Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The "Stone of Scone" was kept in mediaeval times at Scone Abbey, near Perth, and is the traditional coronation seat of Kings of Scotland. Mythology suggests that it was originally at the Hill of Tara, near Skyrne, County Meath, and used in the inauguration of the High Kings of Ireland.

Somewhat confused here. Are you referring to the settlement named Skryne?

 

[Calthrop]

Somewhat confused here. Are you referring to the settlement named Skryne?

I also reckon that Skryne is, likely, meant here -- per Wiki, in Co. Meath and very close to the Hill of Tara. Might we -- without being discourteous to @DerekC -- take the name as Skryne, and continue; in the interests of getting things rolling again? If so, I have a possible "association".

 

[Calthrop]

Skryne, alias Skreen, Co. Meath: has a "linguistic relation" -- place-names concerned, derived from the Irish scrin = shrine -- up north, in Co. Londonderry. This is the parish of Ballinascreen: chief settlement within which, is Draperstown. Local folk (I'd guess, Green rather than Orange ones) use as alternatives to "Draperstown", several names -- including Ballinascreen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Castlebar in County Mayo also has a place of worship called Church of the Holy Rosary.

 

[Calthrop]

Painswick, Gloucestershire, is also has associations with yew trees. Castlebar's coat of arms features trees of that species; with Castlebar being the county town of Mayo -- from the Irish Maigh Eo = "plain of the yew trees". In Painswick's churchyard, there are approximately one hundred yew trees; with assorted folklore material about how many of them there are / it is possible for there to be, there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sapperton in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Bisley

 

[Calthrop]

Sapperton's church is dedicated to St. Kenelm -- a rather uncommon dedicatee; but the church of Romsley, Worcestershire (near Halesowen) is also dedicated to him.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ilkeston in Derbyshire also has a district history group.

 

[Calthrop]

Clevedon, Somerset, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Marne. Ilkeston's "twin" is Chalons-en-Champagne; Clevedon's is Epernay.

 

[John Griffiths]

David Bryant, multiple bowls champion, was born and lived in Clevedon. Known for puffing at a pipe while playing, he was declared Pipe Smoker of the Year in 1986, a title succeeded to in 1987 by film critic Barry Norman, born at St Thomas' Hospital in Lambeth, south London.

 

[Calthrop]

Lambeth has one of the largest Portuguese-speaking communities in the U.K. St. Helier, Jersey, also has a substantial Portuguese community.

 

[Springs Branch]

Many settlements in Britain have twin towns - most frequently located in the 'near abroad' - France, Germany, Netherlands etc.

Remarkably few are twinned with towns in Portugal. Two of these are St Helier (with Funchal) and Desborough Northamptonshire (twinned with Soure, Portugal).

 

[Calthrop]

Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, also lies close by the River Ise.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thornton-Cleveleys in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas Owen.

 

[D6130]

a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas Owen.

I thought that he was a rail enthusiast ITN 'newscaster'?

Heckington in Lincolnshire also has a restored windmill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scott Willoughby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Sleaford Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Was he, poor chap. But where'd he.... oh.

According to Marrat's 1816 History of Lincolnshire, Scott Willoughby had just two houses, and was owned by Lord Brownlow. This was the 2nd Baron Brownlow, a major Lincolnshire landowner, whose seat was Belton House, Belton, also in Lincolnshire (Parts of Kesteven).

 

[D6130]

The grounds of Belton House - Belton Park - contains an arched hilltop 'folly' tower, known as 'Belmont Tower'....which is visible, to the East, from the East Coast Main Line between Grantham and Peascliff Tunnel. The grounds of Wentworth Woodhouse, near Wentworth in South Yorkshire, also contain an arched 'folly' tower, called 'The Needle's Eye'.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Old Holy Trinity Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Wentworth; it is partly in ruins, and stands close to a newer church also dedicated to the Holy Trinity. This newer church was designed by John Loughborough Pearson RA (1817 – 1897). He had a career lasting some 50 years, beginning with his first church at St Anne's, Ellerker, East Yorkshire, built in 1843.

 

[John Griffiths]

Until recently, Ellerker had an establishment named the Black Horse Restaurant. There is a restaurant of the same name in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

New Mills in Derbyshire also has a canal boat marina.

 

[Calthrop]

Hayfield, Derbyshire, lies on the River Sett; which flows into the River Goyt at New Mills.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buckley in Flintshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Matthew.

 

[Calthrop]

On the second Tuesday of July, there is in Buckley a ceremony -- over two hundred years old -- called the Buckley Jubilee: a march for and by the residents, starting on the open space called the Common, then proceeding through the town's streets; led by Buckley's much-acclaimed brass band. Without wishing to "put down" Buckley: this celebration is perhaps reminiscent of the rather more meaningful mass-horseback "common ridings" which take place generally in summer, in many settlements in the Scottish Borders -- dating from lawless times some centuries ago: settlements trying to define and defend their boundaries against raiders from elsewhere in the area. Hawick, Scottish Borders, has likely the oldest and most impressive of these ceremonies.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nisbet in Roxburghshire also lies on the line of the River Teviot.

 

[Calthrop]

Nisbet lies a very short way off the B6400 road. Some distance further west, that road runs through Lilliesleaf, Scottish Borders.

 

[Springs Branch]

Widnes is also located at longitude 2° 44' W.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Mary's Church, Widnes contains a stained glass east window depicting the Ascension and an Apocalyptic Vision and was designed by Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster. Another example of the company's work can be seen at Mountjoy Parish Church, Cappagh, County Tyrone, where there is a Memorial to the Fallen 1939-1945, dating from 1950.

 

[Calthrop]

Cappagh lies on a network of unclassified minor roads which, if followed some way north-westward, lead in time to the 46 road and the village of Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Carrickmore is the ancestral home of Kurt Cobain (1967 – 1994), the lead singer and guitarist of the band Nirvana. Samuel and Letitia Cobain left the townland of Inishatieve for America in the 1800s first moving to Canada and then settling in Washington. This made him a fifth generation descendant from the emigrants. There was a club in Newport, South Wales, called TJs, which is allegedly the place that he proposed to Courtney Love.
(And, no, I'm not making the last bit up!)