Settlement Association

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Sebastopol is included in the UK Parliament's Westminster constituency of Torfaen, as is the town of Blaenafon further north.

 

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Ruthin in Denbighshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[Calthrop]

Limerick is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Finistere, in Brittany. Ruthin's "twin" is Briec; Limerick's, Quimper.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dowra in County Cavan also lies on the line of the R iver Shannon.

 

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Bus Eireann route 462 serves Dowra on Saturdays only, linking it to Drumkeeran, County Leitrim.

 

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Silverdale in Lancashire is also at latitude 54° 10' N.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glasson in Lancashire also lies on the line of the long-distance footpath known as the Lancashire Coastal Way.

 

[Calthrop]

One of Glasson's pubs, the Victoria Inn, is a listed building. Salcombe, South Devon, also has a Victoria Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scarborough also hosts an annual yacht club regatta.

 

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Coventry University governs and operates a satellite Higher Education institute, CU Scarborough, located in Scarborough.

 

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Kew in SW London is another settlement that was chosen as a site of a Carthusian religious house.

 

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The National Archives is based in Kew, and there is also an additional record storage facility (DeepStore) in the worked-out parts of the Winsford Rock Salt Mine, Winford, Cheshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The National Archives is based in Kew, and there is also an additional record storage facility (DeepStore) in the worked-out parts of the Winsford Rock Salt Mine, Winford, Cheshire.

I think you mean Winsford.

 

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I think you mean Winsford.

I do ... sorry!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nantwich in Cheshire East also lies on the line of the River Weaver.

 

[Calthrop]

Good old Lewis C. -- Nantwich has a pub / restaurant called the Cheshire Cat. Brighton has a tea-room called the Mock Turtle.

 

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Brighton has featured in a number of popular movies, including The Boat that Rocked (2009). Another filming location was Squerryes Court, a late 17th Century manor house standing just outside the town of Westerham in Kent; it's used as the home of Government Minister Alistair Dormandy, played by Kenneth Branagh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carno in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[Calthrop]

Carno is claimed to be located at the geographical centre of Wales. There are claims made concerning Haltwhistle, Northumberland: for corresponding status as the geographical centre of the UK (including Northern Ireland); but many are sceptical of this one.

 

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The village of Corbridge in Northumberland was also once on the direct route of the A69 trunk road, but has now been bypassed.

 

[Calthrop]

As we know, the Romans were active in those parts: their settlement here, ultimately to become modern-day Corbridge, was named Corstopitum. A gift to those who enjoy "pseudo-misunderstanding" wordplay -- can be "Englished" as "Cor ! Stop at home !" Similarly: long ago I was delighted to learn for the first time, the name of a one-time Roman fort further west, in Cumbria -- nearest significant modern settlement, Boot. Roman name Mediobogdum; to which I couldn't resist adding an imaginary "re" in front, and engaging in fantasy-"parsing" as a supposed cure for constipation. I really ought to grow up...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birtles in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Catherine.

 

[Calthrop]

Birtles in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Catherine.

The abovementioned church of St. Catherine is one of a number of listed buildings in the area; it, and several of the others, are characterised by a local speciality: Kerridge stone-slate roofs -- that material quarried at the village of Kerridge, a few miles to the west.

 

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Pott Shrigley was also once under the jurisdiction of the Macclesfield Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Pott Shrigley -- another favourite delightfully silly-sounding English village name... The village's most notable building is Shrigley Hall: for some centuries, the "big house" where the local gentry family resided; after which it became the Missionary College of the Catholic Salesian Order; after which as of 1989, it "morphed" into a country club with golf course, leisure centre, and restaurant. Another such "sacred to profane" transformation has occurred in Newport (Isle of Wight): where a nonconformist chapel was "sold out of service" and became for a while, a nightclub -- appropriately named "Temptations"; it is now a Wetherspoons pub.

 

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East Cowes also lies on the line of the River Medina.

 

[Calthrop]

East Cowes has a chain ferry across the Medina near its mouth, to West Cowes; for vehicles, and pedestrians; saving a detour via Newport. There is also a chain ferry at Reedham in Norfolk: the only means in between the Norwich and Great Yarmouth built-up areas, for road vehicles to cross the River Yare.

 

[Springs Branch]

Halvergate in Norfolk also has a heritage-listed windpump (looks like a "windmill" to the uninitiated).

 

[Calthrop]

Stalham, Norfolk, also lies on the long-distance footpath called the Weavers' Way.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dilham in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Ant.