Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Luton in Bedfordshire also has historical connections to the trade of hat making.

 

[John Griffiths]

Actress Lorraine Chase became famous - as did Luton - through her advertisements for Campari in which, when asked by a smoothie "Were you wafted here from paradise?", she replied "Nah, Luton Airport". She was born in the south east London district of Deptford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peckham also lies on the line of the surface-water-flow of the River Peck.

 

[341o2]

With the increasing urbanisation of London, Peckham became involved in brick manufacture out of the London clay, Bedfordshire's (and the world's) largest brick producer was at the village of Stewartby , the chimneys of the former brickworks were only recently demolished and the site cleared

 

[Calthrop]

The Stewartby Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society has been putting on concerts, and performances of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, since 1951 -- a thing which those two gentlemen would no doubt be pleased to know. Assorted British settlements feature to a greater or lesser degree in some of their operettas; one such being of course, Penzance.

 

[341o2]

Penzance harbour (and airport) is the principal link with St Marys Isles of Scilly, although there is now a direct air service to Tresco and the Scillonian does not run in the winter months. Hugh Town is the principal settlement on St Marys and the main harbour on the island

 

[Calthrop]

Hugh Town's Catholic church is dedicated to Our Lady Star of the Sea. Bundoran, Co. Donegal, has a church with the same dedicatee.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newquay in Cornwall is also a noted surfing resort.

 

[John Griffiths]

William Golding was born in Newquay and spent the last eight years of his life in the Cornish village of Perranarworthal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Perranzabuloe in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Piran.

 

[John Griffiths]

Baglan in West Glamorgan also possessed a holy well, the water of which was a sovereign cure for rickets.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bodfari in Denbighshire also has the site of an Iron Age hillfort within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Rhydymwyn, Flintshire, also lies on the A541 road.

 

[Springs Branch]

Early 19th century German composer Felix Mendelssohn was a great admirer of Britain and its landscapes, and made many extended visits during his lifetime.

Whilst in Britain, Mendelssohn was feted by British royalty, the aristocracy and gentry. Mendelssohn composed his piece The Rivulet while visiting John Taylor, a famous mining engineer and wealthy entrepreneur, at Coed Du Hall in Rhydymwyn.

Another country house where Mendelssohn was invited to stay was the Duke of Devonshire's Chatsworth House, bordering the Derbyshire village of Edensor.

 

[johnnychips]

Costessey in Norfolk also has an unexpected pronunciation. (‘Cossey’,‘Ensor’).

 

[Springs Branch]

Costessey features in the legend of Saint Walstan, an Anglo-Saxon prince who became a farm labourer. Walstan subsequently became the patron saint of farm animals and agricultural workers.

After his death in 1016, his hearse passed through parts of southern Norfolk including Costessey. Along the route springs miraculously appeared.

St Walthan's burial place is believed to be either at Bawburgh in Norfolk, or Blythburgh in Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blyford in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Blyth.

 

[Calthrop]

Blyford has -- dating from the 14th or 15th Century -- a Queen's Head Inn: its sign features St. Etheldreda as the Queen. (Her father was King Anna of East Anglia; funny lot, those old East Anglians.) England has of course numerous hostelries called the Queen's Head: there is one such at Nassington, Northamptonshire -- a little way west of Peterborough. So far as is known, the relevant Queen here is not also a saint.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stradishall in Suffolk also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Stradishall lies on the B1063 road; whose northern end is at Newmarket, Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doncaster also has a Group 1 rated racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Basingstoke, Hampshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Basingstoke's "twin" is Euskirchen; Doncaster's, is Herten. (I feel -- with Doncaster being pre-eminently, Britain's "Butterscotch City" -- that a better twin for it would be [still in Nordrhein-Westfalen, as it happens] Werther: place of origin of Germany's nearest butterscotch equivalent, viz. Werther's Caramel Sweets; but I was not consulted on the matter.)

 

[341o2]

Basingstoke has Old Basing, going back to Hugh Town, the next largest settlement on St Mary's, and just on the other side of a small hill is Old Town

 

[Springs Branch]

The River Loddon flows through Old Basing before meandering its way to join the Thames at the Berkshire village of Wargrave

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The River Loddon flows through Old Basing before meandering its way to join the Thames at the Berkshire village of Wargrave.

HOLD CALLED

Should this association be with Old Town in the previous posting?

 

[Springs Branch]

Apologies, I mis-read #26842. The thread should continue from . . .

Basingstoke has Old Basing, going back to Hugh Town, the next largest settlement on St Mary's, and just on the other side of a small hill is Old Town

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corfe in Dorset also has the remains of an early medieval castle.

 

[John Griffiths]

Clay from Corfe was supplied to the pottery works of Josiah Wedgewood at Etruria, Staffordshire, a settlement he founded and died in.

 

[Calthrop]

For much of the time during which William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") Cody's Wild West Show toured Great Britain in the late 19th / early 20th Centuries: he chose Etruria for his base for the undertaking -- seeing it as, handily, an approximate middle-point of the island; from which to make circuits of various parts of same. The show did not neglect Scotland: visiting various parts of that country, its first venture there being to Glasgow in 1891. The Glaswegians seem particularly to have taken Cody's "spectacular" to their hearts -- stayed long in folk's memories there: a statue of Cody in characteristic Wild West guise, was unveiled in central Glasgow in 2006.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Melrose in the Scottish Borders also hosts an annual Pipe Band championship.