Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Mallaig has at any rate had a Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen centre; but in the light of financial factors, and changes in the industry, many of this charity's centres have been closing, or changing in configuration. The charity's administrative headquarters are in Fareham, Hampshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Another religious organisation that reaches out to seafarers is the Catholic charity Stella Maris, founded in Glasgow in 1920.s
Peterborough is - as Fareham was - a major centre of brickmaking.

 

[Calthrop]

The sport of "bandy" -- I gather, akin to ice hockey but with detail differences -- is generally reckoned to have originated in the English Fen country, in the 19th century: first played in an organised fashion, at Bury Fen near Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire (not far from St. Ives). After spending about a century "extinct": organised league-type bandy was revived in Peterborough in 2017.

 

[John Griffiths]

I love this game!

 

[John Griffiths]

Dorothy L Sayers' pa was rector of Bluntisham and the village inspired her book The Nine Tailors. The east of England must have appealed, as she spent her latter years and in 1957 died at Witham in Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bardfield Sailing in Essex also lies on the line of the River Brain.

 

[Calthrop]

Bardfield Sailing in Essex also lies on the line of the River Brain.

This name would make a good cryptic-crossword clue -- something involving Shakespeare and boats...

Pickering, North Yorkshire, also has a church dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Durham is another settlement that suffered from the Norman punitive action known as The Harrying of the North.

 

[John Griffiths]

Songster Roger Whittaker had a hit with Durham Town (The Leavin'), sometimes criticised in NE England for its failure to recognise Durham's proper civic status but also for its implication that the city lies on the River Tyne, rather than the Wear. Whittaker was born in Nairobi and still lives some of the year in Kenya, where he has a herd of zebras, but also has a home in Heptonstall in Yorkshire. Or Lancashire, if he were to write a song about it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newbury in Berkshire also had a medieval-period Cloth Hall.

 

[John Griffiths]

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[Calthrop]

Newbury in Berkshire also had a medieval-period Cloth Hall.

Market Drayton, Shropshire, is also twinned with a settlement in Belgium. Newbury's "twin" is Eeklo (I find Flemish Belgium to have some delightfully comical place-names); Market Drayton's, is Arlon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bunbury in Cheshire East also lies on the line of the Shropshire Union Canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

Newcastle-under-Lyme is also a major centre of sausage manufacture.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bunbury was also the name of an imaginary character in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of being Earnest. An all too real character was the formidable Lady Bracknell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Basildon in Essex was also designated as a New Town in 1949.

 

[Calthrop]

Basildon has a Barge Inn: which in fact pre-dates Basildon, being in the pre-existing one-time village of Vange. There is a pub of the same name in Seend Cleeve, Wiltshire -- near Melksham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Honeystreet in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the Kennet and Avon Canal.

 

[Springs Branch]

By coincidence, Honeystreet also has a pub named The Barge Inn, but that isn't the association I'm proposing . . . .

Honeystreet has a "Crop Circle Exhibition & Information Centre", where visitors can learn about the intriguing phenomenon / hoax of crop circles.

Nearly half of all crop circles found in the UK in the early-2000s were located within a 15 km radius of the Wiltshire village of Avebury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fritham in Hampshire also has an example of a Bowl Barrow within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

"Low-hanging fruit" -- Fritham has one of England's innumerable pubs called the Royal Oak; Dilhorne, Staffordshire -- east of Stoke-on-Trent -- has another. (I occasionally get really sick of that Merry Monarch and his wretched oak tree.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wetton in Staffordshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Totmonslow.

 

[Calthrop]

Scholars of medieval literature speculate that the denouement of the 14th-century chivalric romance poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, may well be set at a spot near Wetton. They reckon likewise that a reference earlier in the poem, re the hero's travels, may indicate his having passed through Holywell, Flintshire -- said well there, is dedicated to St. Winifred. (And, Wetton too has a Royal Oak pub -- they're b----- everywhere, I tell you !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanasa in Flintshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Holywell Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

We learn of a figure of some fame, half a millennium or so ago, who was born in Llanasa: Elis Gruffydd. This gentlemen (1490 -- 1550-something) is sometimes known as "The Soldier of Calais", where he had indeed soldiered, and spent much of his life; but his essential role was as a Welsh, and Welsh-language, chronicler. He is best known for his attempted history of the world, and especially of England and Wales.

A not-quite-contemporary -- fictional -- of Elis Gruffydd, bearing perhaps a superficial resemblance to him in a couple of ways -- might perhaps be seen in the Welsh soldier Fluellen, who has a minor part in Shakespeare's play Henry V. Fluellen is reckoned by the king, and by his own comrades-in-arms, as a useful soldier; but a rather humourless and annoying know-all, given to solemnly expounding, in slightly odd English, on all kinds of things at great length. He tends toward much going-on about Monmouth -- possibly his home town?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch in Denbighshire is another settlement where almshouses were built.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch in Denbighshire is another settlement where almshouses were built.

This settlement's church, of St. Dyfnog, contains a Tree of Jesse stained-glass window; as does Wells Cathedral, Somerset (Wells's is a little older).

 

[John Griffiths]

Isleworth in west London also has an educational institution of a sort named the Blue School.

Its playground backed onto that of my primary school. Its unsavoury inmates would refer to us as greenflies; they, of course, were bluebottles.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burnley in Lancashire also has a "third-tier" Crown Court.

 

[Springs Branch]

In 2013, Burnley won the UK Government's Most Enterprising Area in the UK award.

The winner of this award in 2018 was Kingston upon Hull.