Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire also lies on the line of the River Towy.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Very little is known about Saint Teilo, to whom the Anglican parish church of Llandeilo is dedicated, but he seems to have travelled around Wales because there are several other churches dedicated to him in other places. He is believed to have made Llandeilo his main base and be buried there, although Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff has disputed this. There is a legend that after his death, his body was placed in Llandeilo church and three clergy from different churches prayed that he could be buried in their churches (Llandeilo, Llandaff and his birthplace Penally in Pembrokeshire). In the morning, three bodies were miraculously found, so that an authentic body could be buried at each church.

 

[Calthrop]

In 2014, Penally was briefly a magnet for birdwatchers; thanks to a sojourn there by a rare vagrant, a Great Spotted Cuckoo. The Isles of Scilly (chief settlement Hugh Town) are, thanks to their geographical location, big on that same scene -- many specimens of bird species seldom seen in Britain, land up there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clevedon in Somerset also is involved in pilot gig racing events.

 

[D6130]

Worcester also has a church dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huddersfield in West Yorkshire also has a Quaker Meeting House.

 

[D6130]

Former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson was born in the Huddersfield suburb of Cowlersley, but was educated at the Wirral Grammar School for Boys in Bebington, which at that time was in Cheshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bannockburn in Stirling County is another settlement where a great historical battle was fought.

 

[Calthrop]

Horsham (West Sussex) also has a namesake settlement in Victoria, Australia.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Collyhurst in Manchester also lends its name to a particular strata of sandstone.

 

[D6130]

Comedian Les Dawson was born in Collyhurst on 2nd February 1931. He died on 10th June 1993 in Whalley range, South Manchester and is buried in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Castlebay on the Island of Barra also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady, Star of the Sea.

 

[D6130]

Castlebay was used as the main filming location for the 1949 comedy film "Whisky Galore", based on the eponymous book by Compton Mackenzie, who was born in West Hartlepool, Co. Durham.

 

[Calthrop]

Another "arts person" -- less famous, one feels, than "Mr. Whisky Galore" -- also born in West Hartlepool; was the figurative painter Margaret Green. She died in Saxtead, East Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holton in Suffolk also has a Post Mill.

 

[DerekC]

Holton lies on an ancient trackway which leads to Dunwich

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Minsmere in Suffolk is another settlement that has lost much of its original land area to historical coastal erosion.

 

[johnnychips]

I am not convinced that Minsmere is a settlement- it might well have been once - having referenced Wikipedia and Google Maps. However, if it is, Fairburn near Castleford is also adjacent to a bird reserve.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I am not convinced that Minsmere is a settlement- it might well have been once - having referenced Wikipedia and Google Maps. However, if it is, Fairburn near Castleford is also adjacent to a bird reserve.

I was of the opinion that having permanent staff on site at the RSPB there at Minsmere would constitute a settlement.

Whitehaven in Cumbria, like Fairburn, is another settlement in which alabaster deposits heve been quarried.

 

[johnnychips]

The poet William Wordsworth frequently visited Whitehaven but in his early years he was brought up in nearby Cockermouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Papcastle in Cumbria also lies of the line of the local River Derwent.

 

[Springs Branch]

Clapham in South London also has a pub named The Belle Vue.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tooting in South London was also once administered by the Hundred of Brixton

 

[Calthrop]

Corby also gives its name to a crater on Mars.

 

[johnnychips]

Stocksbridge is also known for steel-making.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Torquay in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Matthias.

 

[Calthrop]

Bude, Cornwall: is also mentioned in John Betjeman's poem The Town Clerk's Views -- views looking favourably upon the "uglifying and drearifying" of Britain, and thus abhorrent to the poet.

 

[D6130]

Eminent geographer Sir Dudley Stamp lived in Bude in retirement. He was born in Catford, South-East London.

 

[Calthrop]

Spike Milligan -- author / comic / performer -- attended school in Catford; and during his long career, made flights-of-fancy "reminiscence" involving Catford, part of his stock-in-trade. He died, aged 83, in Rye, East Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Robertsbridge in East Sussex also lies on the line of the River Rother.