Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newbridge in East Sussex also lies on the line of the River Arun.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Newbridge lies on an unclassified road called Kidd's Hill. This joins the B2026 at it's southern end, and subsequently connects to Uckfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln also has a church hat is named in commemoration of the Holy Cross.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The English conductor Sir Neville Marriner CH CBE , the founder of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields was born in Lincoln on 15th April 1924. He was regarded as "one of the world's greatest conductors and had a long recording and performing career. In later life he had a second home near Chardstock in Devon, where he died on 2nd October 2016, at the age of 92.

(Asked for an epitaph for his gravestone, he replied simply: "Follow the beat.")

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Poorton in Dorset was also once administered by the Beaminster Forum and Redhone Hundred.

 

[DerekC]

Ruscombe Lane links North Poorton to Powerstock (once called Poorstock)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

West Milton in Dorset also lies of the line of the Mangerton River (also known as the Mangerton Brook).

 

[Springs Branch]

West Milton is within the DT6 postcode area, which is based on the Post own of Bridport.

Also within the DT6 oarea is the Dorset village of Whitchurch Canonicorum.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wootton Fitzpaine in Dorset was also once administered by the Hundred of Whitchurch Canonicoum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The civil parish of Wootton Fitzpaine includes the ecclesiastical parish and small settlement of Monkton Wylds. St Andrew's Church, Monkton Wylds was built in 1848 – 1849 to the designs of the English architect Richard Cromwell Carpenter (1812 – 1855); he was also responsible for the design of St John the Baptist Church, Cookham Dean, Berkshire in 1843.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sunbury-on-Thames is also a settlement with connections to Swan Upping.

 

[Springs Branch]

London Irish, a Premiership Rugby Union club, have a training academy at the Hazelwood Training Centre in Sunbury-on-Thames.

London Irish's professional team are based at the Gtech Community Stadium in Brentford Greater London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

West Twyford in the London Borough of Ealing was also once under the jurisdiction of the Brentford Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

West Twyford Park was formerly called Bodiam Fields, after the area of the same name in Sussex, where hops were grown for the Guinness brewery.

 

[Calthrop]

Bodiam has a restaurant called the Curlew. Further on the "wader" theme: Rhosneigr, Anglesey, has a pub / restaurant called the Oyster Catcher.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangadwaladr in Anglesey also lies on the route of the A4080 road.

 

[Springs Branch]

Llangadwaladr is the site of a gravestone inscribed for Cadfan ap Iago a 7th Century King of Gwynedd who reigned until around 625 AD.

Cadfan was succeeded by his son Cadwallon ap Cadfan, who received a less-than-favourable write-up (1-star review in modern parlance) in The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

King Cadwallon died at the Battle of Heavenfield, fought in 633 or 634 AD near the modern-day settlement of Hexham, Northumberland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Warden in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Tyne.

 

[Calthrop]

Helston, Cornwall, also has a church dedicated to St. Michael.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lostwithiel in Cornwall also once had stannary town status.

 

[Calthrop]

Lostwithiel has a suburb called Bridgend. Not the only location with that name, in these islands ... one can get sick of the place of that name in South Wales (nice town though it probably is); Ireland has another one -- Bridgend (alternatively Bridge End), just in Co. Donegal: a little way north-west of [London]derry.

 

[DerekC]

Carrigans, Co Donegal, is another village that would have been transferred from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland had the recommendations of the 1925 Boundary Commission been implemented.

 

[Calthrop]

Kilkenny also has a church dedicated to St. Fiacre aka St. Fiach.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballyragget in County Kilkenny also lies on the line of the River Nore.

 

[Calthrop]

Ballyragget was known in times past, as Donoughmore. There is further south, in Co. Cork, a settlement nowadays called Donoughmore; north-west of Cork city (and with the 3-ft. gauge -- irrelevant here, of course -- in its past).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rathsaran in County Laois was also once under the jurisdiction of the Donaghmore Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Rathsaran seems to be located just of the R433 regional road, which links Templemore, County Tipperary in the west and Abbeyleix, County Laois in the East.

 

[Calthrop]

Dunfermline, Fife, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Allier. Templemore's "twin" is Premilhat; Dunfermline's is Vichy.

 

[DerekC]

Robert the Bruce is one of the Scottish kings buried at Dunfermline Abbey. Despite his reputation as an all-Scottish hero, some historians claim that he was born at Writtle in Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mountnessing in Essex also lies on the line of the River Wid.