Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colsterworth in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Witham.

 

[Calthrop]

Close to Colsterworth has been the former hamlet of Twyford, now effectively swallowed-up by Colsterworth. There is a bigger and better-known Twyford in the Borough of Wokingham, Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Basingstoke in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Loddon.

 

[Calthrop]

Thomas Burberry (1835 -- 1926), founder of the international clothing business Burberry, and inventor of gabardine: began his career in this field, with his opening his first shop in 1856, in Basingstoke. Burberry was born in Brockham, Surrey (near Dorking).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sidlow in Surrey also lies on the line of the River Mole.

 

[Calthrop]

Sidlow's Anglican church is named -- rather unusually for one of that denomination -- Emmanuel Church. Loughborough, Leicestershire, has an Emmanuel Church also.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prestwold in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Prestwold; and Mount Vernon -- district in eastern part of city of Glasgow -- share the trait of both having namesake (or almost) renowned "stately homes" -- American equivalent thereof -- in the US State of Virginia. (The Virginian counterpart of the Leicestershire settlement is "Prestwould" with a "u"; but, one feels, "close enough".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fallowfield in Greater Manchester also has a bowling and tennis club.

 

[Calthrop]

The radio comedy series Beyond Our Ken -- flourished many decades back, key figure Kenneth Horne -- had among its many comical characters, the rustic wiseacre Arthur Fallowfield; and another bod sharing a place-name, or nearly: Stanley Birkinshaw, who had badly-fitting false teeth -- name corresponding very closely to Birkenshaw in the Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liversedge in West Yorkshire was another of the towns in what was classified as the Heavy Woollen District.

 

[DerekC]

The Brontë Way passes through Liversedge. Unsurprisingly it also passes through Haworth, West Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Calverley in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Morley Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Frederick William Faber (1814 -- 1863), theologian and hymn-writer, initially Anglican, then Roman Catholic (the loved Catholic hymn Faith of our Fathers is one of his): was born in Calverley. For a while in the 1840s, he was Anglican rector of Elton, now in Cambridgeshire -- between Peterborough and Oundle.

 

[Springs Branch]

Grassington in North Yorkshire also has a pub named the Black Horse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Greenhow in North Yorkshire also had historical connections to lead mining back to medieval times.

 

[Calthrop]

Greenhow is one of the highest villages in the UK -- 1310 to 1380 feet above sea level, depending on where you are in the village. Generally reckoned the highest village in Wales is Trefil, Blaenau Gwent: 1342 feet above sea level (it has a couple of rival claimants in Wales).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tunstead in Derbyshire also has connections to the quarrying of limestone.

 

[Calthrop]

There is another Tunstead in Norfolk -- between Norwich and Cromer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashmanhaugh in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Tunstead.

 

[Calthrop]

The linguistic scholars tell us that one possible source (which "old tongue", not specified) for the name Ashmanhaugh, is "Sailor's / pirate's enclosure". "ashman" = "pirate"?? -- well, this particular field of learning is often stranger than fiction -- I find the "pirate" thing rather appealing. "Way out west" in contrast, is Cadgwith, Cornwall -- near Lizard Point. This village is associated with a rousing and tuneful but none-too-sense-making folk song, which I've mentioned before here -- the Cadgwith Anthem. So far as anything can be teased out of the words, the singers seem to be congratulating themselves on their robbery-of-honest-citizens exploits (and not in a Robin Hood sense -- it's unabashedly for their own gain). So possibly two villages, east and west, which might be seen as taking pride in villainy.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cadgwith has in its vicinity a coastal rock formation known as The Devil's Frying Pan. More satanic kitchen equipment is found at Lydford, Devon, where The Devil's Cauldron can be seen in Lydford Gorge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Timberscombe in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to St Petrock.

 

[Calthrop]

Chelmsford, Essex, also has a Lion Inn.

 

[John Griffiths]

Blackburn, Lancashire, is also the seat of an Anglican diocese founded in the twentieth century.

 

[Calthrop]

Portsmouth, Hampshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Blackburn's "twin" is Altena (once the central point of a delectable metre-gauge system). Portsmouth's is Duisburg.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wymering in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Portsdown.

 

[John Griffiths]

Newport Pagnell, Bucks, also has a church dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire also lies on the line of the River Ouzel.

 

[Calthrop]

A favourite of mine when other things fail: the late humorist Paul Jennings -- whose daft musings delight me -- had a lot of fun with spelling British place-names backwards, and seeing what he came up with. According this treatment to Leighton Buzzard, gave him "Drazzub Nothgiel": which he saw as the name of a legendary monster of very ancient times: slain after a three-day battle, by the hero / giant Yrub, whose name shows up in those of very many places in England. Jennings also took pleasure in doing the same thing to Marks Tey, Essex (a little way west of Colchester) -- just because "Yet Skram" tickled his fancy.