Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Horam in East Sussex also lies on the route of the footpath and cycleway known as The Cuckoo Trail.

 

[Calthrop]

Horam's parish church is designated Christ Church. Dublin's Church of Ireland cathedral, is Christ Church Cathedral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sallins in County Kildare also lies on the line of the Grand Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Near Sallins is the small village of Bodenstown: chiefly renowned as being the location of the grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763 -- 98) -- leading figure in the Irish uprising of 1798, resulting in his demise (circumstances not fully certain), having been sentenced to death by court-martial. Tone was taken prisoner by British forces earlier in 1798, at Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Curraghlea in County Donegal also lies on the line of the River Swilly.

 

[Calthrop]

Curraghlea in County Donegal also lies on the line of the River Swilly.

This takes a bit of wriggling-out-of: it being one of those Irish "townlands" -- below villages, in the pecking order -- small scatterings of dwellings with nothing to say about them ! The "Curragh" part, is from the Irish word for "plain": comes in many Irish place-names (mostly townlands). Find it necessary to go back to Co. Kildare; there being located there, the probably best-known Curragh -- the low-lying, clement area called the Curragh of Kildare. The most significant town in that region is -- no surprise here -- Kildare.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

And straight I will repair, to the Curragh of Kildare.....as the line in the song goes (one from my folk singing days nearly sixty years ago).......

Fethard in County Tipperary also has an equine hospital.

 

[Calthrop]

And straight I will repair, to the Curragh of Kildare.....as the line in the song goes (one from my folk singing days nearly sixty years ago).......

Words of the song, allegedly by Robert Burns -- I'm not so sure, though; those Jocks trying to muscle in on other nations' stuff ?

Fethard in County Tipperary also has an equine hospital.

Fethard holds every June, a "medieval festival". Also of note in Ireland for medieval-themed "fun doings", is Bunratty, Co. Clare -- at whose castle, medieval banquets (pay your fee and participate) take place.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilrush in County Clare also lies on the line of the River Shannon.

 

[Calthrop]

Agh, my "easy go-to", I'm afraid: Caernarfon, Gwynedd, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Finistere. Kilrush's "twin" is Plouzane; Caernarfon's is Landerneau.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lerwick in Shetland also has a marina.

 

[M-Train]

A type of Saro flying boat was named after Lerwick; another Saro product was associated with Hackney in London, namely an allocation of their roofbox RT buses to the bus garage there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leicester also has a Victoria Park.

 

[Calthrop]

Sharnford, Leicestershire -- a little way east of Hinckley -- also lies on the River Soar.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aston Flamville in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hinckley Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

According to Wiki, Aston Flamville would seem to have had a fairly easy time, compared to many places, in the 17th century's English Civil War: the worst recorded as happening there, is the Parliamentarian forces -- dominant in these parts -- requisitioning assorted goods, and at times doing less than they might as regards paying for them. Naseby in Northamptonshire, some fifteen miles south-east of Aston Flamville, had a more "interesting" -- likely in the wrong way -- experience of that war.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cold Ashby in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Guilsborough.

 

[Calthrop]

Oundle, also in Northamptonshire, also has a golf club.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thrapston in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the River Nene.

 

[Calthrop]

Felixstowe, Suffolk, is also situated on the A14 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire was also affected by the North Sea Flood of 1953.

 

[Calthrop]

Re the "Time and Tide Bells" artistic / ecological project (at varying coastal points around Britain, a bell set up, which is rung by the incoming tide): Mablethorpe has one of these structures; another is at Appledore, North Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Putsborough in Devon also lies on the line of the long-dstance footpath known as the South West Coast Path.

 

[Calthrop]

Port Eynon (County of Swansea) -- in the Gower peninsula -- also has good views of Lundy Island.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberdaron in Gwynedd also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Wales Coast Path.

 

[Calthrop]

Aberdaron's name is not only reminiscent of Aberdare (Rhondda Cynon Taf) at the opposite end of Wales; but has a kindred root / meaning. The settlements are respectively at the mouths of the Daron, and Dare, Rivers; which signify -- from archaic Welsh -- "river of oak trees".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ystradyfodwg in Glamorgan was also once administered by the Hundred of Miskin.

 

[Calthrop]

Axbridge, Somerset, also has a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Charterhouse-on-Mendip in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Winterstoke.

 

[Calthrop]

Charterhouse-on-Mendip is so called from its one-time Carthusian monastery (an "out-station" of that at Witham not far away). There was a monastery of the same order at Beauvale (Notts.), north-west of Nottingham.