Settlement Association

[D6130]

Crook in Co.Durham also has a pub called the Horse Shoe Inn.

 

[Calthrop]

Brancepeth, County Durham, also lies on the A690 road -- about halfway between Crook, and Durham city.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coxhoe in County Durham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Durham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Coxhoe in County Durham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Durham Poor Law Union.

Resorting to dire -- and "sounds-like" -- punning; involving the rather archaic verb "to ted" = spread out or strew, and sometimes turn: new-mown grass or cut corn or straw, on the ground to dry. Given a flight of fancy, a propos gallinaceous fowl engaging in horticultural or agricultural activity: there might come to mind, Coxhoe; and Henstead: in Suffolk, between Lowestoft and Southwold.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rushmere in Suffolk was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Mutford and Lothingland.

 

[Calthrop]

Rushmere's church of St. Michael and All Angels, is an example of that East Anglian speciality the round-tower church. Another of such -- over on the opposite side of the region -- is St. Andrew's Church at West Dereham, Norfolk -- a little way east of Downham Market.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wormegay in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Downham Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Not at all far from the last two settlements mentioned -- in fact, same distance south of Downham Market, as West Dereham is east thereof -- is that with the same suffix as Wormegay: Hilgay, Norfolk. Nothing to do with gender-based pairing-up, one hastens to add: they come from the same Old English root -- "island or dry ground in a marsh" of the people of [respectively], man called Wyrm; and man called Hytha or Hydla.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ten Mile Bank in Norfolk also has a church the is part of the Ouse Valley benefice.

 

[Calthrop]

Not hugely far to the south -- in neighbouring Cambridgeshire -- is the comparably-named village of Six Mile Bottom, situated between Cambridge and Newmarket.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Georgeham in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St George.

 

[Calthrop]

The writer and broadcaster Daniel Farson (1927 -- 97) lived in the later part of his life, and died, in Georgeham. In adolescence, he was briefly a pupil of the public school Wellington College, in Crowthorne, Berkshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Crowthorne only developed as a settlement after the foundation of Wellington College and the nearby Broadmoor Special Hospital. Its name was invented, inspired by some thorn trees - and, presumably, some crows - in the vicinity. It sounds better than another suggestion, Albertonville. Anyway, back to the game: another settlement with a modern invented name is the new town of Peterlee in County Durham.

 

[Tetragon213]

Basingstoke also has a school dedicated to St Bede

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Twyford in Berkshire also lies on the line of the River Loddon.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ince in Cheshire also has a pub called the Duke of Wellington.

 

[Calthrop]

Ince is located close to the River Gowy, not far from the point where that river flows into the Mersey estuary. The Gowy rises near Peckforton, Cheshire: some dozen miles south-west of Ince.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Darnhall in Cheshire West & Chester was also once administered by the Hundred of Eddisbury.

 

[Calthrop]

Bickley alias Bickley Moss (five miles north of Whitchurch) is -- like Darnhall -- only just in Cheshire West & Chester: being situated very close to the CW&C / East Cheshire boundary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldford in Cheshire West and Chester was also once administered by the Hundred of Broxton.

 

[Calthrop]

Aldford has a pub called the Grosvenor Arms. (The Grosvenor family -- Dukes of Westminster -- are big in this part of the world.) Shaftesbury, Dorset, has a pub of the same name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pentridge in Dorset also has a church that is dedicated to St Rumbold.

 

[Calthrop]

There was a civil-parish-in-own-right, of Pentridge until 2015; when it was merged with that of Sixpenny Handley, a little way to the west (one of Dorset's quite considerable number of charmingly-oddly-named settlements): to form the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sixpenny Handley was largely destroyed by fire in 1892, and subsequently rebuilt. Another Dorset settlement that suffered a similar disaster is Blandford Forum, burned in 1731.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sturminster Newton in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a little way south-east of Sturminster Newton, a woodland Site of Special Scientific Interest which -- among other things -- was until recently, a habitat of the butterfly species Pearl-Bordered Fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne), one of Britain's rarer butterflies. This species is still to be found in certain parts of these islands; including in a part of North Yorkshire -- a small network of sites close to Kirbymoorside.

 

[High Dyke]

Bembridge is also associated with the production of light aircraft.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gosport in Hampshire also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

Salisbury, Wiltshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Charente-Maritime. Gosport's "twin" is Royan; Salisbury's is Saintes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Johnstone in Renfrewshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Paul.