Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowes on the Isle of Wight also hosts a regatta.

 

[Calthrop]

We owe to the 19th-century American humorist and folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland -- who spent a fair amount of time in England -- a poem about East and West Cowes, commencing:

The two great Cowes that in loud thunder roar / This on the eastern, that the western shore...

Leland's works are in the main held in quite high regard; maybe he was having an off-day with the above -- which does bring to my mind a favourite of mine in this game, Willam McGonagall of Dundee: notorious as possibly the most dreadful poet ever to write in the English language. Among old William's enormous output, are quite a number of paeans of praise for assorted Scottish beauty-spots: including one of fourteen thoroughly dire verses, about Oban, Argyll and Bute -- which begins:

Oh ! beautiful Oban with your lovely bay / Your surroundings are magnificent on a fine summer-day...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crieff in Perth and Kinross also has a malt whisky distillery.

 

[Calthrop]

Crieff in Perth and Kinross also has a malt whisky distillery.

(This town is the subject of another ghastly praiseful poem by W. McG.)

The only two remaining hydropathic hotels (fancy expression for a spa-related ditto) in Scotland: are at Crieff; and at Peebles, Scottish Borders.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Innerleithen in Scottish Borders also lies on the line of the River Tweed.

 

[Calthrop]

Being perhaps a bit cheeky -- while Innerleithen is twinned with the settlement of Thondwe in Malawi; Mtwara in neighbouring Tanzania, also has a British "twin": in the shape of Redditch, Worcestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

 

[Calthrop]

Robert Burns had in his lifetime, strong associations with both Kilmarnock; and Mauchline, East Ayrshire, not very far south of Kilmarnock. There are monuments / memorials to the poet, in both settlements.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kinloss in Moray was also chosen as a site in which to build a Cistercian Abbey.

 

[Calthrop]

Findhorn in Moray is three miles north-west of Kinloss; and is, like Kinloss, on the B9011 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kincardine in Fife was also created a Burgh of Barony in the 17th entury.

 

[Calthrop]

The Scottish Police College is at Kincardine. Its London-area equivalent is at Hendon, London Borough of Barnet.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colindale in the London Borough of Barnet also lies on the line of the watrerway known as the Silk Stream.

 

[Calthrop]

Barrel being scraped, somewhat: another three-syllable "Colin..." settlement is Colintraive, Argyll and Bute -- on the "mainland" side of the Kyles of Bute.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glendaruel in Argyll and Bute also lies on the route of the waymarked footpath known as the Loch Lomond and Coway Way.

 

[Calthrop]

I learn that Glendaruel has been the inspiration for a number of bagpipe tunes: one being The Glendaruel Highlanders. Set to this tune, are the words of the popular Scottish song Campbeltown Loch -- expressing wishfulness for said liquid body to be composed not of water, but whisky. The loch-related Campbeltown is yet again in Argyll and Bute -- near the southern end of the Kintyre peninsula (and incidentally, with significance for narrow-gauge devotees).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Yarmouth in Norfolk ia another settlement with historical connections to herring fishing.

 

[Calthrop]

Great Yarmouth's Minster Church of St. Nicholas is the third-largest parish church in England. The second-largest is Beverley Minster at Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also affected by the effects of the Dogger Bank earthquake in 1931.

 

[Calthrop]

Rochdale, Greater Manchester, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Bridlington's "twin" is Bad Salzuflen; Rochdale's is Bielefeld.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Littleborough in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of th River Roch.

 

[D6130]

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

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[D6130]

Nottingham also has a pub named 'The Navigation Inn'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also has a modern tramway system.

 

[Calthrop]

We've been here before -- but, "desperation city", a bit. Edinburgh has an almost-namesake in the US State of Texas: Edinburg -- pretty well as far south as you can get in Texas, and indeed in the USA. There is a settlement in Texas, which shares the name of Guthrie -- in Angus, between Arbroath and Brechin.

 

[John Griffiths]

Guthrie Castle was altered and expanded in the mid nineteenth century by architect David Bryce, who also completed the huge Hamilton Mausoleum in Hamilton, Lanarkshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Hamilton's Old Parish Church is the only church designed by the Scottish architect, mason and entrepreneur William Adam (1689 -- 1748). Another noteworthy work designed by Adam, is the "stately home" of Duff House at Banff, Aberdeenshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Inverkeithing in Fife was also created a Royal Burgh in the 13th century.

 

[D6130]

Troon in Ayrshire was also once home to a shipbreaking yard which also scrapped large numbers of BR steam locomotives