Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Calthrop]

Penarth's promotional slogan in Victorian times was "The Garden by the Sea". In similar hyperbolic vein for such matters in those times: Aberystwyth was trumpeted as "the Biarritz of Wales".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Neath in Neath Port Talbot County Borough also has the site of a Celtic hillfort within its ebnirons.

 

[Calthrop]

"Sailing rather close to the wind" here: born in Neath, was the film star Ray Milland (1907 -- 1986, born Alfred Jones); whose first film role was in the 1929 film The Flying Scotsman -- revolving around the eponymous train and locomotive. The senior male lead in that film was played by Moore Marriott; who some years later, had one of the chief roles in Oh Mr. Porter !: filmed largely at Cliddesden, Hampshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Forres in Moray also has a church that is dedicated to St Leonard.

 

[D6130]

Todmorden in West Yorkshire also partakes in the 'Incredible Edible' scheme, whereby vegetables and herbs are planted in boxes in public spaces and the resulting crops are freely available for the townspeople to take home and consume.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eastwood in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Eastwood also lies along the route of the A646 between Burnley and Halifax; to the west of Eastwood is the village of Portsmouth, West Yorkshire.

 

[D6130]

Walsden was also formerly in Lancashire but now in West Yorkshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Although Walsden CC is now situated in the county of West Yorkshire, the club currently plays in the Lancashire League. Their last match (Saturday 16th July) was away to Greenmount CC, who play at Brandlesholme Road, Greenmount, Bury, and resulted in a nine wicket victory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tottington in Greater Manchester also lies on the route of the pedestrian and cycle route known as the Kirklees Trail.

 

[Calthrop]

A connection concerning the Wallace and Gromit "Clay-mation" comic films -- touching on different "might-have-been" romantic relationships for "joint hero" Wallace the inventor. In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, said figure is Lady Tottington. In A Close Shave, one of the villains is the dog Preston, who belongs to the blameless shopkeeper Wendolene; sheep-rustling involving Preston, causes her and Wallace to become acquainted.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ingol in Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Preston Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Desperation here -- "Ingol" is the first two syllables of the name of the city in Bavaria, Germany: of Ingolstadt (according to the sci-fi / fantasy novel cycle by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, a centre of the activities of that supposed secretly-world-controlling cabal, the Illuminati). Ingolstadt is twinned with Kirkcaldy, Fife.

 

[Springs Branch]

The 1980s darts legend Jocky Wilson was born and spent much of his life in Kirkcaldy.
In 1982 Wilson beat fellow elite darts professional John Lowe in the British Darts Organisation World Championship. John Lowe's birthplace was the Derbyshire village of Tupton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wixford in Warwickshire also lies on the route of the Roman road originally named Icknield Street (but in the 12th century, it began to be known as Ryknild Street).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Exhall & Wixford CC play in the Cotswold Hills League; another club in the same league is FISSC CC, who are based at Knights Lane, Tiddington, Warwickshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wellesbourne in Warwickshire also lies on the route of the B4086 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Kineton, Warwickshire, also lies on the River Dene.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lytham St Annes in Lancashire also hosts an annual music festival.

 

[Calthrop]

For birders: the Ribble estuary and sands off Lytham St Annes, is an excellent place to see in large numbers that wading bird the knot (Calidris canutus). The same, some way southward down that coast, is true of the mouth of the Dee estuary around the Hilbre Islands, just off West Kirby (Merseyside).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southport in Merseyside also has a marine lake.

 

[Calthrop]

Museums on strange themes: Southport has, as we know, a lawnmower museum. Leeds Castle -- nearest settlement Broomfield, Kent -- a little way east of Maidstone: has a dog-collar museum. (We had Leeds Castle and Broomfield not quite a month ago; but, I take it, "no problem".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seasalter in Kent was also once under the jurisdiction of the Blean Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Being pedantic here; but Kent has two Broomfields. As I read matters, one is linked with Blean and Seasalter, as above; but that near Leeds Castle, is the other Broomfield -- some twenty miles west-south-west, and some way inland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Being pedantic here; but Kent has two Broomfields. As I read matters, one is linked with Blean and Seasalter, as above; but that near Leeds Castle, is the other Broomfield -- some twenty miles west-south-west, and some way inland.

Trust me to pick the wrong Broomfield.... that has now been struck-through.

You did note that the correct one had been recently mentioned on this quiz.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Museums on strange themes: Southport has, as we know, a lawnmower museum. Leeds Castle -- nearest settlement Broomfield, Kent -- a little way east of Maidstone: has a dog-collar museum. (We had Leeds Castle and Broomfield not quite a month ago; but, I take it, "no problem".)

Loose in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Maidstone.

 

[Calthrop]

Loose in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Maidstone.

I just cannot resist this one -- according to a cherished (if of doubtful truth) anecdote: local units of the Women's Institute are, generally, officially titled "The [Maidstone -- or wherever it might be] Women's Institute". However -- by special dispensation, the units of that excellent institution at Loose, as above; and at Ugley, Essex (near Bishop's Stortford); are titled "The Women's Institute (****** Branch)". (And let's not get into Idle near Bradford, and its Working Men's Club ...)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Standon in Hertfordshire is also in the East of England area that is known as The Hundred Parishes.

 

[Calthrop]

Standon was the birthplace of Arthur Martin-Leake: one of only three people ever to have been awarded the Victoria Cross "twice over". For Martin-Leake, one was Boer War, the other World War I. Another of the three, is Charles Upham -- for separate World War II actions: Crete, and North Africa. Upham was a New Zealander, and spent little time in Britain; but in 1945, he did marry his fiancee in New Milton, Hampshire.