Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Great Eversden possesses a "Holbein Farm" which seems a curious name. Even stranger, the only other one that comes up on Google is a few miles away at Hatley St George, Cambridgeshire.

Hatley St. George's church is, a little oddly, not dedicated to St. George (that element comes from the name of the St. George family, local landowners for many centuries); but to St. James the Greater. Leicester also has a church dedicated to that saint.

 

[D6130]

Cheddar in Somerset is another settlement after which is named a type of cheese.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Garstang in Lancashire also has a Market Cross.

 

[341o2]

Garstang is the world's first Fairtrade town, there are now some 600 other communities, and the most south westerly in the UK is Falmouth

 

[Calthrop]

Jamaica has -- not far from Falmouth -- another settlement which is a namesake of a UK one: Wakefield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire was also the scene of a battle during the Wars of the Roses.

 

[Calthrop]

In John Moore's to me delightful novel trilogy -- lightly-fictionalised accounts of his childhood and younger manhood in the Tewkesbury area: Tewkesbury features, under the name of "Elmbury"; also playing a prominent part, is the village of Bredon (under Bredon Hill) -- to which Moore, in the books, gives the name of Brensham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wychbury in Worcestershire also has an obelisk.

 

[Calthrop]

Wychbury in Worcestershire also has an obelisk.

If I may make so bold -- also in Worcestershire, and with a name bearing a more than slight resemblance, is Wychbold; near Droitwich Spa.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northwich in Cheshire West & Chester is another settlement where medieval period salt pans were in use.

 

[Calthrop]

Northwich's civic motto is -- appropriately -- Sal est Vita = "salt is life". Solihull, West Midlands, also has a rather charming Latin motto: Urbs in Rure = "a town in the country".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitstable in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Alphege.

 

[Calthrop]

Oh, dear, one of my "defaults": Ely, Cambridgeshire, is also twinned with a settlement in Denmark. Whitstable's "twin" is Albertslund; Ely's is Esbjerg.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Guilsborough in Northamptonshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Etheldreda.

 

[Calthrop]

Spooky-and-scary beings -- of which some fine ones show up in this game... We learn of Black Annis, reputed to haunt the Leicestershire countryside: per Wiki, "a blue-faced hag or witch with iron claws and a taste for human flesh, especially children". Guilsborough, not very far to the south, was said to have a counterpart / relation? of Black Annis, who dwelt in Pell's Pool close by the village; local parents warned their children to avoid said body of water. The original or "proper" Black Annis was said to reside in a cave near Glenfield, just west of Leicester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peatling Magna in Leicestershire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Guthlaxton.

 

[DerekC]

Peatling Magna is on the Leicestershire Round (very roughly) circular footpath. On the opposite side of Leicester it passes through the village of Mountsorrel.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wanlip in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Soar.

 

[Springs Branch]

There is also a church dedicated to Our Lady and St Nicholas in Liverpool.

Not inappropriate, given St Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors.
The church is also the parish church of Liverpool, and was for a time the tallest building in the city.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Norwich also has both Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals.

 

[341o2]

Delia Smith (cook and TV presenter) is a well known supporter of Norwich FC, she was born in Woking

 

[Calthrop]

Woking is popular with such exponents of the "Uxbridge English Dictionary" game, as Douglas Adams and Paul Jennings -- being taken by them as having connotations of feeling dozy, un-alert and not properly awake. Jennings is my favourite practitioner of this particular form of whimsy -- I love many of his "definitions"; including that for Leek, Staffordshire: "very cold".

 

[DerekC]

James Brindley, famed as the engineer of the Bridgewater Canal and facilitator and designer of many other schemes, lived in Leek in his early adulthood. He later became one of the most renowned engineers of the 18th Century. He died and was buried at Turnhurst, Staffordshire. The epitaph appearing in the Cheshire Courant seems very appropriate although of doubtful merit poetically:

JAMES BRINDLEY lies amongst these Rocks,
He made Canals, Bridges, and Locks,
To convey Water; he made Tunnels
for Barges, Boats, and Air-Vessels;
He erected several Banks,
Mills, Pumps, Machines, with Wheels and Cranks;
He was famous t'invent Engines,
Calculated for working Mines;
He knew Water, its Weight and Strength,
Turn'd Brooks, made Soughs to a great Length;
While he used the Miners' Blast,
He stopp'd Currents from running too fast;
There ne'er was paid such Attention
As he did to Navigation.
But while busy with Pit or Well,
His Spirits sunk below Level;
And, when too late, his Doctor found,
Water sent him to the Ground.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

James Brindley lived in Turnhurst Hall between 1765 and his death in 1772. During this time, he mixed with some of the finest minds in England, as his friend Josiah Wedgwood FRS (1730 – 1795), the English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist, introduced him to the eminent physician and polymath Erasmus Darwin and other illustrious members of the Lunar Circle. Josiah Wedgwood founded the Wedgwood company in 1759 and died on 3rd January 1795 (aged 64) in Etruria, Staffordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Amberley in West Sussex also has a working industrial museum.

 

[341o2]

The River Arun flows through Arundel.also through Pulborough

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ewell in Surrey also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Stane Street.

 

[Calthrop]

James Brindley, famed as the engineer of the Bridgewater Canal and facilitator and designer of many other schemes, lived in Leek in his early adulthood. He later became one of the most renowned engineers of the 18th Century. He died and was buried at Turnhurst, Staffordshire. The epitaph appearing in the Cheshire Courant seems very appropriate although of doubtful merit poetically:

As per quote -- mmm ... one kind-of imagines William McGonagall's grandfather making a trip south of the Border, and happening to be on hand at the time of Mr. Brindley's demise ...

 

[Calthrop]

Ewell in Surrey also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Stane Street.

Close by Ewell is Nonsuch Park, which formerly contained the now vanished royal Nonsuch Palace. There was also a no-longer-in-existence royal residence at Woodstock, Oxfordshire; razed in the early 18th century to make way for the Duke of Marlborough's new Blenheim Palace, which is still of course with us today.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glympton in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Glyme.