Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Middlewich in Cheshire East is another settlement in which two battles were fought during the period of the English Civil War.

 

[John Griffiths]

Winsford, Cheshire, is also a centre of salt mining.

 

[Calthrop]

Winsford has an informal "sort-of" twinning arrangement with Nieder-Eschbach, a borough of Frankfurt-am-Main in the German State of Hesse. Winchester has a "full-and-formal" twinning set-up with another settlement in Hesse, namely Giessen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rugby in Warwickshire also has a noted Public School.

 

[Calthrop]

The ever-informative Wiki tells us that Thomas Hughes, author of the well-known Tom Brown's Schooldays -- set at Rugby School in the 19th century; "set up a colony in America for the younger sons of the English gentry, who could not inherit under the laws of primogeniture" (as not infrequently with this source of learning, one feels a bit inclined to say "I'll believe you -- thousands wouldn't"). This colony became the town of Rugby, Tennessee. Also with a namesake settlement in the State of Tennessee: is Mayfield -- in Staffordshire (just -- almost in Derbyshire -- a little way south-west of Ashbourne).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mapleton in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the River Dove.

 

[Calthrop]

Mapleton has a pub called the Okeover Arms. The very small village of Okeover is situated close to Mapleton, but on the Staffordshire side of the Dove.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alkmonton in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ashbourne Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Peter Port, Guernsey, also has a church dedicated to St. John.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stornoway in Lewis and Harris is another offshore settlement to possess an RNLI Severn-Class lifeboat.

 

[Calthrop]

Stornoway -- and indeed Lewis as a whole -- were long renowned for extreme Sabbatarian principles and attitudes. The same was for a long while, true of Portstewart, Co. Londonderry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lymington in Hampshire also has a Dominican Convent.

 

[Calthrop]

Nottingham is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Lymington's "twin" is Mosbach; Nottingham's is Karlsruhe.

(I'll be away and off-Net from now till Oct. 8th -- no more "twinnings" for a week, you lucky people )

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sheffield also has a modern tramway system.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mary, Queen of Scots, during her long English captivity spent several years in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury at his castle in Sheffield. She had first arrived as a fugitive in England at the Cumbrian town of Workington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Venn Ottery in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Gregory.

 

[John Griffiths]

Little Corby in Cumberland also has a pub called the Otter Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wetheral in Cumbria also lies on the line of the River Eden.

 

[John Griffiths]

Crick in Northamptonshire also has a pub called The Wheatsheaf.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yelvertoft in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Guilsborough.

 

[John Griffiths]

Earls Barton also has a cricket team in Division 7 of the Northamptonshire Cricket Team.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Earls Barton also has a cricket team in Division 7 of the Northamptonshire Cricket Team.

Is the "Northamptonshire Cricket Team" the name of an organising body, as it is one that I have not heard of in other county bodies?

 

[Calthrop]

Earls Barton also has a cricket team in Division 7 of the Northamptonshire Cricket Team.

Is the "Northamptonshire Cricket Team" the name of an organising body, as it is one that I have not heard of in other county bodies?

I'm so sport-ignorant that I think "cricket" refers to the annoying and killjoyish voice of Pinocchio's conscience... however -- to keep things rolling: we learn that there is in Earls Barton, a pharmacy run by a member of the Jeyes "chemist-stuff" family; most renowned member thereof, John Jeyes (1817 -- 92), the inventor of Jeyes Fluid. Said Mr. Jeyes was married in 1846, in St. Mary's Church, Stamford, Lincolnshire -- he and his bride went on to have ten children.

 

[DerekC]

Retford, Nottinghamshire, like Stamford, is a market town on the Great North Road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bawtry in South Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Idle.

 

[D6130]

Newark-on-Trent also lies on the line of the former Great North Road.

 

[Calthrop]

In the English Civil War / War of the Three Kingdoms: Newark as above, was a prominent Royalist stronghold -- we are told, "was besieged on three occasions and finally surrendered only when ordered to do so by the King after his own surrender". Another English settlement prominently on the Royalist side in that conflict, was Oxford -- effectively the Royalist capital, where the King's court was housed, during the earlier part of the war.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

After an interesting read on the eventual bifurcation of the original Poor Law administered areas based on Oxford, I shall respond as follows:-

Cuddesdon in Oxfordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Headington Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mirfield in West Yorkshire also has an Anglican theological college.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brighouse in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Calder.