Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Clonmel, Co. Tipperary: is also a central theme in a doleful song of the "folk" variety -- The Bard of... and The Jail at... respectively.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mallow in County Cork also has a racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Caerphilly is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Cotes d'Armor, Brittany. Mallow's twin is Landreger (looks more German to me than anything else, but what do I know?); Caerphilly's is Lannion.

 

[D6130]

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[D6130]

Bridgnorth in Shropshire also has a ruined castle with a leaning tower.

 

[Hamma52]

Leigh, in Greater Manchester, also has a silent gh at the end of its name

 

[Hamma52]

Both Bridgnorth and Acharacle, Scottish Highlands, contain still functioning churches designed by Thomas Telford

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Moidart in Scottish Highlands also lies on the line of the River Shiel.

 

[Hamma52]

Dunvegan, Isle of Skye, is another settlement that gives its name to a nearby Loch (or maybe it's the other way round!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colbost on the Isle of Skye also lies on the route of the B884 road.

 

[Hamma52]

Great Milton, Oxfordshire, also features a restaurant on William Reed's list of the 50 best restaurants in the world

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hambleden in Berkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[Hamma52]

Hambleden is well known for its flint houses - dwellings made of a distinctive shingled flint mixture in the walls, of which they can be found in the center of the village. Cley Next The Sea, Norfolk, is another place where these distinctive designs can be seen.

 

[Calthrop]

The poet Rupert Brooke -- most renowned for Grantchester -- was staying with friends in Cley Next The Sea at the time of the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. His view of this situation then and there, was bleak; and the conflict indeed took his life the following year. A year or so before Aug. '14, Brooke spent time in Swanley, Kent; this connected with his decidedly complicated love-life.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fawkham in Kent was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Axtane.

 

[Hamma52]

Allerton, Merseyside, also used to give its name to the nearest rail station, until said station was renamed later on.

 

[High Dyke]

Thornton Hough, Merseyside also has buildings designed by the architect G E Grayson.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thingwall in Merseyside was also once administered by the Hundred of Wirral.

 

[Tetragon213]

Dingwall also shares the same etymological origin

 

[Calthrop]

Continuing in the same vein: there is a hamlet in Orkney called Tingwall, on the Mainland island some 10 miles north-west of Kirkwall. (There's also a Tingwall in Shetland; but I'm going for the Orkney one, having recently been there.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hillswick in Shetland also has a wildlife centre.

 

[Calthrop]

Hillswick in Shetland also has a wildlife centre.

With St. Magnus being a popular guy in this general part of the world: Hillswick has a St. Magnus Bay Hotel. At Pennan, Aberdeenshire (between Fraserburgh and Banff) there is a holiday-accommodation facility -- a former fisherman's cottage -- which trades under the name of St. Magnus Haven; that having been formerly, the name of the settlement now called Pennan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Drumblade in Aberdeenshire also has the remains of a prehistoric long barrow within its environs.

 

[Hamma52]

Cemaes Bay, Anglesey, is also a small fishing town that's situated entirely between two headlands (by extension, you could say it is contained within a bay).

 

[Hamma52]

Coleshill, Oxfordshire, also has a Freshwater spring within the village.

 

[Calthrop]

Coleshill, Oxfordshire, also has a Freshwater spring within the village.

It's remarkable how often in Britain, there turns out to be a multiplicity of settlements bearing a particular name -- often more of such, than one had previously been aware of. Until just now, the only Coleshill which I knew of: was the sizeable town in Warwickshire, east of Birmingham. The atlas, plus this quiz, now tell me that England has two other Coleshills: the Oxfordshire one as above; and another in Buckinghamshire, just south of Amersham. I thus choose for associating purposes, the Bucks. Coleshill.

 

[High Dyke]

Chiddingstone, Kent is another village owned by the National Trust.

 

[Calthrop]

Chiddingstone has a Tulip Tree Cafe. Spalding, Lincolnshire -- long renowned on the "tulips" scene -- has a pub / restaurant called the Tulip Queen.

 

[Hamma52]

Watten, Caithness, is also situated on the banks of a river that is 1 letter away from being a swear word.

 

[Calthrop]

Grizedale Hall at Grizedale, Cumbria -- south of Hawkshead -- was also in World War II, the site of a specialised kind of camp for German prisoners-of-war. Hard-core Nazis were concentrated at Watten; Grizedale Hall's "clientele" were largely senior officers in the German armed forces, including many submarine officers: the camp was unofficially styled "The U-Boat Hotel".

(Answer not demanded; but -- maybe I'm thick, and / or a thorough innocent; I can perhaps see how the Scottish river is one letter away from being a swearword; but the one in England -- ??)