Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Shenstone, Staffordshire (just south of Lichfield) also has a pub called the Bull's Head.

 

[DerekC]

Cambridge also has a park called "Lammas Land".

 

[Springs Branch]

Punting is a traditional waterborne pastime in Cambridge and also, allegedly, at some other place with a university.

A less well-known venue in recent years has been the Regents Canal in East London, where it has been possible to punt along the section between Mile End lock and Old Ford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harpenden in Hertfordshire also lies on the line of the River Lea.

 

[Springs Branch]

The TV comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus included various sketches referring to settlements in the orbit of London (generally as a play on their 1970s suburban dreariness)

Amongst these locations were Harpenden (mentioned several times), Surbiton, New Malden and - the site of a planned tunnel to Java which would make Crossrail look like a doddle - Godalming.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chiddingfold in Surrey was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Godalming.

 

[Calthrop]

Skinningrove, North Yorkshire -- near Saltburn and Redcar -- also holds big bonfire-and-fireworks celebrations near November 5th.

 

[johnnychips]

A nearby settlement in a similar steep narrow valley is Staithes.

 

[Springs Branch]

Great Ayton in North Yorkshire was also associated with the early life of 18th century explorer and navigator James Cook.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Low Easby in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Leven.

 

[Calthrop]

As often in the north-easterly -- and some other -- parts of England: the name of Low Easby, and neighboring Easby, comes from the Danish: indicating "settlement / village / farmstead of a man named Esa". By the same token, the name of Coningsby (Lincolnshire) means "settlement of the king".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pelsall in the West Midlands also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

Pelsall in the West Midlands also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

West Wittering in West Sussex (W. of Chichester) also has a pub called The Old House at Home.

(You do churches, I do pubs -- maybe something significant there ?)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

West Itchenor in West Sussex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chichester Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

A resident of West Itchenor for a while, was the actress Evelyn Laye (chiefly known to me, for the utterly foolish riddle: Q. Why is George Bernard Shaw like Evelyn Laye? A. They both have bushy white beards, except that Evelyn Laye hasn't.). Ms. Laye was the subject at the age of 90, in 1990, of This Is Your Life, compered by Michael Aspel; at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nottingham also has a modern tramway system.

 

[johnnychips]

A suburb of Sheffield also associated with Robin Hood is Loxley.

 

[Calthrop]

Another settlement with a "Lox-" name, is Loxton in Somerset, a little way south-east of Weston-Super-Mare. Very different name-derivations for the Sheffield community, and the Somerset one. It is thought that Loxley's name comes from the Old English words lox = lynx, and leah = glade; though the Eurasian lynx is reckoned to have become extinct in Britain, a considerable while before 1000 A.D. ... ? Loxton is so named because the small river called the Lox Yeo (seemingly innumerable rivers in these parts, bear the name "Yeo" !) joins at that point, the River Axe. The name "Lox Yeo" has attributed to it a Celtic language-origin: meaning either "Winding Stream", or "Bright One".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rowberrow in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Winterstoke.

 

[Calthrop]

The late Terry Pratchett (one of a number of authors re whom I seem to be out of step with the reading community, in not liking their works) lived in Rowberrow from 1970 to 1993. He was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northwich in the county of Cheshire West and Chester also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary and All Saints.

 

[Calthrop]

In the English Civil War, Northwich was a Parliamentarian stronghold. In contrast, Wallingford (Oxfordshire) was a Royalist one.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worcester also has a Quaker Meeting House.

 

[Calthrop]

Rochdale is also twinned with a settlement in the German state of Nord-Rhein-Westfalen. Worcester's "twin" is Kleve (older name Cleves: where Anne -- one of Henry VIII's luckier wives -- came from); Rochdale's is Bielefeld.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pilsworth in Greater Manchester was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hundred of Salford.

 

[Calthrop]

Pilsworth boasts a retail and leisure complex called Park 66, which has seemingly undergone various ups and downs. In an attempt at following the "magic number" 66: I learn that Sir Geoffrey Hurst -- who, I understand, achieved footballing glory in the 1966 World Cup -- is most commendably launching specially-branded whisky and gin lines called "Spirit of 66", the proceeds to go to charity. Keeping us still in the Manchester area: Sir Geoffrey was born in Ashton-under-Lyne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Delph in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the River Tame.

 

[Calthrop]

Alnwick Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland; is also a much-favoured location for scenes for films and TV dramas.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashbourne in Derbyshire also has a town-wide Shrovetide football match.

 

[DerekC]

Elwick in County Durham, like Ashbourne, used to have a source of natural mineral water sold commercially.