Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Etruria in Staffordshire was also served by the Caldon Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Etruria; and Aspatria (Cumbria); tend to strike me as a redolent-of-Latin-Europe-sounding pair. Their names have very different derivations, however. Etruria (in the Potteries) originated from Josiah Wedgwood's opening there his new works in 1769: named after the district of Etruria in Italy -- once home to the Etruscan people, renowned for their artistic products. Aspatria, on the other hand, is reckoned to mean -- in a mixture of the Old Scandinavian, and Celtic, tongues -- "the ash-tree of St. Patrick". (The locals call it "Speatry".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballater in Aberdeenshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Kentigern.

 

[Calthrop]

Ballater has long been a place of some note for -- among other things -- local spring waters, said to bring various benefits including the curing of scrofula: the "King's Evil" told of in lore stretching back to ancient times (Ballater's links with our modern-ish "Royals", presumably just a coincidence). The precise location of said springs is at the village of Pannanich, likewise Aberdeenshire (a couple of miles east of Ballater).

 

[John Griffiths]

Grewelthorpe in North Yorkshire is also the location of woods owned by the Woodland Trust.

 

[DerekC]

The Aislable Walk links Hackfall Wood in Grewelthorpe, a landscaped garden, with the Studley Royal estate which includes Fountains Abbey. The Aislable family landscaped both sites. Studley Royal is closest to the village of Studley Roger in North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby Malzeard in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Claro Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Name-derivations again: the "Malzeard" part of Kirkby Malzeard comes from Norman-French, meaning "bad clearing". Similarly, the name of Malpas (Cheshire) comes from the Norrman-French for "bad / difficult passage". (Fussy lot, those old Norman Conqs ...)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lower Peover in Cheshire West & Chester also has a church that is dedicated to St Oswald.

 

[johnnychips]

Leominster also has a silent ‘o’.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bodenham in Herefordshire also lies on the line of the River Lugg.

 

[Calthrop]

Bodenham has a pub with a name seemingly unique in Britain -- the England's Gate. There is however a pub in York with a not totally dissimilar name -- the Postern Gate.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yearsley in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Foss.

 

[John Griffiths]

The parish church at Yearsley is dedicated to St Hilda, who founded the abbey at Hartlepool, County Durham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boddam in Aberdeenshire is another settlement that has historical connections to the execution of a monkey that had survived being shipwrecked.

 

[Springs Branch]

Holmpton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, also was formerly the site of a RAF Station which was part of Britain's Cold War-era ROTOR early warning radar system.

 

[Calthrop]

In 1926 Holmpton's George and Dragon pub was, per Wiki, "the subject of a closure application for religious reasons". A little under a century later there was in Gloucester, a sort of "boot on the other foot" situation -- in a minor cause celebre in 2014, a Christian group's hoped-for plan to hold a talk about the Bible at the Robert Raikes pub in that city (pub named after the founder of Sunday Schools), was forbidden by the pub's manager.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Atcham in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Severn.

 

[Calthrop]

Atcham has an association with the statesman, philanthropist and Protestant religious reformer Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton, c.1495 -- 1561 (not to be confused with the "Penny Black" man some three centuries later) -- the 16th-century Sir R.H. featured in this game in another context, about two years ago. His connection with Atcham is his having had built, the first stone bridge over the Severn there (said bridge seemingly no longer extant). The Soulton in his title, is the name of a country house near Wem (Shropshire); building of which house, largely planned and directed by him.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Petton in Shropshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Pimhill.

 

[Calthrop]

Struggling a bit -- Petton's name is thought probably derived from the Old English paec-tun = "settlement by the hill". One might reckon that the name of Hilltown, Co. Down, was similarly derived; but one would be wrong -- the name comes from that of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy Hill family, who were long the local magnates.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newcastle in County Down also has an affiliated GAC club.

 

[Calthrop]

The Northern Irish Newcastle; and Grimsby, Lincolnshire; were both hard-hit re loss of life, in 19th-century fishing-fleet disasters -- severe storms rising while fleets were at sea. Newcastle's misfortune of this kind was in 1843; Grimsby's, in 1889.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tealby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Caistor Poor Law Union, before it was expanded and then known as the Great Grimsby Poor Law Union.

 

[341o2]

Derby is also a Danish settlement

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leicester also lends its name to a variety of cheese.

 

[D6130]

Hinckley in Leicestershire was also once a centre of the hosiery industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aston Flamville in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hinckley Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The Wiki entry on Aston Flamville includes a long and verbose passage by one Dame Mary Roskell, touching on the locally prominent Turville family; plus other stuff, highly wordy without its being all that clear what she's going on about -- best guess, something to do with the Turvilles and their underlings having cleaved stubbornly to the Catholic faith during the times when that branch of Christianity was harshly discriminated against in England. Heythrop, Oxfordshire -- east of Chipping Norton -- is another settlement where many inhabitants remained resolutely Catholic in that period.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lanark in South Lanarkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.