Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Basildon in Essex also has a church that is dedicated to St Martin of Tours.

 

[D6130]

Apsley in Hertfordshire also has a brand of writing paper named after it.

 

[Calthrop]

Apsley has a, per Wiki, "minor semi-professional" football team called Apsley Argyle Football Club. Plymouth's football side, has the same "Argyle" suffix (where does this particular name in this context come from, one wonders?).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoke-on-Trent also gained city status in 1928.

 

[Calthrop]

In Stoke-on-Trent's coat of arms, one of the four quarterings of the shield features a kneeling camel. It turns out that camels feature more often in heraldry, than one might imagine -- though generally reckoned, at least in this part of the world, a disagreeable beast: on the heraldic scene, the camel represents temperance, patience, and perseverance. Nonetheless, could find no other British settlement whose coat of arms included camel(s): not Queen Camel, Somerset (7 miles north of Yeovil) -- the second word of whose name is not to do with the animal: suggested to come from the old Celtic words canto = "district" plus mael = "bare hill". (On one space in Queen Camel parish's coat of arms, there appear three blue creatures: hard to identify, but they are for sure, not camels.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bredbury in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Barnabas

 

[Calthrop]

The impressionist, comedian and actor Mike Yarwood (1941 -- Sep. 2023) was born in Bredbury. In later stages of his life, he lived in Weybridge, Surrey.

 

[John Griffiths]

Weymouth in Dorset was also named after a River Wey - not the same one, though.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rochester in Kent also has a Guildhall.

 

[D6130]

Portchester in Hampshire also has a Norman castle with a square keep.

 

[Calthrop]

Tickhill, South Yorkshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

 

[D6130]

Beeswing in Dumfries & Galloway also incorporates the name of a type of insect in its name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dobcross in Greater Manchester is also celebrated by having its settlement name in a folk song.

 

[D6130]

Saddleworth is another settlement which was formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire, but was transferred to Greater Manchester in the 1974 local Government reorganisation.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saddleworth is another settlement which was formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire, but was transferred to Greater Manchester in the 1974 local Government reorganisation.

I have a feeling that Saddleworth is not a single settlement as such, but an area name comprising of number of hamlets and villages within its area environs.

 

[D6130]

I have a feeling that Saddleworth is not a single settlement as such, but an area name comprising of number of hamlets and villages within its area environs.

You could be right there. Shall we change it to Uppermill?

 

[Springs Branch]

The Huddersfield Narrow Canal also passes through Slaithwaite.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Calthrop]

Donington, Lincolnshire -- between Spalding and Sleaford -- also has a pub called the Black Bull.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pinchbeck in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Spalding Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Willingdon, East Sussex -- now part of Eastbourne -- also has its name borrowed for fictional use, by George Orwell in his novel Animal Farm.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Felbridge in Surrey also lies on the route of the A22 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Heysham, Lancashire, also has a church dedicated to St. John the Divine.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yealand Conyers in Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Lancaster Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The RSPB's Leighton Moss reserve is adjacent to Yealand Conyers; though main access is via nearby Silverdale. This reserve is probably nowadays the best place in Britain for encountering bitterns; more so now, than the long-favoured bittern venue of the Norfolk Broads (despite the Norwich -- Sheringham rail route's being marketed as the "Bittern Line"). If fortune favours one, the species can be found around Hickling Broad: close by the village of Hickling, Norfolk; and named accordingly.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Herringfleet in Suffolk also has a Grade II* listed windmill.

 

[Springs Branch]

Burscough in Lancashire was also the location of an Augustine priory.

 

[Calthrop]

Nelson, Lancashire, also lies on the route of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. (Very useful in this game, is that canal -- it runs through lots and lots of places on its highly indirect way between its termini.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caerdeon in Gwynedd also has a church that is dedicated to St Philip ... but this one is currently classified as redundant.

 

[Calthrop]

Caerdeon in Gwynedd also has a church that is dedicated to St Philip ... but this one is currently classified as redundant.

One of the "last refuges of the desperate" (Caerdeon -- "Greater Barmouth" -- a new place to me): there is on the Net, one of those features "20 best things to do in..." -- which are sometimes highly "creative" geographically; this one seems to play reasonably fair -- one of its recommendations is the beach at Llwyngwril, Gwynedd -- a few miles to the south.