Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Llanddewi Brefi is some ten miles south-west of Pontrhydfendigaid, in Ceredigion; and like the former settlement, lies on the B4343 road.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Llanddewi Brefi is the home of the character Daffyd Thomas in the television comedy series Little Britain. He is played by Matthew Lucas, who was born on 5th March 1974 in the Paddington area of London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Norton Folgate in Middlesex was also part of the ancient Hundred of Ossulstone.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Liberty of Norton Folgate was once the residence of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, and the theatrical association continued with the construction in 1837 of the City of London Theatre by the architect Samuel Beazley (1786–1851). The theatre specialised in "domestic" and temperance drama, and closed in 1868. Beazley's non-theatre work included several buildings in Leamington Spa.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Slough in Berkshire also lies on the line of the Grand Union Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Town-twinning seldom fails me... Ipswich, Suffolk, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Pas-de-Calais. Ipswich's "twin" is Arras; Slough's is Montreuil-sur-Mer -- which is nowadays anyway, quite a long way from the sea. As far as I know, Slough has never made a similar claim for itself.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hastings in East Sussex also has a Society of Friends meeting house.

 

[Springs Branch]

Relatively few places in the UK have 50 metre-length or Olympic-size swimming pools, and some of the older ones have been closed.

Amongst the open-air seaside specimens (now closed) were the Hastings Bathing Pool, and the Grange Lido in Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria.

 

[Calthrop]

The "over-Sands" suffix to Grange as above: was (quoting Wiki's, as often, rather comically coy way of telling of the doings of parish clergy) "added in the late 19th or early 20th century by the local vicar, who was fed up with his post going to Grange in Borrowdale near Keswick". Over decades -- particularly earlier ones -- following introduction in 1840 of Royal Mail nationwide postage using stamps: much alteration and standardisation of settlement-name forms did take place up and down the country, in the interests of helping post to get to the right destination. A 19th-century instance of this -- which I've mentioned before in the game -- involved Inveraray, Argyll and Bute; and Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. Under Royal Mail aegis, these two towns' names were officially standardised thus. Previously, as well as general "permissiveness" as regards spelling: many correspondents had written the names as "Inverary" and "Inverury" respectively, with confusion often resulting.

 

[D6130]

Lochgilphead, Argyll & Bute, also lies on the route of the A83 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cairnbaan in Argyll & Bute also lies on the line of the Crinan Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Cairnbaan in Argyll & Bute also lies on the line of the Crinan Canal.

This settlement's Cairnbaan Hotel has featured in the television adaptation of the best-known works of the author Neil Munro -- his picaresque tales of the doings of the small River Clyde tramp steamer Vital Spark, and her captain and crew. Munro (1863 -- 1930) was born in Inveraray; he died in Craigendoran, Argyll & Bute.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arrochar in Argyll & Bute also lies on the route of the A814 road.

 

[D6130]

Arrochar lies at the head of Loch Long. Cove in Argyll & Bute lies on the Eastern side of its confluence with the Firth of Clyde.

 

[Calthrop]

Arrochar lies at the head of Loch Long. Cove in Argyll & Bute lies on the Eastern side of its confluence with the Firth of Clyde.

The above-bolded, has a namesake very far to the south: Cove in Devon, four miles north of Tiverton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pendeen in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[Calthrop]

Pendeen in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

"Fun with languages": Pendeen's name comes from the Cornish penn din = "headland fort". The village's earlier Cornish name was "Boskaswal Wartha" = "Caswal's High Dwelling". One might imagine therefrom, that Boscastle a good deal further north in Cornwall -- on the coast between Padstow and Bude -- has a similarly-derived name; but one would be mistaken: Boscastle's Cornish name is Kastel Boterel; from "Bottreaux Castle" -- referring to the Bottreaux family who became lords of the manor hereabouts, around 1080; and the castle which they built here in the 12th century, of which few remains survive. To paraphrase a remark by a writer with little gift for foreign languages, on their coming across instances of the weirdness of a particular European language: all this has put me off any idea which I might have had, of studying Cornish !

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bolventor in Cornwall was also once administered by the Hundred of Lesnewth.

 

[Calthrop]

Air crashes, involving plane failure, RAF aircraft -- fatal for all on board -- occurred in summer / autumn 1945, at Bolventor; and at Kingston, Dorset (near Corfe Castle). The former, on 14 / 6 / 45, involved 21 dead; the latter, 15 / 6 / 45, 27 fatalities.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carlisle also has a church that is dedicated to St James.

 

[D6130]

Carlisle has the second smallest medieval cathedral in England. The smallest is at Oxford.

 

[Springs Branch]

Leeds also has a pub named "The Lamb and Flag".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cononley in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Aire.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wirksworth in Derbyshire also has historical connections to lead mining.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mugginton in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Belper Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

All Saints’ Church, Mugginton contains a pipe organ built by Conacher and Co. of Huddersfield. The company built an organ for the Yorkshire Exhibition of 1866; the instrument was awarded a grand medal and was installed in St Peter's Church, Huddersfield (which is also known as Huddersfield Parish Church)

 

[Calthrop]

Huddersfield is in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire. Said M.B. of Kirklees -- a fairly recent creation -- seems to tend to arouse sentiments of outright rage among some inhabitants of the area: they consider the name Kirklees to be in the highest degree foolish, spurious and unnecessary. Mirfield is another settlement in the Metropolitan Borough concerned.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Otley in West Yorkshire also hosts an agricultural show.

 

[Springs Branch]

Otley has regularly been the site of location filming for the TV series Emmerdale.

The original Emmerdale Farm, used for an extended period over the series, is in Leathley, North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oswestry in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Oswald.