Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Wellesbourne has a football club, Wellesbourne Wanderers. Another such with a nicely alliterative name; is Cardiff City.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mold in Flintshire also has a Crown Court.

 

[High Dyke]

Like Mold, Diss joined Cittaslow, an international body promoting a concept of "Slow Towns". However, it has since withdrawn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester is another settlement in which a Corn Exchange was established.

 

[Tetragon213]

Liverpool is another city with 2 Premier League football teams

 

[DerekC]

One of the best known facts about Liverpool (aside from football and musical associations) the presence of the two "Liver Birds" on top of the Royal Liver Building on the waterfront. According to legend, if the Liver Birds were to fly away, the Mersey would burst its banks and flood the city.

The Liver Birds were derived originally from a mediaeval seal of the city which depicted a rather badly drawn bird. Opinions on what this was intended to be differ, some suggesting a dove and some an eagle. One way or another, the origins were forgotten and the city settled on a cormorant as the symbol to be included in its coat of arms. There is also a vague cross-reference to William Warburton, author and Bishop of Gloucester in the 18th Century, who had three cormorants on his coat of arms.

 

[Calthrop]

Gloucester has an American Football team called the Gloucester Banshees. Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, has one called the Scunthorpe Alphas.

 

[Tetragon213]

Penistone is another victim of the so-called Scunthorpe Problem due to web filters.

Obligatory Tom Scott video on the topic

 

[Calthrop]

Leicester also gives its name to a now rare breed of sheep -- the Penistone, and the Border Leicester, respectively.

(Re the general "Problem" mentioned; I've always liked the town in Albania called Ballsh ...)

 

[Tetragon213]

Cheddar is another place that has a cheese named after it

 

[D6130]

Clifton in Bristol is also situated adjacent to a deep gorge.

 

[Calthrop]

The prolific historical novelist Philippa Gregory (some adverse critics consider that she's rather often historically inaccurate) -- best known for her many novels about the Plantagenet and Tudor royal families -- has also authored one, A Respectable Trade, about the past-centuries slave trade centred on the Bristol area -- much of its action taking place in Clifton. Gregory has also written a series -- Tidelands -- about the 17th-century ups and downs of a family hailing from a bleak and impoverished outpost on the Sussex coast: with a fictional name, but tentatively identifiable with Thorney Island, just east of the Sussex / Hampshire border; chief settlement thereof West Thorney, West Sussex.

 

[D6130]

Kinloss in Moray also used to be home to an RAF base.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Balmerino in Fife was also chosen as a site in which to establish a Cistercian Abbey.

 

[Calthrop]

There is in the gardens of Balmerino's now ruined abbey, a large and impressive Spanish chestnut tree: dated as 450 years old. It is "put in the shade" in a couple of ways, however: by the Majesty Oak at Nonington, Kent -- between Canterbury and Dover -- which is reckoned to be Britain's largest tree, and to be something between 600 and 1,000 years old.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Womanswold in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Wingham.

 

[Calthrop]

Margaret Roding, Essex -- one of a fair number of villages named " ***** Roding", in this area between Chelmsford and Bishop's Stortford -- also has a church dedicated to St. Margaret of Antioch.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Canfield in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Dunmow Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Also in this general patch of Essex is -- seven miles east of Chelmsford -- the village with the utterly wondrous name of Shellow Bowells (better go and see the doctor about that ).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Willingale Spain was also once under the jurisdiction of the Onger Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Just cannot tear self away from the marvellous names in this part of Essex -- close by Willingale Spain, is its "twin" village of Willingale Doe. (My Michelin Britain road atlas, features merely a single settlement, labelled just "Willingale".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lympsham in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to St Christopher.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Lympsham, the Somerset village of Brean is served by the number 20 bus service from Weston super Mare to Burnham on Sea.

 

[Tetragon213]

Porthcurno is another place where a Transatlantic cable was landed.

 

[High Dyke]

Little Casterton, Rutland is also home to an outdoor theatre featuring productions by William Shakespeare.

Porthcurno - Minack
Little Casterton - Tolethorpe Hall

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tinwell in Rutland was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of East.

 

[Calthrop]

An unfortunate collision between two military aircraft -- with considerable loss of life -- occurred very near Tinwell in July 1944. Among the dead were 26 members of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade. These were buried at the Polish Cemetery at Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk is also a settlement that has been connected to the processing of sugar beet.

 

[Calthrop]

Hinckley, Leicestershire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Bury St. E.'s "twin" is Kevelaer; Hinckley's is Herford.

 

[John Griffiths]

Moira, Leics, also lies on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.