Settlement Association

[Tetragon213]

Sutton Bridge (Lincs) is another "bridge" village that was home to a former RAF Base.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Matthew's Church at Sutton Bridge is the only flint church in Lincolnshire. Built of the same material, is the church of St. Vincent of Sargossa at Littlebourne, Kent (just east of Canterbury).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Godshill in the Isle of Wight also has a church with a medieval wall painting.

 

[D6130]

Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire also has a noted model village.

 

[High Dyke]

The poet and politician Edmund Waller was a resident of Beaconsfield. Another writer associated with there is Enid Blyton. Upon her death she was cremated and her ashes interred at Golders Green crematorium.

 

[Calthrop]

Golders Green long had a Hippodrome Theatre -- the building still there, but no longer functioning in that capacity. Darlington, County Durham, still has an "operational" Hippodrome Theatre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wells in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.

 

[Calthrop]

Settlements sharing name of an author in overall "science fiction / future-foretelling" genre ("inter alia", in the case of one of the authors): Wells as above (H.G. Wells); and Wyndham, County Borough of Bridgend (John Wyndham).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Connah's Quay in Flintshire also has a church that is dedicated to St David.

 

[Calthrop]

In slightly depressing realms: per statistics as at 2013, the crime rate in Connah's Quay was figured as the fifth highest in Flintshire. The county's highest was that of Shotton, just to the south-east -- makes Connah's Quay look relatively law-abiding, really ...

 

[John Griffiths]

Shotton's parish church is dedicated to St Ethelwold. The early pages of St E on Wikipedia don't turn up any other churches of this name, but there is a St Ethelwold's House Retreat Centre and Garden in Abingdon, since 1974 officially in Oxfordshire (but it's really Berkshire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cirencester in Gloucestershire also has the remains of an Iron Age oppidum within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Cirencester in Gloucestershire also has the remains of an Iron Age oppidum within its environs.

In Roman times, the above settlement was known as Corinium. Gloucester, "just down the road", was Roman Glevum -- or to give it its full, verbose title (a bit of a hobby-horse of mine, re the Romans) -- Colonia Glevum Nervensis.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ripon also has an Anglican cathedral that prior to the Reformation was a Catholic cathedral.

 

[Calthrop]

Ripon is the third-smallest city in England. The second-smallest is Ely, Cambridgeshire.

 

[Tetragon213]

Salisbury is another cathedral city with a noteworthy Grammar School (technically Salisbury has 2 as opposed to Ripon's 1, but at 6th form level the divisions largely start to disappear) sniped!
Northallerton also once was home to an RAF Hospital

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirby Sigston in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Allertonshire Wapentake.

 

[Tetragon213]

Rishi Sunak lives in Kirby Sigston. He was born, however, in Southampton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glasgow also has a Sikh Gurdwara

 

[Tetragon213]

HMS Lowestoft was built in Glasgow

 

[John Griffiths]

Lowestoft is connected by ferry to the port of Harwich.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thorrington in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Tendring Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

New Milton, Hampshire, also has a church dedicated to Mary Magdalene.

 

[High Dyke]

Montrose also has a tudor style (former) water tower.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Forres in Moray was also created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century.

 

[Calthrop]

Glamis in Angus, also gets a passing mention in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

 

[High Dyke]

Fettercairn also has a Mercat Cross.

Mercat is the Scots name for a Market

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peterhead in Aberdeenshire was also created a Burgh of Barony in the 16th century.

 

[D6130]

Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight also has a high-security prison.

 

[Calthrop]

Brighstone on the Isle of Wight, also has an eponymous forest.