Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moston in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Dunstan.

 

[D6130]

St Dunstan was successively Abbot of Glastonbury, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury. He was born at Baltonsborough, Somerset in 909 AD.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nyland in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Glaston Twelve Hides

 

[Springs Branch]

Chartham in Kent is also located at latitude 51° 15' N.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Canterbury also lies the the route of the surfaced shared-use pathway known as The Great Stour Way.

 

[Calthrop]

Aberdare has also given its name to a geographical feature in a distant part of the British-Empire-as-was: in both cases, to the geographical feature but not to any settlement therein -- respectively, the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand's South Island; and the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corwen in Denbighshire has also hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Corwen's main employer is local trailer manufacturer Ifor Williams Trailers, which was started in 1958 by Ifor Williams, a farmer looking to transport sheep to the local market. The company employs approximately 750 people across five sites, one of which is at Sandycroft, Flintshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Corwen's main employer is local trailer manufacturer Ifor Williams Trailers, which was started in 1958 by Ifor Williams, a farmer looking to transport sheep to the local market. The company employs approximately 750 people across five sites, one of which is at Sandycroft, Flintshire.

This is a difficult one ! Wiki informs us that Sandycroft was the childhood home of one Sasha (Alexander Paul Coe), a disc jockey and record producer of some note (I'd never previously heard of him -- this kind of thing, not my scene). It appears that this gentleman's actual place of birth was Bangor, Gwynedd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glasinfryn in Gwynedd also lies on the line of the River Cegin.

 

[Calthrop]

Glasinfryn in Gwynedd also lies on the line of the River Cegin.

The above name, translated from the Welsh, means "blue and / or green [glas] turf [infryn]". On the opposite side of the island, is a village whose name references the same vegetable-matter feature -- Barton Turf, Norfolk (near Stalham).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Verwood in Dorset also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

Northampton is also twinned with a town in the German state of Hesse. Verwood's "twin" is Liederbach am Taunus (near Frankfurt-am-Main); Northampton's is Marburg.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Street in Somerset also has a shoe museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Street's name comes from the Old English straet = a Roman road: the settlement being on the Fosse Way or a near offshoot thereof. Closely-related linguistically, is a settlement some considerable way north-eastward, but on the same ancient road -- near Coventry, Stretton-on-Dunsmore (straet + tun = settlement).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Fosse Way.

 

[Calthrop]

There is also a charmingly daft local rhyme associated with Cromer, and beginning with the settlement's name: respectively, "Stow-on-the-Wold, where the wind blows cold ..."; and "Cromer crabs, Runton dabs ..." (continuing with a list of places along that coast, and their supposed attributes).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandudno also has a seaside pier.

 

[Calthrop]

Grandiloquent titles applied to places -- one suspects, with at least something of an agenda of luring people to come there and spend money: we learn that Llandudno was in times past, called "the queen of the Welsh watering places" -- which appellation tended later, to be favoured for Tenby instead. Have also heard Llandudno called "the Naples of the north".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Amroth in Pembrokeshire also lies on the route of the long-distance walking path known as the Pembrokeshire Coast Path.

 

[341o2]

Amroth is noted for its sandy beach as is Bournemouth

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Morecambe also has a noted art-deco hotel.

 

[Calthrop]

The Eden Project, whose complex is near St. Blazey (Cornwall); has plans to set up at Morecambe, an equivalent Northern undertaking, with a particular focus on the marine environment.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Milton in the Vale of White Horse also has a church that is dedicated to St Blaise.

 

[Calthrop]

Milton's pub was until recently called the Admiral Benbow; but it has recently been rechristened the Plum Pudding -- stupid namby-pamby name IMO. Lisburn (Cos. Antrim / Down) still has an "Admiral Benbow" pub.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dromara in County Down also lies on the line of the River Lagan.

 

[DerekC]

Dromara possesses a souterrain, a type of iron age underground shelter. Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands also possesses one, called Castle Bloody. The only settlement on Shapinsay is Balfour.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cramond is also a tidal island that is connected to the mainland by a causeway that can be access at low tide.

 

[Calthrop]

Cramond features in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped. Another Scottish settlement appearing in a work by this author, is Ballantrae (South Ayrshire) -- in his novel centred on the Master of said place.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knockdolian in South Ayrshire also lies on the line of the River Stinchar.