Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

There is in the grounds of Alnwick Castle, a well-known "poison garden". A much smaller and "tamer" counterpart thereof, is at the country house / b & b establishment, of Kelly House -- at Kelly, (just) in Devon -- five miles south-east of Launceston.

 

[High Dyke]

Kelly derives from the cornish word for 'grove'. Another word referenced in Cornwall is also the name of the village of Churchtown, Merseyside.

Churchtown - the settlement where the parish church is located.

 

[Tetragon213]

Glasgow also has a Botanical Gardens

 

[John Griffiths]

Glasgow's place name meaning is often rendered charmingly as the 'dear green place'. Another similarly-hued settlement is the west London suburb of Greenford. No onomastic curiosities or 'false friends' here: it means '[place at] the green ford'

 

[High Dyke]

Knottingley, West Yorkshire is also associated with the production of glass.

 

[John Griffiths]

My father was, for reasons unknown, stationed for a while in Knottingley in the early part of WW2, as well as in Great Shelford (Cambs), before going on to more exciting places like El Alamein, Sicily and Normandy.

 

[DerekC]

Former President Barack Obama can trace his ancestry to Great Shelford, and also to Moneygall, Co Offaly.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

While all of the village is located in County Offaly, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) playing field is located in County Tipperary, and Moneygall GAA play in the Tipperary GAA Championships. Another Tipperary GAA team is Moycarkey-Borris, who play at Thurles Rd, Ballydavid / Baile na nGall, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

 

[Tetragon213]

Ballydavid/Baile na nGall Co. Tipperary shares its name with Baile na nGall/(Ballydavid) Co. Kerry

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Furbo or Furbogh (officially known as Na Forbacha in both Irish and English) is also a settlement in a Gaeltacht (Irish speaking) area.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sir Helenus Milmo, a High Court judge (England and Wales) spent his early life in Furbo, though was born in Co Limerick. He died in Chichester, West Sussex.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The River Lavant flows around the southern walls of Chichester and then west into Chichester Harbour; it rises, though, at East Dean, West Sussex.

 

[Tetragon213]

Bridport (Dorset) is also home to a Tiger Inn

 

[John Griffiths]

Bridport has been a major centre of ropemaking since the middle ages. Many other places have been the location of rope works, but few on the scale of Chatham with its quarter-mile-long rope walk providing ropes and cables for the Royal Navy.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sheerness in Kent was also attacked by a Dutch naval fleet in the 17th century.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways. He was born in Sheerness on 21st April 1913 and died in East Grinstead on 23rd March 1985, aged 71.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandford in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Swithun.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sandford is linked by cycle/foot path to nearby Crediton through the Millennium Green, which is a wild flower meadow with herb garden, example of cob walling, and a large pond. An annual pumpkin growing competition is held there in late September.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haltwhistle in Northumberland also has a place of worship named the Church of the Holy Cross,

 

[John Griffiths]

In 909 Crediton became a cathedral city, the centre of a see covering SW England, but lost that status in 1050 when the bishopric was transferred to Exeter.

 

[Tetragon213]

Haltwhistle in Northumberland also has a place of worship named the Church of the Holy Cross,

Andover is also bypassed by an A-road to the south, and much like at Andover, you can still see the original path of the road prior to the bypass' construction.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cottonworth in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Anton.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Cottonworth is a small village in the Test Valley district of Hampshire. In the 2011 Census, the population of the village was included in the civil parish of Wherwell.

 

[Tetragon213]

Follow the B3048 through Wherwell northbound, and you eventually reach the charming little village of Hurstbourne Tarrant

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crux Easton in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Pastrow.

 

[Calthrop]

Forden, Powys -- between Welshpool and Montgomery -- also has a church dedicated to St.Michael and All Angels.

 

[High Dyke]

Captain Stephen Halden Beattie hailed from the area. Serving in the Royal Navy, he was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) for his part in the raid on the port of Saint-Nazaire in 1942.

He died in Mullion, Cornwall in 1975.

 

[Calthrop]

Mullion Golf Club has the most southerly golf course in the UK. The golf club of Whalsay, Shetland: has the northernmost of same.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holm in Orkney also hosts an annual regatta.

 

[High Dyke]

Dalby, Isle of Man was also the site of a chain home radar station in World War Two.