Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Braunston in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the Grand Union Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a pub called the Admiral Nelson in Braunston -- a long way from the sea, but one supposes that the canals furnish plenty of watery stuff... the altogether more fully marine Southend-on-Sea, Essex, has a pub of the same name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scarborough also has a cliff railway.

 

[Calthrop]

Rawtenstall (borough of Rossendale) also features by name, in a song about a fair held at and by the settlement.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ramsbottom in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

[Calthrop]

If Wiki is to be believed: Ramsbottom annually hosts the Black Pudding Throwing World Championship; while the same applies to Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys, and the Rude Health World Bogsnorkelling Championships.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trefriw in Conwy County Borough also has an operational woolen mill.

 

[John Griffiths]

Roualeyn Nurseries at Trefriw specialises in fuchsias, and has won awards at the Chelsea Flower Show in London.

 

[Calthrop]

Maldon, Essex, also has a namesake settlement in the state of Victoria, Australia.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Maldon, sea salt is produced (extracted? got?) at Yelverton in Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glenrothes in Fife also has a church that is dedicated to St Paul.

 

[Calthrop]

Kilmany, Fife, also lies on the A92 road.

 

[John Griffiths]

Racing driver Jim Clark (1936-1968) was born in Kilmany but his family moved to Duns, Berwickshire, when he was a child, and he is commemorated by a museum in the town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Forfar in Angus also has the remains of an Iron Age hillfort within its environs

 

[D6130]

Forfar is the home of the 'Bridie'....a pocket-sized meat and onion-filled pastry popular all over Scotland and not dissimilar to the traditional Cornish Pasty. The largest commercial producer of pasties is Ginsters of Callington, Cornwall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Veep in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Liskeard Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The stage and film actor Eric Portman (1901 -- 69) lived in the latter part of his life in St. Veep, and is buried in the churchyard there. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hull is also mentioned in "The Beggars Litany"

 

[Calthrop]

William Wilberforce (1759 -- 1833) -- politician, humanitarian, and campaigner for abolition of the slave trade -- was born in Hull. His fellow-impassioned-anti-slaver, of somewhat earlier date (1682 -- 1759: coincidentally, one's year of birth same as the other's year of death): the interestingly and likeably eccentric Benjamin Lay: was born in Copford, Essex -- a little way west of Colchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldham in Essex was also once admininstered by the Hundred of Lexden.

 

[John Griffiths]

Aldham is served by no fewer than eight bus routes - not too shabby in this day and age. One is the 716, which links the village with the delightfully-named Sible Hedingham.

 

[Calthrop]

I can't resist this stuff -- Maidstone, Kent, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Oise. Sible Hedingham's "twin" is Choisy-au-Bac; Maidstone's is Beauvais.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tonbridge in Kent also lies on the line of the River Medway.

 

[D6130]

Rochester in Kent also has a ruined Norman castle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Paddock Wood in Kent also has a church that is dedicated to St Justus.

 

[Calthrop]

Chigwell, Essex, is another real-life, non-fictional settlement: which has a mention in the fiction writings of Charles Dickens.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Theydon Garnon in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Epping Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Hovingham, North Yorkshire -- west of Malton -- also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stonegrave in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Ryedale Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

A resident of Stonegrave -- and buried there -- was Robert Thornton (c.1418 -- 1456): local lord of the manor, and a "rare bird" for his time -- an amateur scribe and manuscript-compiler: activities usually the preserve in that era of, as Wiki puts it, "professional scriveners and ecclesiastical scribes". Robert's "product" -- long preserved by his heirs -- Wiki again, "resulted in the preservation of many valuable works of Middle English literature". Some of same, is now in the library of Lincoln Cathedral; some, in the British Library in London.