Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has a meeting house of the Society of Friends,

 

[341o2]

Howard Spring is known as the Manchester Dickens, for example, in Rachel Rosing, one of his novels, she being a Jewess and social climber relives her former life by taking a tram up Cheetham Hill. He was born in Cardiff

 

[Calthrop]

Cardiff is one of the settlements which get a mention in the "foolish-but-fun" ditty Crawshay Bailey -- much loved in South Wales; the eponymous Mr. B's brother Norwich gets sent to Cardiff College / For to get himself some knowledge. A reference in another verse, is to Llangollen -- You should see the bees of Gower / As they flit from flower to flower; / You should see the bees of Llangollen / As they gather in the pollen -- inter-lingual pronunciation-butchery taking place here.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ellesmere in Shropshire also lies on the line of the Llangollen Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, is also twinned with a settlement in the Belgian province of West-Vlaanderen. Ellesmere's "twin" is Diksmuide (the two are, or have been, big on dairy products); Clonmel's is Roeselare.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mallow in County Cork also has a racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Charleville / Rath Luirc, Co. Cork, also lies on the N20 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cambridge also hosts a drama festival.

 

[Calthrop]

Cambridge also hosts a drama festival.

Cambridge of University fame, has a namesake settlement in England -- far smaller, on another far-lesser River Cam: this Cambridge being in Gloucestershire, a few miles west of Stroud. (I believe that Cambridge, Gloucestershire: is pronounced not like the university city; but to rhyme with the fictional Ambridge, where celebrated fictional folk live and move and have their being.)

 

[341o2]

Cambridge lies on the route of the A38, which starts (or finishes) at Bodmin

 

[D6130]

Inveraray in Argyll & Bute also has a former gaol/jail which is now a museum.

 

[DerekC]

Inveraray has a bell tower with a peal of ten bells. So has the church of St Nicholas, Leeds, Kent.

 

[D6130]

Bodiam in East Sussex also has a castle surrounded by water.

 

[DerekC]

Bodiam is very close to the 51st parallel of latitude. If you project this westwards it reaches the sea near Hartland, Devon (and next touches land at St Anthony, Newfoundland)

 

[John Griffiths]

In the latter part of her life, Hartland was home to Mary Norton, author of The Borrowers and of the stories which inspired the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks. She was born in London in 1903 but spent most of her early life in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.

 

[D6130]

Falconwood in South-East London/North West Kent also has the name of a type of bird incorporated in its name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lympne in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Stephen.

 

[Springs Branch]

Lympne (pronounced as LIM) is one of those British settlements whose name is pronounced in a non-intuitive way.
Another example is Cholmondeston in Cheshire (pronounced CHUM-stan).

 

[Calthrop]

Lympne (pronounced as LIM) is one of those British settlements whose name is pronounced in a non-intuitive way.
Another example is Cholmondeston in Cheshire (pronounced CHUM-stan).

A prime candidate among English counties for non-intuitive pronunciations, must be Norfolk. A favourite of mine there, in this line: is Little Hautbois, between Wroxham and Aylsham. It's pronounced "Hobbiss" or "Hobbiz". Hence the limerick -- which I've quoted a couple of times on these Forums, but never before now on "Settlement Association":

There's a robber named Robert from Hautbois,
And looting rich houses his jautbois.
Through windows he wangles
At improbable angles --
A most rubbery robber our Bautbois.

 

[341o2]

Beaulieu is likewise pronounced more like Bewley

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Backbarrow in Cumbria also has a museum that is dedicated to road motor vehicles.

 

[Calthrop]

Lindal-in-Furness, Cumbria, also lies on the A590 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Egremont in Cumbria also has historical connections to iron ore mining.

 

[John Griffiths]

Millom in Cumbria also has a cricket team that plays in the North Lancashire and Cumbria League.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portland in Dorset also has a church that is dedicated to St George.

 

[John Griffiths]

Plymouth also shares its name with a shipping forecast area.

Hums 'Sailing By' and falls asleep peacefully.

 

[Calthrop]

Bickleigh, South Hams, Devon -- a few miles north of Plymouth -- lies close by the course of the River Plym; which enters the sea at Plymouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Payhembury in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Hayridge.

 

[Calthrop]

Nantwich, Cheshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Utkinton in Cheshire West & Chester was also once under the jurisdiction of the Nantwich Poor Law Union.