Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shorwell on the Isle of Wight also lies on the route of the B3399 road.

 

[John Griffiths]

Shorwell is home to the Isle of Wight's oldest netball club. The oldest netball club in Hampshire is the Weston Park Blades (founded 1967, and a rather confusing name which to me, at any rate, suggests ice hockey or fencing rather than netball), who play at Sparsholt College, Sparsholt, Hants.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoke Charity in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Buddlesgate.

 

[Calthrop]

Settle, North Yorkshire, also has a church with joint dedicatees Saints Mary and Michael.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chesterfield in Derbyshire also lends its name to an item of furniture.

 

[Calthrop]

A stretching-things-almost-to-breaking-point "twinning" one: Chesterfield is twinned with Tsumeb in Namibia. Nottingham is twinned with Harare, capital of Namibia's "sort-of-pretty-nearly" neighbour Zimbabwe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sheffield also has a modern tramway system.

 

[Calthrop]

The coat of arms of Harpenden, Hertfordshire, also features three wheatsheaves.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandridge in Hertfordshire was also once administered by the St Albans Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Paul's Walden, Hertfordshire -- located between Luton and Stevenage -- also lies on the B651 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Deganwy in Conwy County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Calthrop]

Dowlais (County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil) is another settlement in Wales with a seven-letter name beginning with D.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ystradyfodwg in the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil was also once under the jurisdiction of the Merthyr Tydfil Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

One feels that for English folk bemused by the Welsh language: Ystradyfodwyg would likely rank fairly high, as regards "place-name horrors". The same would probably be true of Abergwyngregyn, Gwynedd -- a little way south-west of Llanfairfechan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cwm Gwaun in Pemrokeshire also has a waterfall within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

In Cwm Gwaun, New Year is celebrated on January 13th: sticking with the old Julian calendar -- officially replaced in Britain in 1752, by the Gregorian ditto. (In this celebration, children walk from house to house singing traditional Welsh-language songs; householders in return, provide gifts of sweets and / or money. Could be seen as an improvement on wretched Halloween -- here, the kids actually do something to earn their treats.) Another settlement which persists in celebrating the Julian-style New Year, is Burghead in Moray -- where the celebration centres on the burning of the "Clavie", a half-barrel nailed to a long pole. (Burghead's ceremony would appear to be on Jan. 11th, not 13th -- one supposes, "details, details" .)

 

[John Griffiths]

Govan in the. City of Glasgow is also renowned for it's early medieval carved stones.

 

[Calthrop]

Based in Govan is the Benburb Football Club, which competes in the West of Scotland Football League. Benburb is the name of a village in Co. Tyrone -- located approximately half-way between the settlements of Armagh, and Dungannon. Rather oddly -- Wiki only tentatively suggests that the Scottish football club may have actual links with the Northern Irish village -- possibly involving the club's having been formed by immigrants from N.I., to Clydeside; but these matters are reckoned only "surmised, not known".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derrylaughan in County Tyrone also lies on the line of the River Blackwater.

 

[Calthrop]

Lough Neagh is quite regularly "oblong" in shape. While Derrylaughan lies at its south-western extremity; at its opposite, north-eastern, one, is the town of Antrim.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunadry in County Antrim also lies on the line of the Six Mile Water.

 

[Tetragon213]

Port Stewart (Londonderry/Derry) also has a Presbyterian Church

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tallaght in County Dublin was also chosen as a site in which to establish a Dominican convent.

 

[Calthrop]

Rapidly back to Co. Derry -- a settlement in that county: name, like that of Tallaght, Co. Dublin, derived from the Irish tamhlacht = plague pit / burial place -- lies seven or eight miles north-west of Ballymena; and bears the wonderful name of Tamlaght O'Crilly (often rendered as just Tamlaght).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballinamallard in County Fermanagh is also a settlement that is situated with thin the historically administered area of the Barony of Tirkennedy.

 

[Calthrop]

Also "associatable" -- in fancy, but not fact -- with a species of wild duck: is Tealby, Lincolnshire (three miles north-east of Market Rasen). Actual reckoned derivations are -- for the Irish and English settlements respectively -- Irish Beal Atha na Mallacht = "ford-mouth of the curses" (!); and -- either from the Anglo-Saxon taefl = gaming-board, standing here for a square piece of land; plus Old Norse -by = dwelling; or maybe, from the name of the Taefali -- a Germanic people who came along to Britain with the Romans and/or the Anglo-Saxons.

 

[High Dyke]

Harston, Leicestershire also lies close to the Viking Way, a long distance footpath.

 

[Calthrop]

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, is another East Midlands settlement where iron-ore mining took place.

 

[Tetragon213]

Northampton os also on the route of the A45

 

[D6130]

Keighley in West Yorkshire also has a factory producing lifts and escalators. (Otis at Northampton and Koene at Keighley).