Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

West Harptree has a pub named the Blue Bowl, which I expected to be unique only to find to my surprise another Blue Bowl in Hanham, South Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frampton Cotterell in Glucestershire was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Langley and Swineshead.

 

[Calthrop]

Frampton Cotterell is located on one of, what sometimes feel like south-and-west England's innumerable Rivers Frome. Another river by that name, not very far away -- and likewise, a tributary of the Bristol Avon -- flows basically south-to-north in Somerset; passing through the eponymous town of Frome (on the Great Western route to the West Country); and just south thereof, through the village of Blatchbridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maiden Bradley in Wiltshire also lies on the route of the B3092 road.

 

[High Dyke]

The ducal seat for the Duke of Somerset is Bradley House in Maiden Bradley, west Wiltshire, with a secondary estate at Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buckland-in-the-Moor in Devon was also once administered by the Hundred of Haytor.

 

[John Griffiths]

Up to the mid 19th century a pagan custom persisted at Buckland-in-the-Moor where local youths would sacrifice a sheep on midsummer day and sprinkle themselves with it's blood. As late as 2012 there were reports of satanic slaughter of sheep in Devon, including those of a Tavistock farmer.

 

[Calthrop]

Recondite saint's / church names again: Tavistock has a church dedicated to St. Eustachius -- a decidedly rare such dedication in Britain. However; Hoo, Suffolk (three miles north-west of Wickham Market) has a church with joint dedicatees St. Andrew and St. Eustachius.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Hoo, Pettistree, Suffolk, was also used for location filming for the 1974 film Akenfield, based on Ronald Blythe's fictionalised account of Suffolk rural life.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shepton Mallet in Somerset also has a church that is jointly dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[John Griffiths]

Department store founder John Lewis was born in Shepton Mallet in 1836; he died in Hampstead in 1928.

 

[D6130]

Headley in East Hampshire also has a pub called the Holly Bush.

 

[High Dyke]

Seend in Wiltshire is also noted for a chalybeate spring.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Headley in East Hampshire also has a pub called the Holly Bush.

Hartley Maudit in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Alton

 

[High Dyke]

Hampton-on-Sea, Kent is the site of an abandoned village.

 

[Calthrop]

Hampton-on-Sea, before it ceased to be, was a prominent and well-regarded oyster venue -- as has long been true of nearby Whitstable. Also of long-standing renown on the oyster scene, is Carlingford (Co. Louth).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stratford-upon-Avon also has a building of worship called the Church of the Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

A pet hate of mine: the IMO far, far too much fiction, "book or play", churned out by hack writers involving assorted famous, often artistic, figures from the past: in the role of amateur detectives (I feel that in general, a great deal too much fifth-rate "detective"-type rubbish sees the light of day). A horror of this kind, happily unknown to me before today, was a 2018 BBC detective show set in Stratford in Shakespeare's time, called Shakespeare and Hathaway, Private Investigators. Another litterateur of times past, whom poor-quality authors seem to have a compulsion to turn into a detective: is Jane Austen (to whose writing I am allergic). There's a lady who has written a considerable sequence of such tripe -- which heaven preserve me from ever having to read -- starring Ms. Austen; one of which has a setting of J.A. staying with her brother and his family in Godmersham, Kent (between Canterbury and Ashford).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wye in Kent also lies on the line of the River Great Stour.

 

[Tetragon213]

Wye shares its name with the River Wye, and the largest settlement on the River Wye is Hereford

 

[D6130]

Hereford Cathedral is one of the cornerstones of the annual Three Choirs Festival. The other two cathedrals involved are at Worcester and Gloucester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Much Wenlock in Shropshire also has a Guildhall.

 

[D6130]

Settle in North Yorkshire also has a pub called the Talbot Inn.

 

[Calthrop]

Though associated above all, with his native West Midlands: the composer Edward Elgar called in at Settle on many occasions, to visit his friend Dr. Charles William Bock; and around the end of World War I, he dwelt fairly briefly in Fittleworth, West Sussex -- some seven miles north of Arundel.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coldwaltham in West Sussex was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Bury.

 

[Tetragon213]

Billinghurst also lies on the A29

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Gabriel.

 

[Calthrop]

Ashton-under-Lyne has a pub called the Witchwood -- a venue of some local fame for musical entertainment, one gathers. Similarity in name -- different derivation for virtually sure, it would seem -- involving the Wychwood pub in Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire: the village being one of a cluster of three with "under-Wychwood" names -- in the area of the ancient Wychwood Forest -- situated between Burford and Charlbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saffron Walden in Essex also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[Calthrop]

Dartford, Kent, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Hesse. Saffron Walden's "twin" is Bad Wildungen (looks / sounds a little bit similar !) -- Dartford's is Hanau.