Settlement Association

[DerekC]

Embleton, like Corbridge, has a "pele tower" built as a fortified vicarage.

 

[Springs Branch]

Shilbottle is also in the NE66 Postcode District.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wick (not the obvious one, but the one in the Vale of Glamorgan) also has a church that is dedicated to St James

 

[Calthrop]

Clovelly, Devon, is another place where in the bad old days, wrecking (luring ships onto the nearby coast, where they would come to grief and could be plundered) was much practised.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Westward Ho! in Devon also lies on the route of the South West Coast Path.

 

[Calthrop]

Burwash (East Sussex) also occurs -- identified as itself, or nearly -- in works of fiction by Rudyard Kipling. Westward Ho! in his Stalky & Co. (set at the one-time United Services College there, where the author spent -- not very happily -- some of his schooldays); Burwash (where he lived long, later in his life) in Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Calthrop]

Miranda Sawyer -- journalist, author, and broadcaster -- grew up in Wilmslow. She studied at Pembroke College, Oxford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fenny Compton in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the Oxford Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

I have the impression that it's not very common for a church to be dedicated to a male, and a female, saint (am aware that other participants here, much more knowledgeable than me on these matters, may tell us otherwise); but Fenny Compton's parish church is one such -- dedicated to St. Peter and St. Clare. The same mix of genders applies to the parish church of Spalding, Lincolnshire -- that of St. Mary and St. Nicolas.

 

[DerekC]

Spalding is home to the Pinchbeck Engine, a rotative beam engine driving a scoop wheel, built by the Butterley Company for drainage purposes. A similar engine survives at Stretham, Cambridgeshire.

 

[johnnychips]

Gleadless, in Sheffield, also has a Red Lion pub.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heald Green in Greater Manchester has has a church named Christ Church.

 

[Springs Branch]

Snooker legend Alex "Hurricane" Higgins lived in Heald Green for part of his life. Higgins was born in Belfast and, following his death in 2010, is buried in Newtownabbey Co. Antrim.

 

[Calthrop]

Budleigh Salterton also has a "Sister City" in the USA. Newtownabbey's "sister" in this way is Gilbert, Arizona; Budleigh's is Brewster, Massachusetts.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

James Lackington was a bookseller who is credited with revolutionizing the British book trade. He is best known for refusing credit at his shop which allowed him to reduce the price of books throughout his store. He printed catalogues of his stock; according to his biography, the first edition contained 12,000 titles. He bought whole libraries and published writers' manuscripts. He also saved remaindered books from destruction and resold them at bargain prices, firmly believing that books were the key to knowledge, reason and happiness and that everyone, no matter their economic background, social class or gender, had the right to access books at cheap prices. He was born on 31st August 1746 in Wellington, Somerset, and died on 22nd November 1815, in Budleigh Salterton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashwick in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Kilmersdon.

 

[DerekC]

One of the feeders to the Mells Stream rises in Ashwick. The water flows into the River Frome and thence into the Avon, which discharges into the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Avonmouth is home to the largest single footprint warehouse in the United Kingdom, a 1,250,000 sq. ft building operated by The Range as a distribution centre. The enormous building occupies 55 acres of land and is part of the Central Park project located close to the Severn estuary shoreline. Previously, the largest single footprint warehouse in the United Kingdom was a building operated by Amazon in Dunfermline, Scotland which covers 1,000,000 sq. ft.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bradford in West Yorkshire also has an Alhambra Theatre.

 

[Calthrop]

Bradford was the last city in the UK to be served by trolleybuses -- they finished in 1972. Re just one country of the UK: Scotland's last trolleybuses were those of the Glasgow system -- their final year, 1967.

 

[D6130]

Glasgow is situated on the River Clyde, which rises near Leadhills, Lanarkshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Allan Ramsay (1686 -- 1758) -- Edinburgh-based poet, playwright, publisher, librarian and impresario -- was born in Leadhills. There is a hotel named after him in Carlops (Scottish Borders).

 

[Springs Branch]

Carlop's name is derived from Carlins Lowp ("Witches' Leap" in English) on account of the two large rocks in the vicinity between which, according to local legend, witches would leap for entertainment.

Another settlement whose name is based on folklore associated with witchcraft and jumping is the Lincolnshire village of Byard's Leap.

 

[Calthrop]

Byard's Leap has associations with the Knights Templar; as has Keele, Staffordshire -- one-time location of a preceptory (local headquarters of the Order) of the Templars.

 

[D6130]

Loughborough, Leicestershire, also has a modern 'redbrick' university.

 

[Calthrop]

Worcester also tends to give pronunciation problems to "English-speakers not from Britain" -- "Waw-se-(se)-ster? What the hell?" I like the anecdote about the Australian who rendered Loughborough as "Loogabarooga" (which would actually make a good Native Australian name).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portsmouth also has a church that is dedicated to St Swithun.

 

[Calthrop]

I always have a problem finding something for Portsmouth ! One of my standbys: there are in the USA, several towns named Portsmouth. One is in Ohio -- far distant from the sea ! Ohio has another town with the same name as one in England: Mansfield.

 

[DerekC]

Milton Keynes, like Mansfield, has unsuccessfully applied for city status.