Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ruabon in Wrexham County Borough also has a Primitive Methodist church.

 

[Calthrop]

Ruabon has a pub called the Vaults. Stony Stratford (Milton Keynes) has a Vaults Bar.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wrexham also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles.

 

[Calthrop]

Cheating a little bit -- Barmouth (Gwynedd) is another settlement in Wales, whose Welsh name bears a considerable similarity to its English one. This applies anyway, to what Welsh-speakers colloquially call Barmouth -- thus while Wrexham is Wrecsam, Barmouth is Y Bermo (its "solemn and official" Welsh name is Abermaw).

 

[John Griffiths]

Russel Davies, journalist and presenter of Brain of Britain, was born in Barmouth. He was educated at (among other places) Manchester Grammar School, in Manchester (or Manceinion, if we're sticking with the language of heaven).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chadderton in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the River Irk.

 

[D6130]

Kearsley in Greater Manchester was also once the site of a coal-fired power station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pilsworth in Greater Manchester was also once administered by the Hundred of Salford.

 

[Calthrop]

Littleborough in Greater Manchester also lies on the River Roch.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Hebden Bridge has a pub / hotel / restaurant called the Robin Hood Inn. Aslackby, Lincolnshire -- between Sleaford and Bourne -- goes one better with a pub called the Robin Hood & Little John.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haconby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bourne Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Burgess Hill, West Sussex, also has a church dedicated to St. Andrew.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bridgwater in Somerset also has historical connections to brick and tile manufacture.

 

[Calthrop]

Bridgwater's four-day annual fair, held in September; is reckoned to be the second-largest funfair in England, after Nottingham's famous Goose Fair.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also has a modern tramway system.

 

[D6130]

Maxwelltown -across the River Nith from Dumfries in Scotland - also has a camera obscura.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gatehouse of Fleet is also a settlement in Kirkcudbrightshire that was crated a Burgh of Barony.

 

[Calthrop]

Born in Gatehouse of Fleet (later in life, lived in Wigtown, not far away) was Jeannie Donan (1864 -- 1942): of some renown, it seems, as "The Galloway Poetess". From the Wiki item listing her copious works, I get the feeling that those same, were probably awful -- I'm probably too hard on the world's numerous earnest but not-hugely-well-known poets. Donan had a contemporary and counterpart on the other side of the North Channel, in Amanda McKittrick Ros -- prolific novelist and poet whose output is quite famed for being such garbage: that she has a considerable affectionate following, holding the sentiment that "she's so very bad that she's good". Ros was born in Drumaness, Co. Down (near Ballynahinch), and spent all her life in Ulster. (Her husband was stationmaster at Larne Harbour station.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Baileysmill in County Down also lies on the line of the River Cumber.

 

[Calthrop]

Baileysmill lies on Northern Ireland's A49 road: northern limit of which, linking with the further road network, is Lisburn (Counties Down / Antrim).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dromara in County Down also lies on the line of the River Lagan.

 

[Calthrop]

Kidsgrove in Staffordshire also has a church dedicated to St. John.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kendal in Cumbria also has a church that is dedicated to St Thomas.

 

[Calthrop]

Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Niedersachsen. Kendal's "twin" is Rinteln; Burton's is Lingen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harlaston in Staffordshire was also once administered by the Northern Division of the ancient Hundred of Offlow.

 

[John Griffiths]

Acton Trussell has also been declared the best kept small village in Staffordshire, in 2022. Harlaston had won the title five times, but standards are obviously slipping.

 

[Calthrop]

As does Acton Trussell -- Penkridge (Staffordshire), a little way to its south: lies both on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal; and, appropriately, the River Penk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brewood in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Penkridge Poor Law Union

 

[Calthrop]

There are linguistic theories about a very complicated origin -- arising from more than one ancient tongue -- for the name of Brewood. A similar situation is suggested concerning Bredon (Worcestershire) and its Hill: with the three syllables of "Bredon Hill", from three languages of long ago -- signifying in combination, "hill hill hill".