Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Langford Budville in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Milverton.

 

[John Griffiths]

Langford Budville has a pub called The Martlet Inn. There is also a Hungry Horse branded pub called The Martlets at Bognor Regis, West Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ferring in West Sussex also lies on the route of the A259 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Histon, Cambridgeshire -- just north-west of Cambridge -- also has a church dedicated to St. Andrew.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxhall in Suffolk also has a post-mounted metal-imaged village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Buxhall has a pub called the Buxhall Crown. One of very many settlements in England with a pub called just the Crown: is Elton, Cambridgeshire -- south-west of Peterborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yarwell in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Willybrook.

 

[Calthrop]

Yarwell is the home of the Yarwell and Nassington Brass Band -- players therein, coming from various settlements in the area. With all due respect to the Y&NBB: one of greater renown, is the Black Dyke Band: based at Queensbury, West Yorkshire.

(The Wiki entry for Yarwell is worth taking a look at -- contains stuff which seems to say the least, whimsical. I suspect that "somebody's having a laugh" -- has sneaked weird material past Wiki's guardians.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandal in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Agbrigg and Morley Wapentake.

 

[John Griffiths]

John 'Swift Nick' Nevison, highwayman, was arrested in Sandal on 6 March 1684 for the murder of a constable who had tried to detain him following an escape from custody. Some years earlier Nevison had ridden non-stop from Gad's Hill in Kent to York to establish a fake alibi - a feat popularly ascribed to fellow highwayman and murderous thug Dick Turpin. Both Nevison and Turpin were hanged on the Knavesmire in York, Nevison in 1684, Turpin in 1739.

 

[Calthrop]

Halifax, West Yorkshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen. York's "twin" is Muenster; Halifax's, Aachen [Aix-la-Chapelle].

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hull is also mentioned in the song "The Beggar's Lament"

 

[John Griffiths]

Hull was UK City of Culture in 2017; Bradford will receive that title in 2025.

 

[johnnychips]

Youlgreave in Derbyshire overlooks the River Bradford, though obviously not related to the above.

 

[Calthrop]

Youlgreave has a connection -- admittedly a little tenuous -- with the feat of swimming the English Channel. The second person to accomplish this -- after Matthew Webb's doing so in 1875 -- was Thomas William Burgess, whose father was born in Youlgreave. Burgess's swim took place in 1911. He subsequently coached the first British woman to swim the Channel. This was Mercedes Gleitze (does not sound at all British; but she was the daughter, born in Brighton, of -- naturalised British -- immigrants from Germany). Ms. Gleitze's Channel swim was in 1927.

 

[DerekC]

The London to Brighton veteran car run is very well known. A much less famous event for old cars is the "Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional" held at Grimsthorpe Castle, Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire. It is also known as the "Concours de l'Ordinaire" and is focused on once very common cars that are now rare, perhaps because they were rapidly scrapped because of owner disappointment! Awards have gone to classics such as the Austin Allegro and Morris Marina.

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you for Grimsthorpe: would seem to give me a chance of getting rather railway-ish, with impunity. Also located on the A151 road, further east -- still in Lincolnshire, between Bourne and Spalding -- is the hamlet of Twenty. This settlement used to have a station on the section of rail line running between Bourne and Spalding: opened in 1866, later to become part of the principal line of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway of blessed memory. It appears to be a "chicken-and-egg" question as to whether the railway and station, or the hamlet, came into being first; at all events, this sparsely-populated area of former fenland country requires numerous land-drainage ditches running across it, to keep it drained and active for agriculture: in the building of the railway numerous such ditches were encountered, running at right angles to the rail route; station, and hamlet (on the accompanying road, for what that was worth in 1866) lay on the line of the twentieth such, out of wherever (Bourne?); hence the name Twenty.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rippingale in Lincolnshire also lies in the drainage area of the Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board.

 

[Calthrop]

The Wiki entry for Rippingale yields, about its church of St. Andrew, a bunch of splendidly sonorous names and ecclesiastical words: it is "part of the Ringstone in Aveland group of the Deanery of Beltisloe, Diocese of Lincoln". Looking up Beltisloe -- a new name to me -- reveals that it's the name of a wapentake of the county of Lincolnshire, in its south-western-most corner (@Xenophon PCDGS: I can do wapentakes too, I can !). Also in this Lincolnshire wapentake, is the village of Castle Bytham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lossiemouth in Morayshire also has a church that is dedicated to St James.

 

[Calthrop]

Lossiemouth lies at the seaward end of the B9103 road. Its opposite end, some 15 miles to the south-east, is at Mulben, also in Morayshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maggieknockater in Banffshire also lies on the route of the better-known A95 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Maggieknockater was for long, a renowned centre for beekeeping and honey production (this trade ceasing there in the 1970s); even inspiring a folk-dance tune The Bees of Maggieknockater. Of some note for the same activity -- if on a smaller scale -- is South Molton, North Devon; whose Quince Honey Farm (founded 1949), a working honey-producer, also set up for people to visit and get acquainted with the bees-and-honey scene: is busily in commission today.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Twitchen in Devon is another of the settlements that were once administered by the Hundred of South Molton that lie on the line of the River Mole.

 

[Springs Branch]

Friesthorpe in Lincolnshire also has a Grade II listed church dedicated to St Peter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goltho in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lincoln Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

We learn that this part of Lincolnshire -- on the Wolds a little way east of Lincoln -- is of arboricultural / botanical note, for containing Britain's largest concentration of traditionally managed small-leaved lime woodland, dating back over five thousand years. Several National Nature Reserves in the area, are there chiefly in the interests of this lime woodland; one such reserve lies very close to Goltho. This patch of NNRs centres particularly on, and is chiefly associated by name with, Bardney; some five miles south of Goltho.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Long Bennington in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Witham.

 

[Calthrop]

Long Bennington is reputed to be the final place where King Harold (the "arrow man") and his army camped, on their way south to the battle of Hastings (East Sussex).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abernethy in Fife and Kinross also once had a priory of Augustinian Canons.