Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Holford, Somerset, is also situated on the Coleridge Way long-distance footpath.

 

[DerekC]

The Buckingham Copper Mine was located near Holford. The Great Devon Consols Mine near Tavistock was once considered the most productive in the world.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barnstaple in Devon also holds a Pannier Market.

 

[DerekC]

Pentecost Dodderidge* was MP for Barnstaple in the 17th Century, His family originated from Sandford near Crediton.

* - I just had to include him!

 

[Springs Branch]

Much Marcle in Herefordshire is also home to a family-owned cider producer (Weston's Cider).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wilmslow in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Bartholemew.

 

[Springs Branch]

In the 1970s TV series I Didn't Know You Cared, elderly protagonist Uncle Mort had his nemesis in an interfering and opinionated mother-in-law figure named Mrs Partington. When in conversation, to annoy Mrs Partington, Uncle Mort would regularly confuse her surname with other settlements loosely in the orbit of Manchester. Among these deliberate misnomers were Mrs Wilmslow and Mrs Droylesden

 

[Calthrop]

Pudsey, West Yorkshire, also has a Moravian church (learned from a previous post in this game, from an esteemed colleague therein, erudite on these matters).

 

[John Griffiths]

Cambridge is also the name of a "Standard Eight" Surprise Major method in bellringing.

 

[Calthrop]

I seem to pick up, that both rugby football, and Association football = soccer = football: were codified and first played, in their present forms, at very roughly the same time -- i.e. a little before the middle of the 19th century (apologies if this is rubbish -- I know approx. as much about sport, as I do about bell-ringing ): in educational establishments respectively at -- predictably -- Rugby; and Cambridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gravesend in Kent also has a clock tower.

 

[Calthrop]

Tamworth also has a namesake settlement in New South Wales, Australia.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hamstead in the West Midlands also lies on the line of the River Tame.

 

[Calthrop]

There is another, very different, Hamstead on the Isle of Wight: a small village on the Solent, some four miles north-east of Yarmouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whippingham is another settlement that was once under the jurisdiction of the Isle of Wight Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Beetham (Cumbria -- between Carnforth and Kendal) is another settlement-name perhaps indicative of envisaged appropriate treatment for "unsatisfactory persons" .

 

[DerekC]

Near Beetham are the "Fairy Steps". Near Coleford in Gloucestershire, on the other hand, is a "Fairy Forest".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontnewydd in Cwmbran also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Springs Branch]

Brecon in Powys also lies on the route of the (partially defunct) Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Calthrop]

Close by Glangrwyney is a hill called Sugar Loaf. Some thirty miles to the north-west there is another eminence, also called Sugar Loaf (much discussed on these Forums in a railway context) -- nearest meaningful settlement thereto, Llanwrtyd Wells.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like those of Llanwrtyd Wells, the spa waters of Harrogate are not among the most appealing in an olfactory sense, being rich in hydrogen sulphide.

 

[Springs Branch]

Harrogate has won "Happiest Town in Britain" awards several times in the past in surveys by property website Rightmove.
In 2019 the Happiest Town was the Northumberland town of Hexham.
You can always believe what an estate agent tells you, can't you? Especially on the internet.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Hexham Courant is the local newspaper, serving Hexham and Tynedale since 1864. Another place where a newspaper with the word "Courant" in it's title was at Elgin, where the Elgin Courant and Morayshire Advertiser was briefly published in 1839 and later until 1905 in a variety of titles.

 

[John Griffiths]

The seventh Earl of Elgin, purchaser of marbles, was born at Broomhall House, Fife, close to the estate village of Charlestown, built by his father, the fifth earl.

 

[Calthrop]

Charlestown has a street called "Craw Road" -- reportedly because of the incidence there, of birds of that description. Suggestive perhaps, of the expression in Scots vernacular, of someone being "awa' the Crow -- or Craw -- Road" -- meaning, that they have died. Padstow also boasts a local name with a morbid flavour: the somewhat obstructive sandbank near the harbour mouth, called the Doom Bar (the name also taken, of course, by a much-liked beer).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bodmin in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Petroc.

 

[Calthrop]

H.C.McNeile (1888 -- 1937) -- fiction author, under the pseudonym "Sapper" -- wrote thrillers and war-action material, chiefly derived from his service in World War I: was born in Bodmin; lived in the latter part of his life, and died, in West Chiltington, West Sussex (near Pulborough). His best-known creation characters-wise, is Bulldog Drummond.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bowdon in Greater Manchester also has a croquet club.

 

[Calthrop]

The children's author Alison Uttley -- creator of Little Grey Rabbit and very many other characters -- lived in Bowdon between the World Wars. She died, aged 91, in High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire).