Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Stowe Nine Churches was also once administered by the Hundred of Fawsley.

At Upper Stowe, part of the Stowe Nine Churches "complex": an experiment carried out Feb. 25th / 26th 1935, played a big part in demonstrating the principles of radar to be a practical possibility. The experiment involved having fly overhead a member of the RAF's then largest-size plane class, the Handley Page Heyford bomber (the "bigness", relevant to the procedure); said aircraft had taken off from the then Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, Hampshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southend is another settlement that hosts an airshow.

 

[Calthrop]

Southend's coat of arms -- with the motto Per Mare Per Ecclesiam = "by the sea and by the church" has as supporters, a fisherman holding a net; and a figure who is presumably a churchman (looking to me, I confess, more like a pirate ). Cambridge's coat of arms also has something of a maritime touch (though the city can only ever have been a river port, if any kind of port at all): its supporters being two stylised and heraldic seahorses.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Great.

 

[Calthrop]

I have seen it suggested that Sawbridgeworth's name is nothing to do with saws or bridges; but refers, as of many centuries back, to the farm of a chap called Seabright or approximation thereto. Similarly "not what it might sound like" -- Moggerhanger, Bedfordshire (just east of Bedford) has no relevance to any cruel executer-by-hanging, of cats; but the "mogger" comes from an Old English root which could mean bog or marsh; and the other part, from Old English hangra = slope.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ellesmere Port in Cheshire West and Chester also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[Springs Branch]

Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire is also the location of a canal museum.

 

[D6130]

Cromford in Derbyshire also has a pub called the Boat Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Parwich in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Wirksworth Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Little Aston, Staffordshire -- near Lichfield -- also has a church dedicated to St. Peter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prestbury in Cheshire East is another settlement with many houses in the "seven-figure" price bracket.

 

[Calthrop]

Pilning in South Gloucestershire, just outside Bristol; also has pubs called the King's Arms, and the Plough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has an Indian Orthodox Church.

 

[D6130]

Gloucester is also the terminus of a ship canal (from Sharpness).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northampton also has a Guildhall.

 

[D6130]

Peterborough also lies on the River Nene.

 

[Calthrop]

Spalding, Lincolnshire, also has a namesake settlement in South Australia. (Oddly enough, the English and Australian pairs are both fairly near each other.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Market Harborough in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Welland.

 

[DerekC]

Market Harborough has got in on the current fashion for ghost walks. So has Pluckley in Kent, which claims to be the most haunted village in England so presumably should have the best!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thursley in Surrey also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Greensand Way.

 

[Calthrop]

Thursley, and Thurstaston (Wirral) both have some involvement name-wise, with "him with the hammer". Thursley is reckoned derived from "lea of the god Thor"; Thurstaston, believed to be from the Old Norse personal name Thorstein (thus referencing the god), and Old English tun = farm, village. (The name was long erroneously thought to mean "Thor's Stone", after a nearby red sandstone outcrop.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Landican in Merseyside was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirral

 

[Calthrop]

Landican has a cemetery of some size and note; which also has a substantial population of wild hares. Another good hare location is the Wildlife & Wetlands Trust reserve at Welney, Norfolk -- near March.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mepal in Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the Old Bedford River.

 

[Calthrop]

Mepal has a pub called The Three Pickerels. This particular fish as a pub-naming theme, seems to be an East Anglian thing -- several settlements in that area (Stowmarket, Suffolk, for one) have a pub called the Pickerel (singular); no pubs -- anyway, none easily found -- anywhere else in Britain, sporting that piscine name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saffron Walden in Essex is another settlement where a Corn Exchange was built.

 

[Calthrop]

Cheating a bit, maybe -- "Saffron Walden" is the name of a hymn tune; seemingly by a prolific composer of such who lived in those parts, and named them after local settlements. There is also a hymn tune called "Nettleton"; I gather not actually after a settlement, but after the composer's surname. There are nonetheless two Nettletons in England: in Wiltshire, and in Lincolnshire. Since I like Lincolnshire, I'll plump for that county's Nettleton -- north of Market Rasen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swinhope in Lincolnshire was also once under jurisdiction of the Caistor Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Swinhope lies just off the B1203 road; some way south-west, directly on said road: is Tealby, Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanddona in Anglesey is another settlement where a hoard of medieval period silver coins were discovered.