Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maldon in Essex also lies on the line of the River Blackwater.

 

[Calthrop]

Maldon in Essex also lies on the line of the River Blackwater.

Another location of a battle between Saxons, and Danes / Vikings; in which "they won"; was (in the year 1016, twenty-five years after Maldon): Assandun / Essendune -- "majority" opinion on its actual whereabouts being Ashingdon, Essex -- near Rochford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gautby in Lincolnshire also has an illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Not far from Gautby is Chambers Farm Wood: a nature reserve centring on an ancient wood, comprising mostly lime trees. There is a similar, conserved woodland site of biological interest at Shrawley, Worcestershire (between Worcester and Stourport-on-Severn).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abberley in Worcestershire was also once administered by the Lower Division of the Hundred of Doddingtree.

 

[Calthrop]

Abberley -- some way north-west of Worcester -- was one of the places furthest into England, ever penetrated to by the Welsh in arms. This occurred in 1405: there occurred near Abberley, a stand-off between the Welsh under Owain Glyndwr, and the English under Henry IV; the Welsh in the end, packed it in and went home. A comparable situation came about a few centuries later, involving Swarkestone just south of Derby: Charles Stuart's army in the Rising of 1745 abandoned at the River Trent crossing there, their march on London; and headed back northward to eventual defeat.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Haywood in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Trent.

 

[Calthrop]

Wybunbury, Cheshire East, also lies just off the A51 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Church Minshull in Cheshire East was also once administered by the Hundred of Nantwich.

 

[Calthrop]

Lelant, Cornwall, also has a pub called the Badger.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Redruth in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Uny.

 

[Calthrop]

Bristol is also twinned with a settlement in Central America. Redruth's "twin" is Real del Monte, Mexico; Bristol's, Puerto Morazan, Nicaragua.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire was also afflicted by a 14th century outbreak of the Black Death plague.

 

[Calthrop]

For some centuries, Haverfordwest had the not-very-common status of "county corporate": town or city for which it was deemed appropriate for various reasons, for it to be administered independently from the county in which it was situated. Another settlement with this status, was Coventry.

 

[DerekC]

One of the most famous former residents of Coventry was, of course, Lady Godiva - celebrated in legend as riding naked through the streets because her husband refused to lower taxes on the poor unless she did so (presumably as a joke). Whether or not this is true, she does appear to have been a real historical figure and is thought to be buried in Evesham although this has been disputed.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frome in Somerset is another settlement where a large hoard of Roman coinage was discovered.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bath also has a thoroughfare named Cheap Street.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

LLANGAMMARCH WELLS is/was also a place where one might take The Waters.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanwrtyd Wells also lies on the line of the River Irfon.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

With a population of 850 (UK Census, 2011) Llanwrtyd Wells claims to be the smallest town in Britain, although the remnant market town and civil parish of Fordwich in East Kent has a smaller population.

 

[Calthrop]

Fordwich gets a mention in the writings of Britain's most renowned recreational fisherman, Izaak Walton, author of The Compleat Angler (the Kentish town boasted an outstandingly large type of trout). Walton had -- via his many clergymen friends and associates -- considerable links with Winchester; in which cathedral he is buried.

 

[Springs Branch]

Winchester Cathedral has the longest nave of any British cathedral.
Another ecclesiastical superlative (this one apparently so impressive that people travel from Russia just to see it) is the tallest cathedral spire in Salisbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also hosts an annual literary festival.

 

[Calthrop]

In 1416, a pair of white storks nested and bred on the roof of St. Giles's Cathedral in Edinburgh; generally reckoned one of very few occasions -- if not the only one -- on which this bird species has summered and bred in the British Isles. Another long-ago ornithological oddity occurring in south-east Scotland: in its paragraph on Duns, Berwickshire, the 1863 edition of Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book mentions that in September 1790, a hoopoe was killed at that town. (One feels that why the average 1860s tourist to the area should find that bit of information of any particular interest, is known only to Mr. Bradshaw.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edzell in Angus also has the site of an Iron Age hillfort within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Edzell; and Fettercairn (Aberdeenshire) a few miles away; each have, across principal roads through the settlement, an arch, quite striking in appearance. People sometimes confuse the one with the other -- although the arches are markedly different in looks; commemorate different things; and one was built some two decades before the other.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stromness in Orkney is another settlement that was created a Burgh of Barony.

 

[DerekC]

John Rae, Arctic explorer and discoverer of the North-West Passage, is commemorated in a statue on Stromness harbour. Although born in Orkney he died in Kensington, West London. He was never given the credit that was his due because he brought back evidence from local Inuit of the sad end of the Franklin expedition. These included stories of cannibalism which the establishment, led by Lady Franklin who was boosting the image of a heroic end for her husband, did not want to hear.

 

[johnnychips]

‘Kensington Gore’ is an actor’s slang for fake blood. Real blood is in the name of Reddish in Manchester, where a ditch apparently filled with blood during a battle between the Saxons and Danes..

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flixton in Greater Manchester was also once administered by the Hundred of Salford.