Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Grange, Co. Louth (near Carlingford and Greenore) also has a church dedicated to St. James.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Omeath in County Louth is also a settlement on the Cooley Peninsula.

 

[Calthrop]

Convoluted one here; but "needs must" -- I recall reading long ago, in some "vintage" work of fiction about Ireland: a quoted euphemism for the place where bad people spend eternity -- "as the Omeath people call it, 'the place under our feet' " -- this likely, a direct translation from the Irish language: Omeath having been the last place in the province of Leinster, where Irish remained a birth-speech (until the mid-20th century). Imaginable-but-wrong cognate: Hellesdon, Norfolk (four miles north-west of Norwich) -- looks as though its name might refer to the infernal regions; but in fact, it's reckoned to come from the Old English "hill of a man named Haegel".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bromley Cross in Greater Manchester also has a roller skating club.

 

[Calthrop]

Stokesley in North Yorkshire -- just south of Middlesbrough -- also has a pub called the Spread Eagle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ingleby Greenhow in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Langbaurgh Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Whenever Ingleby Greenhow is mentioned; I inevitably think of its, in my mind, counterpart Ainderby Quernhow -- also in North Yorkshire, but a considerable way south-west of I.G. -- Ainderby Q. being some half-dozen miles west of Thirsk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nosterfield in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the B6267 road.

 

[John Griffiths]

Consett in County Durham also has a pub called The Freemasons Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heald Green in Greater Manchester also has a church that carries the name of Christ Church.

 

[Calthrop]

Not very far away, also in Greater Manchester, is Healds Green -- with an "s" -- close by Chadderton. (Wiki cautions users against confusing the two H.G. 's.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Not very far away, also in Greater Manchester, is Healds Green -- with an "s" -- close by Chadderton. (Wiki cautions users against confusung the two H.G. 's.)

When we had our first house when we were married in 1975, Healds Green was on the other side of the Rochdale Canal and the railway line in a still unspoilt part of the countryside.

Royton was also administered by the Hundred of Salford.

 

[Calthrop]

"Fun and games" to do with public clocks on municipal or church buildings -- in parenthesis, the settlements Shaw and Crompton are a little way "east-ish" of Royton. The clock tower of Royton's 1880-inaugurated Town Hall has, on three sides: clock faces of suitably impressive size, each with a Latin motto below. The fourth, on the east side, is half the size of the others; and with no motto. To quote Wiki, "A local tale is that when the church of Holy Trinity at Shaw was constructed in 1869, it had no clock on the western facade of its clock tower, which faced Royton. The reduced-size eastern clock face on Royton Town Hall is said to have been a retaliation."

The parish church of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, has clock faces on only two sides out of four: hence the local saying "as two-faced as Melton clock".

 

[Henffordd]

The cheese made in the area around Melton Mowbray was taken for sale to the nearest place on the Great North Road - to a village called Stilton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Morborne in Huntingdonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Norman Cross.

 

[Calthrop]

Ballymena, Co. Antrim, also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cullybackey in County Antrim also lies on the line of the River Main.

 

[Calthrop]

The Wiki entry on Cullybackey features a list of local "Groups and Associations" -- mostly serious-and-sober undertakings: youth organisations, or charitable bodies, or learned-interest ditto. Last item on the list, though, reads "Lemur Waffle Club" -- just that: no clarification; seeking enlightenment otherwise via the Net, achieved nothing. ??? -- assuming that this club genuinely has something to do with that lovable group of primates, the lemurs; and that it's not some totally random thing: Bewdley, Worcestershire, can also be seen as lemur-related. The nearby West Midlands Safari Park includes a feature called Lemur Woods: a wooded area traversed by walkways, from which one may observe the lemurs (ring-tailed, and red-bellied, varieties) with which this tract of the park is stocked.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanidloes in Powys also lies on the line of the River Severn.

 

[Calthrop]

Athlone (Co.'s Westmeath / Roscommon) is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Loire-Atlantique. Llanidloes's "twin" is Derval; Athlone's is Chateaubriant.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilrush in County Clare also lies on the line of the River Shannon.

 

[Calthrop]

What I'm inclined to call "a bit of a stretch": but Kilrush kind-of has a Scottish counterpart, namely Portavadie, Argyll and Bute. The association is that both places are a terminal of a short ferry crossing, which enables avoidance of going a mighty long way around by road: whose other terminal is in both instances, a place called Tarbert. (To be strictly accurate, the Irish ferry plies between a tiny settlement very close to Kilrush; and Tarbert, Co. Kerry.) The bodies of water concerned are, respectively, the Shannon estuary; and Loch Fyne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Virkie in Shetland also has a marina.

 

[John Griffiths]

Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, also has an airport served by Loganair.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Porthdinllaen in Gwynedd also has a lifeboat station.

 

[Calthrop]

Porthdinllaen has a -- much-acclaimed -- pub / restaurant called the Ty Coch Inn; ty coch meaning in Welsh, "red house". Longstowe, Cambridgeshire -- between Cambridge and St. Neots -- has a pub / restaurant called the Red House (in English of course).

 

[DerekC]

Longstowe has a patch of woodland called "Gashouse Spinney" which I surmise was the location of a small gasworks for the nearby Longstowe Hall. The village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire definitely had a gasworks, similarly placed to supply the local manor house.

 

[D6130]

The present mansion of Mentmore Towers was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton who was born at Milton Bryan in Bedfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tingrith in Bedfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Manshead.

 

[Calthrop]

For some reason, when I see or hear the name Tingrith: it makes me think of the slightly similar-sounding Tingewick -- in Buckinghamshire, just over twenty miles due west of Tingrith.