Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Dundalk, Co. Louth, also has a namesake settlement in the Canadian province of Ontario.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Musselburgh in East Lothian also has a racecourse.

 

[D6130]

Dunbar is another East Lothian settlement which has a small fishing harbour.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cupar in Fife was also created a Royal Burgh in the 14th century.

 

[D6130]

Lanark is another former County Town in Scotland.

 

[Calthrop]

In the much-liked ditty The Song of the Clyde -- popularised by Kenneth McKellar -- Lanark (admittedly county, rather than town) gets a mention; as does Millport on the island of Great Cumbrae (North Ayrshire).

 

[johnnychips]

St Asaph in Wales also has a small cathedral.

 

[Calthrop]

I have a weakness for bad poets -- as one of whom, must rank Felicia Hemans (born in St. Asaph 1793; died in Dublin 1835). The best-known item in her large output is probably Casabianca: in the original by her, going on for many intendedly tear-jerking verses after its first lines, "The boy stood on the burning deck / Whence all but he had fled..." Spike Milligan's version of the poem adds to those two lines: "Twit !" -- end-of...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blessington in County Wicklow also lies on the line of the River Liffey.

 

[Springs Branch]

St Mary's Church at Blessington claims to have the oldest complete ring of six church bells in Ireland.

The location of the oldest individual church bell(s) in England is open to some uncertainty and debate, but it's highly likely that the oldest original, complete ring of six is at St Peter's in Martley, Worcestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hillhampton in Worcestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Doddingtree.

 

[Calthrop]

Suckley is also located in the Malvern Hills District of Worcestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[Calthrop]

Cowbridge has a (recently inaugurated) physic garden -- one devoted to plants for healing / cooking / dyeing wool and fabric. There is also a physic garden at the tiny hamlet of Dilston, near Corbridge, Northumberland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Halton in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hexham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Halton Castle at Halton, has a pele tower -- square defensive structure, often found in this once famously anarchic part of the country. Oddly, pele towers are not totally unknown in the Midlands: there is one at Canons Ashby House, Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire (near Woodford Halse). The C.A. House pele tower owes its existence, it seems, to a Cumbrian sheep farmer called John Dryden having, long ago, moved to Northants. -- maybe he felt homesick...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashby St Ledgers in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Fawsley.

 

[Calthrop]

Local magnates at Ashby St. Ledgers were for long, the Catesby family: ardently on the Catholic side in England's religion-related "troubles" in the 16th / 17th centuries -- William Catesby in this family was a key figure in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, consequently losing his life. Guy Fawkes, his best-known comrade in that matter, came from York.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Faxfleet in the East Riding of Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Ouse.

 

[Calthrop]

Temple Balsall, Warwickshire -- near Knowle and Dorridge -- was also a settlement of the Knights Templar.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bangor in Gwynedd is also a settlement where almshouses were built.

 

[Calthrop]

Bangor's cathedral is dedicated to St. Deiniol. Dedicated to the same saint, is the church of Worthenbury (sometimes known as Willington Worthenbury), Wrexham County Borough -- in that odd, culturally English, former Part of Flint sticking-out bit of Wales. (Worthenbury -- in between Bangor-on-Dee and Malpas -- is only just in Wales.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Threapwood in Cheshire West & Chester was also once under the jurisdiction of the extended area of the Wrexham Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

No Man's Land in Cornwall is also a village with a formerly anomalous administrative structure - divided between parishes with uncertain boundaries, and, in Threapwood's case, between counties and nations.

 

[johnnychips]

Cromford also has an annual steam rally.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ironville in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the Cromford Canal.

 

[Springs Branch]

Sion Mills in Co. Tyrone is also a model village built by 19th century industrialists to house local factory workers.

 

[Calthrop]

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, also has a Church of the Good Shepherd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Aylesbury Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hayes in Middlesex also shares a name with a former US president.