Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worsley in Greater Manchester also has a braided road interchange.

 

[Calthrop]

The folk-song The Collier Lass tells of one Polly Parker from Worsley, who follows that trade; the song would indicate that it's an occupation which she endures, rather than enjoys. Another young lady in -- in the broadest terms -- employment in the industrial sphere; and celebrated in that musical genre: is Cushie Butterfield of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear -- who is employed in the selling of yellow clay (and is choosy as regards her suitors).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster also has a noted Millenium Bridge.

 

[Calthrop]

Canterbury is also twinned with a settlement in Sweden. Canterbury's "twin" is Molndal; Lancaster's is Vaxjo (incidental note -- long renowned as a three-gauge junction: standard / 1067mm / 891mm [a Swedish speciality]).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Springs Branch]

Trowbridge in Wiltshire is also located at latitude 51° 19' N.

 

[Calthrop]

Trowbridge lies on the River Biss, a tributary of the Bristol Avon. The source of the Biss is near Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leigh in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[Calthrop]

Lynda Lee-Potter (1935 -- 2004) -- best known as a long-time columnist in the Daily Mail, in which role many found her rather short on charity / tolerance: was born in Leigh; she died in Wareham, Dorset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Piddlehinton in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Piddle.

 

[Calthrop]

Piddlehinton in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Piddle.

Schoolboy humour about the naming-theme of this patch of Dorset, can get tedious; but is often hard to resist. As with: the microbrewery in Piddlehinton which proudly calls itself the Piddle Brewery. Breweries' choosing perceivably "dodgy" names for themselves, is not altogether uncommon -- presumably, reckoned worth it for the sake of drawing people's attention. In similar case was the -- sadly, recently closed down -- Bad Seed Brewery in Malton, North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oswaldkirk in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Rydale Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Ruardean, Gloucestershire, also has a pub called the Malt Shovel.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rothiemurchus in Highand also has a church that is dedicated to St Jon the Baptist

 

[Calthrop]

The Rothiemurchus Forest -- a surviving remnant of the once vast Caledonian forests -- has the distinction of being one of the few locations where lives and breeds the Scottish crossbill, Loxia scotica: the only terrestrial vertebrate species endemic to the UK. Another stronghold of this bird species, a few miles distant, is the Abernethy / Loch Garten National Nature Reserve -- nearest settlement to which is Boat of Garten, Highland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ayr also has a church that is dedicated to St Columba.

 

[John Griffiths]

Just as the racecourse in Ayr hosts the Scottish Grand National, so that of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, hosts the Welsh Grand National.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Montgomery in Powys also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Offa's Dyke Path.

 

[Calthrop]

Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Alabama.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Narberth in Pembrokeshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[Calthrop]

Narberth has a reputation as the "foodie" capital of West Wales. Rivals for similar acclaim vis-a-vis North Yorkshire: are the settlements therein, of Malton; and Helmsley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkbymoorside in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Rye.

 

[Calthrop]

Kirkbymoorside has a pub called the Black Swan; as does North Walsham, Norfolk. Kirkbymoorside's "Black Swan", at any rate, is very old -- long pre-dating the discovery of Western Australia !

 

[John Griffiths]

The Norfolk Motorcycle Museum is in North Waltham; the National Motorcycle Museum is in Solihull , West Midlands.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tamworth in Staffordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Hemlingford.

 

[Calthrop]

Oxford also gives its name to a registered rare traditional British pig breed: these being respectively the Tamworth, and the Oxford Sandy and Black.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cambridge is also noted as a place of learning.

 

[D6130]

Horningsea also lies on the River Cam.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Teversham in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Flendish.

 

[Calthrop]

Teversham in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Flendish.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 -- 92), celebrated Baptist divine / preacher / minister, preached his first sermon in public in Teversham in the winter of 1850 / 51. He was born in Kelvedon, Essex.

(Some of these Hundreds, wapentakes, etc., have amazing names. Flendish, no less -- has one thinking of a Lewis Carroll-type "portmanteau" of Flemish, and fiendish. [A Walloon extremist might well say, "same difference" .] )