Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Near Tregaron, is the relatively pristine "wilderness" area of Tregaron Bog; rich in wildlife, most-valued element thereof is probably, its being the likely best location in Britain, for our particular sub-species of the polecat -- Mustela putorius anglia. Specimens of this beast can also be seen -- admittedly in captivity -- at the British Wildlife Centre at Newchapel, Surrey (near Lingfield).

 

[John Griffiths]

There is also a temple of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) in Preston, Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hundred End in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Ribble.

 

[Calthrop]

Hundred End in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Ribble.

A bit of a poser -- Hundred End being seemingly, a very tiny place, hardly on the "radar" of the information sources: am taking liberty of enlarging scope, to the village of Banks, chief settlement in the civil parish of North Meols, which also includes Hundred End. Banks has a church dedicated to St. Stephen; as does Hightown, Merseyside, not very far away.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Altcar in Merseyside also lies on the line of the River Alt.

 

[Calthrop]

Derivation of the name of Little Altcar -- and of nearby Great Altcar -- involves the Old Norse word kjarr = "marsh": "marsh by the River Alt". Same O.N. word for same thing, features in the name of Redcar, North Yorkshire: second syllable O.N. kjarr -- first syllable from Old English, either read = "red", or hreod = "reed".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woolton in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[Calthrop]

Woolton has a pub called The Cobden -- one would reckon, named after Richard Cobden (1804 -- 65), Liberal politician and campaigner for free trade and peace. Cobden was born in Heyshott, West Sussex -- three miles south of Midhurst.

 

[Springs Branch]

Thornton-le-Dale (a.k.a. Thornton Dale) in North Yorks. is also located at longitude 0° 43' W

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kexby in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the long-distance walking trail known as The White Rose Way.

 

[Springs Branch]

Clifton Hampden in Oxfordshire also has a Grade II* listed bridge.

 

[Calthrop]

Clifton Hampden has a pub -- loved and acclaimed as a near-ideal country pub -- called the Barley Mow. A favourite item in the folk-music "fancy", is the song The Barley Mow -- one of those jolly, daft ditties with a tongue-twisting cumulative chorus. Performed by numerous English and Irish folk singers: am sure I've heard a rendering of it by the Copper family, specialists in unaccompanied choral singing -- said family now reside mostly in Peacehaven, East Sussex (just west of Newhaven).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chettle in Dorset also has a Bronze Age barrow within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Coombe Bissett, Wiltshire -- just south-west of Salisbury -- is also located on, or very close to, the A354 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Odstock in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Cawden and Cadworth.

 

[D6130]

Cosham in Hampshire also has a hospital (Queen Alexandra's) which is the major trauma centre for it's area (Portsmouth)

 

[DerekC]

Princess (later Queen) Alexandra first arrived in Britain on 7th March 1863, at Gravesend, Kent. She was married to Prince Albert Edward three days later.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altrincham in Greater Manchester also has a clock tower.

 

[Calthrop]

The controversial Anglican clergyman Hewlett Johnson (1874 -- 1966) -- of extreme secular left-wing views, which he found compatible with Christianity -- was a curate, and later vicar, in Altrincham from 1904 to 1924. He was Dean of Canterbury from 1931 onward.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wye in Kent also lies on the line of the River Great Stour.

 

[Springs Branch]

Kidderminster in Worcestershire also has a Catholic Church dedicated to St Ambrose.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coven in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

 

[Springs Branch]

Coven is claimed to have the oldest brick-built house in Staffordshire (The Homage, of ca. 1679 vintage).

In neighbouring Cheshire (East), the oldest inhabited house is said to be Chorley Old Hall, constructed circa 1330 and located in Alderley Edge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coniston in Cumbria also has historical connections to copper mining.

 

[Calthrop]

Chichester, West Sussex, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Eure-et-Loir. Chichester's "twin" is Chartres; Coniston's is Illiers-Combray. Thereby hangs a tale -- John Ruskin, who long lived near Coniston and was a fan of the place: was a source of inspiration for Marcel Proust and his multi-volume master-work A La Recherche du Temps Perdu -- greatly beloved by the highbrows, to Philistine me one of the most boring things ever written. Much of Proust's magnum opus is set in a small town which in the books, he calls Combray: which is, thinly disguised, the factual Illiers -- nowadays officially named Illiers-Combray: twinning with Coniston, via the Ruskin / Proust link.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Exeter is also a settlement with the two attributes of both a cathedral and a ship canal.

 

[D6130]

Falmer in East Sussex is also the site of a 'red brick' university.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ovingdene in East Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Younsmere.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ovingdean is one of only two places in England to have an existing church* dedicated to St Wulfram. The other is Grantham, Lincs.

* Dorrington, also Lincs, also had one but the church no longer exists.

 

[Calthrop]

Grantham has a pub called the Beehive: distinguished by its sign being an actual beehive (whether occupied or not, isn't made clear) in an immediately-adjacent tree. The name is shared by many pubs up and down the country -- usually, one presumes, with signs of a boringly-conventional kind compared with that of the Grantham establishment. One such is in Earsdon, Tyne and Wear.