Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

Sempringham was a centre of the Puritan movement during the 17th century and the village curate, Samuel Skelton, sailed to Salem in Massachusetts, subsequently becoming pastor of the First Church of Salem, the original Puritan church in North America.

Another English Puritan cleric who sailed to Salem and preached alongside Skelton was Francis Higginson, formerly the minister at Claybrooke Magna in Leicestershire.

 

[Calthrop]

Claybrooke Magna has a pub called the Pig in Muck. Alnwick, Northumberland, has an establishment with the same name; described as "a bijou cafe-bar specialising in brunch and tapas" -- which would seem not very appropriate for the "gritty" name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abberwick in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Alnwick Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Abberwick in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Alnwick Poor Law Union.

Abberwick lies a short way from the River Aln; which -- as one would expect in both the following -- flows through Alnwick; and rises near Alnham (Northumberland) -- in the Cheviot Hills, some way west of the places mentioned.

@Xenophon PCDGS -- your settlement with bolded name as above, inevitably brings up thoughts of a certain monster invented by Lewis Carroll .

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haworth in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

Bangor, Gwynedd, also has a pub called the Black Bull. (There's no getting away from those Brontes where Haworth is concerned; it is allegedly at the Black Bull there, that the unfortunate Branwell began his decline into alcoholism and opium addiction.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glasinfryn in Gwynedd also lies on the line of the River Cegin.

 

[Calthrop]

Per Wiki, Glasinfryn "is credited as" the start of the A4244 road; but -- certainly per modern road structure / accommodations -- the road actually starts a little way away from the village. Said road runs a few miles generally south-westward, finishing at its junction with the A4086 close by Brynrefail.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Deinolen in Gwynedd also lies on the line of the River Caledffrwd.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Christ Church (Eglwys Grist), Llandinorwig (a part of Deinolen) was built in 1857. The money to build the church was donated by Thomas Assheton Smith (the younger) (1776 – 1858) of Faenol, who was the owner of the village's main employer, Dinorwig Quarry. Prior to his election as the MP for Caernarvonshire at the General Election of 1832, he was the MP for Andover.

 

[Calthrop]

Haverhill, Suffolk, also has a namesake town in the US State of Massachusetts. (Andover, Massachusetts, has a prestigious boys' [maybe nowadays co-ed] school, which I don't think our Andover has; but Marlborough is just up the road a bit.)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Running through Haverhill is Stour Brook, which goes on to join the River Stour by the village of Wixoe, Essex.

 

[Calthrop]

Wixoe is of interest to archaeologists, for its Roman-empire significance (though it seems not to have a known Roman name): was the meeting-point in those times, of several lengthy roads / tracks: including the Via Devana, which ran between modern Colchester and ditto Chester; passing en route through Leicester (Roman Ratae Corieltauvorum, though the "C"-jawbreaker part is optional).

Small niggle: by the info which I have, Wixoe is in Suffolk (just) -- it being on the north bank of the Stour, which there forms the county boundary.

 

[M-Train]

Optare Citypacers were also used in Orpington, LB Bromley, in a single batch of similar size, and for about the same relatively short period of time.

 

[hvordan]

Orpington is designated as a major centre in the London Plan, as is Peckham.

 

[Calthrop]

Novels by the author Muriel Spark (1918 -- 2006) with the names of English settlements in the title: The Ballad of Peckham Rye; and The Abbess of Crewe (Cheshire).

 

[D6130]

Barnoldswick (pronounced 'Barlick') in Lancashire (formerly West Riding of Yorkshire) also has a Rolls-Royce production facility.

 

[Calthrop]

Rye, East Sussex, also has a female town crier (of which there are only about twenty in the whole country).

 

[johnnychips]

The artist JMW Turner made many sketches of Rye, and did the same of nearby Hastings.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fairlight in East Sussex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hastings Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Fairlight is encompassed in the coastwise Hastings Country Park, which is a favourite area for fossil-hunters. It is eclipsed in that, however, by the "Jurassic Coast" a good deal further west along the English Channel's shores -- Lyme Regis (Dorset) therein, publicises itself as Britain's "fossil capital".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Plymouth also has a marine aquarium.

 

[Calthrop]

Appropriately for port cities: Middlesbrough's coat of arms also features an anchor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swanmore in Hampshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Barnabas.

 

[DerekC]

Swanmore parish was created in the 19th Century from part of Droxford, Hampshire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upham in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Bishop's Waltham.

 

[Calthrop]

Oulton, Staffordshire -- just north of Stone -- also has a pub called the Brushmakers' Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Sutton in Cheshire West & Chester also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[Calthrop]

Great Sutton and neighbouring Little Sutton are mentioned in the Domesday Book, as being under the ownership of the canons of St. Werburgh's Abbey. St. Werburgh, as patron saint of Chester, is prominent in this part of the world; and also gives her name to the area of the city of Bristol, called St. Werburghs.

 

[D6130]

Vauxhall in South London is also the location of a city farm.