Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Kelso, also in the Scottish Borders; also has a namesake settlement in our "Commonwealth Antipodes". Those are, respectively: Melrose, Tasmania; and Kelso, New Zealand (South Island).

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Kelso, Calke in Derbyshire has a name based on the Old English calc, chalk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunham Massey in Greater Manchester also has a large National Trust property in its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Near Dunham Massey is Brookheys Covert, a Site of Special Scientific Interest -- such interest being in particular, ornithological. Another -- large-scale -- SSSI, of particular value birds-wise, is the Mid-Cornwall Moors: close by Roche, some way north-west of St. Austell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Breage in Cornwall also has a stone Cornish Cross.

 

[Calthrop]

Sidney Godolphin (1610 -- 1643), poet and courtier, was born (or at any rate, baptised) at Breage. As one would expect, he fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War; and was killed in action at Chagford, Devon -- some way south-east of Okehampton. His ghost is said to haunt the Three Crowns Hotel in Chagford, striding the corridors there in full uniform.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Framlingham in Suffolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel.

 

[DerekC]

Framlingham's Check House is said to be one of the smallest in Britain, but in fact Quay House, Conwy, Gwynedd is about half the size and is supported by the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beaumaris in Anglesey also has a ruined castle.

 

[Calthrop]

Beaumaris's origin was at the end of the 13th Century; when King Edward I, having newly conquered Wales, established a castle there, around which the town in time, grew. Edward didn't mess about, as regards his newly conquered Welsh subjects: considering the inhabitants of Llanfaes, just north of the new settlement, potentially troublesome; he had them moved en bloc, ten miles south-westward in Anglesey, to a fresh site which appropriately became known as Newborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brook in Kent also has an agricultural museum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Access to Brook is via a number of named but unclassified roads. One of these is Oxenturn Road, which leads to the village of Wye.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Chart in Kent also lies on the line of the River Great Stour.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Great Chart is located near the A28 road, which is known there as the Great Chart Bypass. High Halden is also a village in the Ashford District of Kent on the A28 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boughton Aluph was also once under the jurisdiction of the East Ashford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Boughton Aluph is one of a whole bunch of Kentish villages with the "Boughton" prefix. It would seem that in Kent, "Boughton" is derived from the Anglo-Saxon for "beech-tree settlement" -- in Aluph's case, such a settlement under the headship of a worthy named Alulf. There are several Boughtons "plain and simple" further north in England, one such being Boughton, Northants., just north of Northampton town. Outside of Kent, Boughton would seem to refer to -- from "the old tongue" -- the settlement of one Bucca; or the significance to the place, of male animals -- bucks -- goat or deer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stainton-le-Vale in Lincolnshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[Calthrop]

Scraping the barrel, rather -- Stainton-le-Vale has a (presumably coincidental) semi-namesake on the other side of the Humber; in the shape of Staintondale, North Yorkshire -- north of Scarborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oakhanger in Cheshire East also has a pony club.

 

[341o2]

there is also another Oakhanger in East Hampshire, near Bordon

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Launceston in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Magdalen.

 

[John Griffiths]

Actor Roger Moore, as a wartime evacuee, attended school in Launceston. He hailed from Stockwell in South London.

 

[Calthrop]

The book illustrator Arthur Rackham (1867 -- 1939) spent his early life in Stockwell. He lived for his last years in Limpsfield, Surrey. (We had in my childhood home a book of fairy tales, marvellously illustrated by this guy.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

West Wickham in Greater London also lies on the route of the Roman road known as the London to Lewes Way.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There are no secondary schools in West Wickham, but there are some in neighbouring areas, including the Langley Park Schools, which are located in Beckenham.

 

[Springs Branch]

Tooting is another district of today's Greater London which was recorded as a populated settlement in the Domesday Book.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Tooting shares two football clubs with nearby Mitcham: Tooting & Mitcham FC and Tooting & Mitcham Wanderers FC.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire also has a clock tower.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The RNLI also has a Lifeboat Station at Tighnabruaich in the Kyles of Bute.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kames in Argyll and Bute also lies on the route of the A8003 road.