Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Avoch on the Black Isle also has a harbour that was designed by the engineer Thomas Telford.

 

[Calthrop]

The Moray Firth, on which Avoch lies, is one of the best places in Britain for dolphins; boat trips can be taken from Avoch to see the creatures, close-up if you're lucky. Another "dolphin Mecca" is New Quay, Ceredigion.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanmerewig in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St Llwchaiarn.

 

[Calthrop]

Kerry, Powys, also lies on the River Mule.

 

[DerekC]

Red House Farm is just outside Kerry. There is a farm of the same name at Waddingworth in Lincolnshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Waddingworth is considered to be located at the geographical centre of Lincolnshire. Meriden, West Midlands, supposedly -- and, it seems, inaccurately -- holds the same distinction as regards the whole of England.

 

[Springs Branch]

For some years following World War 2, Meriden was the location of a Triumph Motorcycles factory.
In the same era, another famous brand of British motorbikes (BSA) was manufactured in Birmingham at Small Heath.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gresford in Wrexham County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Calthrop]

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

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leicester also lends its name to a variety of cheese.

 

[Calthrop]

Leicester also lends its name to a variety of cheese.

The gentleman who lived from 1532 to 1588, and was the prime favourite -- some irreverent folk suggest, perhaps more -- of Queen Elizabeth I: combined nomenclature-wise, two Midland towns; to wit, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackpool also has a zoo in its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Bradford also has a twin town in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Blackpool's "twin" is -- I feel seemingly incongruously -- Bottrop (a completely new place on me) in the Ruhr industrial area; Bradford's is Hamm.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eccleshill in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Morley Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

The artist David Hockney was born in Eccleshill. Among his very varied output have been numerous landscape paintings of scenes in Yorkshire; but of the east of that county -- for the purposes of which project he resided for a while in Bridlington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bempton in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Hunthow.

 

[Calthrop]

At Bempton is one of the British Isles' only two mainland -- Great Britain or Ireland -- breeding colonies of gannets. The other is at Troup Head: nearest settlement Pennan, Aberdeenshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stenness in Orkney has has a long barrow within its environs.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Stenness parish adjoins the southern extremity of the Loch of Stenness, and has been politically merged with the civil parish of Firth.
The main village of the parish is the village of Finstown.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lower Ellbister in Orkney is also a settlement area in which ancient cists have been discovered.

 

[Calthrop]

Lower Ellbister in Orkney is also a settlement area in which ancient cists have been discovered.

@Xenophon PCDGS -- you really have landed us with a horror here ! Best I can do: without leaving the northern isles -- sounding rather like Ellbister, is Isbister; of which there seem to be several, variously in Orkney and Shetland. I'm plumping for the one on Whalsay, Shetland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitehaven in Cumbria also saw the demise at sea of shipping in 1778.

There were a number of settlements ending with the suffix " - ister " in the extreme north-east coastal reaches of Scotland, as will be known to those with the knowledge of the settlements in the area of the Wick and Lybster Light Railway.

 

[DerekC]

The Saltom Mine near Whitehaven is said to have been the first in the world to go under the sea, made possible by the installation of a Newcomen engine in 1732. However a more famous undersea mine is the Levant, opened in 1820, near Trewellard in Cornwall. It was the site of the Levant mine disaster in 1919, when 31 miners were killed by the collapse of the man-engine which carried them up from and down to the working levels.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The hamlet of Boswednack in the parish of Zennor near the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall is also located along the route of the B3306 which connects St Ives with St Just.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Madron in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Penzance Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Horatio Nelson, naval hero, has some prominence in Madron; connected with this area being the first in Britain, where the news of his death at the battle of Trafalgar was learned of. He was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Creake in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Burn.

 

[Springs Branch]

North Creake was one of the locations hit by a tornado in the severe weather event which occurred across the country on 23 November 1981.
Another place which experienced a tornado of similar intensity on that day was Market Drayton in Shropshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Market Drayton's Old Grammar School was founded in 1555 by Rowland Hill, the first Protestant Mayor of London. A more famous Rowland Hill -- born in 1795 in Kidderminster -- was the teacher, inventor and social reformer who founded the Uniform Penny Post and invented postage stamps, with the Penny Black and Twopenny Blue of 1840.

 

[DerekC]

Wimborne Minster is also a minster town on a River Stour (albeit a different one).