Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Norwich also has an Anglican and a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

[Calthrop]

Feeling lazy, and resorting again to one of my favourite "go-to" 's: Newburgh, Fife, also has a namesake settlement in New York State, U.S.A.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dornoch in Sutherland was also created a Royal Burgh during the reign of Charles I.

 

[Calthrop]

The name of Dornoch comes from the Gaelic for "pebbly place". Another incidence of the "pebble" theme, at the very-much-opposite end of Great Britain; at a settlement which seems often to show up in this game -- Westward Ho!, Devon. A geographical feature of interest, parallel to the shore there, is the Pebbleridge: a shingle bank made up of large "cobbles" or pebbles, and a couple of miles long.

 

[High Dyke]

"Westward Ho! – Massive Letdown" was a song by Half Man Half Biscuit. Another place referred in song by them concerns a Bottleneck at Capel Curig.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Betws-y-Coed in Conwy County Borough also lies on the line of the River lugwy

 

[Calthrop]

Llyswen, Powys, is also located on the A470 road.

 

[High Dyke]

Nearby Talgarth also has a church dedicated to St. Gwendoline

 

[DerekC]

The underlying geology of Talgarth is complex. One of the several types of bedrock in the area is a hard limestone that used to be called Psammosteous Limestone, after a fossil fish thought to be present but in fact misidentified. It is now known as Bishops Frome limestone, after the village in Herefordshire of that name where the formation also outcrops.

 

[Calthrop]

Bishops Frome lies on the Herefordshire River Frome. There is a more prominent, and better-known, river of the same name in Dorset: on which lies Woodsford, four miles east of Dorchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stinsford in Dorset was also once administered by the Hundred of St George's.

 

[Calthrop]

Inchicore, Dublin, also has a church dedicated to St. Michael.

 

[Tetragon213]

The leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were held at the barracks in Inchicore after their surrender. Kilmainham would be where they were ultimately executed in 1916.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clontarf in County Dublin was also the scene of a battle (with great slaughter on both sides in this battle) between the native Irish combined forces and the Vikings.

 

[Calthrop]

Clontarf's name comes from the Irish Cluain Tarbh = "meadow of bulls". Another Irish settlement with the Cluain nomenclatorial derivation is Clonmel, Co. Tipperary: from Cluain Meala = "honey meadow".

 

[D6130]

Taunton in Somerset was also once a major centre for the production of cider.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mockerkin in Cumbria also has a name containing a word that means 'to deride or make fun of'.

 

[D6130]

Mockerkin in Cumbria also has a name containing a word that means 'to deride or make fun of'.

Good one....I like it!

Mockerkin lies within the Copeland constituency of Conservative MP Trudy Harrison, who was born in Seascale, Cumberland.

 

[High Dyke]

The noted Victorian author George Gissing based part of one of his novels, The Odd Women, on Seascale and the Lake District. George Gissing was born in Wakefield.

 

[Calthrop]

The noted Victorian author George Gissing based part of one of his novels, The Odd Women, on Seascale and the Lake District. George Gissing was born in Wakefield.

You just beat me to it ! I was in the process of composing a pretty-well-identical post, about old George and his birthplace.

Am defaulting to a favourite theme of mine -- a bit naughtily in this instance. Wakefield is twinned with Castres, in the French departement of Tarn. I can't find any other British settlement with a twin town in that departement; but Narbonne, in the neighbouring departement of Aude: is twinned with Salford, Greater Manchester.

 

[High Dyke]

You just beat me to it ! I was in the process of composing a pretty-well-identical post, about old George and his birthplace.

Am defaulting to a favourite theme of mine -- a bit naughtily in this instance. Wakefield is twinned with Castres, in the French departement of Tarn. I can't find any other British settlement with a twin town in that departement; but Narbonne, in the neighbouring departement of Aude: is twinned with Salford, Greater Manchester.

Bless you.

The demonym for someone from Salford is Salfordian. The demonym for someone born in Great Gonerby is a clockpelter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Spittlegate in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Grantham Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

The Spittlegate area of Grantham was once home to Aveling Barford Ltd, manufacturers of road rollers and dumper trucks. The trade name Barford still exists, but the Barford company is now based in Dromore, Co Tyrone.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prestbury in Cheshire East also has a set of stocks.

 

[D6130]

Actor, comedian. writer and television/radio presenter Paddy McGuiness lives in Prestbury. He was born in Farnworth, Greater Manchester.

 

[High Dyke]

 Bideford also has a Carnegie library.

 

[Calthrop]

It is an opinion firmly held by many Britons, that Americans can't spell. There is perhaps a bit of supporting evidence in the names of two towns in the New England region of the USA: both called, one understands, after settlements in Devon, viz. Bideford; and Barnstaple not far away. The respective spellings of the American quasi-namesakes are: Biddeford, Maine; and Barnstable, Massachusetts.

 

[DerekC]

Last Saturday Barnstaple RUFC beat Royal Wooton Bassett 47 points to 7 in the Tribute South West Competition.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Is that different from Royal Wootton Bassett, which like Edinburgh, has a Church of the Sacred Heart.

 

[High Dyke]

Dean Bridge in Edinburgh was designed by Thomas Telford. He also designed Montford bridge in Shropshire.