Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Coole Pilate in Cheshire East was also once under the jurisdiction of the Nantwich Poor Law Union.

The River Weaver flows very close by Coole Pilate. Wrenbury, also in Cheshire East, lies on the course of the same river.

(Contributors to the Closed Stations Journey quiz will be aware of the name of this settlement)

Indeed -- northernmost station / halt on a certain north-to-south line.

The settlement's name always suggests to me, a proposition to the effect that old Pontius wasn't such a bad guy after all -- really, just a bureaucrat out of his depth. Per Wiki, the name actually means "a croft growing pill oats".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frodsham in Cheshire West & Chester also lies on the line of the Shropshire Union Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Just outside Frodsham is Frodsham Hill -- a large sandstone hill giving views of the Mersey estuary and the Liverpool skyline; which in times past, featured a very large helter-skelter. The world's tallest and longest present-day example of the "tunnel slide" variant of this attraction: is at the Arcelor Mittal Orbit Tower in Stratford, London Borough of Newham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lowestoft in Suffolk is another settlement that was involved in the early development period of the porcelain trade.

 

[Calthrop]

Latching on -- as we tend to -- to Lowestoft's easternmost-place-in-Britain status: Lowestoft lighthouse, is the U.K.'s most easterly lighthouse. It would appear that the UK's most westerly one, is that of Barra Head: at the very southern tip of the Outer Hebrides, on the small uninhabited island of Berneray (not to be confused with the bigger and better-known -- and inhabited -- Berneray, in between North Uist, and Harris). With Barra being involved: we would seem to be back to good old Castlebay, Barra island's chief town -- quite often featuring in this game !

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Weymouth in Dorset is also a coastal settlement that has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady, Star of the Sea.

 

[Calthrop]

Scarborough, North Yorkshire, also has a Sea Life Centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Totnes in Devon also has the remains of a castle that is under the care of English Heritage.

 

[Calthrop]

Totnes has for quite a long time, been seen as an "alternative lifestyles" bastion. I find in the "English lifestyle blog" At Home in England: a list of "fifteen hippy towns in England and Wales", wherein features Totnes; and also Frome, Somerset -- surprisingly to me, who had always envisaged this as a rather staid place.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Evesham in Worcestershire is another settlement in which a hoard of Roman coinage was discovered.

 

[DerekC]

I hope I will be forgiven for noting that Henry Fowler, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland and then the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, was born in Frome. Unsurprisingly perhaps, as to general location, he lived most of his later life in Spondon, Derby.

 

[Calthrop]

Concerning M.C. Beaton, prolific author of -- for my tastes -- murder mysteries "cosy" to the point of repellent gooey-ness. One of his -- Agatha Raisin (I refuse to read anything whose chief character has a name like that) and the Wizard of Evesham -- is indeed set largely in Evesham, featuring various of the local sites. The "sleuth" in another of his series, is Hamish Macbeth: village policeman in a remote spot in the Scottish Highlands. The fictional settlement involved here, is called Lochdubh: supposedly based on the real-life Toscaig (Highland) -- a tiny, remote village six miles north of Kyle of Lochalsh as the sea-eagle flies; but there is a broad intervening stretch of water.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southend in Argyll and Bute is also a small settlement at the southern end of a Scottish west coast peninsula.

 

[Calthrop]

With the topography of this part of our islands, being the way it is: the paradox of the nearest counterpart of "such-and-such", in this area of Scotland; being in the north of Ireland; is hard to resist. It would be nice to be able to say that the closest significant settlement to Southend, was Cushendun, Co. Antrim; but alas, untrue -- Campbeltown (Argyll and Bute) is some seven miles from Southend -- something like a third of the distance between Southend, and the village in Antrim.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilkeel in County Down also lies on the route of the Northern Ireland A2 coast road.

 

[Calthrop]

Northern Ireland's largest fishing fleet is based at Kilkeel. The corresponding distinction for Scotland, goes to Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kinloss in Moray was also chosen as a site to establish a religious house for the Cistercian order.

 

[Calthrop]

Harmondsworth, London Borough of Hillingdon, also has an aviation museum.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Coxwell formerly in Berkshire but now in Oxfordshire is also a settlement where a Great Barn was built.

 

[Calthrop]

Great Coxwell's churchyard is managed for wildlife; and has more than a hundred species of wild flower, including the rather rare and localised wild clary, Salvia verbenaca. Another recorded site for this plant, growing wild: is at Weaverthorpe, North Yorkshire -- 13 miles south-west of Scarborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skirpenbeck in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Buckrose Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Interesting "people-namesakes" associated with a gentleman who was for a while an inhabitant of Skirpenbeck: the self-taught optician and scientific-instrument-maker Thomas Cooke (1807 -- 68) -- not to be confused with his contemporary, Thomas Cook the famous "first travel agent"; our Thomas Cooke was the son of James Cook (no "e") -- a shoemaker, not a ship's captain and explorer ! Thomas Cooke -- founder of the scientific instrument making firm bearing his name -- was born in Allerthorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire -- about seven miles south-east of Skirpenbeck.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boston in Lincolnshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Botolph.

 

[D6130]

Plymouth in Devon is also associated with the 'Pilgrim Fathers', who sailed from England to America in the early seventeenth century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[D6130]

Coalport in Shropshire was also a noted centre for the production of fine porcelain.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Atcham in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Severn.

 

[D6130]

Atcham is part of the same parliamentary constituency as Shrewsbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rochdale in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Chad.

 

[D6130]

Rochdale was the cradle of the Co-operative movement, founded in the town in 1839. Another mill town that embraced the movement in its early days was Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.