Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

TV presenter Paula Yates was born in Colwyn Bay. Late in her life it was revealed that she was the natural daughter of Hughie Green, born in Marylebone, central London.

 

[DerekC]

A considerable proportion of the property in Marylebone is owned by the Portman family, whose country seat used to be at Bryanston in Dorset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sturminster Newton in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[Calthrop]

The Dorset dialect poet and clergyman William Barnes (1801 -- 85) lived for a period, in Sturminster Newton. Later in his life, he was rector of Winterborne Came near Dorchester -- is buried in Winterborne Came churchyard.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Puddletown in Dorset was also once under the jurisdiction of the Dorchester Poor Law Union.

(This settlement carried the name of Piddletown in earlier times, being on the line of the River Piddle)

 

[Calthrop]

The rare smooth snake and sand lizard are to be found on heathland near Puddletown. Another good spot for these creatures is the Special Area of Conservation / Site of Special Scientific Interest of Woolmer Forest, close by the hamlet of Woolmer, Hampshire (near Liphook).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wrecclesham in Surrey also lies on the route of the A325 road.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Wrecclesham Cricket Club play at Riverdale in the village; their last opponents of the 2022 season were Puttenham and Wanborough Cricket Club, who play at The Heath in the village of Puttenham.

 

[Calthrop]

Puttenham is mentioned in Aldous Huxley's (somewhat) dystopian novel Brave New World -- in the society of which, it is "a modest little village nine storeys high". In George Orwell's dystopia in a different genre Nineteen-Eighty-Four, published a couple of decades later: Burnham, Buckinghamshire, gets a brief-ish mention.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wexham in Buckinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Eton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Sometimes a life-saver as regards settlements with names in this particular mode: there was also a Ham class minesweeper named after Saxlingham, Norfolk (near Holt).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Vicar with responsibility for St Margaret's Church, Saxlingham, is the Reverend Ian Whittle, who is based at St Andrews & St Mary's Church, Langham, Norfolk.

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[Calthrop]

The naval officer and author Frederick Marryat (1792 -- 1848) settled -- as it turned out, shortly before his death -- in Langham. His best-known work is probably the novel The Children of the New Forest: set at the time of the English Civil War, in the region of Sway, Hampshire.

 

[D6130]

Halifax in West Yorkshire also has a tall folly tower in its environs.

 

[DerekC]

The city of Stirling in Scotland also had a WWII four-engined bomber named for it.

 

[D6130]

The town of Dumbarton in Scotland also has a castle built on the top of a "Volcanic Plug".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dingwall in Highland was also created a Royal Burgh in the 13th century during the reign of King Alexander II.

 

[Springs Branch]

Dingwall was formerly the county town of one of the defunct historic counties of Scotland (Ross & Cromarty).

Alloa was another historic county town - of Clackmannanshire. Alloa took over this role from the town of Clackmannan in 1822 on account of the former's greater population by that time.

(An entity named Clackmannanshire has re-emerged in modern times as a Unitary Authority as a result of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

One of the two Church of Scotland's churches in Alloa is St Mungo's Parish Church. It was designed by the architect James Gillespie Graham and was opened in 1819. Another building designed by him was The Old Gaol in Cupar, Fife, which was built in 1813 / 1814 and closed as a prison in 1844.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sanquhar in Dumfries and Galloway also has a Mercat Cross.

 

[Calthrop]

Kilncadzow in South Lanarkshire -- a little way north of Lanark -- is another Scottish settlement which gives "Sassenachs" pronunciation problems (I think it's pronounced something like "Kin-cay-geh").

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I thought of Poland when I saw the settlement named above........however, to continue....

Wishaw in Lanarkshire also lies on the route of the A721 road.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Village of St Donats in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a King George's Field, which is a public open space in the United Kingdom dedicated to the memory of King George V (1865–1936).

 

[DerekC]

Almost due south across the Bristol Channel from St Donat's lies the town of Minehead in Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Porthleven in Cornwall also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the South West Coast Path.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Porthleven FC play at Gala Parc in the village, and play in the St Piran Football League. This is an English football league that was founded in 2019 to act as a feeder league to the South West Peninsula League at step seven of the National League system. Mullion FC Reserves play in the same League, and are based at Clifden Park, Mullion.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Landewednack in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Helston Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

I thought of Poland when I saw the settlement named above........however, to continue....

In a 2018 thread titled "Places that you're not sure how to pronounce" on General Discussion here, there were a number of posts expressing the sentiment that a place with a name like that, OUGHT to be in Poland .

Landewednack in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Helston Poor Law Union.

Landewednack is twinned with the very-similarly-named Landevennec in the French departement of Finistere. A very much bigger settlement in the same departement -- Brest -- is twinned with Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dalgety Bay in Fife also has a sailing club.

 

[D6130]

Culdrose in Cornwall also had a Royal Naval Air Station in the vicinity.