Settlement Association

[A0]

Vauxhall was where the Vauxhall Motor Company established itself, hence its name. Another place where a motor company took the place-name of where it established itself is Caterham.

 

[M-Train]

Sewardstone, Essex, is also on the borders of London, has a TfL red bus service, and is served by a relatively frequent service of Scania Omnicitys. However, unlike Caterham, it is the red buses which are the Omnicitys!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nazeing in Essex was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Waltham.

 

[A0]

Nazeing has a glassworks, as does Alum Bay (Isle of Wight).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shanklin on the Isle of Wight also has a chine.

 

[Calthrop]

The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 -- 82) -- probably best-known overall, for his The Song of Hiawatha -- made more than one visit of significant length, to England. On one such, in 1868: per Wiki, he stayed at the Crab Inn in Shanklin's Old Village, and left a poem about it on a stone by the pub. The reference goes on, tantalisingly, to say that "it is not generally held to be among his best work". Longfellow is the only American commemorated in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey (City and Borough of Westminster in the London Region).

 

[D6130]

Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire also has a pub named the Buckingham Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Braunston in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the Grand Union Canal.

 

[D6130]

Titchfield in Hampshire also has a pub named the Wheatsheaf.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Funtley in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Titchfield.

 

[D6130]

Carsington in Derbyshire also has a pub named the Miners' Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brassington in Derbyshire also has a historical connection to lead mining.

 

[Calthrop]

Funtley in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Titchfield.

Carsington in Derbyshire also has a pub named the Miners' Arms.

I'm going to be "Mr. Insufferable" -- just for interest (or total lack thereof !): these similarly-named pubs at Funtley and Carsington were featured by me back in March (my post #30,163). Punctuation minutiae: neither bears the here-given (and immediately sense-making / punctuationally correct) inscription "Miners' Arms". Funtley's establishment is the "Miner's Arms": one single miner (deal struck between the first landlord, and a squad of tunnellers working for him on another job). Carsington's is the "Miners [sic] Arms" -- a usage about which Lynne Truss would not be happy.

Brassington in Derbyshire also has a historical connection to lead mining.

Monyash, Derbyshire -- a few miles west of Bakewell -- is also on the Limestone Way long-distance footpath.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flagg in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bakewell Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Flagg has -- or has had (suggestions that it is now defunct) -- a course for point-to-point horseracing. Those who oversee this sport, divide such courses according to region of the country: another such course -- like Flagg, in the "Midlands" region thereof -- definitely still active, is at Brocklesby, Lincolnshire (between Grimsby and Brigg).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leiston in Suffolk was also chosen as a site in which to erect a religious house for the order of Premonstratensian Canons.

 

[A0]

Leiston was the home to Garrett and Sons who produced steam tractors and traction engines there.

Also in East Anglia, just down the coast another well known producer of steam tractors and traction engines, Ransomes, were based in Ipswich.

 

[Calthrop]

The names of Ipswich; and of Bunbury, Cheshire -- north-west of Nantwich; feature centrally in whimsical popular songs of -- from the viewpoint of nowadays -- quite long ago: a little under / over a century. That about Ipswich, concerns struggles with the relatively new invention the telephone -- "Which is the switch for Ipswich, miss? This is the switch I require...". The Bunbury one, arises from Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest: a character in which, invents a fictitious invalid friend called Bunbury -- the supposed necessity of visiting whom as a "work of mercy", acts as an alibi for his skipping any social engagement which he wants to get out of. This (which has actually made it into the Oxford Dictionary) also led to a music-hall song, to a rollicking tune, about the fraudster's frequent short-notice requirements to go and visit "Bunbury in his Sunbury bungalow".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tilston in Cheshire West & Chester was also once administered by the Hundred of Broxton.

 

[A0]

Tilston was the site of a Roman town on Watling Street. Another Roman settlement on Watling Street was Friars Wash at Redbourn (Herts).

 

[Calthrop]

Tilston lies on the Aldford Brook, which runs south to north parallel to the River Dee at a distance of a couple of miles to the east; and flows into the big river a little way north of Aldford, Cheshire -- situated six miles south of Chester and almost on the Welsh border.

 

[Calthrop]

Tilston was the site of a Roman town on Watling Street. Another Roman settlement on Watling Street was Friars Wash at Redbourn (Herts).

In times gone by, Redbourn had some renown for the cultivation of watercress, on water-meadows by the River Ver, on which the village is located. Yet more noted for watercress is, of course, the area of Alresford, Hampshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Calbourne in the Isle of Wight is another settlement where a fulling mill was operational in medieval times.

 

[M-Train]

Said mill hosts a caravan site, as does Crystal Palace in South London.

 

[DerekC]

The transmitter at Crystal Palace transmits Medium Wave (MW) and Frequency Modulated Very High Frequency (FM) radio and digital television. Another transmitter in the London area is at Brookman's Park, but the only public broadcasts from that site are MW radio.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Congleton in Cheshire East also has a lawn tennis club.

 

[Calthrop]

Great Yarmouth is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Yvelines. Congleton's "twin" is Trappes; Great Yarmouth's is Rambouillet. (In summer 1966, I had the good fortune to observe Trappes's busy m.p.d., crammed with steam locos including a few amazingly ancient ones.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Helmsdale in the Highland region also has historical connections to herring fishing.

 

[A0]

Helmsdale was the location of an early RAF WW2 radar station.

Much of the radar research took place at Bawdsey (Suffolk).

 

[Springs Branch]

Seemingly, there are four different foot ferries operating in Suffolk, providing links across various river estuaries. Bawdsey to Flexistowe Ferry, across the Deben estuary, is one of these services.

Another foot ferry crosses the Blyth estuary, operating between Southwold and Walberswick, Suffolk.