Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Radcliffe in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[John Griffiths]

Maidstone in Kent was also a major centre of paper manufacture.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worcester was also the scene of a battle in the English Civil War.

 

[Calthrop]

Caledon, Co. Tyrone, also has a namesake settlement in the Western Cape area of South Africa.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sheffield also produces a piquant sauce for use as a condiment and in cooking (Henderson's Relish).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caledon, Co. Tyrone, also has a namesake settlement in the Western Cape area of South Africa.

Derryloughan in County Tyrone also lies on the line of the River Blackwater.

 

[Calthrop]

Ballycarry, Co. Antrim -- south of Larne -- also has within its bounds, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

 

[DerekC]

The Ballycarry Wildcats are a group of 5 to 7 year olds who learn a selection of sports. Gunnersbury in West London, on the other hand, is home to a group of Weetabix Wildcats - providing football opportunities for girls aged 5 to 11.

 

[Calthrop]

It's groan-worthy riddles time, concerning southerly parts of Greater London.


Q. Why are Richmond and Gunnersbury like the letters P and R?

A. Because Kew ("Q") is in between them.


Q. Why is Charing Cross?

A. Because Newington Butts. (Newington Butts is a section -- which used to have a theatre in Shakespeare's time -- of the district of Newington, part of the London Borough of Southwark.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winchester in Hampshire also has a statue of King Alfred the Great.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Between Jewry Street and St Peter's Street, Winchester is St Peter's Catholic Church. It was built in 1924 and designed by Frederick Arthur Walters (1849–1931), a Scottish architect working in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, notable for his Roman Catholic churches. Another example of his work is St John's Church or St John the Evangelist Church in the Heron's Ghyll settlement of Buxted, East Sussex.

 

[Calthrop]

There is in Heron's Ghyll, a late-19th-century garden laid out by the poet Coventry Patmore (1823 -- 1896): described by Wiki, a little enigmatically, as "one of the least-known but best-regarded Victorian poets". (If you're like me, you'll have heard of him only as the author of The Angel in the House -- a narrative poem about the Victorian ideal of a happy marriage.) Patmore died in Lymington, Hampshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Fishbourne, IoW, is also served by Wightlink ferries.

 

[Calthrop]

Fishbourne, IoW, is also served by Wightlink ferries.

And has a mainland namesake in West Sussex, not quite twenty miles to its north-east. At the Sussex Fishbourne is the splendidly conserved archaeological site of the palace of the Romano-British King Cogidubnus.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cogidubnus of Fishbourne featured in the Cambridge Latin course for O Level pupils, of doleful memory.

 

[Calthrop]

The University of Cambridge has two operational real-tennis courts, out of only about fifty in the entire world. Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire -- near Stratford-upon-Avon -- has another such.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cirencester also has an agricultural college.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boxford in Berkshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Ermin Way.

 

[John Griffiths]

Boxford is the location of a fine Roman mosaic floor, dating from c.350 AD. Another such can be found at Brading on the Isle of Wight (and probably the best was Cogidubnus' at Fishbourne, but too soon to go back there).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Totland on the Isle of Wight also lies on the route of the A3055 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Totland probably counts as the Isle of Wight's most westerly settlement "proper"; the island's easternmost, has got to be Bembridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Cowes also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Isle of Wight Coastal Way.

 

[Calthrop]

East Cowes has -- a bit unexpectedly -- a branch of the rather posh supermarket chain Waitrose. Until a couple of years ago, the same applied to the Four Oaks area of Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Congleton in Cheshire East also has a tennis club.

 

[John Griffiths]

John Bradshaw, the regicide, was articled as clerk to a Congleton lawyer, and later became mayor of the town, before moving to London in the early 1640s. He had attended the King's School in Macclesfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Styal in Cheshire East also lies on the line of the River Bollin.

 

[Springs Branch]

Falfield in Gloucestershire is also the location of a women's prison (HMP Eastwood Park).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worthing in West Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St George.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Ernest while staying in Worthing in the summer of 1894; its main character Jack / Ernest Worthing is named after the town. Wilde is famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view, I suppose) for his time in jail between May 1895 and May 1897. He first entered Newgate Prison in London for processing, then was moved to Pentonville Prison, where the "hard labour" to which he had been sentenced began. Despite it's name, HM Prison Pentonville is not in Pentonville, but is located further north, in the Barnsbury area of the London Borough of Islington.

 

[John Griffiths]

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