Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Linlithgow, West Lothian, also has a church dedicated to St. Michael.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ratho in the rural west part of Edinburgh also lies on the line of the Union Canal.

 

[johnnychips]

William Lin from Ratho was allegedly the last man to die of the plague in Scotland. Eyam in Derbyshire is known as ‘The Plague Village’ because of the outbreak there in 1665.

 

[Calthrop]

Eyam's church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. The same applies ("well, it would do, wouldn't it?") to St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight. (The Wight settlement has in fact two St. Lawrence's Churches: Old, and New.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight is also served by the 31 bus service, now operated by Minibus Plus.com.

 

[Calthrop]

Further church-dedication stuff, hopefully acceptable. Such dedication at Bonchurch is -- as one might expect from the name -- to St. Boniface (and St. Boniface Down is "hard by"; and as with St. Lawrence and its saint, Bonchurch has in fact two St. Boniface's Churches, Old and New). There is also a St. Boniface's Church in Quinton (suburb of Birmingham).

Oddly enough, early this month there was a short thread in which St. Boniface and the IOW "Bon"-places, showed up -- on "Railway History and Nostalgia", of all places. It was wondered whether anyone knew why, "back in the day", the Garsdale -- Hawes branch train was nicknamed Boniface, or Bonnyface. General consensus seemed to be, that the name was probably non-hagiographic.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wormington in Gloucester was also once administered in the very large area coverage of the Hundred of Kiftsgate.

 

[Calthrop]

Wormington is located only just in Gloucestershire: being right on the county boundary -- Worcestershire immediately to the north. Bunclody, Co. Wexford, is in a comparable situation -- barely within its county: just to the west (county boundary marked by the River Slaney) is Co. Carlow.

 

[D6130]

Boolavogue is another Co. Wexford village that features in a well-known folk song.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clonakilty in County Cork was another settlement involved in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

 

[D6130]

Bury in Greater Manchester is another noted centre for the manufacture of black puddings.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bacup in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

[D6130]

Hinckley in Leicestershire was also a centre for hosiery manufacturing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moira in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the Ashby Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Moira's topomym is derived from the Irish earldom of Moira, one of the titles of the Hastings family. One of their possessions was the castle at Ashby de la Zouch.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alrewas in Staffordshire also has a noted arboretum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

All Saints Church, Alrewas contains a pipe organ by Brindley & Foster, which was installed in 1882. The company were a pipe organ builder based in Sheffield, who flourished between 1854 and 1939. Another of their organs can be seen at St John the Baptist's Church, Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire; this one was installed aound 1905.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Elmton in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Scarsdale.

 

[Calthrop]

Near Elmton is the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's Hollinhill and Markland Grips reserve: of much botanical interest, including the rare bee orchid's being found there. Another valued reserve botany-wise -- among other things, great for bluebells -- is the Woodland Trust's Coed Cefn, near Crickhowell in Powys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontsenni in Powys also lies on the line of the River Usk.

 

[Calthrop]

Tetsworth in Oxfordshire (three miles south of Thame) is also situated on the A40 road.

Initially, saw Pontsenni as a settlement hitherto unknown to me -- until the Wiki entry revealed its alternative English name: familiar to us folks as the second part of the name of Devynock and Sennybridge station, on the one-time Neath and Brecon rail route.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hartington in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles.

 

[Calthrop]

Am indebted re the following: to @EbbwJunction1 for a post on this game last year, telling of the gentleman (before then, unknown to me) who gives the needed association. The chap concerned, is the poet and writer Charles Cotton (1630 -- 87); to whom is attributed the work The Complete Gamester (which one gathers, is about setting out the rules of various card, etc. games; rather than directly, about gambling on them). Cotton was also a keen angler: friend of, and collaborator with, Izaak Walton. Cotton had built on the banks of his favourite angling stream, the River Dove: a small lodge (still in existence, and preserved), his "Fishing House", just outside Hartington. Cotton's second marriage -- early 1670s, roughly contemporary with construction of Fishing House -- was to Mary Cromwell, Dowager Countess of Ardglass (Co. Down).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oughterard in County Galway also has a Tower House within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Cong (Co. Mayo) is also located on -- or very close to -- Lough Corrib.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Killimor on County Mayo was also on the proposed route of the Cong Canal, but abandonment occurred after only part of the works had been completed.

 

[Calthrop]

"Coward's way out" -- there is another Killimor, in fact in Co. Galway; but in the far south-east of that county, a few miles short of Portumna and the county boundary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carrigahorig in County Tipperary also lies on the route of the N65 road.

 

[Calthrop]

The Republic of Ireland is regrettably poorly-endowed with forests -- most of its original forest cover having been, for various reasons, removed over the centuries. Near Carrigahorig is one of the country's, relatively, more impressive forest areas: Borrisokane Forest. A counterpart thereof, in another part of the province of Munster: is Glengarriff Forest, near Glengarriff, Co. Cork.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Drogheda in County Louth is another Irish settlement that was chosen as a site for a Martello Tower.