Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swansea also has a church that is dedicated to St Hilary.

 

[D6130]

Swansea is the second largest city in Wales, whereas Edinburgh is the second largest in Scotland.

 

[DerekC]

The Old Town and New Town in Edinburgh together form a UN World Heritage Site. Another such site in Scotland is the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney" - the group of neolithic monuments on Mainland, not far from Stenness. The individual sites are:

• Maeshowe - chambered cairn and passage grave
• Standing Stones of Stenness - the remains of a henge
• Ring of Brodgar - a stone circle and ring ditch
• Skara Brae - Europe's best preserved Neolithic village

They are on my bucket list!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swansea is the second largest city in Wales, whereas Edinburgh is the second largest in Scotland.

Cardiff also has a noted Science Museum.

 

[D6130]

Pontypridd also lies on the River Taf(f).

 

[John Griffiths]

Pontypridd is known for its elegant Old Bridge, a single span across the River Taff, which at the time of construction (1756) was the longest single span bridge in Great Britain. It was the fourth attempt at building a bridge at this point by self-taught engineer and Methodist minister William Edwards (1719-89), who was born in Eglwysilan, Caerphilly County Borough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I think I will let another contributor make the follow-on posting.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Evan James, who wrote the lyrics of Hen Wlad fy Nhadau, the Welsh national anthem, was baptised at the parish church of Saint Ilan in Eglwysilan.

The tune was written by his son James James before being given by him to his father, who was then able to compose the words. Evan and James James were at this time living in Pontypridd, but were originally from Caerphilly.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leicester also lends its name to a variety of cheese.

 

[John Griffiths]

Richard III was laid to rest for the second time in Leicester just a few years ago. He was born in Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, in the castle there - a place normally associated with a quite different but equally unfortunate monarch.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Earls Barton in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the River Nene.

 

[John Griffiths]

Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire, also has a noteworthy Anglo-Saxon church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saxby in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Glanford Brigg Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Little Eversden, Cambridgeshire -- some way south-west of Cambridge -- also has a church dedicated to St. Helen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Gransden in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Longstow.

 

[Calthrop]

In 1999, the Church of England parish of Little Gransden and adjacent Great Gransden was merged with those of nearby Abbotsley and Waresley, to form a united benefice titled the Bluebell Benefice (sounds horridly twee to me). There is a Bluebell Arboretum and Nursery at Smisby, Derbyshire (just across the county boundary from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire).

 

[Springs Branch]

Castle Cary in Somerset also has a surviving (but not operational!) 18th century village lock-up.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Babcary in Somerset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Catsash.

 

[johnnychips]

Babcary was often mentioned in the diaries of James Woodforde before he moved to the parish of Weston Longville in Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanfrechfa in Torfaen also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Springs Branch]

Llanfrechfa is on the course of the Afon Lwyd, whose source (appropriately enough, as the name translates as head of the river) is Blaenavon, Torfaen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Spennymoor in County Durham also has a mining museum

 

[Springs Branch]

On 24 December 1944, Spennymoor was hit by a rogue V-1 flying bomb, which had initially been aimed at Manchester. This was the most northerly settlement in England to be hit by a V-1.

The greatest density of V-1 'hits' during WW2 was suffered by Croydon South London.

 

[Calthrop]

On 24 December 1944, Spennymoor was hit by a rogue V-1 flying bomb, which had initially been aimed at Manchester. This was the most northerly settlement in England to be hit by a V-1.

The greatest density of V-1 'hits' during WW2 was suffered by Croydon South London.

Normanton, West Yorkshire, also has a namesake settlement in the Australian State of Queensland. (The Queensland Normanton and Croydon -- about a hundred miles apart -- have a mutual association of the kind which is not functionally valid in this game !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkheaton in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Agbrigg Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Strensham, Worcestershire -- a few miles north of Tewkesbury -- also has a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Croome D'Abitot in Worcestershire was also one of the settlements inside the area encompassed by the Royal Forest of Horewell (until it was cleared around the time of the English Civil War).

 

[Calthrop]

Croome D'Abitot in Worcestershire was also one of the settlements inside the area encompassed by the Royal Forest of Horewell (until it was cleared around the time of the English Civil War).

Will confess that my first thought was, "there cannot seriously be a place called Croome d'Abitot"; but sure enough there is: it would seem, more often known nowadays -- boringly in comparison -- as Earls Croome. This settlement's most -- seemingly only -- famous son, is the Anglican Bible commentator John Trapp (1601 -- 1669), who was for a time headmaster of the free school at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire -- some half a century too late to have taught William Shakespeare.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alcester in Warwickshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Barlichway

 

[Calthrop]

Athlone (Cos. Westmeath / Roscommon) is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Loire-Atlantique. Alcester's "twin" is Vallet; Athlone's is Chateaubriant.