Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

Colchester was also the location of a cavalry barracks established during the 19th century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wakes Colne in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Lexden.

 

[Calthrop]

Wakes Colne in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Lexden.

The bolded settlement is one among a "patch" of villages with "Colne" names -- set along the course of the eponymous river. There's one of these, a few miles west of Wakes Colne, with a name that I particularly like: Colne Engaine.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilmurry in County Cork also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[Calthrop]

Kilmurry in County Cork also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

The above-bolded would seem to be a popular name for communities in Munster: County Clare has two "by that name, or 'plus' " -- one a little way south of Miltown Malbay; another further east, not far from Sixmilebridge. Association-wise, I'll plump for the latter: full name Kilmurry-Negaul.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cregg in County Clare also has a holy well in its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Cregg in County Clare also has a holy well in its environs.

Cregg as above, would seem to be that Irish speciality the "townland" -- not a village in the sense we are used to in Great Britain, but a wide-ish area of scattered dwellings, mostly farms; with few traits to "latch on to". Close by is the village, of the kind which we're accustomed to, of Ballyvaughan. Said village's church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist; Frome, Somerset, has a church with the same dedicatee.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Evesham in Worcestershire is another settlement where a hoard of Roman coinage was discovered.

 

[Calthrop]

Arklow, Co. Wicklow, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Eure-et-Loir. Evesham's "twin" is Dreux; Arklow's, Chateaudun.

 

[341o2]

Arklow was founded by the Vikings, another Viking settlement was York where you may view the Lloyds Bank Turd

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ottringham in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Wilfrid.

 

[johnnychips]

Hovingham also had a minesweeper named after it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sinan in Denbighshire also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Calthrop]

Sinan in Denbighshire also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

With respect: Sinan would seem to be too small and obscure a location, to have anything -- at least for anyone not a "big-time church expert" -- to follow on from. If I might stretch things perhaps a bit drastically: the nearest settlement of significance to Sinan would seem to be Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire. Not far from that village, was Kinmel military camp; which accommodated numerous soldiers in World War I, including (not always happily) many from British Empire countries. The "World-War-I chaps from the Empire" feature, also applied to the Army camp at Bulford, Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Figheldean in Wiltshire also lies on the River Avon.

 

[Calthrop]

In the parish of Figheldean is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, traditionally called Robin Hood's Ball. That bloke gets around, often to places far distant from Sherwood -- at Pinkneys Green in Berkshire, are traces of an Iron Age farmstead with local name of Robin Hood's Arbour.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thaxted in Essex also has a Morris Dance Side.

 

[Calthrop]

The composer Gustav Holst lived in Thaxted from 1917 to 1925; he was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cambridge also hosts a major folk festival.

 

[Calthrop]

Cambridge has a namesake town in the Canadian province of Ontario; being a little creative -- so has (almost) Bracebridge Heath, Lincolnshire (just south of Lincoln) -- B.H. often referred to in times past, as just Bracebridge: like the name of the Canadian settlement.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Navenby in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Boothby Graffoe Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Alconbury, Cambridgeshire (near Huntingdon) also lies on the line of the Roman road Ermine Street.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Algakirk in Lincolnshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[Calthrop]

Algarkirk and its neighbouring village of Sutterton are indeed very close geographical neighbours: so much so, that their parish churches (St. Peter and St. Paul; and St Mary the Virgin, respectively) are only six or seven hundred metres apart. (The two villages were served until its closure in 1961, by Algarkirk & Sutterton station, on the Peterborough -- Grimsby line.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dogdyke in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Boston Poor Law Union.

 

[341o2]

Dogdyke is mentioned in the Flanders and Swann song "The Slow Train", the first station to be mentioned is

No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Mortehoe
On the slow train.....

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sturminster Newton in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[341o2]

Shillingstone also is on the route of the A357

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wool in Dorset also has a church that is named the Church of the Holy Rood.

 

[341o2]

Wool also has Woolbridge Manor House, the setting for part of Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Salisbury likewise for Jude the Obscure, where Sue Bridehead was on the station platform, and said you mustn't love me, just like me as she boarded the train and it departed.