Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Outchester in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Belford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

There is at Outchester a temporary residence for holidaymakers to hire, called Curlew Cottage. Related name-wise in a rather complicated way, is the village of Whauphill, Dumfries and Galloway (between Wigtown and Whithorn). Commemorated by both names is -- figurably -- the European curlew (Numenius arquata), now sadly uncommon in Britain, and still decreasing in numbers here -- in Scots, the bird is known as the "whaup": Whauphill's name presumably refers thereto.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Garlieston in Dumfries and Galloway is also a settlement on the Machars Peninsula.

 

[Calthrop]

Isle of Whithorn (Dumfries and Galloway, and on that same peninsula) also lies on the B7004 road; in fact, at its southern extremity.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Minnigaff in Dumfries and Galloway also lies on the line of the River Cree.

 

[Calthrop]

Lead has been mined in the past, at Minnigaff; likewise at Wanlockhead, also in Dumfries and Galloway, and very roughly forty miles north-east of Minnigaff.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Matlock Bath in Derbyshire also has a lead-mining museum.

 

[D6130]

Torlundy near Fort William in Highland Region also has a cable car system accessing a nearby hill/mountain top.

 

[DerekC]

General Wade's network of military roads was constructed in the 1720s to enable future risings of Scottish Highlanders to be quickly put down by the (essentially English) army. The westermost leg passed Tolrlundy. The southernmost leg reached Crieff in Perth and Kinross.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Forteviot in Perth and Kinross also lies on the line of the River Earn.

 

[Calthrop]

Forteviot lies on, or almost on, the B934 road; which runs then southward, scenically, to end at a road junction hard by Muckhart (Clackmannanshire) -- that place being a sort of "two-for-one", comprising the settlements Yetts o' Muckhart and Pool o' Muckhart.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coalsnaughton in Clackmannanshire is another of the Hillfoots villages that lie in the lee of the southern scarp face of the Ochil hills.

 

[Calthrop]

"Making free" a bit: can find very little to say about Coalsnaughton, other than that it is in the same parish as better-known Tillicoultry; in which parish is the estate of Harviestoun -- visited in 1787 by Robert Burns, who in his stay there wrote a ditty Fairest Maid on Devon Banks. A similar episode in Burns's life came up in this game a bit more than a year ago, re time spent by him in Elderslie, Renfrewshire: where he was captivated by another charming lady, and duly recorded his sentiments in verse. One sometimes feels that that bloke went everywhere in Scotland; and had a one-track mind...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stirling also has a Wallace monument.

 

[Calthrop]

Stirling was once the capital of Scotland. Winchester can at least lay claim to having been, way back, a "proto-capital" of England; or anyway, of Alfred the Great's Wessex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wonston in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the New Winchester Poor Law Union.

 

[341o2]

Winchester has the Wonston Arms
Wootton (Oxon nr Woodstock) has the Killingworth Castle (Killingworth nr Newcastle Upon Tyne)

ie a settlement with a pub named after another settlement.
Mention of Woodstock reminds me of the story of the elderly couple not wanting to go there because of all those hippies holding a three day music and peace festival

 

[Calthrop]

Winchester has the Wonston Arms
Wootton (Oxon nr Woodstock) has the Killingworth Castle (Killingworth nr Newcastle Upon Tyne)

ie a settlement with a pub named after another settlement.

Lismore (Co. Waterford) also has a namesake settlement in the Australian State of New South Wales.

Mention of Woodstock reminds me of the story of the elderly couple not wanting to go there because of all those hippies holding a three day music and peace festival

Mentioned a couple of years ago on this game: just to make things totally daft -- the (in)famous Woodstock festival was not actually at any US place called Woodstock. Apparently, nothing on that particular scene can ever be "as it seems".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kiltallagh in County Kerry also has a church that is dedicated to St Carthage.

 

[Calthrop]

Kiltallagh is a large and far-flung parish encompassing many of that Irish speciality, "townlands". St. Carthage's Church as above, is in Killeagh townland in that parish. There is a larger and better-known Killeagh in Co. Cork, a little way west of Youghal.

 

[John Griffiths]

East Fortune in East Lothian was also home to a Royal Naval Air Service airfield during the First World War.

 

[DerekC]

I looked in vain for a settlement called West Fortune. However there is a farm of that name near North Berwick, also in East Lothian.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Banff in Aberdeenshire was also created a Royal Burgh during the reign of King Robert II of Scotland.

 

[Calthrop]

Kirriemuir, Angus, also has a namesake settlement in the Canadian province of Alberta.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Forfar in Angus is another settlement where witchcraft practises were said to have taken place.

 

[John Griffiths]

Oldham in Greater Manchester also has an 'athletic'-suffixed association football team.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eccles in Greater Manchester is also served by a modern tramway system.

 

[D6130]

Chorley in Lancashire also has a type of 'cake' - actually a small fruit pie - named after it.

 

[Calthrop]

Chorley lies on the River Yarrow. There is another river of that name in the Scottish Borders: which, near Selkirk (Scottish Borders) flows into the Ettrick Water, which is in turn a tributary of the River Tweed.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigtown in Wigtownshire was also created a Royal Burgh prior to AD1300.