Settlement Association

[Tetragon213]

Ambleside sits at the north end of Lake Windemere. Lakeside, Cumbria sits at the southern end.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sadgill in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Kendal Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Sadgill, ending-point of a minor ("narrow and white" on the map) road, running four miles from its joining the A6 main road at the also Cumbrian hamlet of Garnett Bridge (nice to imagine this, as the home of a Lake District version of Alf).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burneside in Cumbria is the other settlement where the River Sprint flows through its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Burneside has a pub called the Jolly Anglers. New Romney, Kent, has one called the Jolly Fisherman.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandwich in Kent was also one of the original five Cinque Ports.

 

[Calthrop]

Russell Hoban's "post-apocalyptic" sci-fi novel Riddley Walker is set in this part of England. A feature of the novel is that the survivors of the nuclear (I think) holocaust, have come to speak a distorted version of English which mangles many words / names -- wherein Sandwich (the protagonists' home town) is Sam's Itch; and Canterbury, not very far away, is Cambry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lunanhead in Angus also had a medieval period plague hospital.

 

[Calthrop]

Aberlemno, Angus, also lies on the B9134 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Inverurie in Aberdeenshire also has a noted example of a Pictish carved symbolic stone.

 

[Calthrop]

Inverurie is considered something of a centre for daily use of the "Doric" dialect of north-east Scotland -- which has many oddities which make conversation between speakers thereof; and "Saxons" reliant on the King's English; often problematic. The name "Doric" in this context: is generally reckoned to refer, in an essentially jocular way, to lore of ancient Greece -- where the then way-of-speaking of the Dorians -- the people of Sparta and surrounding areas -- was considered by the sophisticated Athenians, to be more laconic and harsher in tone and more phonetically conservative than the way what they talked in ... it's reckoned that this "conceit" was first thought of by -- among others -- the Edinburgh-based poet, playwright, publisher, librarian and impresario Allan Ramsay (1686 -- 1758) -- born in Leadhills, South Lanarkshire.

 

[Tetragon213]

Cononley (North Yorks) is also strongly associated with the mining of Lead ore.

 

[John Griffiths]

Coate in Wiltshire - the one near Devizes, not the one near Swindon - also has a pub called the New Inn.

 

[Calthrop]

Coate in Wiltshire - the one near Devizes, not the one near Swindon - also has a pub called the New Inn.

The only thing I can find about this Coate: is that it is in the parish of Bishops Cannings, a couple of miles to the north and also in Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chittoe in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Potterne and Cannings.

 

[Calthrop]

As per the road atlas, Chittoe is effectively a "cul-de-sac" -- at the end of a minor road, no way onward therefrom; as is Yatesbury, Wiltshire -- seven miles to its north-east per crow-flight.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Semington in Wiltshire also lies on the route of the National Cycle Route 403.

 

[Calthrop]

Semington is the site of a former canal junction; Fradley, Staffordshire (three miles north-east of Lichfield) is the site of a canal junction still operational as such, today.

 

[Tetragon213]

Fradley Aerodrome later became RAF Lichfield

 

[Calthrop]

Colchester, Essex, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Hesse. Lichfield's "twin" is Limburg an der Lahn; Colchester's is Wetzlar.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hexham in Northumberland also had medieval links to the leather trade.

 

[Tetragon213]

Morpeth is also a Northumberland market town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bothal Demesne in Northmberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Morpeth Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mitford, Northumberland also has a castle (or remains thereof) guarding a strategic crossing of the River Wansbeck.

 

[Tetragon213]

Taunton is also home to a Plough Inn

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Castleton in Derbyshire also had a medieval period leper hospital.

 

[Calthrop]

Castleton in Derbyshire also had a medieval period leper hospital.

You and your medieval hospitals for horrid ailments ...

On 29th May, "Oak Apple Day" (about you-know-who and that oak tree) is celebrated as Castleton Garland Day -- "a Garland King is paraded around the streets, wearing an extremely large garland; followed by local girls dressed in white with flowers". The day concerned is also celebrated in Fownhope, Herefordshire (between Hereford and Ross-on-Wye), by the local Heart of Oak Society: "members of which march through the village holding flower- and oak-leaf-decorated sticks, whilst following the society's banner and a brass band; the march goes first to the church for a service, then to houses which host refreshments".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chepstow in Monmouthshire also lies on the line of the River Wye.

 

[Calthrop]

Ringwood, Hampshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Eure. Chepstow's "twin" is Cormeilles; Ringwood's is Pont-Audemer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lerwick in Shetland also has a Spiritualist Church.