Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

I have vague memories from long ago of a further education institution known as Lanchester Poly. I couldn't remember where this was located, except that it was not in the settlement of Lanchester, Co. Durham.

The wonders of the internet confirm this establishment was, in fact, named after the automotive and aerodynamics engineer Frederick W. Lanchester and has now become the University of Coventry.

 

[John Griffiths]

Coventry's main football team, Coventry City, now somewhat in the doldrums, was a successful and glamorous side under the management of Jimmy Hill, who introduced among other things its sky blue strip. Hill was born in Balham, south London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has a Polish Roman Catholic church.

 

[Calthrop]

Bainbridge, North Yorkshire, also has a namesake settlement in the U.S. State of Georgia.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mickley in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Ure.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bishop Monkton also lies on the Ripon Rowel long distance path.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Andover in Hampshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[Calthrop]

The little River Anton rises in the northern part of Andover town; and flows southward thence for a few miles, to join the River Test near Fullerton, Hampshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Cholderton in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Andover Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I can find very little information about East Cholderton, as Mr W Pedia doesn't seem to now much about the place. He does say, though, that Lieutenant General Sir John Elley MP KCB KCH KMT KSG (1764 - 1839), a cavalry officer who fought with distinction in the Napoleonic Wars, lived and died at Cholderton Lodge, on the outskirts of the village. In turn, though information about Elley is scarce, perhaps partly because of his humble origins; he was born in London, where his father ran an eating-house at Furnival's Inn, Holborn.

 

[Calthrop]

A bit of an exercise in envelope-pushing here: there are various theories on the derivation of Holborn's name -- one being that it comes from "Old Bourne" = "old brook": a small stream in those parts which was a tributary of the Fleet River, which runs through that area of London to join, in turn, the Thames (and which [the Fleet] was, one gathers, quite disgustingly polluted in past centuries). Another Fleet, in a highly-contrasting part of the country, is the parish of that name in south Lincolnshire, about ten miles east of Spalding; the principal village of which is Fleet Hargate.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Holbeach is also just south of the A17 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quadring in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Spalding Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Donington, Lincolnshire, a couple of miles from Quadring; is also on the short A152 road -- Donington is where it joins the A52.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Poynton in Cheshire East also has a Christian Fellowship place of worship.

 

[Calthrop]

Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, is also twinned with a settlement in Hungary. Poynton's "twin" is Erd; Eastwood's, Szolnok.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

South Wingfield in Derbyshire is another settlement that was involved in the Pentrich Rising of 1817.

 

[Calthrop]

Lydd, Kent (on Romney Marsh) also has a church dedicated to All Saints (locally dubbed "The Cathedral on the Marsh").

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tenterden in Kent was also considered to be a "limb" of the Cinque Ports.

 

[Calthrop]

Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, also has a pub called the Fat Ox.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sunderland Point in Lancashire is another settlement that has a causeway access road that connects with another area.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sunderland Bridge in County Durham also shares its name with the Wearside city of Sunderland.

 

[Calthrop]

Sunderland Bridge has a hotel / pub called The Honest Lawyer. (People are proverbially not over-fond of the legal profession; with the implication that an honest member thereof is rare enough, to merit naming a hostelry after !) Grimsby, Lincolnshire, has a pub of the same name.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Grimsby is the site of a Blue Cross Animal Hospital, one of only four in the country; the other three are in London, one of these is in Merton.

 

[John Griffiths]

Merton - apparently a seldom-used district name even though (or perhaps because) it is that of the larger London borough of which it is a part - was the location of an Augustinian priory, one of whose alumni was Walter de Merton, founder of the eponymous Oxford college.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hillmorton in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the Oxford Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Cirencester, Gloucestershire, also has a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Duxford in Cambridgeshire also holds an annual Advent Market.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hendon in NW London also has a museum of military aviation.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colindale in the London Borough of Barnet also lies on the line of the waterway called the Silk Stream.