Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Cirencester, Gloucestershire, also has a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

 

[Springs Branch]

Coventry also has a sister city located in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

 

[Calthrop]

Pete Waterman -- record producer and general "music person", and keen railway enthusiast -- was born in Coventry. One learns that he is a supporter of Walsall F.C.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Atherstone in Warwickshire also has historical connections to the leather trade.

 

[D6130]

Stockport, Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire) was also famous for the production of hats.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ledbury in Herefordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

John Masefield (1878 -- 1967): Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967, also author of numerous prose fiction works "to suit most tastes", was born in Ledbury; he died in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

 

[D6130]

Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire also had a factory producing high-performance sports cars.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newton Longville in Buckinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newport Pagnell Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Lanark is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Seine-Maritime. Newton Longville's "twin" is Longueville-sur-Scie; Lanark's, is Yvetot.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blantyre in South Lanarkshire also lies on the line of the River Clyde.

 

[Calthrop]

There is an iron suspension bridge which gives pedestrian access across the Clyde, from Blantyre to Bothwell; described by Wiki as a "conservation village", but which seems nevertheless to play host to plenty of real-life stuff.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey also has a ruined castle.

 

[Calthrop]

I like Tasmania ! Swansea also has a namesake settlement in that Australian island State.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ystalfera in the upper Swansea Valley region also lies on the line of the Swansea Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Ystalfera in the upper Swansea Valley region also lies on the line of the Swansea Canal.

Something that has occurred before in this game, which I find irresistible: in August 1915 Professor Firmin Swinnen, organist of Antwerp Cathedral, gave an organ recital in Ystalfera. Plainly, he had taken refuge in Britain from the spot of bother then occurring in his homeland. Fantasies prompted, about confrontation after the war, between the Prof.; and whoever had sweated it out under the occupation and taken his cathedral place -- but maybe both were decent about it, and arranged things without rancour. Many Belgians took refuge in Britain in World War I -- a large number who did so, spent the time in Dartford, Kent, and found employment there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Conwy also has a road tunnel under a river.

 

[Calthrop]

Just west of Conwy, is the location where golf is reckoned first to have been played on Welsh soil. Its Scottish counterpart -- considered the place where golf was first (in the 17th century) properly played in Scotland, and thus in the British Isles -- is near Musselburgh, East Lothian.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Granby in Nottinghamshire is another settlement where Roman altar stones were discovered.

 

[341o2]

The name Granby is derived from old Norse during the Viking occupation of England, likewise Slaithwaite near Huddersfield, derived from thvelt, a woodland clearing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stalybridge in Tameside also lies on the line of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.

 

[341o2]

Stalybridge was linked to Dunkinfield by the Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley & Dukinfield Joint Transport & Electricity Board. When the trams were replaced by trolleybuses, it never owned any trolleybuses itself but used those of Manchester Corporation and Ashton Under Lyme.

 

[Calthrop]

Dukinfields's coat of arms features a wheatsheaf; the coat of arms of Northwich features three of same. (An aside: on a "bash" in the last days of B.R. steam, involving a working which served among other places, Dukinfield; one of my companions quipped, "as opposed to duck-in-pond". Don't give up your day job, old chap...)

 

[D6130]

Middlewich in Cheshire was also a centre for the salt mining and processing industry.

 

[Calthrop]

Newbury, Berkshire, was also the scene of First and Second Battles in the English Civil War.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heptonstall in West Yorkshire is another settlement that had a medieval period Cloth Hall.

 

[D6130]

American poet Sylvia Plath is buried in one of the two churchyards in Heptonstall. Her erstwhile husband, Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, was born in nearby Mytholmroyd, but moved with his family to Mexborough in South Yorkshire at an early age,

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Conisbrough also lies on the line of the River Don.

 

[D6130]

Rochester in Kent also has an impressive Norman castle.

 

[Calthrop]

The King's School, Rochester, is reckoned to be the second-oldest continuously running school in the world (founded 604 A.D.) The oldest -- by a fairly small margin -- is considered to be the school of the same name, in not-far-distant Canterbury.