Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Lusk, Co. Dublin, also has a vineyard.

 

[D6130]

Abernethy in Perth & Kinross, Scotland, also has an ancient round tower in its churchyard,

 

[Calthrop]

Llanishen in Cardiff (not to be confused with Llanishen, Monmouthshire) also has a church dedicated to St. Brigid.

 

[D6130]

Film director Richard Marquand (The Jagged Edge and Return of the Jedi) was born in Llanishen in 1937. He died, aged 49, at Royal Tunbridge Wells in 1987.

 

[High Dyke]

Having the word Royal in a town name is an honour bestowed by the monarch. Another word associated with the monarchy is 'Regis' which means "of the king". This is reflected in the village of Beeston Regis in Norfolk.

In 1399 the living and manor of Beeston became part of the Crown and the Lancaster Inheritance.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Matlaske in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Erpingham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Just outside Matlaske is the minor stately home of Barningham Hall, built in 1612 for Sir Edward Paston; of the locally prominent Paston family. The family's chief fame is for the prolific correspondence between members -- which has been preserved -- covering essentially, most of the 15th century. It is no great surprise to discover that the Paston family are particularly associated with the village of Paston, Norfolk (very near Mundesley).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edingthorpe in Norfolk was also once under the juriosdiction of the Smallburgh Poor Law Union

 

[Calthrop]

The writer and First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886 -- 1967) remarked approvingly on Edingthorpe's round-towered All Saints Church, referring to its air of "dignity and simplicity". Sassoon would not seem to be particularly associated with Norfolk -- though obviously, he visited. He long dwelt, in the middle and later parts of his life, at Heytesbury, Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rosyth in Fife also has a church that is jointly dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[Calthrop]

(Kingston-upon-) Hull has also had in recent times, a -- now discontinued -- ferry service to Zeebrugge in Belgium.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberdeen is also a large coastal settlement with a maritime museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Realms of urban (?rural) myths and/or hoary calumnies: the people of Aberdeen have long had a reputation, even among their fellow-Scots , for being particularly stingy and skinflint-ish. I have heard in the past, that the inhabitants of Ceredigion (Cardiganshire) are similarly regarded by their neighbours in west Wales. Cardigan was formerly -- but is no longer -- the county town of said county.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanddewi Brefi in Ceredigion also lies on the line of the River Teifi.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanddewi Brefi has a pub called the New Inn. Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire: has a hostelry a bit more imaginatively -- if oxymoronically -- named the Old New Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clapton-on-the-Hill in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Lower Division of the ancient Hundred of Slaughter.

 

[Calthrop]

Clapton-on-the-Hill in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Lower Division of the ancient Hundred of Slaughter.

Name-derivation indulgence follows ... we learn that "in the old tongues", Clapton means "hill farm / settlement" (whereby the above-bolded name would seem rather repetitious). Of England's several "Claptons", as per the gazetteer: apart from the Gloucestershire village as above, Somerset (including "North" thereof) would appear to be "the scene" here -- with two different just plain Claptons, and also Clapton in Gordano: near Portishead and now "hard by" the M5 (and of some bygone-standard-gauge-light-railway significance). There is concerning the several "Gordano" villages in this immediate area, including Clapton: one of Wiki's spiels which I find irresistible. "The name Gordano comes from Old English and is descriptive of the triangular shape of the whole valley from Clevedon to Portishead, being the ablative singular of the Latinised form of Gorden meaning 'muddy valley' ." If you say so, sir or madam ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Linlithgow in West Lothian also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.

 

[D6130]

Falkland in Fife also has a ruined former royal palace.

 

[Calthrop]

Chesterfield also shares its name, "at however many removes", with a remote island group far away on the globe. The Falklands, we know about; the Chesterfield Islands, an (uninhabited) French possession: are located in the Coral Sea, some 600 miles east of Australia.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Retford in Nottinghamshire also lies on the line of the Chesterfield Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

The London Borough of Hackney is also twinned with a settlement in the US State of Texas. Retford's "twin" is Farmers Branch, near Dallas; Hackney's is Austin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winkburn in Nottinghamshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John of Jerusalem.

 

[Calthrop]

Winkburn is in the Newark and Sherwood District of Nottinghamshire; and we were "down Sherwood way" only on Tuesday this week. In this "beat" of R. Hood and F. Tuck & Co. , too : is Bilsthorpe, four miles west of Winkburn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ompton in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Southwell Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Half-way between Ompton and the local "metropolis" of Ollerton, is the village of Wellow. There is another Wellow in Somerset: likely better-known (at any rate, to devotees of "the subject which is taboo in this game").

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Englishcombe in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Wellow.

 

[Calthrop]

The porch of St. Peter's Church, Englishcombe, features "leper holes" -- a kindly provision from medieval times, to enable lepers to witness church services without mingling with the congregation. St. Andrew's Church at Greensted, Essex -- just west of Ongar -- is similarly equipped.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bobbingworth in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Onger Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Bobbingworth has a church dedicated to St. Germain. Marske-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, once had a church with the same dedicatee; but said church has long been non-functioning -- only its tower now survives.