Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hereford, not immensely far away from Haverfordwest.

My reckoning is about 149 miles...

 

[Calthrop]

My reckoning is about 149 miles...

Well -- near the southern half of Wales -- admittedly, looking at things broadly ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lucy Walter, a mistress of Charles II, was born at Roch Castle near Haverfordwest. A lady of greater renown as a player of that role in said monarch's life -- i.e. Nell Gwyn -- is reckoned to have been born either at Hereford, not immensely far away from Haverfordwest; or in London.

Erwood in Powys also lies on the line of the River Wye.

 

[Calthrop]

The 1981 film An American Werewolf in London was shot largely in the hamlet of Crickadam, near Erwood. A prominent role in the film was played by Jenny Agutter, beloved by many on these Forums for her part in the film The Railway Children; this lady was born in Taunton, Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tynemouth in North Tyneside also had a medieval-period leper hospital.

 

[Calthrop]

The Fire Worm, a book (published 1988) by science-fiction author Ian Watson, and set in Tynemouth; is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm -- which is more "authentically" associated with Penshaw, Borough of Sunderland.

 

[D6130]

The centre of Edinburgh is also overlooked by an unfinished monument based on the design of an ancient Greek temple.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunbar in East Lothian was also an important settlement of the Brythonic tribal people known as The Gododdin.

 

[D6130]

Dunbar is the start of the John Muir Way long distance footpath, which meanders across the central lowlands of Scotland and finishes at Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute.

 

[John Griffiths]

Northampton also has buildings designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thrapston in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the River Nene.

 

[Calthrop]

Llawhaden, Pembrokeshire, also lies on a linguistic frontier of sorts. Re Thrapston: the tendency is for people living along the lower reaches of the River Nene, to pronounce the name "Neen"; along its upper reaches, "Nen" is favoured -- Thrapston is the approximate division-point. The south of Pembrokeshire was mostly settled many centuries ago, by non-Welsh folk: hence, English has since then been the area's main language. The north of the county remained Welsh, and for a long time, Welsh-speaking -- that still the case to some extent. The division runs along what students of the subject call the "Landsker Line"; on which Llawhaden is located.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bletherston in Pembrokeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Dungleddy.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Bletherston is a small settlement and parish in Pembrokeshire. Together with the parishes of Llys y Fran and New Moat, it constitutes the community of New Moat.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corfe Mullen in Dorset also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[Calthrop]

William Joyce (1906 -- 46), the World War II propagandist for Germany known as "Lord Haw-Haw", lived for a time in the Court House at Corfe Mullen. He is buried in Galway; this instigated by his daughter -- he was originally buried in the grounds of Wandsworth Prison, after his execution there for his wartime activities.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carmarthen also has a rowing club.

 

[John Griffiths]

In the seventeenth century Carmarthen was the largest urban settlement in Wales; by the early nineteenth century it had been overtaken by Swansea and by 1851 the distinction was held by Merthyr Tydfil.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wokingham in Berkshire also has a climbing centre.

 

[341o2]

Wokingham became Oakingham, and Oakwood likewise depicts the tree as may be seen at the LU station with the motto "Ex glande Quercus"

 

[DerekC]

Oakwood was once the location of the South Lodge entrance to Enfield Chase. Hadley Wood was the location of the West Lodge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cwmtillery in Monmouthshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Paul.

 

[John Griffiths]

Tom Jones was 'spotted' by an agent for a recording company and subsequently signed his first record deal after appearing at the Top Hat club in Cwmtillery. Jones (or Tom Woodward, his real name) came from Treforest, near Pontypridd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf also lies on the line of the River Taff.

 

[341o2]

Which was crossed by an ornate bridge. Pontypridd had a trolleybus system, the original batch of single deck buses went to Cardiff for further service

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Cardiff, Leeds boasts a large number of city centre arcades, mostly rather more ornate than those of the Welsh metropolis.

 

[Calthrop]

Among Edward Lear's many limericks about "a person from a particular British settlement": there is one about an old lady of Leeds, who was highly charitable and popular; and another about an old man of Dunblane (Stirling and Falkirk) who was not popular.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway also has a Society of Friends Meeting House.

 

[John Griffiths]

Just as Wigtown is Scotland's National Book Town, so is Sedbergh (since 1974 Cumbria, but really part of the West Riding) England's National Book Town. Lots of second-hand bookshops.

 

[341o2]

Sedbergh has been accepted as a Walkers Are Welcome town, the movement was started in Hebden Bridge