Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Cynwyd has a pub called the Blue Lion (Y Llew Glas in Welsh). East Witton, North Yorkshire -- near Leyburn -- has a hostelry of the same name; but here, monoglot-English.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Horsehouse in North Yorkshire also has the River Cover forming part of its boundaries.

 

[Calthrop]

On the basis that British place-names which look / sound as though they are to do with the animal kingdom: usually are not -- the names most often have other derivations involving the "ancient tongues"; considering Horsehouse as above, and Sheepy Magna, (Leicestershire -- Borough of Hinckley and Bosworth) ... though Wiki gives no suggestion as to their names' origins: it would seem most likely that the name of the former, is nothing to do with equine accommodation; or of the latter, re a large village with numerous sheep around the place.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

All Saints Parish Church, Sheepy Magna is part of the Sheepy Benefice of Churches., which also includes St James Church, Twycross.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackpool also has a zoo.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Grand Theatre, Blackpool is the second oldest surviving theatre designed by Frank Matcham (1854 – 1920), being built in 1894. The oldest surviving theatre designed by him is the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, originally called "The New Theatre and Opera House" and opened on 1st October 1891.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uckington in Gloucestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Cheltenham Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Uckington is on the Coombe Hill, Cheltenham, telephone exchange. Coombe Hill is a hamlet in the village and civil parish of Leigh in Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Criccieth in Gwynedd also has a church that is dedicated to St Catherine.

 

[Springs Branch]

The RNLI station at Criccieth is equipped with an Atlantic 85-class lifeboat, the Doris Joan.

Another lifeboat station with the same class of vessel, named Lydia Macdonald, is Macduff, Aberdeenshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huntly in Aberdeenshire also lies on the line of the River Deveron.

 

[Calthrop]

There is (just) another Huntly, further south in Scotland -- too tiny for direct association; but it's near Earlston (Scottish Borders): association is via the 13th-century poet and prophet Sir Thomas de Ercildoun (old name of Earlston, his place of birth and residence), alias Thomas the Rhymer / Thomas Learmont / True Thomas. His link to Huntly is, chiefly, the famed ballad about his encounter with the Queen of Elfland and visit to her realm: which begins, "True Thomas lay on Huntly bank ..."

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lauder in the Scottish Borders also lies on the line of the River Leader.

 

[Calthrop]

Formby, Merseyside: also shares its name, with that of a highly popular singer / entertainer from many decades back -- Harry Lauder; George Formby.

 

[D6130]

Smardale, near Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria, also has a nature reserve in which red squirrels can be found.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Smardale was formerly a township in the parish of Kirkby Stephen; from 1866, it was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished in 1894 and merged with the village and parish of Waitby.

 

[Calthrop]

The only other " Wait****** " settlement in the Michelin Britain Road Atlas's gazetteer, is Waithe, Lincolnshire -- just south of Grimsby: on low land near the sea, in contrast to the Cumbrian settlement. Waitby's name is reckoned to come from the Old Norse vatr = "wet", plus by = farm, homestead; Waithe's, from the Old English waed = "ford".

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Martin's Church, Waithe is a redundant Anglican Church. It originates from the 10th century, with additions and alterations carried out in the 11th and 13th centuries, and was restored in 1861 by James Fowler of Louth for the Haigh family, the local landowners. In 1866 (or 1869, records vary), James Fowler designed the Allenby Almshouses in Fotherby, built for the benefit of six poor people on the site of an older Glebe house.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worlaby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Louth Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Worlaby is one of the five Low Villages between Brigg and the River Humber, named in this way because of their position below the northern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds; Saxby All Saints is also one of the five.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nettleton in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Yarborough.

 

[Calthrop]

Nettleton has a Salutation Inn; as does Topsham, Devon. (Likewise the village of Adam's Norton, near the confluence of Severn and Avon -- the Salutation there, a renowned singing pub; unfortunately, the village and pub concerned do not exist outside the imagination of John Moore, author of in my opinion lovely novels of small-town / rural life in those parts, in times gone by.)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Topsham's local football club is Topsham Town AFC, Coronation Fields, Exeter Road, Exeter in the Devon & Exeter Football League Division One. Beer Albion FC also play in the same league, and their ground is at The Furzebrake, Stovar Long Lane, Beer, Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lyme Regis in Dorset was also a noted haunt of smugglers in the 18th century, in particular.

 

[Calthrop]

Coventry is also twinned with a settlement in -- loosely -- the one-time British Empire's "mid-American" (Atlantic side) island territories. Coventry's "twin" is Kingston, Jamaica; Lyme Regis's is St. George's, Bermuda. (There's a connection there: Sir George Somers, 1554 -- 1610, founder of the colony of Bermuda; was born in Lyme Regis, and served as the town's mayor and its M.P.)

 

[John Griffiths]

Coventry is associated in the public mind with Godgifu, Lady Godiva, wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia. There is some dispute over her burial site:most likely in St Mary's priory and cathedral, Coventry, but one theory has her interred in Tewkesbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Atcham in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Severn.

 

[Springs Branch]

Polebrook in Northants. was also the site of a now-defunct WW2 air base which was used by the USAAF.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Warmington in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Polebrook.

 

[Calthrop]

Northamptonshire is famous for impressive church spires / steeples. Warmington's parish church has one such, of renown; at the other end of the county, that of Middleton Cheney (west of Brackley) has another.

(Feeling a bit rueful or at least surprised: in that Warmington is near Peterborough; I lived in Peterborough for a dozen years in my youth; but on seeing @Xenophon PCDGS's post, it could as well have been that I knew nothing about Warmington -- until looking-up, I had no idea where in Northamptonshire it was. If, Peterborough-resident some sixty years ago, I was then aware of Warmington -- plainly I'd totally forgotten about it, since.)