Settlement Association

[341o2]

Catterick has a racecourse as does Salisbury

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tisbury in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Nadder.

 

[DerekC]

Tisbury has a small fire station operated by Dorset Fire & Rescue Service. Maintenance of the vehicle fleet is carried out at Charminster, Dorset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cerne Abbas in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Cerne.

 

[D6130]

Wilmington in East Sussex also has a prominent ancient figure of a gigantic man carved into a chalk hillside.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Folkington in East Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Longbridge.

 

[Calthrop]

Nicholas Culpeper, the 17th-century botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer, lived in Folkington at an early stage of his life; he was born, however, in Ockley, Surrey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bignor in West Sussex also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Stane Street.

 

[D6130]

Lullingstone in Kent also has the well-preserved remains of a Roman villa.

 

[Calthrop]

Lullingstone in Kent also has the well-preserved remains of a Roman villa.

You beat me just by a whisker, as regards responding villas-wise ! (I was looking at going north-west, rather than north-east).

Lullingstone was chosen in 1937, as the site for a proposed large airport serving London; the outbreak of World War II caused the project to be abandoned. A few decades later: Cublington, Buckinghamshire, was one of several neighbouring villages whose area was chosen for what would be London's third airport -- there was vehement local opposition to the plan; the airport was ultimately sited elsewhere, viz. Stansted. (I don't know how upset the people of Lullingstone were in 1937, about what was then proposed.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maids Moreton in Buckinghamshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Buckingham.

 

[Calthrop]

Wiki tells us that Maids Moreton's 15th-century parish church (dedicated to St. Edmund) is said to have been built by two maiden ladies (commemorated in the church) of the local Pever family: hence the village's name. Close to the opposite end of Buckinghamshire -- in Berkshire, near Bracknell -- is the village of Maiden's Green: which one figures would likely also have an explanatory story; but in this case, Wiki does not tell any such.

 

[341o2]

East Dulwich has Goose Green, described as a beautiful park within reach of the City of London

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Dulwich Hamlet FC play at Champion Hill, East Dulwich and are currently members of the National League South, the sixth tier of English football.
Concord Rangers FC are in the same league, and are based in the civil parish and reclaimed island of Canvey Island, Essex.

 

[Calthrop]

Crovie, Aberdeenshire (some way east of Banff) was also particularly hard-hit by the 1953 North Sea floods.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Unlike the similar neighbouring village of Pennan, Crovie is situated on such a narrow ledge that any cars have to be left at the south of the village. A footpath along the shore to the west leads to neighbouring village of Gardenstown.

 

[Calthrop]

There took place in 1004 near present-day Gardenstown, the Battle of the Bloody Pits; in which a Scottish force defeated Danish raiders / invaders. A little over a century earlier, the boot was on the other foot at the Battle of Dollar, now in Clackmannanshire, in 875: the local folk, the "men of Alban", lost to the Danes -- followed by great territorial gains for the latter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cupar in Fife also lies on the route of the A91 road.

 

[341o2]

Cupar has probably the oldest nine hole golf course Betws-y-Coed also has a course where the 10th hole is the club house bar

 

[Calthrop]

Betws-y-Coed has a "fish pass" or fish ladder -- to help fish get upstream to spawn -- on the River Conwy. There is a similar facility at Marsh Weir on the Thames, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitby in North Yorkshire also hosts an annual regatta.

 

[Calthrop]

Calstock, Cornwall; also has a namesake settlement in Ontario, Canada.

 

[D6130]

Saltash, Cornwall, also lies on the banks of the River Tamar.

 

[Calthrop]

The Cornish name of Padstow -- Lannwedheneck -- would appear; like Saltash's Cornish name, Essa: to be completely unrelated to the place's more familiar English-style title.

 

[DerekC]

The "'Obby 'Oss" procession in Padstow is well known and attracts large numbers of tourists. Less well known is the "Hobby Horse" festival in Banbury, a modern creation which features ritual animals from all over the British Isles.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Charlbury in Oxfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Banbury.

 

[Springs Branch]

Deddington in Oxfordshire was also once a centre for clockmaking, largely carried out by the Quaker community.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Charlton-on-Otmoor in Oxfordshire also has a thoroughfare called The Tchure. (This is a dialect word for an alley).

 

[Calthrop]

Charlton-on-Otmoor in Oxfordshire also has a thoroughfare called The Tchure. (This is a dialect word for an alley).

Charlton-on-Otmoor lies on a ridge of what geologists call the Cornbrash Formation: a band of shelly limestone which runs from Weymouth to the Yorkshire coast. (As regards "Cornbrash"; department of out-of-the-way names -- as our Scottish friends might say, "whaur's ye're Tchures the noo?" )

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holyhead is also a ferry port.