Settlement Association

[D6130]

Tain in Highland Region also has a noted whisky distillery in its outskirts.

 

[Calthrop]

Tain; and not-hugely-far-away Thurso (Caithness); have in-comparison long and to the likes of us, tongue-twisting, alternative Gaelic names (has Gaelic ever been spoken on a regular basis, in these parts?) -- respectively, Baile Dhubhthaich; and Inbhir Theorsa.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

On the subject of settlement names above in the ancient tongue, Welsh settlements also have somewhat convoluted Welsh names, an example being that of Mold, whose Welsh name is Yr Wyddgrug.

 

[Tetragon213]

The A541 connects Mold to Denbigh

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nantglyn in Denbighshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Isaled.

 

[Hamma52]

Nantglyn is located in the Mynydd Hiraethog (Denbigh Moors) area - a clearly defined upland area / range of hills that isn't a national park nor a national landscape (what used to be an AoONB).

Another village in an area like this is Wanlockhead, in Dumfries and Galloway, which is in the Southern Uplands mountain range.

Edit: Spell correction

 

[Bradford PA]

Nantglyn in Denbighshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Isaled.

Nantglyn is located in the Moel Hiraethog (Denbigh Moors) area - a clearly defined upland area / range of hills that isn't a national park nor a national landscape (what used to be an AoONB).

Another village in an area like this is Wanlockhead, in Dumfries and Galloway, which is in the Southern Uplands mountain range.

Wanlockhead was famous for lead mining. Although better known for textiles, Cononley in North Yorkshire also once had a productive lead mine.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salterforth in Lancashire also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

 

[Hamma52]

Well well well...

Salterforth has a beautifully preserved holy well, called Jinny Well, which is thought to date back to the 12th Century.
Another holy well is Schorne Well, established by rector John Schorne in the 13th century. Interestingly, Schorne developed a reputation for being able to perform miracles with the water from the well. Among these miracles was casting the devil into a boot, of which paintings of him often depict. This was believed to be the origin story of the jack in the box toy!
The well can still be found to this day in North Marston, Buckinghamshire.

 

[Calthrop]

North Marston's pub, formerly called the Bell; has fairly recently been renamed The Pilgrim -- the Rev. Schorne as told of by @Hamma52, became revered for his miracles, and pilgrimages to the village thus came about -- hence presumably, the new name. Liverpool also has a pub called The Pilgrim.

 

[Hamma52]

North Marston's pub, formerly called the Bell; has fairly recently been renamed The Pilgrim -- the Rev. Schorne as told of by @Hamma52, became revered for his miracles, and pilgrimages to the village thus came about -- hence presumably, the new name. Liverpool also has a pub called The Pilgrim.

Liverpool is the home of the current champions of the English Football top division.
Rather confusingly (and DON'T get me started on this team...), Oswestry, Shropshire, is the home of the current champions of the Welsh Football top division.

(We don't like TNS here...)

 

[Calthrop]

Liverpool is the home of the current champions of the English Football top division.
Rather confusingly (and DON'T get me started on this team...), Oswestry, Shropshire, is the home of the current champions of the Welsh Football top division.

Richmond-upon-Thames is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Seine-et-Marne. Oswestry's "twin" is Combs-la-Ville (in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris); Richmond's is Fontainebleau.

(We don't like TNS here...)

I'm afraid my ignorance about sport, is boundless -- have to ask: who or what is TNS ?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Richmond-upon-Thames is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Seine-et-Marne. Oswestryy's "twin" is Combs-la-Ville (in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris); Richmond's is Fontainebleau.

I'm afraid my ignorance about sport, is boundless -- have to ask: who or what is TNS ?

It stands for The New Saints....which I am sure someone will translate into Welsh.

 

[Calthrop]

Thank you. (I'm basically none the wiser ! -- but there's probably more chance of teaching a horse to recite poetry, than of getting any sport-related information into my head .)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Richmond-upon-Thames is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Seine-et-Marne. Oswestryy's "twin" is Combs-la-Ville (in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris); Richmond's is Fontainebleau.

Ashton Keynes in Wiltshire also lies on the line of the River Thames.

 

[Calthrop]

Another "Keynes-suffix" village is Horsted Keynes, West Sussex (and we now have official blessing for -- within limits -- railway references !). The "Keynes" element of both the Wiltshire, and Sussex, settlements, comes from Norman-conqueror nomenclature -- de Cahaignes and/or de Cahaines: info does not seem to be forthcoming as to family relationship, or lack thereof, between those of that name re the places in the respective counties.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Selmeston in West Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Danehill Horsted.

 

[Calthrop]

Selmeston lies just outside the South Downs National Park. Itchen Abbas, Hampshire -- a little way west of New Alresford -- is just within said Park.

 

[Hamma52]

Thank you. (I'm basically none the wiser ! -- but there's probably more chance of teaching a horse to recite poetry, than of getting any sport-related information into my head .)

LONG story short - moderately successful village team in Wales Llansantffraid F.C. Rich business man with no interest in Welsh football buys them out and renames them to "Total Network Solutions" (the business man's company). Business man then buys Oswestry Town F.C, and moves Total Network Solutions to the Shropshire town - renames them again to The New Saints (after a "consultation period" which included trying to sell the naming rights on eBay?!)
Despite playing in England, the club opted to remain in the Welsh league due to it being a significantly weaker league than the English pyramid, and combined with the owner's wealth vastly outnumbering any other club in the division, it would be much easier to win things.
And that's exactly what they've done. Although they were inconsistent around the early 2000s, since 2009/10, there have been three seasons that they haven't won the league, with two being in Covid. Across Wales, there's a lot of resentment towards the club for removing the competitiveness of the Cymru Premier's title race, the club not playing in Wales, and only having a tentative claim to being a Welsh football club outright.
Anyway! Now you know!

Selmeston lies just outside the South Downs National Park. Itchen Abbas, Hampshire -- a little way west of New Alresford -- is just within said Park.

Itchen Abbas was frequented many times by the writer Charles Kingsley, which provided the inspiration for his famous children's book The Water Babies. Frederick Marryat's The Children of the New Forest, took similar inspiration, and indeed is set in, Sway, Hampshire.

 

[Calthrop]

LONG story short - moderately successful village team in Wales Llansantffraid F.C. Rich business man with no interest in Welsh football buys them out and renames them to "Total Network Solutions" (the business man's company). Business man then buys Oswestry Town F.C, and moves Total Network Solutions to the Shropshire town - renames them again to The New Saints (after a "consultation period" which included trying to sell the naming rights on eBay?!)
Despite playing in England, the club opted to remain in the Welsh league due to it being a significantly weaker league than the English pyramid, and combined with the owner's wealth vastly outnumbering any other club in the division, it would be much easier to win things.
And that's exactly what they've done. Although they were inconsistent around the early 2000s, since 2009/10, there have been three seasons that they haven't won the league, with two being in Covid. Across Wales, there's a lot of resentment towards the club for removing the competitiveness of the Cymru Premier's title race, the club not playing in Wales, and only having a tentative claim to being a Welsh football club outright.
Anyway! Now you know!

Thank you -- though dare I say: I feel rather like the schoolkid, with his or her celebrated book review, "This book told me more about penguins than I really wanted to know" .

Itchen Abbas was frequented many times by the writer Charles Kingsley, which provided the inspiration for his famous children's book The Water Babies. Frederick Marryat's The Children of the New Forest, took similar inspiration, and indeed is set in, Sway, Hampshire.

Cannock, Staffordshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Luke.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Saredon in Staffordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Penkridge Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Little Saredon lies on the Saredon Brook: a tributary of the River Penk, which is a tributary of the River Sow, which is in its turn a tributary of the Trent. The Penk flows, appropriately, through Penkridge, Staffordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haworth in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

Andover, Hampshire, also has a namesake settlement in the US State of New Jersey (Haworth, West Yorkshire, is in fact twinned with Haworth, N.J.).

 

[Hamma52]

Thank you -- though dare I say: I feel rather like the schoolkid, with his or her celebrated book review, "This book told me more about penguins than I really wanted to know" .


Cannock, Staffordshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Luke.

What can I say, I aim to please! Perhaps too much!!!

Andover, Hampshire, also has a namesake settlement in the US State of New Jersey (Haworth, West Yorkshire, is in fact twinned with Haworth, N.J.).

Blennerhasset, Cumbria, is also found on a River that can be used as a first name.

 

[Calthrop]

Blennerhasset, Cumbria, is also found on a River that can be used as a first name.

The local civil parish combines Blennerhasset, and the village of Torpenhow a couple of miles to the south-east (by some accounts, Torpenhow is one of Britain's "redundant-name" places -- words meaning the same thing in different languages which preceded / gradually became English -- this one is claimed to mean "Hill hill hill").

Will admit that Blennerhasset as a first name: has come my way, only in one of W.S. Gilbert (of "And Sullivan")'s for me, delightful "Bab Ballads" -- this one, telling of doings on the part of Sir Blennerhasset Portico, Captain in the Royal Navy. I find these Ballads by old W.S. -- he churned them out by the hundreds -- considerably better fun than the operettas: the Ballads make no attempt at satire or social commentary -- they're just wonderfully and inspiredly silly, with Gilbert letting his imagination run riot.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Allerby in Cumberland was also once administered by the Hundred of Allerdale-below-Derwent.

 

[Tetragon213]

The main road through Allerby leads you east to Gilcrux

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oughterside in Cumberland also lies on the line of the River Ellen.

 

[Calthrop]

Oughterard, Co. Galway, bears a name with considerable similarity -- though no doubt, very different derivation. (Couldn't resist !)