Settlement Association

[Tetragon213]

Moira once had a humorous incident where someone mis-spelled the village name as "Moria" from the Lord of the Rings series

Oops! Well, close enough, "mining" of a sort takes place there.

The LOTR series was written by JRR Tolkien while living in Oxford

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newland in Cumbria is another settlement with restoration works on a former blast furnace.

 

[Calthrop]

There is another Newland in Gloucestershire: a little way south-east of Monmouth, and about a mile east of the River Wye and thus the county-and-country border.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

English Bicknor in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of St Briavels.

 

[Calthrop]

The River Wye is involved once more, here: though some miles upstream from the Newland area; and now no longer marking the English / Welsh border, though it does here mark that between Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. English Bicknor is a little way south of the Wye; proportionately opposite it on the north side of the river, is the village of Welsh Bicknor -- in Herefordshire, not Wales; it's a couple of miles away from the nearest point in Wales -- although it was in former times an exclave of Wales / Monmouthshire, in England / Herefordshire. (One feels tempted to ask, "is all this as clear as mud ?")

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portree on the Isle of Skye also has a youth hostel.

 

[John Griffiths]

Newport-on-Tay in the Kingdom of Fife also has a pier designed by civil engineer Thomas Telford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberdour in Fife also has a church that is dedicated to St Fillan.

 

[John Griffiths]

Melon Day, the second Sunday in August, is a public holiday in Turkmenistan; it is also celebrated in Aberdour and at the Bispham Gardens care home in Blackpool, Lancashire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to the Sacred Heart.

 

[Calthrop]

Howden had in the past, a much-acclaimed and -attended annual horse-dealing fair. Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire: still, to some extent, holds one such.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Over Stratton in Somerset also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Fosse Way.

 

[Calthrop]

Reduced to my least-favourite -- and to me, wearisome -- pub name, the Royal Oak. Over Stratton has one -- as does (among seemingly a million other English and Welsh settlements) Potton, Bedfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Congleton in Cheshire East also has a sand quarry.

 

[Calthrop]

John Bradshaw, one of those who signed King Charles I's death warrant: worked in Congleton early in his life, and was mayor of the town in 1637 -- 38. In common with Bradshaw; a fellow death-warrant-signatory, Henry Ireton -- born in Attenborough, Nottinghamshire -- died before the restoration of the monarchy. Post-restoration, Bradshaw and Ireton (and likewise Oliver Cromwell) were, posthumously, ceremonially executed: exhumed, corpse displayed on a gallows, then beheaded -- heads further displayed, bodies ignominiously disposed of. (If one has to be subjected to execution of a nasty kind, that's the way to do it.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanton by Bridge in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the very large area remit of the Shardlow Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, also has a church dedicated to St. Michael.

 

[D6130]

Appleby-in-Westmorland also hosts a noted annual horse fair.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skipton in North Yorkshire also has a castle that was formerly belonging to the Clifford family.

 

[D6130]

Irlam in Greater Manchester also has a pub called the Boat House.

 

[Calthrop]

Bacup, Lancashire, also lies on the River Irwell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ulverston in Cumbria also has a Baptist church.

 

[D6130]

Burry Port in Carmarthenshire also has a pub called the Hope and Anchor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lytham St Annes in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady Star of the Sea.

 

[John Griffiths]

Lytham St Anne's was founded in 1922 by the merger of the towns of Lytham and St Anne's. Stoke on Trent was founded in 1910 by the merger os the six towns of Stoke, Hanley, Tunstall, Burslem, Langton and Fenton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool was also chosen as a site to host the National Garden Festival.

 

[Calthrop]

Trying a bit desperately, for a fresh and new association -- another settlement with a name whose first part, is also that of a foodstuff of the "meat" variety, tending to be shied away from by modern-day bland-and-prissy types: is Braintree, Essex. (Admittedly I have myself, never ventured on brains to eat; and feel reluctant to do so.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanelli in Carmarthenshire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Peace.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanelli has a quasi-namesake a considerable way further east in South Wales: Llanelly, Monmouthshire -- between Abergavenny and Brynmawr. (The town in Carmarthenshire was officially spelt "Llanelly" until the 1960s.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangattock in Powys was also once under the jurisdiction of the Crickhowell Poor Law Union.