Settlement Association

[D6130]

The Calder & Hebble Navigation passes through Brighouse and terminates at Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsden in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Peter (Wallingford's one is redundant, and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aston Tirrold in Berkshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Moreton.

 

[Anonymous10]

Aston Tirrold in Berkshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Moreton.

Moreton is also the name of a parish and settlement located in Dorset between Dorchester and Poole.

 

[John Griffiths]

T E Lawrence ('of Arabia') is buried in Moreton. He was born in Tremadog, Gwynedd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cwrt-y-Cadno in Carmarthenshire also has a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist chapel.

 

[Calthrop]

Cwrt-y-Cadno is the centre of a current dispute between different parties / interests, over afforestation plans. There has been a long-running comparable situation: difference (sometimes bitter) -- afforestation projects versus nature conservation -- far off thence: in the extreme north of Scotland -- the Flow Country, "the largest blanket bog in Europe" and a naturalists' treasure -- on which much tree-plantation-creation (to seemingly rather "dodgy" ends) has gone on. In said area, is the Forsinard Flow National Nature Reserve: centring on the settlement of Forsinard, Highland (rail stuff follows, "for reference, not gricing" -- on the Far North line [it has a station thereon], in between Helmsdale and Georgemas Junction).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Achiemore in Highland also lies on the route of the A897 road.

 

[Calthrop]

At Achiemore is the Strath Halladale Mission Church; dating to 1845, and a Category C Listed Building. Another Scottish building in said Category, is the Town Hall of Coupar Angus (Perth and Kinross).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Meikleour in Perth and Kinross also lies on the line of the River Isla.

 

[Calthrop]

Not far from Meikleour, on that same River Isla: would seem to be Kirkton of Glenisla, Angus: as per the song --

Busk, busk, bonnie lassie / And come alang wi' me; / And I'll tak' ye tae Glenisla / Nigh bonnie Glenshee.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Spital of Glenshee in Perth and Kinross also lies on the route of the long-distance walking path known as the Cateran Trail.

 

[Calthrop]

Also on same Trail: is Alyth, Perth and Kinross.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huntly in Aberdeenshire was also created a Burgh of Barony in 1488.

 

[Calthrop]

Huntly was formerly known as Milton of Strathbogie. England has a great number of settlements called Milton; or Milton plus a suffix. Of the latter variety is Milton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire -- one of a cluster of several "under-Wychwood" villages.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Streatham Hill in the London SW2 area also has a church that is jointly dedicated to Saint Simon and Saint Jude.

 

[Calthrop]

The Streatham Hill Theatre -- built in 1928 / 29, and the last theatre designed by W.H. Sprague -- reckoned something of an architectural treasure: after its ceasing to function as a theatre, the building has become the premises of a large church which has relocated from its former site in Brixton; opening for services in June 2024. The following -- have used it in the game before; but I do love the Isle of Wight: could be seen as an opposite sequence of events. A former Nonconformist chapel in Newport, IOW: ceased, some years ago, to function as such -- and was turned into a nightclub, appropriately named "Temptations". With that enterprise having failed; the building was in turn transformed into a Wetherspoons pub named "The Man in the Moon".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowes on the Isle of Wight also lies on the line of the River Medina.

 

[Calthrop]

Rather wonderfully, Cowes is twinned with Bulls, New Zealand (North Island, not far from Palmerston North). Also with a twin settlement in N.Z., is Ashburton, Devon: its antipodean counterpart being Ashburton, South Island -- between Christchurch and Dunedin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hennock in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Teignbridge.

 

[Calthrop]

Hennock's name comes from -- "in the old tongues" -- "At the high oak-tree". Another settlement with a name with some connection (not glaringly obvious) to said arboreal species: is Cressage, Shropshire (between Shrewsbury and Buildwas). Name originated as "Christ's Oak" -- Christesache at time of the Domesday Book -- worn-down over time, into "Cressage".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quatford in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Severn

 

[Calthrop]

Quatford has a pub called the Danery. Another hostelry with a name similarly giving potential allusion to the land of Hans Christian Andersen: is the Daneway at Sapperton, Gloucestershire -- between Cirencester and Stroud.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Miserden in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Bisley.

 

[Calthrop]

Tangentially referred to in Ellis Peters's "Brother Cadfael" murder-mystery novels (set in the Middle Ages -- "detection before detectives were invented"): Miserden (thinly disguised); also Maesbury, Shropshire -- a little way south of Oswestry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanymynech in Shropshire also lies on the line of the Montgomery Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, also has a church dedicated to St. Agatha.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Epsom in Surrey also lies on the line of the Hogsmill River.

 

[Calthrop]

The actor / comedian / singer-songwriter Norman Wisdom (1915 -- 2010) lived for a couple of decades, in Epsom. He also resided for long periods on the Isle of Man; where he in fact died, in Ballasalla.