Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

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

Penzance, not hugely far away, is also "twinned" with a settlement "across the water" in Brittany, France. Landewednack's twin is the almost-identically named Landevennec; Penzance's is Concarneau.

 

[godfreycomplex]

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.

Roundabout 50-60 people live there, swelled considerably in university term time. And of course the dystopian hellscape of the Amazon warehouse holds several enslaved millions for weeks at a time

The last recorded interview with Acker Bilk was broadcast on Penzance based Penwith Radio in 2014. His last concert was the previous year in Brecon, Powys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I am having difficulty in knowing which town to make a connection with. Is it possible to use emboldened type to assist, please.


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

 

[Calthrop]

The "Green Man" music and arts festival is held annually, very near Tretower. Ullapool (Highland) has a similar annual event, wittily called "Loopallu".

 

[341o2]

Ullapool has a yacht haven as does Lymington

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Battramsley in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lymington Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

We've had Charles Kingsley -- 19th-century author, clergyman, and wearer of sundry other vocational "hats" -- in this game before; anyway, his father -- also the Reverend Charles Kingsley -- resided at Battramsley. Charles Kingsley fils, while an ardent do-gooder, was no fan of Ireland or the Irish -- he visited the island at least once, though, staying at, among other places, Collooney, Co. Sligo (incidentally, at one time a prominent railway division-point).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The main part of Collooney lies to south west of the Owenmore River, which joins the Unshin River just to the north of the town to form the Ballysadare River. This river takes it's name from Ballysadare (Irish: Baile Easa Dara, meaning "town of the waterfall of the oak"), which is also a town in County Sligo.

 

[Calthrop]

The main part of Collooney lies to south west of the Owenmore River, which joins the Unshin River just to the north of the town to form the Ballysadare River. This river takes it's name from Ballysadare (Irish: Baile Easa Dara, meaning "town of the waterfall of the oak"), which is also a town in County Sligo.

For those who set store by such matters -- another prominent / significant location pertaining to Ireland's reputed fairy realm, is the stone structure of Grianan Ailigh: near Bridge End, Co. Donegal.

 

[DerekC]

In 1925 the Irish Boundary Commission, appointed to finalise the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, recommended that an area of east Donegal including the villages of Bridge End, Muff and a number of others, be transferred to Northern Ireland. However the recommendations of the committee were leaked to the press before the process was complete and this resulted in their abandonment.

 

[D6130]

Eglinton in Co. Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, is on the opposite side of Loch Foyle and is the location for the Derry/Londonderry city airport.

 

[Springs Branch]

Originally founded as an Ulster Plantation settlement, until 1858 the village was known as Muff, which led to some confusion with the separate, but not-too-far-away Muff in Co. Donegal (see post #21,339).

The name was changed to Eglington in honour of Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland at the time, who following his death in October 1861 was interred in his family vault in the Ayrshire town of Kilwinning.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberdeen also has a Mercat Cross.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The British flat racing horse trainer Sir Henry Cecil was born in Aberdeen on 11th January 1943 and died in Cambridge on 11th June 2013. His stables were at Warren Place in Newmarket.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilcullen in County Clare is also a settlement noted for the breeding and training of racehorses.

 

[341o2]

The novelist Dick Francis was a former jockey, the moment he remembered the most (for the wrong reason) was at the Grand National Aintree when riding the Queen Mother's horse Devon Loch and it looked as if it was going to win, when the horse fell approaching the finishing line

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maghull is another settlement to have benefitted from the Alt Drainage Act of 1779.

 

[Springs Branch]

Merseyside Police also have one of their police stations in Hoylake

 

[Calthrop]

Bettystown, Co. Meath, is also a prominent venue for sand yachting.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Weston-super-Mare also hosts an annual sand sculpture contest and exhibition.

 

[Calthrop]

Skegness is also a favourite seaside-holidaying place for the people of Birmingham and environs -- least far-away seaside resorts, in opposite directions, from Britain's most-inland big city. (Hoylake as above, is approx. the same distance away, north-westward; but seems to be less in favour with the Brummies .)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bognor Regis also has a functioning Butlins holiday complex.

 

[D6130]

Sir Billy Butlin's second holiday camp was further down the East Coast at Clacton-on-Sea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Felixstowe is also a North Sea coastal settlement chosen as a site to erect a Martello Tower.

 

[Calthrop]

Many of Felixstowe's principal buildings were designed by the architect Thomas W. Cotman -- nephew of the water-colourist John Sell Cotman, born in Norwich and a leading member of the Norwich school of painters.

 

[D6130]

Norwich Cathedral has the second tallest spire in Great Britain. Only that at Salisbury is higher.

 

[Calthrop]

Wellington, Somerset, has in common with Salisbury: sharing ("past or present") its name, with the capital of a country of the British Empire / Commonwealth. In both cases, "at one remove": city abroad named not directly after its English counterpart settlement, but after a nobleman whose title came from said settlement. The capital of New Zealand is Wellington; that of Zimbabwe (formerly [Southern] Rhodesia) is Harare (formerly Salisbury).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tiverton in Devon was also once served by the Grand Western Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Tiverton; and Oare (Somerset); are both real places which feature in R.D. Blackmore's novel Lorna Doone.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Luxborough in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Carhampton.