tweedmouth

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Duddo in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Berwick-upon-Tweed Poor Law Union.

 

[godfreycomplex]

There is also a stone circle in Charleston, Dundee

 

[DerekC]

The Lochee Burn rises in Charleston, It runs into the River Tay at Invergowrie

 

[Springs Branch]

Invergowrie is home to the Gows o' Gowrie - mysterious stones which, according to legend, were thrown around the village by the devil.

Another settlement with a Devil's Stone - which is ceremonially turned over each year on 5th November to prevent misfortune - is the Devon village of Shebbear.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Shebbear is twinned with Balleroy in the Normandy region of France; the town and civil parish of Burgess Hill in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex is also twinned with a French town, in this case Abbeville.

 

[Calthrop]

Garstang, Lancashire, is another self-proclaimed Fair Trade Town; voluntarily supporting and working with, fair commerce with the poorer parts of the world.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Thomas' Church, Garstang contains a bronze sculpture of Christ in the chancel, designed in 1974 by the English sculptor Josefina de Vasconcellos, who was born in Molesey in Surrey on 26th October 1904.

 

[Calthrop]

The artist Terence Cuneo (1907 -- 1996) lived for some time in Molesey. While a great deal of his work was on a theme to delight the likes of us -- he also painted much concerning other subjects; especially military-related material. There is a collection of his works in the Newarke House Museum in Leicester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bournemouth also has a Symphony Orchestra.

 

[Calthrop]

As with the majority of settlements of any size -- and some very small and obscure ones -- in the generally south-western parts of England (though Cornwall seems to have been outside the author's remit): Bournemouth features, under a pseudonym but recognisably itself, in Thomas Hardy's fiction. This is also true of Cerne Abbas, Dorset. (In Hardy-World, Bournemouth = Sandbourne; Cerne Abbas = Abbot's-Cernel.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uffington in Oxfordshire also has a large chalk-outline sculpture carved on a hillside.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a smaller, and less-well-known, Uffington: located near Stamford, and at the south-westernmost extremity of Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Everdon in Northamptonshire is another settlement that has a deserted settlement (Snorscombe) within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

While Thomas Grey's Elegy in a Country Churchyard is most widely considered to have been inspired by the churchyard at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire; there are various other villages / churchyards which have their supporters for having been the poet's inspiration-venue. Everdon is one such contender.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oxford also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Oxford was one of the two places where Prestcold domestic appliances were manufacturer. The other was Crymlyn Burrows, West Glamorgan

 

[DerekC]

I think Crymlyn Burrows stretches the definition of a settlement - it seems to be an area of sand dunes part of which is now an industrial estate. However it does seem now to be attracting some housing development, so allowing the point to stretch ... on the other side of the Tennant Canal is the small village of Jersey Marine.

 

[D6130]

Rugeley in Staffordshire also has an Amazon disribution centre.

 

[DerekC]

In July 1962 the chairman of the Rugeley UDC made the first ever transatlantic call via the Telstar satellite to the mayor of Western Springs, Illinois, with which town Rugeley is twinned. The call was transmitted via the Goonhilly earth station near Garras in Cornwall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Landewednack in Cornwall was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Kerrier.