Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

In this game, I often find Charles Dickens distinctly useful. In 1835, he was in Kettering as a young newspaper reporter, covering an election there. He watched aghast, as a supporter of one party almost committed murder (he was restrained just in time) on a personage of the other party; there ensued an ugly riot between Whig and Tory supporters. Per Wiki, this "led Dickens...to form various opinions of Kettering and its voters, none of them complimentary". I've used the following, before in the game -- anyhow -- a better-known thing re Charles D. and elections: the famous passage in Pickwick Papers, about the by-election in the fictional town of Eatanswill (from, candidates bribing people with free food and booze, to vote for them)... this long thought to be a fictionalisation of Towcester, Northamptonshire, and events thereat -- but nowadays, thought likelier to apply to Sudbury, Suffolk. The "Eatanswill" stuff -- highly corrupt, but essentially non-violent and kind-of benign -- is in a different league from the nasty doings at Kettering.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nayland in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[High Dyke]

Sutton Coldfield also had a sanatorium.

 

[D6130]

Wenvoe in Glamorgan is also the location of a television transmitter.

 

[High Dyke]

Morvah (Cornish: Morvedh), Cornwall, is also the location of a Neolithic dolmen (also called quoits or cromlechs).

A dolmen, or portal tomb, is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table".

 

[Calthrop]

Morvah was for a very long time, the location of the annual Morvah Fair, held on the first Sunday of August -- a celebration of the old Celtic festival of Lughnasadh. In the late 19th century, the chief cleric of Morvah campaigned strenuously and with success, for the abolition of this custom; owing to its promoting "idle and profane amusement" on the part of "disorderly persons", on the Lord's Day. There is now a pale and feeble replacement, in the shape of "Pasty Day" on the first Tuesday of each August. Lewis and Harris in Scotland's Western Isles -- capital, Stornoway -- have also been a long-standing stronghold of extreme anti-fun Sabbatarianism.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bury in Greater Manchester is also a settlement noted for Black Puddings.

 

[Calthrop]

The coat of arms of the one-time Bury County Borough Council -- abolished 1974, as a formal entity -- is an elaborate and impressive thing: strongly making the point that Bury is / has been, an emphatically industrial / industrious place. The four quarters of the shield, bear pictures of objects symbolic of the town's various industries -- forging / metalwork; wool; cotton; paper; (sadly, no picture of a black pudding ) -- the motto is Vincit omnia industria (Industry / work conquers all). Work-or-industry-conscious coats of arms, often picture that famously busy insect the bee. At the top of Bury's c.o.a. are two red roses for Lancashire; and what I imagined to be a bee; but the description identifies it as -- of all creatures -- a mayfly. The coat of arms of Blackburn, Lancashire -- not very far away -- depict among other things: three of what are without doubt, bees.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knuzden in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Blakewater.

 

[Calthrop]

Knuzden would likely be of considerable use, if place-names were permitted in Scrabble. The same would apply to Queenzieburn, North Lanarkshire (between Kirkintilloch and Kilsyth).

 

[High Dyke]

Borrowstounness - the Burgh Town on the Ness, more commonly referred to as Bo'ness is also on the line of the Antonine Wall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dundee also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[D6130]

Frodsham in Cheshire also has a war memorial on a prominent hill overlooking the town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Antrobus in Cheshire West and Chester was also once under the jurisdiction of the Runcorn Poor Law Union.

 

[D6130]

Antrobus shares its name with a long-standing character in the BBC Radio 4 series "The Archers"....as does Woolley in South Yorkshire (in this case a deceased character).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Darfield in South Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Dearne.

 

[Calthrop]

Elm, Cambridgeshire -- just outside Wisbech -- also has a pub called the Sportsman.

 

[D6130]

Ash in Surrey Is also named after a type of tree.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ockham in Surrey was also once administered by the Hundred of Woking.

 

[High Dyke]

HMS Ockham was one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers. Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Ockham in Surrey.

Another such ship was HMS Riplingham (East Riding of Yorkshire)

 

[Calthrop]

A bit of unintentional (or perhaps intentional?) comedy from Wiki, concerning Riplingham: remarking of this tiny settlement, "It has no shops, but does have a good view of Hull and the surrounding area..." -- there comes to mind the comment from disgruntled inhabitants of remote and beautiful, but economically "nothing" regions, "You can't eat scenery". Another location from which a good view of Hull can, unsurprisingly, be got: is the by-the-shore part of New Holland, North Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Reading in Berkshire also has a place of worship named Christ Church.

 

[Calthrop]

Worthington, Leicestershire, also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Pennsylvania.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Osgathorpe in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ashby de la Zouch Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Doddington in Northamptonshire was also administered by the Hundred of Hamfordshoe.

 

[Calthrop]

The above-posted Northants. settlement would seem to be England's only Great Doddington; but the country has several "Doddingtons plain-and-simple". With my love of Lincolnshire: of course I choose the Doddington in that county -- some five miles west of Lincoln. (Euphoniously, there are in this same stretch of land west and south of the county town: Haddington, and Waddington.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lynchmere in West Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[Calthrop]

Buried in the above-named St. Peter's churchyard in Lynchmere, is the journalist and broadcaster Richard Dimbleby (1913 -- 65). He was born in Richmond, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Richmond, Guiseley in West Yorkshire has a pub called the White Cross.