Settlement Association

[EbbwJunction1]

Stonehouse Town FC are currently members of the Hellenic League Division One and play at the Magpies Stadium, Stoneshouse. Another member of the same League is Littleton FC, who play at Five Acres in the civil parish of North and Middle Littleton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arundel in West Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[Calthrop]

The people of Arundel are sometimes known as "Mullets"; owing to the presence of that kind of fish, in the local river Arun. Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, is identified with a different species of fish -- the gudgeon: thanks to a copper-gilt weather vane in the shape of one such, on top of the town's lock-up which is situated in the middle of the town bridge over the Bristol Avon.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Laurence's Church, Bradford-on-Avon is one of very few surviving Anglo-Saxon churches in England that does not show later medieval alteration or rebuilding. The arcading on the exterior walls is produced, not by incision (as thought by the noted architectural historians Jackson and Fletcher), but by setting the massive stone pilaster-strips forward from the wall-face. In this they are similar to the tower of St Mary the Virgin Church, Tasburgh in Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newton Flotman in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Tas.

 

[Calthrop]

Roughton, Norfolk, also lies on the A140 road: a mile or so from its convergence with the A149, south of Cromer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashmanhaugh in Norfolk also has a round-tower church.

 

[Calthrop]

Ashmanhaugh in Norfolk also has a round-tower church.

Said church is dedicated to St. Swithin / Swithun (the weather-prophet guy). The parish church of Sandy, Bedfordshire, has the same dedicatee.

 

[johnnychips]

Olivia Newton-John played Sandy in Grease. She was born in not-too-far-away Cambridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Claremorris in County Mayo also hosts a folk festival.

 

[Springs Branch]

Claremorris is the location of one of the Irish Meteorological Service's official weather observing stations.

Another of the Service's twenty weather stations is at Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Budleigh in Devon also has an agricultural college.

 

[Calthrop]

East Budleigh has many associations with Sir Walter Raleigh; who in 1580, during the then hostilities in Ireland, took part in the siege of Smerwick (Co. Kerry, in the Dingle peninsula).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kinsale in County Cork is another Irish settlement where troops of a Spanish military expedition landed.

 

[Calthrop]

Edinburgh is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Alpes-Maritimes. Kinsale's "twin" is Antibes; Edinburgh's is Nice.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ventnor in the Isle of Wight also has botanical gardens.

 

[Calthrop]

Epsom (Surrey) also has a pub called the Blenheim; after the Duke of Marlborough's victory in 1704.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clevedon in North Somerset also has a clock tower.

 

[Calthrop]

The first large-scale production of penicillin took place in the deep culture tanks at Clevedon, of the Medical Research Council's Antibiotic Research Station -- just in time for World War II. The prime mover in this was the pharmacologist and pathologist Howard Florey (1898 -- 1968); born in Australia, died in Oxford.

 

[johnnychips]

The Bodleian Library in Oxford was founded by Thomas Bodley, who was born in Exeter.

 

[Calthrop]

Canterbury, Kent, was also a target of the German "Baedeker" air-raids in 1942: planned as an attempt to hurt British morale / lessen British bombing of Germany, by targeting recognisedly beautiful / historic cities.

 

[John Griffiths]

Durham wascalso the subject of a town plan drawn up by the town and country planner Thomas Sharp.

! Zut alors!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Canterbury, Kent, was also a target of the German "Baedeker" air-raids in 1942: planned as an attempt to hurt British morale / lessen British bombing of Germany, by targeting recognisedly beautiful / historic cities.

Sandwich in Kent also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[Calthrop]

The only survivor still in place, of Sandwich's town gates: is the Fisher Gate, dating from 1384; it is scheduled as an ancient monument. In an instance of resemblance in nomenclature: York has a street called Fishergate.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stillington in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Foss.

 

[Springs Branch]

Stanton in Staffordshire also had a Primitive Methodist Chapel (now re-purposed for other uses).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bradley in the Moors in Staffordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Totmonslow.

 

[Calthrop]

Bradley in the Moors in Staffordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Totmonslow.

Wiki comes up with a bit of a mystery concerning the above-bolded settlement. It indicates that this Bradley's only son (or daughter) of any degree of fame, is a musician called Pete McArdle -- references thence on Wiki lead seemingly not to this gentleman; but to a remarkable assortment of Peter McArdles or McCardles, from various parts of the world, and with -- non-musical -- occupations varying from runner to footballer to long-ago local government official. Anyway -- for what it's worth, we are told that the musician Pete McArdle at some stage left his native hamlet and settled in Birkenhead.

 

[Springs Branch]

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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flixton also lies on the line of the River Mersey.