Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Angmering, West Sussex, also has a pub called the Spotted Cow.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wellington, Somerset, also has a twin town in the Normandy region of France.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rochester in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St John Fisher.

 

[Springs Branch]

Rochester is the seat of the second oldest bishopric in England - after that of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Exeter was also targeted by the Luftwaffe during the Baedeker Blitz of 1942.

 

[341o2]

Exeter has a prison as does Winchester

 

[Calthrop]

Springfield (parish in Chelmsford, Essex) also shares its name with that of a type of rifle renowned in US lore -- Springfield via a direct historical link, I believe; Winchester, not: the relevant name here, that of an American guy called Winchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Margaretting in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Chelmsford.

 

[Calthrop]

Margaretting's parish church is, unsurprisingly, dedicated to St. Margaret. There is a similar name / dedication combination on the opposite side of England: the village of St. Margarets, Herefordshire -- in the Golden Valley -- whose church is likewise dedicated to that saint.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cusop in Herefordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Ewyas Lacy.

 

[Calthrop]

L.T.C. Rolt, of renown as a writer on a wide range of transport matters -- among other achievements in his life -- lived for some years of his childhood, in Cusop. He was born in Chester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bristol also has a zoo.

 

[Calthrop]

Leading to something touched on about ten days ago, but hard to resist -- in Edward Lear's assorted verse about the doings of his strange characters: the Pobble swims across the Bristol Channel (incurring thereby a fairly minor, but unsought, body modification). Another poem contains a reference in passing, to Dorking, Surrey; viz. the object of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo's unrequited love, Lady Jingly Jones: has as companions, to cheer her in her Indian exile, several hens of the Dorking breed.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ockley in Surrey also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Stane Street.

 

[Calthrop]

Nicholas Culpeper -- famed 17th-century botanist, herbalist and physician -- was born in Ockley. Edward Jenner, equally-celebrated exponent / pioneer of another branch of medicine, namely vaccines; doing his stuff a little over a century later; was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Charfield in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the Little Avon River.

 

[Calthrop]

Hildersham near Cambridge also has a pub called the Pear Tree.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grantchester in South Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the River Granta.

 

[Calthrop]

Both Grantchester and Melton Mowbray have, or have had, public timepieces cherished in the general collective mind as sub-optimal, but in a lovable way. Grantchester's -- some 110 years ago as per the poem -- permanently showed the time as 2.50; whereas the tower of M. M.'s parish church has clock faces on only two sides out of four: hence the local saying, "as two-faced as Melton clock".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Asfordby in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Melton Mowbray Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Asfordby lies close by the River Wreake. Some miles further down same, and in the direction of Leicester; Rearsby also lies close by that river, on the opposite side of it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bidford-on-Avon in Warwickshire also has a flying club.

 

[Calthrop]

Pebworth, Worcestershire -- about equidistant between Evesham and Stratford-upon-Avon -- also features in the rhyme sometimes attributed to Shakespeare, about an assortment of villages in that area (one adjective per village). The rhyme characterises Bidford as "drunken", and Pebworth as "piping".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winchcombe in Gloucestershire also has a Morris Dancing Side.

 

[Calthrop]

"Pushing the envelope" a bit, to have Winchcombe encompass the remains, in its vicinity, of Hailes Abbey (a big place of pilgrimage centuries ago): said Abbey; and also Trumpington near Cambridge (hard by Grantchester, which we had a few posts ago); are both mentioned in passing, in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

 

[johnnychips]

Keswick also has a nine-hole golf course.

 

[D6130]

Stapleford, near Nottingham, is also associated with the manufacture of pencils.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skeffling in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Helen.

 

[Calthrop]

Also close, or fairly so, to the site of a former settlement "engulfed by the sea": is Herne Bay, Kent. Skeffling's "ghost town" is Ravenspurn, close by the present-day Spurn Head -- busy in medieval times, and site of a couple of historic events. Herne Bay's is Hampton-on-Sea; which had a brief boom in the late 19th century, but finally perished to coastal erosion in 1921.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altrincham in Greater Manchester also has a clock tower,