Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brecon in Powys also has a Guildhall.

 

[Calthrop]

Falmouth, Cornwall, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Finistere. Brecon's "twin" is Gouesnou (very near Brest); Falmouth's is Douarnenez.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fowey in Cornwall also has a yacht club.

 

[Calthrop]

The author Leo Walmsley (1892 -- 1966) lived in Fowey in the latter part of his life. He was born, however, in Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire -- which he wrote of in a series of novels, with the settlement thinly disguised as "Bramblewick".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Briggswath in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Whitby Strand Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Another favourite thing of mine in this game: Briggswath's war memorial shows ten men from the village, killed in World War I -- seems a grim number for such a small place, but, "luck of the draw" ... Helperthorpe, North Yorkshire, not hugely far away (between Malton and Bridlington), is a "Thankful Village" -- one of five in all Yorkshire -- all of whose men who served in WWI, came through alive.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skirpenbeck in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Buckrose Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Fairford, Gloucestershire, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

 

[John Griffiths]

RAF Fairfield was the only emergency landing site for NASA space shuttles in the UK, chosen for its long (3,045m) runway. But the only place where a shuttle touched down in Britain was Stansted Airport in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex - on 5 June 1983, on the back of a specially adapted Boeing 747.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wicken Bonhunt in Essex was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Uttlesford.

 

[Calthrop]

Wicken Bonhunt is one of the very many places in "England and contiguous" which has -- or has had -- a pub called the Coach and Horses. W.B.'s hostelry of that name, closed; then reopened about ten years ago as a "Thai food pub serving real ales" (Thai, and / or British, same?). Caerwent, Monmouthshire, still has a -- conventional -- Coach and Horses pub.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester is also where remains of Roman settlement can be seen.

 

[Calthrop]

Lincoln is another British place-name which is and has long been, quite popular as a man's "given name" in the USA: Lincoln, admittedly, helped by a certain gentleman -- life-span 1809 -- 65 -- of considerable eminence in those parts, whose surname it was.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stamford in Lincolnshire was also one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw.

 

[Calthrop]

Author Colin Dexter (1930 -- 2017), creator of Inspector Morse, was born and spent his childhood and youth in Stamford. He spent the latter part of his life, and died, in Oxford; where of course Morse lives / works / detects.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shrewsbury was also afflicted by an outbreak of Sweating Sickness in medieval times.

 

[John Griffiths]

Comedian George Robey, the 'Prime Minister of Mirth', lived at Shrewsbury for some years in the 1930s and 40s. He was born in 1869 in Kennington, south London.

 

[Calthrop]

British World War II luminary Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887 -- 1976) was born in Kennington. In the first decade of the 20th century he attended the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, Berkshire: from which institution he was, according to Wiki, "almost expelled for rowdiness and violence" -- not the kind of thing which one associates with the highly virtuous, well-conducted, and indeed austere figure, as which this military gentleman would seem to be universally regarded.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ruscombe in Berkshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Sonning.

 

[Calthrop]

William Penn (1644 -- 1718), the founder of Pennsylvania, spent the last years of his life in Ruscombe. During his eventful life, Penn spent an appreciable amount of time in Ireland -- largely in and around the city of Cork.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballincollig in County Cork also lies on the line of the River Lee.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ballincollig was the location of gunpowder mills, as was the district of Whitton in Twickenham, SW London. These were rather misleadingly named the Hounslow powder mills; remains can be seen in Crane Park

Actually, not that misleading, as the whole area was then part of Hounslow Heath.

 

[Calthrop]

"Last refuge of the rather desperate" -- there is another Whitton, far more rural than the Twickenham one: in the ultimate north of Lincolnshire, on the southern shore of the Humber a couple of miles east of the point where the Yorkshire Ouse and the Trent join to form that watercourse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Perth also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[John Griffiths]

Perth - an interesting, if somewhat rummy sort of place. Like Perth, which has an art gallery in a former waterworks building, Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex has an arts centre called (and in) The Old Waterworks.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northampton also has a church that is dedicated to St Alban the Martyr.

 

[Calthrop]

Coventry, West Midlands, and its citizens: also strongly supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bedworth in Warwickshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Knightlow.

 

[Calthrop]

The River Sowe -- tributary of the Stratford Avon -- rises in Bedworth: flows south therefrom, including through Stoneleigh, Warwickshire; just south of which, it joins the Avon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coxwold in North Yorkshire was also a site chosen in which to establish a Cistercian Abbey.