Settlement Association

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The Church of St David is the town's Roman Catholic Church, and is part of the Dolgellau Deanery. In its grounds is a sculpture of St David in Welsh slate by John Stephen Skelton MBE FRS (8 1923 – 1999). His public work includes the headstone to the British poet Edward James (1907 – 1984) at West Dean in West Sussex.

 

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Binderton in West Sussex was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Singleton.

 

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Petworth also has a derelict chapel

 

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Barlavington in West Sussex was also once administered by the Saxon Hundred of Rutherbridge,

 

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Barlavington is on an unclassified but named (mostly Folly Lane) road which leads onto the A285 road. about four miles south of Petworth, West Sussex. This road heads south, and passes through the scattered settlement and civil Parish of Upwaltham.

 

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Market Lavington also has a museum depicting rural life in the past

 

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Why was both Petworth and Barlavington mentioned twice in three postings a very short time ago?

 

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Why was both Petworth and Barlavington mentioned twice in three postings a very short time ago?

My apologies ... I've changed my suggestion is post no. 26,524.

 

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Assuming we are now at Upwaltham, its church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin is known as "The Church in the Field". The great storm of 1987 blew down almost every tree in the vicinity. Another town to be changed by the same storm was Sevenoaks, which lost nearly all of the seven trees which gave it its name

 

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Bolton, Greater Manchester, also has a twin settlement in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Sevenoaks's "twin" is Rheinbach. Bolton's is Paderborn; whose inhabitants are traditionally reputed to be a miserable and surly lot -- traits which one hopes are not attributed to the folk of Bolton !

 

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Oxford also has an elephant as a symbol in its settlement coat of arms.

 

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Brandon, Suffolk: also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Mississippi. (The Deep South's Oxford is, appropriately, the location of the University of Mississippi; which tends to be -- often unjustly, one suspects -- ridiculed by folk from many supposedly more cultured and enlightened States.)

 

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Ogmore-by-Sea in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

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The Cardiff-born poet Dannie Abse (1923 - 2014) wrote a number of poems about or referencing "Ogmore-by-Sea" and other parts of the surrounding South Wales countryside. He lived for several decades in the north-west area of London, mainly near Hampstead, where he had considerable ties. For several years he wrote a column for the local Hampstead and Highgate Express, and these articles subsequently appeared in book form.

 

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Towcester in Northamptonshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Watling Street.

 

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Wall, Staffordshire -- near Lichfield -- also lies on the ancient route Watling Street.

 

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Towcester in Northamptonshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Watling Street.

David Sharp (1840 -- 1922), physician and entomologist -- author of many learned papers on the latter subject -- was born in Towcester. He spent his last years in Brockenhurst, in the -- no doubt insect-rich -- New Forest.

 

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

 

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As I'm fond of remarking here (essentially tongue-in-cheek) -- Americans just can't spell place-names ! Beverly (no "e") in Massachusetts, USA, was at its founding, named after Beverley (East Riding); and its name begat in turn, later in history, the Los Angeles (California) neighbourhood of Beverly Hills. Another well-known L.A. neighbourhood, is Hollywood; which has a spelt-not-quite-the-same-way semi-namesake in these islands: Holywood, Co. Down -- a little way out of Belfast, alongside Belfast Lough. (No naming-after, here; the California Hollywood's founder, at its inception a little before moving pictures, chose the name because it sounded nice and because holly is supposed to be lucky !)

 

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Cultra near Holywood is the home of the Ulster Transport Museum, ranging from a DeLorean car to a Clogher Valley railcar. The Transport Museum at Wythall, Worcestershire, houses an extensive collection of buses.

 

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The rather intellectually-daunting travel writer and novelist Bruce Chatwin (1940 -- 89)'s primary-school education, was at Wythall. Later for him on the educational front, was his being a pupil at the public school of Marlborough College, Wiltshire.

 

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Hungerford in Berkshire also lies on the line of the River Kennet.

 

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Thomas Hardy stuff -- touched on by me in this game, last year; a less straightforward matter, than I'd then thought. It appears that in Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure (a "misery-fest" even by his standards): there is disagreement as to whether his town of "Kennetbridge" in that work, is a fictionalisation of Hungerford; or of Newbury (Berkshire) a little way to the east.

 

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Southwell in Nottinghamshire also has a racecourse.

 

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Fiskerton in Nottinghamshire also lies on the line of the River Greet.

 

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Little Kingshill, Buckinghamshire -- near Amersham -- also has a pub called the Full Moon.

 

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Chesham Bois in Buckinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Amersham Poor Law Union.

 

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Chesham Bois has a mixed state school called Elangeni School. The unusual name comes from a connection with the prominent in the 19th century, Colenso family; a member of which built at Chesham Bois, on the plot on which the school now stands, an impressive house which he called Elangeni. He was a son of John William Colenso (1814 -- 83); controversial clergyman, first Bishop of Natal, and champion of the Zulu nation: "Elangeni" is a Zulu word, and name of one of that nation's tribes. J.W.C. was in fact born in St. Austell, Cornwall.

 

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Ruan Lanihorne was also once administered by the Hundred of Powdershire.

 

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Ruan Lanihorne was also once administered by the Hundred of Powdershire.

The above-bolded's church is dedicated to St. Rumon -- likely, one feels, cognate with "Ruan". The same saint's name was commemorated in the name of the one-time Benedictine abbey at Tavistock, Devon: that of St. Mary and St. Rumon. (There is thought to have been some organisational connection between said Abbey, and Ruan Lanihorne and its church.)