Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Littleborough in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[A0]

Littleborough has a pub named The Hare on the Hill. There is a pub by the same name in the Cotham area of Bristol.

 

[D6130]

Chester also has a shot tower (for dropping molten lead from height into a tank of cold water to make perfectly spherical lead shot for gun cartridges).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corwen in Denbighshire also lies on the line of the River Dee.

 

[Calthrop]

Our little arboreal friend the red squirrel -- now having a hard time surviving in Britain -- is usually useful in this game. Red squirrel numbers are nowadays low in Wales (the species mostly ousted by the grey variety) -- they are doing least badly in Anglesey, but are also still found in woodland around Corwen. Another prominent British area in red-squirrel lore, is the Isle of Wight (red squirrels only, there, over three thousand of them -- the greys can't get across the Solent). I've seen red squirrels in various I.O.W. locations; including Cranmore near Yarmouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mottistone in the Isle of Wight was also once a constituant body of the Liberty of West Medina.

 

[Calthrop]

Near Mottistone is the Isle of Wight's only megalithic monument, the Longstone. That name will be familiar to many, from an otherwise unrelated location at the opposite end of England: Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands, renowned as the site of Grace Darling's heroic life-saving exploit in 1838. The mainland port for the Farnes is Seahouses, Northumberland.

 

[Springs Branch]

Craster is another seaside settlement in Northumberland where kippers are smoked.

 

[Calthrop]

According to Wiki, a memorial tablet on the harbour wall at Craster commemorates a member of the Craster family, the local magnates: who died serving with the British Army in Tibet "in the 19th century" (shome mishtake shurely -- there was a British military expedition into Tibet in 1904, but we seem not to have messed with the place in the preceding century). At all events: a Tibetan connection of a more benign kind, exists re Sedlescombe, East Sussex -- near Hastings. The Pestalozzi International Children's Village (now defunct) at that settlement welcomed as members there, from 1959 on, child refugees from Tibet.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ewhurst Green in East Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Staple.

 

[Calthrop]

Ewhurst Green has a pub seemingly uniquely-named in Britain; the White Dog. However, there is a Red Dog pub at High Halstow, Kent (in the Hoo Peninsula, north of Rochester and Chatham).

 

[341o2]

High Halstow has Northwood Hill RSPB reserve nearby likewise Weymouth has Radipole Lake

 

[Calthrop]

The brilliant but troubled author Virginia Woolf (1882 -- 1941) has a connection with Weymouth -- in 1910, she and a few chums went to Weymouth and "blagged" their way to a formal reception of them, on a Royal Navy warship there: they pretending to be -- her, a (male) member of the royal family of Abyssinia (Ethiopia); plus "his" entourage (the masquerade was successful throughout). A few years later, Virginia and her husband Leonard lived for a while in Richmond (Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Petersham is another settlement currently within the London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames that was once administered by the ancient Hundred of Kingston.

 

[Calthrop]

An item of clothing -- fairly broadly interpreted -- is also named after Ascot, Berkshire. A "petersham" is a kind of overcoat; an "ascot", a neckband with wide pointed wings, traditionally made of pale grey patterned silk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Feniscliffe in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Francis.

 

[Calthrop]

Getting a bit cheeky words-wise: Mountnessing (area of Brentwood, Essex) can be also regarded as paradoxically named. Feniscliffe -- a fen (low-lying marshy area) can't in reality be the same as a cliff; similarly, a "mount" would seem far-removed from a "ness" -- likely low-lying headland, projecting into the sea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Childerditch in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Billericay Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Childerditch in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Billericay Poor Law Union.

The poet Edward Thomas wrote -- it's thought, while he was in this part of Essex, training for service in World War I -- mentioning the above-bolded settlement, and others (none of which, including Childerditch, seem to feature in the Michelin road atlas):

"If I should ever by chance grow rich,
I'd buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,
And let them all to my elder daughter."

Thomas is likely best-known -- certainly, to people like us -- for his poem about, and titled, Adlestrop (Gloucestershire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Taunton in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.

 

[Calthrop]

Trowbridge, Wiltshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Niedersachsen. Taunton's "twin" is Koenigslutter am Elm; Trowbridge's is Leer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yarnbrook in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Biss.

 

[Calthrop]

Yarnbrook has a pub called the Long's Arms. Some indications that this is quite a popular name for pubs in this part of Wiltshire -- there seem to be a couple more therein; but I wonder just a little, whether there is actually just the Yarnbrook one -- listed misleadingly (though not intentionally so) under differing addresses. At all events: Spixworth, Norfolk -- a little way north of Norwich -- has a pub with the only slightly different name of the Longe Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Booton in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the St Faith's Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Booton's War Memorial bears the names of twelve men killed in World War I: seems an awful total for such a small place -- but one reckons: that thing, then, was "the luck of the draw". A favourite theme of mine: "opposite extreme" -- among England-and-Wales's 54 "Thankful Villages" (all from there who served in WWI, survived) is Toft, Cambridgeshire (six miles west of Cambridge).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coldhanger in Essex also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Coldhanger in Essex also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

Is Goldhanger (near Maldon) maybe meant here? I can't seem to find any reference to a Coldhanger, Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kelvedon Hatch in Essex also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Kelvedon Hatch in Essex also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

A thing that always tickles me, is that Essex has Kelvedon Hatch (as above-bolded), near Brentwood; and some 25 miles to the north-east, the unrelated Kelvedon, between Witham and Colchester.

 

[341o2]

There is the Kelvedon Wonder, a variety of pea, another is the Hurst Green Shaft