Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bath also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[Springs Branch]

In 2019, Bath was the 10th most-visited British town or city outside London by overseas tourists.

One place above Bath in the popularity table, at 9th, was Cambridge.

 

[Calthrop]

Hastings, East Sussex: also has a namesake settlement in New Zealand's North Island.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandwich in Kent was also one of the original Cinque Ports.

 

[D6130]

There is a much-photographed road sign near Sandwich pointing to the town and also the nearby village of Ham. (with Ham above Sandwich!).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dumfries also has a church that is dedicated to St George.

 

[D6130]

Clifton in Bristol also has a camera obscura.

 

[Calthrop]

Clifton in Bristol also has a camera obscura.

(Thanks, for getting me off the hook re Dumfries: a city with which I seem to have big problems in this game -- was in process of tying self in desperate knots )

The much-loved, exuberant and alcoholic-refreshment-partial, TV chef Keith Floyd (1943 -- 2009), for a time ran an establishment in Clifton called Floyd's Bistro. He was born in Sulhampstead, West Berkshire -- a little way west of Reading.

 

[Springs Branch]

Semington, Wiltshire, is also on the route of the Kennet & Avon Canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

Avening, Gloucestershire, was also on the 'GHQ Line', a fortified defensive line prepared to hold back potential German invaders in the Second World War.

 

[Calthrop]

Buried in Avening's parish church is the film director, producer, screenwriter and actor Michael Powell (1905 -- 1990). He was born in Bekesbourne, Kent -- near Canterbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hazel Grove in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[Calthrop]

In 1750, John Wesley preached in Hazel Grove (then known. less genteel-ly, as Bullock Smithy): which he described as "one of the most famous villages in the county [then, Cheshire] for all manner of wickedness". Old John "spoke as he found"; in St. Ives, Cornwall, he addressed his hearers about "an accursed thing" in which they were involved -- namely, smuggling -- and told them to give it up, or they would see his face no more. As it worked out, they complied -- I can't help feeling that the outcome here, must have been a toss-up.

 

[John Griffiths]

St Ives - let us kindly assume it is the Cornish one - is associated with the riddle involving a man with seven wives. Another man with seven wives was Denis Coorobee, who died in 1804 aged 117, a skilled and energetic farmer who introduced the black potato to Ireland and who, in his seven marriages (the last when aged 93), fathered 48 children, and had 236 grandchildren and 944 great-grandchildren. He died at Gloves in the parish of Kiltullagh, near Athenry in Co Galway.

 

[Calthrop]

This splendid chap sounds a bit like the Limerick Rake in the song of that name -- who did his stuff further south in the west of Ireland (in County Limerick, oddly enough) -- except that it seems that Mr. Coorobee performed his marrying-and-begetting in the church-and-state-approved serial-monogamous style; whereas our friend in Co. Limerick was not so particular, and did the thing "however and wherever": citing in his defence the highly-wise King Solomon and his ten thousand wives. One of the Limerick Rake's many dalliances as mentioned in the song, involves a lady from Askeaton, Co. Limerick.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rathkeale in County Limerick also lies on the line of the River Deel.

 

[Calthrop]

Castleisland, Co. Kerry: also lies, formerly on -- and now by-passed by -- the N21 road.

 

[Springs Branch]

The main street through Castleisland is known for being unusually wide.
Another Irish town with a wide main street is Strokestown, Co. Roscommon.

 

[D6130]

Turning further North in the Emerald Isle, the tongue-in-cheek soubriquet 'Stroke City' is often applied to the city of Derry/Londonderry.

 

[Springs Branch]

Much of the TV sitcom Derry Girls was filmed, as might be expected, in Derry.
Other locations around Northern Ireland which were used for filming included Belfast, Portrush and Downpatrick, Co. Down.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballinrobe in County Mayo also has a racecourse that holds both flat and National Hunt races.

 

[Calthrop]

Happenings around Ballinrobe, brought the word "boycott" into the English language -- from an episode in 1880, of acute friction involving grievances over farm administration and ownership: wherein Charles Cunningham Boycott, land agent for the local (British) landowner -- was, for trying to enforce his boss's policies in these matters, shunned by the majority of the local population. Boycott left Ireland at the end of that year, and continued in his profession, at Flixton, Suffolk (just south-west of Bungay); where he died in 1897.

(Note re railway matters: the Wiki article on Ballinrobe is very copious and informative; but contains an inaccuracy which often seems to crop up, and has been discussed on these Forums. Wiki states that the Claremorris -- Ballinrobe branch line lost its passenger service in 1930, but continued to run for freight until the beginning of 1960. It's reckoned certain, that this is a widespread misapprehension: in fact, the branch continued in passenger, as well as freight, service; until it was, indeed, abandoned at the beginning of '60.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scole lying on the border between Suffolk and Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Waveney.

 

[Calthrop]

Deal in Kent, also has a church dedicated to St. Andrew.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hull also has a maritime museum.

 

[D6130]

Poet Philip Larkin was for many years the chief librarian at Hull University. He was born in Coventry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kew in south-west London was also chosen as a site in which to establish a Carhusian religious house.

 

[D6130]

Glasgow also has a notable botanic garden.

 

[Calthrop]

Ennis in Co. Clare, also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Montana.

 

[D6130]

Former BBC sports presenter Des Lynam was born in Ennis in 1942, but moved with his family to Brighton, East Sussex, at the age of six.