Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Garstang in Lancashire also lies on the Wyre Way long distance footpath.

 

[Calthrop]

The Methodist missionary Robert Terrill Rundle (1811 -- 96) -- who laboured mightily in said vineyard in western Canada in the 1840s -- died in Garstang. He was born in Cornwall, in the parish of Mylor near Falmouth. Mylor comprises two, separate, settlements -- Mylor Bridge, and Mylor Churchtown -- take your pick.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mylor Bridge has a pub called The Lemon Arms, which I suspect is unique; however, Swyre in Dorset has a Lemon Tree Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Langton Herring in Dorset was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Uggscombe.

 

[John Griffiths]

Flixborough in Lincolnshire is also a 'doubly thankful village', having lost no servicemen or women as fatalities in either world war.

 

[High Dyke]

Mold, Flintshire is another location where a chemical works exploded.

Flixborough - 1974
Mold - 2024

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cardiff also has a Crown Court.

 

[Calthrop]

Cardiff is the eleventh-largest settlement in the UK. The eleventh-largest in the Republic of Ireland (Republic only -- places in N.I. excluded) is Kilkenny.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tallow in County Waterford also has medieval links to iron smelting.

 

[Calthrop]

Mallow in Co. Cork -- different by just one letter -- lies thirty miles west of Tallow, along the N72 road. (I like the thought of getting a bus from the one to the other -- expect that it can indeed be done.)

 

[John Griffiths]

Mallow was in the twentieth century a major centre for sugar processing, it's factory latterly run by Greencore. That factory closed but Greencore remains a major food manufacturer, one of its facilities being the sandwich factory at Atherstone in Warwickshire.

 

[Calthrop]

There is in Warwickshire another, much smaller and less well-known, Atherstone -- the village of Atherstone on Stour: a little way south of Stratford-upon-Avon, and some thirty miles south of Atherstone-with-the-sandwich-factory.

 

[johnnychips]

Old Edlington, in South Yorkshire, also has a redundant church.

 

[High Dyke]

Joseph Harvey (11 June 1918 – 24 February 1989) was an English football player and manager born in Edlington.

His first managerial appointment was for Crook Town AFC, a football club based in Crook, County Durham

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Horwich in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Catherine.

 

[Calthrop]

Horwich's name is reckoned to derive from the Old English har + wice -- all signifying, "the place at the grey wych-elm". Also featuring in the lore of this kind of tree, is Beauly, Highland. The grounds of Beauly Priory were reckoned to have possibly the oldest wych-elm in Europe, dating from before the year 1230; sadly, said specimen succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease in 2022, and collapsed the following year.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ardchattan in Argyll and Bute is another settlement where a priory of the Valliscaullian Order was established in medieval times.

 

[Calthrop]

Ardchattan in Argyll and Bute is another settlement where a priory of the Valliscaullian Order was established in medieval times.

Ardchattan is situated on the north shore of Loch Etive; a very few miles eastward, "up the loch" is -- on loch's southern side -- the village of Taynuilt, Argyll and Bute.

The Order concerned -- totally new to me (my background didn't feature such matters). Will admit that my first reaction was, "Strewth, that's a mouthful..." Wiki informs us that the name comes from the place in Burgundy where the Order's first abbey was situated: Val-des-Choux ("Valley of the Cabbages"). Endlessly educational, this game...

 

[High Dyke]

Taynuilt claims to be the first location a monument was erected to commemorate the death of Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.

Nelson was burn at Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.

 

[Calthrop]

Burnham Thorpe lies on the short River Burn -- from which its name is in part derived. The Burn rises a little way south of South Creake, Norfolk; through which village it runs, making its way northward to flow into the sea near Scolt Head Island.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Anmer in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Docking Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Concerning the far-from-unheard-of practice not all that many centuries ago -- mentioned recently in post #37,073 -- of wealthy landowners arbitrarily relocating whole villages in the interests of their doing "landscaping" for their own pleasure: Anmer was the subject of such a process toward the end of the 18th century, in the course of the making of Anmer Hall, the then new residence of the Duke and Duchess of Kent. Another such victim in that era was Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Godalming in Surrey also has a noted arboretum.

 

[Calthrop]

James Oglethorpe, the founder of what is now the US State of Georgia, was born in Godalming in 1696; the town maintains a friendship with Georgia, and especially with the cities there of Savannah, and Augusta. Another settlement with a particular relationship with one in Georgia, is Newcastle-upon-Tyne: a "sister city" of Georgia's state capital Atlanta.

 

[High Dyke]

Tongue End, Lincolnshire is on the River Glen. This is another river that is formed off two branches.

Newcastle: River Tyne has the North and South Tyne.

Tongue End: River Glen has the East and West Glen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Folkingham in Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Aveland Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

I find a rather amusing Wiki reference to a variant of the spelling of the above-posted settlement, in vogue in the 17th and 18th centuries: Falkingham. The article speculates that this variation was promoted, "to distance the pronunciation away from a well-known swear word" -- find this, not all that plausible: the "bad word" in question, features a vowel which is neither of those involved... I shall heroically refrain from getting into anything regarding a certain celebrated, much larger, settlement in the far north of the county concerned; and cite as another instance of silly and pointless "name / spelling sanitising": events re Buxworth, Derbyshire (near Whaley Bridge). Something which we've had previously in the game -- in the 1930s, local and influential well-meaning twits, seeing the village's hitherto name, Bugsworth, as "lepidopterously distasteful": had "x" officially substitiuted for "gs". In fact, the old name is reckoned to have had nothing to do with insect pests; but to refer to the Anglo-Saxon-times local chieftain Bucga. (Maybe the over-respectable folks also had in mind, another "well-known swear word".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bridgemont in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the Peak Forest Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Bridgemont seems very short of things to associate with -- but am I downhearted? No ! The name is, barring a couple of letters, very similar to Ridgmont, Bedfordshire -- half a dozen miles east of Milton Keynes -- which would appear to have a good deal more to tell about.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Elstow in Bedfordshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Redbornestoke.