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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanwix was also once under the jurisdiction of the Carlisle Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

 Catchgate, County Durham, also has a pub named the Crown and Thistle.

 

[Calthrop]

 Catchgate, County Durham, also has a pub named the Crown and Thistle.

Hopefully, "different" enough to pass muster (am struggling here a bit) -- Catchgate's slightly Japanese-sounding neighbour settlement to the east, West Kyo: has a pub which, like the above-italicised one, is allegedly haunted.

 

[John Griffiths]

West Kyo was the birthplace in 1773 of John Buddle, who made his name as a colliery viewer (manager), and became one of the most influential mining engineers and mine owners in NE England. He died in 1843 and is buried in the churchyard of St James,  Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fenham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Much Hadham, Hertfordshire -- near Bishop's Stortford -- also has a Church of the Holy Cross.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Spalding in Lincolnshire also has a forge museum.

 

[Calthrop]

This is ridiculous -- although I lived for the first decade of my life in Spalding, and love the place; I seem to be defeated in trying to find anything fresh to mention about it. Am forced back on a reliable standby of mine: twin towns. Canterbury is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Marne. Spalding's "twin" is Sezanne; Canterbury's is Reims.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wilmington in Kent was also a settlement once inhabited the the Brythonic people known the the Cantii.

 

[John Griffiths]

 Dover, Kent, also has a namesake settlement in the US state Delaware (and it is the state capital, trivia fans!)

 

[Calthrop]

Dover -- named as such -- and its cliffs, have considerable involvement in Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. Another settlement is prominent in a less angst-y offering from the same playwright: The Merry Wives of Windsor.

(There is a "meme" in America, of considerable antiquity, which casts Delaware as something of a "joke place". It is reckoned the most boring and generally "nothing" state in all of the US: nobody seems ever to have been there, and you never seem to meet anyone who comes from there; there is considerable speculation to the effect that Delaware does not actually exist at all.)

 

[341o2]

One of the most accurate adaptations was the opera Sir John in Love, by Ralph Vaughn Williams who was born at Down Ampney

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Daglingworth in Gloucestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Cirencester Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Having forced myself to believe that a place named Daglingworth exists, I can but point out that Stirling also has a Church of the Holy Rood,  rood meaning cross.

 

[Calthrop]

Stirling has a rather recondite connection with Mauchline, East Ayrshire -- namely, "Mauchline Ware": wooden snuff-boxes, nowadays reckoned "highly collectable", made from 1790 on, specifically from wood from trees on the hill whereon Stirling Castle stands.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wrexham also has historical connections to clock making.

 

[341o2]

Southampton has also been shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2025

 

[John Griffiths]

As well as having a similarly structured name, Northampton, like Southampton, has its main sporting team nicknamed 'the Saints' - the football team in Southampton, the rugby union side in Northampton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Calthrop]

Thrapston is situated at the eastern end of the A45 road. Daventry, Northamptonshire, also lies on that road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Preston Capes in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Fawsley.

 

[Calthrop]

Preston Capes in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Fawsley.

A village name which has always appealed to me, like the above-bolded and for similar reasons (similar rhythm and "putting-together" -- "quirky and quaint" and with the air, a bit, of having been made up by some humorist as that of an archetypally sleepy English village): is Broughton Poggs, Oxfordshire (a few miles south of Burford). Preston Capes means "Priest farm / settlement", we learn; how B.P. got its name, is not divulged.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carmarthen also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[John Griffiths]

Merthyr Tydfil has also been the largest (most populous) town in Wales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chaddesden in Derbyshire also has a rock climbing centre.

 

[Calthrop]

Although the 7th-century worthy St. Chad is the dedicatee of a good many churches, particularly prominent as such in the Midlands; and although Chaddesden is often referred to locally as "Chadd"; while I find no explanation for the derivation of its name, it doesn't seem obviously anything to do with the Saint -- none of Chaddesden's several churches are dedicated to him. A settlement which does have a St. Chad's Church is Pattingham, Staffordshire -- a few miles west of Wolverhampton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bobbington in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Seisdon Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Bobbington is only just in Staffordshire: being situated right on the border with Shropshire. Flimwell, East Sussex, is in similar case -- it lies right on the border with Kent.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Weald Smokery in Flimwell is a family-owned small business producing locally-cured smoked meats and fish.

A similar enterprise is The Artisan Smokehouse located in Falkenham, Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Littledean in Gloucestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Ethelbert.