Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York also has an archbishop.

 

[Calthrop]

Radstock also gives its name to a cape on Australia's coast (Capes York and Radstock, in Queensland and South Australia respectively).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Over Stratton in South Somerset also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Fosse Way.

 

[Calthrop]

Tunbridge Wells, Kent, also has a pub called the Royal Oak.

 

[D6130]

Harrogate in North Yorkshire is also a noted spa town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York also has a branch of the iconic Betty's Tea Rooms.

 

[D6130]

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[D6130]

York also has a branch of the iconic Terry's Tea Rooms.

Did you mean the iconic Betty's Tea Rooms?....not that it makes any difference to the association thread.

Beverley in East Yorkshire also has a minster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Did you mean the iconic Betty's Tea Rooms?....not that it makes any difference to the association there

A price I have paid as an avid eater of Terry's Chocolate Orange, plus the obvious chocolate connection to York...posting now edited.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beverley in East Yorkshire also has a minster.

Filey in North Yorkshire is another settlement to have suffered damages to the town caused by the Dogger Bank earthquake of 7th June 1931.

 

[Calthrop]

Leo Blair, father of former P.M. Tony Blair, was born in Filey. Tony himself was born in Edinburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nottingham also has a modern tramway system.

 

[Calthrop]

One which I've wanted to do for a long while: Hermitage (Scottish Borders) is also associated with a folklore villain of considerable infamy. With Nottingham, it is of course Robin Hood's adversary the Sheriff; re the Scottish community -- Hermitage Castle, to which it is the nearest settlement, was the seat of Earl William de Soulis (nicknamed "Terrible William"): an extremely unpleasant chap.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandholm in the Scottish Borders also lies on the route of the B6399 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Kershopefoot, in Cumbria (just !) is also on the Liddel Water: at the point where that stream is joined by the Kershope Burn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nicholforest in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the very large area of the Carlisle Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Nicholforest's church is dedicated -- unsurprisingly -- to St. Nicholas. Kings Norton (West Midlands) has a church dedicated to the same saint.

 

[341o2]

Kings Norton was originally in Worcestershire until absorbed into Birmingham, likewise Enfield was originally in Middlesex, most of which became part of Greater London. (I first thought of Potters Bar, which became part of Hertfordshire)

 

[Calthrop]

Kings Norton was originally in Worcestershire until absorbed into Birmingham, likewise Enfield was originally in Middlesex, most of which became part of Greater London. (I first thought of Potters Bar, which became part of Hertfordshire)

There is another Enfield, in the Republic of Ireland -- in Co. Meath, a little under 30 miles west of Dublin. It was called Innfield until the late 19th Century: when a new postmaster took up office there; he came from the Enfield in England, and decided to switch to the same name for his new Irish domain.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mullingar in County Westmeath also lies on the line of the Royal Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

The author James Joyce would seem to have had quite a "thing" about Mullingar. The town gets a fair number of mentions in his novel Ulysses; the opening of which, features the south Dublin suburb of Sandycove.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Campile in County Wexford was another neutral Republic of Ireland settlement to be bombed by the Luftwaffe in error during WWII.

 

[Calthrop]

Campile lies close by the R733 road. Wellingtonbridge, Co. Wexford, some miles to the east, is located on that road.

 

[DerekC]

Amongst police stations burned down by the Anti-Treaty IRA during the 1922 Civil War were the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks at Wellingtonbridge and Taghmon, Co Wexford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballinabranna in County Carlow also has a church that is dedicated to St Fintan.

 

[Calthrop]

The highly educational Wikipedia tells us that Ballinabranna is nowadays a nucleated village (it hasn't always been one): viz. a settlement where the houses are grouped closely together around a central feature such as a church, pub, or village green. Another example of a village of this kind, cited by Wiki, is Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire -- just south of Ely.

 

[341o2]

Little Thetford has the Fish and Duck pub, while Plymouth has The Firkin Doghouse

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Plymouth is famous for being the final departure port of the Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, the English settlers who went to North America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts, named after the city. However, they originally left from Southampton on two vessels, the Speedwell and the Mayflower, on 5th August (old style) / 15th August (new style).

Soon after, the Speedwell's crew reported that their ship was taking on water, so both were diverted to Dartmouth in Devon, where the crew inspected Speedwell for leaks and sealed them, but their second attempt to depart got them only as far as Plymouth, where the ship was found to be unseaworthy and sold. The "proper" journey thus began from there a few days later.

 

[D6130]

Most of the so-called Pilgrim Fathers came originally from Scrooby in Nottinghamshire and originally sailed from Boston, Lincolnshire, to the Netherlands....settling for a while in Leiden, before making their way to Southampton to join the ships heading for the New World.

 

[Calthrop]

Most of the so-called Pilgrim Fathers came originally from Scrooby in Nottinghamshire and originally sailed from Boston, Lincolnshire, to the Netherlands....settling for a while in Leiden, before making their way to Southampton to join the ships heading for the New World.

North Elmham, Norfolk, also has a preserved village pound or "pinfold"; formerly for the lodging of stray domestic animals, pending decision on what to do with them.

(I greatly like the village name Scrooby -- always brings to mind for me, Edward Lear's nonsense adjective "scroobious". One wonders whether the word was suggested to Lear, by the name of the village.)