Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Godshill on the Isle of Wight also has a church with medieval wall paintings.

 

[Calthrop]

Irnham, Lincolnshire -- between Grantham and Bourne -- also has a pub called the Griffin.

 

[DerekC]

At the Irnham celebrations of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee on 5th June, live music will be provided by the Stamford Stompers Dixieland Jazz Band.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln was another of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw.

 

[Springs Branch]

Oxford also has an educational institution which was given university status in 1992.
(Oxford Brookes University)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cambridge is another settlement that was once affected by an outbreak of Sweating Sickness.

 

[Calthrop]

Twin settlements in Hungary: Cambridge has Szeged (seat of a venerable university, it seems). Cheating just a little bit: the city of Debrecen is apparently twinned with Limerick County -- can we adapt that to Limerick city?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilrush in County Clare also lies on the line of the River Shannon.

 

[Calthrop]

Kilrush is good for dolphin-watching; a pod of bottlenose dolphins frequent the waters a little way off the town -- regular sailings are offered, for visitors to see them. Dingle, Co. Kerry -- not all that far away "per crow" -- has also been of note concerning this species of dolphin. This was in the shape of "Fungie", a bottlenose dolphin who became separated from his fellows, and lived "solo", in close contact with humans, off Dingle: for the period 1983 -- 2020, after which it is reckoned that he either died, or moved away.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Jacobstow in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St James.

 

[Calthrop]

Can't resist this (had never heard of either up to a couple of minutes ago) -- Jacobstow, Cornwall: has an almost-namesake in the next-door county -- Jacobstowe, Devon (near Okehampton).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Monkokehampton in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Black Torrington.

 

[Calthrop]

Monkokehampton in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Black Torrington.

High Bickington, Devon, is also situated on the B3217 road. (Per Wiki, Monkokehampton is shown in the Domesday Book as "Monacochamentona". Looks like somewhere in the Andes ...)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yarnscombe in Devon was also once under the jurisdiction of the Torrington Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Holt (Norfolk) also has a church dedicated to St. Andrew.

 

[DerekC]

Holt has a pineapple-topped obelisk, one of a pair which once adorned the entrance to Melton Constable Park. The other went to Dereham, Norfolk. However the townspeople of Dereham dumped theirs down a disused well at the beginning of WWII, thinking it might give invading German armies a clue to their location. It is still there!

 

[D6130]

Little Fransham in Norfolk also lies on the line of the A47 trunk road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bawdeswell in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: one of the tale-tellers, the Reeve, is referred to as coming from Bawdeswell. The notably racy Miller's Tale in that work, is set in Trumpington near Cambridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bidford-on-Avon in Warwickshire also has the site of an Anglo-Saxon burial ground within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Bidford-on-Avon has a dwelling-house -- Listed Building Grade II -- which was formerly the Falcon Inn, where Shakespeare is said to have drunk. Withernwick, East Riding of Yorkshire -- near Hornsea -- also has a Falcon Inn (still in business), which one reckons was probably never frequented by Will (though there are parts of his early life which are a bit of a mystery).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Macclesfield in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Alban.

 

[D6130]

Macclesfield in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Alban.

Leek in Staffordshire also has historical connections with the silk weaving industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Froghall in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Churnet.

 

[Calthrop]

"Fun with amphibians" -- some twenty miles east of Froghall: is Toadmoor, Derbyshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alderwasley in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Belper Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

In times past, the illegal clipping of precious-metal coins flourished in Alderwasley: it appears that the village's whole set of church plate was made from clippings of silver coins of Charles I. In the following century, a gang based in Cragg Vale, Calderdale, West Yorkshire: were also active in this misdemeanour.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Friendly in West Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Halifax Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Friendly has -- most appropriately -- a pub called the Friendly Inn. Frankton, Warwickshire (near Rugby) has a pub of the same name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wibtoft in Warwickshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Knightlow.