Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Very broadly "sci-fi / space-fiction / fantasy" department, and bringing of British settlement names into same -- we learn that in Jack Vance's Demon Princes novel cycle: the capital of Aloysius, the main planet in the Vega system, is called Pontefract. At one point in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy saga, there are weird goings-on at Lord's cricket ground, St. John's Wood, London Borough of Camden / City of Westminster.

 

[High Dyke]

Darvel (Scots: Dairvel, Scottish Gaelic: Darbhail) in East Ayrshire, Scotland is also associated with The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar.

 

[Hyebone]

Staveley in Derbyshire also has a cemetery next to a football club

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Old Whittington in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the River Rother.

 

[Hyebone]

Seacroft in Leeds is also served by a bus numbered 50a

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barwick-in-Elmet in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Skyrack Wapentake.

 

[Hyebone]

Allostock in Cheshire also has it's village hall on Chapel Lane

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lach Dennis in Cheshire West and Chester was also once under the jurisdiction of the Northwich Poor Law Union.

 

[Hyebone]

Bents Green in Sheffield also has a road named Common Lane

 

[John Griffiths]

Wymeswold in Leicestershire also has a pub called the Hammer and Pincers

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Long Whatton in Leicestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.

 

[Hamma52]

Ashley (Cheshire), also only has 1 church serving the village, of which the church is located approximately 4km away from a major UK airport.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rostherne in Cheshire East was also once administered by the Hundred of Bucklow.

 

[High Dyke]

Nearby Rostherne Mere was probably formed by a combination of retreating glaciers creating a kettle hole.

A kettle (also known as a kettle hole, kettlehole, or pothole) is a depression or hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters.

Another similar lake, in a kettle hole, formed 10,000 years ago by mass glacial action is Talkin Tarn near Brampton, Cumbria.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crackenthorpe in Westmorland and Furness was also once under the jurisdiction of the East Ward Poor Law Union.

 

[Hyebone]

Hackenthorpe in Sheffield also has a name ending in -ackenthorpe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

OBSERVATION...On post above

Incidentally, settlements in the northern areas of England that have the suffix "-thorpe" signify the Old Norse naming of Angles/Danish settlements that were either hamlets or small villages.

 

[Hamma52]

Hackenthorpe in Sheffield also has a name ending in -ackenthorpe.

Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, also has a road named after a major Ukrainian city. (Donetsk Way Hackenthorpe, Odesa Street Dowlais).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunoon in Argyll and Bute also has a church that is dedicated to St John.

 

[Hyebone]

Bellshill in Glasgow also has a Morrisons on John Street

 

[Hamma52]

Bellshill in Glasgow also has a Morrisons on John Street

Old Swan, in Liverpool, also is the birthplace of an ex-manager of Manchester United Football Club.

 

[Hyebone]

Wickersley in Rotherham also has a pub named "Masons Arms"

 

[High Dyke]

Todwick, South Yorkshire is also on the A57 road.

 

[Hamma52]

Lickey End, near Bromsgrove, can also be found adjacent to Junction 1 of a UK motorway.

 

[Hyebone]

West Bromwich also has an Esso garage on Birmingham Road

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Warley Wigorn in Worcestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the West Bromwich Poor Law Union.

 

[Hamma52]

Darley Dale in Derbyshire is also a two word long town, where both words in the town's name and the county the town is in start with the same letter.

 

[Hyebone]

Matlock in Derbyshire is also situated on Peak Rail

 

[Hamma52]

St Davids, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, also contains the first name of an actor who featured in all 236 episodes of the hit American TV series Friends

 

[Calthrop]

Bridgnorth, Shropshire, also has a twin settlement in the French departement of Puy-de-Dome. St. Davids's "twin" is Orleat; Bridgnorth's is Thiers.