Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Ipswich, Suffolk, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Pas-de-Calais. Hebden Bridge's "twin" is St. Pol sur Ternoise; Ipswich's is Arras.

 

[John Griffiths]

Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey, hailed from Ipswich. After a varied career as top advisor to the somewhat cantankerous Henry VIII, and having failed to use his church ties to get the old psychopath an annulment of his marriage to Katherine of Aragon, he was being taken to Westminster to face the music when he died at Leicester.

 

[D6130]

Caerphilly in South Wales also lends its name to a type of cheese.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Churchtown in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Helen.

 

[John Griffiths]

Beaumaris on Ynys Mon/Anglesey also has a pub called the Bold Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caernarfon also has a ruined castle.

 

[Calthrop]

Garreg, Gwynedd, also lies on the A4085 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

That is one of your better "where on Earth is this one situated" posers, so my usual reversion to past matters was called upon....

Chwilog in Gwynedd was also once governed by the strictures of the Eifonydd commote.

 

[Calthrop]

That is one of your better "where on Earth is this one situated" posers, so my usual reversion to past matters was called upon....

I do like to come up with new things where possible; was a bit "strapped for" places on the A4085 -- Beddgelert striking me as "old hat" in the extreme...

Chwilog in Gwynedd was also once governed by the strictures of the Eifonydd commote.

Chwilog has a pub called the Madryn Arms -- the only pub with that name, in Britain. Similarly boasting a uniquely-named pub is Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire -- a little way south-east of Hereford -- with its hostelry by the name of the Bunch of Carrots.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mansell Gamage in Herefordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Grimsworth.

 

[Calthrop]

Mansell Gamage in Herefordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Grimsworth.

Bolded name -- looks like something out of the imagination of Barbara Euphan Todd .

Weobley, Herefordshire -- "sort-of" between Leominster and Kington -- also lies on the B4230 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sarnesfield in Herefordshire is also one of the accredited "Black and White" villages of Herefordshire

 

[Calthrop]

Samesfield in Herefordshire is also one of the accredited "Black and White" villages of Herefordshire

Respectfully: would appear to me, that it's Sarnesfield.

Ixworth, Suffolk -- some six miles north-east of Bury St. Edmunds -- also lies at, or very near, the crossing-point of two A roads.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sapiston in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Blackbourn

 

[High Dyke]

The hundred appears in the Domesday Book as Blachruna and Blackebrune meaning "black bourn", where a bourn is a stream.

The stream in question is that which flows north to the Little Ouse at Euston (Suffolk) and is still known as the Black Bourn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fornham St Genevieve in Suffolk is another settlement in which a church dedicated to St Genevieve was built (but this one is now a scheduled ruin)

 

[Calthrop]

Re Fornham St. Genevieve -- one of a cluster of three villages just north of Bury St. Edmunds (the others: "Fornhams" All Saints, and St. Martin, respectively) -- the "Fornham" element comes from the Old English forne ham = "trout village". Another settlement with a name of "fishy" derivation is Laxey, Isle of Man -- from the Old Norse Laxa = salmon river.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trefriw in Conwy County Borough is another settlement with a working woollen mill.

 

[Calthrop]

The route of the Roman road called Sarn Helen runs through Trefriw. Its historical southern end is at Llandovery, Carmarthenshire (Roman Alabum).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beaumaris in Anglesey also has a ruined castle with listed status.

 

[Calthrop]

Windsor, Berkshire, also has two namesake settlements in Canada (in different provinces, in both cases).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winchester in Hampshire also had a medieval period leper hospital.

 

[Calthrop]

Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Aisne. Winchester's "twin" is Laon; Rotherham's is Saint-Quentin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beighton in South Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Rother.

 

[Calthrop]

In distant times, Beighton lay on the edge of what was, about a millennium ago, the "Great Forest" -- covering large areas of what became west Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. The only surviving remnant thereof is Sherwood Forest, including Sherwood Pines Forest Park: close by which is located Clipstone, Nottinghamshire (a couple of miles north-east of Mansfield).

 

[D6130]

Edwinstowe in Nottinghamshire also lies on the River Maun.

 

[Calthrop]

Edwinstowe has a Honey Pot Cafe. South Queensferry, City of Edinburgh, goes one better with the Honey Pot Creative Cafe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire also has an illustrated post-mounted settlement sign.

 

[D6130]

Mablethorpe was much frequented in Victorian times by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who was born at nearby Somersby in 1809. He died in 1892 at Lurgashall in West Sussex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stopham in West Sussex was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Rotherbridge.