Settlement Association

[Fermiboson]

Another town which ends in -cote and lying on the line of the Cherwell is Bodicote, Oxfordshire, just south of Banbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Porthcawl in Bridgend County also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[Fermiboson]

And the quaint hamlet of Dunnet, near Thurso in Scotland, is adjacent to St John's Loch.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheadle Hulme in Greater Manchester also has a practicing gunsmith business.

 

[Calthrop]

Sorry to be boring and default to pubs; but, Cheadle Hulme has a pub called the Hesketh Tavern. Ormskirk, West Lancashire, has a pub called the Hesketh Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sollom in West Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ormskirk Poor Law Uniom.

 

[Calthrop]

Green Hammerton, North Yorkshire -- between Knaresborough and York -- also lies on the A59 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Denbigh in Denbighshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Thomas.

 

[Fermiboson]

59 is the 17th prime number. 59*17=1003. A1003 links High Rd (A1000) in North Finchley to New Southgate station (A109) in Arnos Grove, along the Friern Barnet road. (doubleposted)

Leicester's Church in Denbigh is an unfinished cathedral planned to be built in 1579, but left uncompleted due to lack of funds. Another town with a similar population (~8900) and unfinished cathedral is Glastonbury, Somerset with the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey.

 

[Calthrop]

The more-or-less annual Glastonbury Festival -- about and featuring, "all things counter-culture" -- is in fact held at the village of Pilton, Somerset; six miles east of Glastonbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Croscombe in Somerset was also once administer by the Hundred of Whitstone.

 

[Calthrop]

Croscombe is situated on the River Sheppey: a tributary of the River Brue which rises near the Somerset / Dorset border, and flows via Glastonbury to reach the Bristol Channel near Burnham-on-Sea; flowing en route, appropriately, through Bruton, Somerset.

 

[D6130]

Sherborne in Dorset also has a noted 'public' (i.e. private) school.

 

[Fermiboson]

This one will take some magicking.

The main road through Bruton is the A356, which goes from Nunnery Catch to Yeovil. The closest station to the Yeovil end is Yeovil Pen Mill, and the closest to the Nunnery end is Frome. The fastest direct service between these stations is the GWR service which takes 29 minutes (for example, 0909 Gloucester to Weymouth calls at Frome 1101 (dep 1102), Bruton 1113, Castle Cary 1118, YPM 1131).

Over the network, there are various combinations of direct services with 29 minutes of call between various stations. But we're going to look at Accrington to Hebden Bridge (On the Northern 0718 out of Blackpool, it's Accrington 0811 (dep 0813), Burnley Manchester Road 0821, Hebden Bridge 0842). The A646 connects these settlements (with a small section of A679 at the Accrington end).

For a good part of the A646, the River Calder flows alongside it. This river runs east between Bradford and Huddersfield, through Wakefield, and merges into the River Aire, which itself merges into the Ouse flowing into the Humber. This last occurs at a place named Faxfleet.

Along the A646 we find a small village named Holme Chapel. This has three letters in common with Faxfleet (one l, two e's). Bruton also has three letters in common with Burnham.

Therefore, the commonality of Holme Chapel with Bruton is that both are on a main road whose two ends take 29 minutes to travel by rail at the fastest, with a river flowing through them which reaches the sea at a conurbation which shares three letters with the name.

Dammit. Doubleposted again.

Sherbourne has a skate park, and the A30 runs through it. It has a population of 10365. Another town on the A30 with a similar population and a skate park is Hook in Hampshire (9060).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Icklesham in East Sussex also hosts a Beer Festival.

 

[Springs Branch]

Icklesham is in the TN36 Postcode District, which it shares with Winchelsea, East Sussex.

 

[D6130]

Appleby in Westmorland was also a 'rotten borough' until the early nineteenth century....returning two MPs elected by just a handful of voters.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby Stephen in Westmorland and Furness also lies in the line of the River Eden.

 

[Calthrop]

Kelso, Scottish Borders, is also renowned in sheep-farming circles for its special-purpose tup [ram] sales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ednam in Scottish Borders also lies on the route of the B6461 road.

 

[D6130]

Scottish Anglican cleric, poet and hymn writer Henry Francis Lyte - who wrote 'Abide with Me' - was born in Ednam. Amongst the many different parishes where he lived and ministered during his 54 year life was Sway in Hampshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhydyfelin in Rhondda Cynon Taf also has a church that is dedicated to St Luke.

 

[Calthrop]

Abercanaid, County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil, also lies both on the disused Glamorganshire Canal; and the Taff Trail walking and cycling path from Cardiff Bay to Brecon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Senghenydd in the Aber Valley was also the scene of a Welsh colliery disaster.

 

[Calthrop]

Shrewsbury is another settlement with a ten-letter name beginning with S.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Duffield in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Alkmund.

 

[Calthrop]

Duffield lies on the Derbyshire River Derwent. On another Derwent, further north: is situated Bubwith, East Riding of Yorkshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Bubwith's bridge over the River Derwent, the bridge at Bewdley (Worcestershire) over the River Severn was completed in 1798.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mamble in Worcestershire was also once administered by the Lower Division of the Hundred of Doddingtree.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mamble is the subject of a poem by John Drinkwater (1882-1937), which runs:


I never went to Mamble
that lies above the Teme,
so I wonder who's in Mamble,
and whether people seem
who breed and brew along there
as lazy as the name,
and whether any song there
sets alehouse wits aflame.

The finger-post say Mamble,
and that is all I know,
of the narrow road to Mamble,
and should I turn to go
to that place of lazy token,
that lies above the Teme,
there might be a Mamble broken
that was lissom in a dream.

So leave the road to Mamble
and take another road
to as good a place as Mamble
be it lazy as a toad;
who travels Worcester County
takes any place that comes,
when April tosses bounty
to the cherries and the plums

Drinkwater was one of a number of poets known as the Dymock Poets, associated with the Gloucestershire village of that name. Rupert Brooke was a rather better-remembered fellow member.