Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Author Catherine Cookson was born in the district of Tyne Dock, South Shields, and spent much of her earlier adult life on Hastings, East Sussex. In later years she lived in Corbridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ipswich in Suffolk also has a Society of Friends meeting house.

 

[Calthrop]

Ipswich has a motorcycle speedway team called the Ipswich Witches. Wolverhampton has one called -- what else but the Woverhampton Wolves?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bilston in the West Midlands was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wolverhampton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

There is an even less well-known Bilston (sorry, Bilstonians of both kinds) in Midlothian -- just south of Edinburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penicuik in Midlothian also lies on the route of the A701 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Penicuik's name (from Old Brythonic Pen y Cog = Hill of the Cuckoo; comes from association with the just-named bird -- engaging and much-loved, despite its deplorable behaviour concerning perpetuation of its species (and becoming increasingly rare as a summer visitor to Britain). Likely kinship here, with Cuckfield, West Sussex (near Haywards Heath) -- name's origin debated; but generally associated with the cuckoo, which is the village's emblem.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Twineham in West Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Buttinghill.

 

[Calthrop]

Twineham lies on the eastern branch of the River Adur; which a few miles westward, merges with the river's western branch: the conjoined stream then flows southward to the English Channel, passing en route close by Upper Beeding, West Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Storrington in West Sussex also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the South Downs Way.

 

[Calthrop]

The author and journalist Hugh de Selincourt (1878 -- 1951) wrote numerous novels, a number of which featured Storrington, which he knew well -- it is "thinly disguised" in said novels, as "Tillingfold". The only work of this author reckoned to have a degree of renown, is one of these -- The Cricket Match (1924): considered a gem of fiction writing about the English village-cricket scene. De Selincourt also spent much time at Pulborough, West Sussex (a few miles north-west of Storrington); he died in Pulborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stopham in West Sussex also lies on the line of the River Arun.

 

[Calthrop]

Blythburgh, Suffolk, also has a pub called the White Hart.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoven in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Blything.

 

[Calthrop]

Ilkley, West Yorkshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Margaret.

 

[341o2]

Conistone also lies on the route of the River Warfe

 

[Calthrop]

Conistone also lies on the route of the River Warfe

At first sight I thought -- heaven forgive me -- "he's mis-spelt Coniston in Cumbria". Then it became clear to me that there was involved, a totally different place -- albeit not the proverbial million miles away -- which I'd never heard of before. One learns that Conistone's name comes from a mixture of Old Danish kuning, and Old English tun: meaning the king's farm or settlement. Up and down England there are many Kingstons, varying widely in size and importance; one takes it that more often than not, the name will derive from Old English plain-and-simple -- meaning again, though, "king's farm or settlement". The Isle of Wight has a Kingston: about five miles south of Newport.

 

[DerekC]

Kingston (now amalgamated with Shorwell) has a Jacobean manor called Wolverton House. Wolfeton House, on the other hand, is Elizabethan and is at Charminster, Dorset

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cerne Abbas in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Cerne.

 

[DerekC]

Cerne Abbas is famous for its (well endowed) mediaeval figure of a giant, carved into the chalk of Giant Hill above the village. Less well known are the figures carved into the chalk of Wandlebury Hill, near Stapleford, Cambridgeshire. Now largely overgrown, they were cut (or recut) in the 1950s by the archaelogist T C Lethbridge, on the basis of probe investigations he had carried out. He believed that he had reproduced mediaeval or earlier figures of the giants Gog and Magog which had been lost in the 19th Century, but this has been widely disputed.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hauxton in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Thriplow.

 

[Calthrop]

Hauxton lies close by the River Granta; one of the two rivers which merge a little way north of Hauxton, to become the River Cam. A fair way further south on the Granta, lies Newport (Essex) -- one of the British Isles' many Newports.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[Calthrop]

Winchester is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Hesse. Buxton's "twin" is Bad Nauheim; Winchester's is Giessen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Windsor also had a medieval period leper hospital.

 

[Calthrop]

Windsor also had a medieval period leper hospital.

Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, also has a namesake town in the Canadian province of Ontario -- both "transatlantic" settlements are in the part of Ontario which is that funny southernmost bit of Canada, squeezed in between several Great Lakes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Julianstown in County Louth was another settlement that was involved in the early stages of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.

 

[Calthrop]

Julianstown in County Louth was another settlement that was involved in the early stages of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.

Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire --south of Bingham -- also has a pub called the Lime Kiln.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colston Bassett in Nottinghamshire is another of the five protected areas that produce Stilton cheese.

 

[Calthrop]

The River Smite, by which Colston Bassett lies, is a tributary of the River Devon; which is in turn a tributary of the Trent. The Smite joins the Devon at Shelton, Nottinghamshire -- some five miles south of Newark.