Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wimboldsley in Cheshire East also was once administered by the Hundred of Northwich.

 

[Calthrop]

Berkswell, West Midlands, is also adjacent to a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heckington in Lincolnshire also has a tower mill.

 

[Calthrop]

Just a couple of miles down the road from Heckington, is Helpringham; I'm always inclined to think of the two as "twins" -- from their proximity, and the similarity of their names. (And -- though this isn't relevant in this game -- the former still has a rail passenger station, and the latter once had one.)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Andrew's Church, Helpringham is Listed Grade I, and was originally built in the 13th century with later additions and adaptions. It was restored in 1891 (following a roof collapse in 1890) by Charles Hodgson Fowler (1840 – 1910), who was a prolific English ecclesiastical architect who specialised in building and, especially, restoring Churches. Another example of his work is St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Sturton-le-Steeple, near Retford in Nottinghamshire. This is a Grade II* Listed Parish Church which dates from the 12th century; it burned down in 1901 and was rebuilt, opening in 1902.

 

[Calthrop]

Sir Geoffrey Fenton (1539 -- 1608): poet, politician, and Caledonophobe -- who I admit to never having heard of before Googling Sturton-le-Steeple -- was born in that settlement. He is buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pollagh in County Offaly also lies on the line of the Grand Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Ferbane, also in Co. Offaly, is also on the line of the River Brosna.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edenderry in County Offaly also has a peat-fired power station.

 

[Calthrop]

Edenderry is close to the near-meeting-point of four counties: Offaly, West Meath, Meath, and Kildare. The same is true of Baydon, Wiltshire -- areas concerned here being Wiltshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and the Borough of Swindon.

 

[John Griffiths]

Gosforth in Newcastle upon Tyne also has a parish church dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gosford in Oxfordshire also has a settlement name taken from the early age term for a goose ford.

 

[Springs Branch]

The A34 trunk road passes Gosford (originally through the centre of the village, now via a bypass slightly to the east).
The northern extremity of the A34, where it meets the A6 just outside Salford Central station, is at Salford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rawtenstall in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

[Calthrop]

The former coat of arms of Rawtenstall Borough Council appears highly "zoological" in theme: featuring stags, cattle, a squirrel, and a (?) wolf. The same is true of Berwick-upon-Tweed, whose coat of arms displays a stag, a horse, a salmon, and -- also -- a (?) wolf.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Montrose was also created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century by King David I of Scotland.

 

[Calthrop]

Brighton also has a namesake town in the US State of Colorado (this all seems splendidly unsuitable, with Colorado being about as far as you can get from the sea in the USA !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Findon in West Sussex also has the site of a Celtic Iron Age encampment within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Findon has held since distant times, an annual "sheep fair": no longer about serious sheep-farming business; but a "sheep show and funfair". Permanent similar doings take place at an attraction at Abbotsham, North Devon -- near Bideford -- called "The Big Sheep": basically themed on sheep, plus other farm animals; a dreadful pun I suppose, on the novel by Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep, and the film made therefrom.

 

[Springs Branch]

A good number of places in the New World take the names of British and Irish towns and villages.
In Australia, there is an Abbotsham in Tasmania.
Another West Country settlement with a Tasmanian namesake (albeit with a different pronunciation) is Launceston.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Megdalene.

 

[Calthrop]

Gorleston-on-Sea has among its attractions, a model boat pond. Scarborough has a similar feature "writ large" -- a boating lake, big enough for the regular enactment of a miniature naval battle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southend also has a cliff railway.

 

[Calthrop]

Lincoln is also twinned with a town in Poland. Southend's "twin" is, appropriately, the seaside resort of Sopot; Lincoln's is Radomsko, in the Lodz area.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abernethy in Perthshire also lends its name to a type of biscuit.

 

[Calthrop]

Abernethy in Perthshire also lends its name to a type of biscuit.

This Abernethy has a "cousin" some sixty miles to the north: Nethy Bridge (Highland). Each of these settlements lies on a watercourse called the Nethy: respectively Nethy Burn, which shortly past the settlement, flows into the River Earn; and River Nethy, which shortly past the settlement flows into the Spey. "Abernethy" = "at the mouth of the Nethy": until the mid-19th century, Nethy Bridge was also called Abernethy. Threatening to get "railwayish"; but in a social-history, rather than gricing, context -- when the Great North of Scotland Railway's Speyside line was built through the village: village's name was changed to Nethy Bridge, to avoid confusion with the more southerly Abernethy, which already had a North British Railway station of that name. To this day, Nethy Bridge is often locally called "Abernethy".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aviemore in the Highland region also has a campsite and accomodation units called The Lazy Duck.

 

[Springs Branch]

Aviemore is said to be something of a winter ski resort on account of its proximity to the Cairngorms.
Another settlement catering to ski enthusiasts (not necessarily a resort, but it does have the indoor Snow Centre) is Hemel Hempstead.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Dacorum.

 

[Calthrop]

Also located on the River Gade (from which Great Gaddesden takes its name) is Kings Langley, Hertfordshire.