Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Two very different places mentioned in poems expressing acute nostalgia, written in the decade of the 1910's. Rupert Brooke's Grantchester, circa 1912, is of course a poetic "household word". And there's a less-well-known offering by the less-well-known poet John Macleod, written while serving in the Balkans in World War I and distilling in few words, great longing for his "native heath" in the Tain / Dornoch area. (Macleod was luckier than Brooke, in that he survived the war and saw his beloved scenes again.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Linton in Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the River Granta.

 

[Calthrop]

Gunnislake, Cornwall, is also only just in its county, lying on the border of a neighbouring one (Linton, Cambridgeshire / Essex; Gunnislake, Cornwall / Devon).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pancrasweek in Devon also lies on the line of the River Tamar.

 

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Pancrasweek is on an unnamed road which leads at it's southern end to the A3072. This is a long, meandering A-road running from Devon into North Cornwall passing through the market town of Stratton in Cornwall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Treglasta in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Stratton.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Treglasta lies on the River Inny, a small river in east Cornwall. It is a tributary of the River Tamar and is about twenty miles long from its source near Davidstow on the eastern flank of Bodmin Moor to its confluence with the Tamar.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Perranworthal in Cornwall also has one of the many holy wells of Cornwall.

 

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Perranworthal's 15th-century Anglican parish church dedicated to Saint Piran was rebuilt to the design of James Piers St Aubyn between 1881 and 1882, at a cost of £1,200. At the same time, St Aubyn was designing St Peter's Church in Noss Mayo, Devon.

 

[Calthrop]

Noss Mayo occurs, we learn, in a list of Devon's twenty prettiest towns and villages, compiled by participants in the Visit Devon website. There is another "Devon twenty prettiest" list, put together by the Anglophile magazine; which doesn't include Noss Mayo, but features another settlement in the county with, in my opinion, a matchingly odd-ish name -- Washford Pyne, north of Crediton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thelbridge in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Witheridge,

 

[Calthrop]

Northampton also has a church dedicated to St. David.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gloucester also has a Guildhall.

 

[Calthrop]

Folk- or fairy-tales with similar models title-wise, involve the Tailor of Gloucester; and the Pedlar of Swaffham (Norfolk). In the former (immortalised by Beatrix Potter) the Tailor finishes his job in the nick of time, thanks to murine assistance; in the latter, the Pedlar has a dream, following the instructions in which enables him to find an impressive treasure hoard.

 

[johnnychips]

The comedian Harry Hill mercilessly persecutes Swaffham in You’ve Been Framed. He was born in Woking.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dogmersfield in Hampshire also lies on the line of the Basingstoke Canal.

 

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Dogmersfield House, originally built by the St John-Mildmays in 1727, was occupied by Reed's School in the mid-1900s. It is an independent secondary boarding school for boys with a mixed sixth form and is now located in Cobham, Surrey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walton-on-Thames in Surrey was also once administered by the Hundred of Elmbridge.

 

[Calthrop]

Julie Andrews was born in Walton-on-Thames. In 1992 she had named after her an "orangey-salmon-pink" rose at the Chelsea Flower Show.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bath also lends its name to a type of bun.

 

[Calthrop]

Leeds is another of the ten English cities most visited by overseas tourists in 2019. (I'm sure Leeds is a splendid place; but I was a bit surprised to see it featuring thus.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gargrave in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Aire.

 

[D6130]

Adlington in Lancashire also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brindle in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Leyland.

 

[Calthrop]

The London Borough of Enfield also has a church dedicated to St. James.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winchester also lends its name to a type of rifle.

 

[Calthrop]

Ely also shares its name with a settlement in the US State of Nevada.

 

[johnnychips]

Ely is an ‘isle’ though surrounded by land. Similar is the Isle of Axholme, in which Epworth is the largest settlement.

 

[D6130]

Epworth was the birthplace of John and Charles Wesley, the founders of Methodism. Both brothers were educated at Oxford University.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hillmorton in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the Oxford Canal.