Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harringay in North London was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ossulstone.

 

[Calthrop]

Harringay has a pub called the Salisbury -- a Grade II listed building. There is a similarly-named pub, the Salisbury Arms, in -- would you believe it? -- Salisbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigtown in Dumfries & Galloway also hosts an annual literary festival.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wigtown was the county town of one of the historic counties of Scotland.
Another former centre of an eponymous historic Scottish county is Banff (now part of Aberdeenshire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Berwick in East Lothian was also created a Royal Burgh by King Robert II in the 14th century.

 

[D6130]

North Berwick in East Lothian was also created a Royal Burgh by King Robert II in the 14th century.

Dumgoyne, in the former county of Stirling, is also overlooked by a prominent volcanic 'plug'.

 

[Calthrop]

Port of Menteith ("Stirling", likewise) also lies on the A81 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dykehead also in the Stirling region also lies on the route of the B8034 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Dykehead also in the Stirling region also lies on the route of the B8034 road.

Scotland seems perfectly "lousy with places called Dykehead" -- a bit of an exaggeration: I count three (none of them settlements of great size or note): viz., the above-bolded; Dykehead (Angus); and perhaps the least obscure -- Dykehead (North Lanarkshire), which rather comes as a package deal with the adjacent and better-known town of Shotts.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blaenavon in Torfaen County Borough is another settlement where its ironworks was a source of local employment.

 

[DerekC]

Big Pit in Blaenavon is now a mining museum (well worth a visit). Sholden in Kent also has such a museum, at the site of the former Betteshanger Colliery.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goodnestone in Kent also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Miner's Way Trail.

 

[Calthrop]

The academic and ghost-story-writer M.R. James (1862 -- 1936) was born at Goodnestone, where his father was a curate. He died at Eton, Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harrow in the Greater London area also has a noted public school.

 

[Springs Branch]

Harrow has been described as the "capital city of Metro-Land", so would no doubt have pleased former Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman.

At the opposite end of the spectrum for Betjeman's approval ("Come friendly bombs . . . .") was Slough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leamington Spa in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the Grand Union Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Leamington Spa's chief hospital (closed in 1993) was called the Warneford Hospital. A name (Warneford), shared by the principal mental hospital of Oxford (the name having been, there, something of a byword among the unkind). Both establishments were named after Samuel Wilson Warneford (1763 -- 1855). As rather often -- the solemnly batty prose which Wiki tends to use to tell of the doings of the clergy, is irresistible to quote at some length: "[Warneford] was an astute and eccentric English cleric and philanthropist from an old but generally impoverished family. He married into money ... and thereafter spent his life trying to dispose of his fortune to the benefit of religious, educational and medical causes in England and abroad. A zealot, long widowed and childless, his domestic life was frugal and he left nothing to his family,"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fenny Compton also lies on the line of the Oxford Canal.

 

[D6130]

Cropredy in Oxfordshire also lies on the (very wiggly) line of the Oxford Canal.

You just beat me to it by a second!

 

[D6130]

Dartford in Kent also has a pub called the Wharf.

 

[Calthrop]

Chesterfield, Derbyshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Hesse. Dartford's "twin" is Hanau; Chesterfield's is Darmstadt.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Windsor in Berkshire has also lent its name to an item of furniture.

 

[D6130]

Crathie in Aberdeenshire is also the site of a royal castle (Balmoral).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bristol also has a bridge that was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

 

[D6130]

Nottingham was also once a noted centre for the manufacture of tobacco products.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Honiton in Devon also has connections to the making of lace.

 

[D6130]

Wakefield in West Yorkshire is also having an up-coming parliamentary by-election.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Calthrop]

Raymond Priestley (1886 -- 1974), geologist on Scott's ill-fated 1910 --13 Antarctic expedition: was born in Tewkesbury. Another significant participant in that expedition (and also in Shackleton's 1914 -- 16 Antarctic venture) was Tom Crean (1877 -- 1938), born in Annascaul in the Dingle Peninsula of County Kerry -- joining the Royal Navy, led Crean on to polar exploits. After retiring from such doings, Crean became the proprietor back in Annascaul, of a pub which he called the South Pole Inn. (Irrelevant here, but possibly interesting, item: said hostelry was right by the track, and the Annascaul station, of the 3ft. gauge Tralee & Dingle rail line.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cloghane in County Kerry also lies on the route of the long-distance trail known as the Dingle Way.