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[Calthrop]

Midsomer Norton, Somerset, also has a church dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

 

[High Dyke]

Cromhall, South Gloucestershire is also an area where coal was mined.

 

[Calthrop]

We learn that Cromhall is spread out and about a mile long -- this making it one of the longest villages in England; though it's not as long as Falfield, South Gloucestershire -- a couple of miles away.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Marshfield in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Thornbury.

 

[Calthrop]

Marshfield used to have a hostelry called the Angel Inn. Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk -- in "Constable Country" -- still has an Angel Inn.

 

[341o2]

Snape near Aldeburgh also has a Maltings, associated with the composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wantisden in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Plomesgate.

 

[Hamma52]

Hen Golwyn, Conwy County Borough (Old Colwyn), also has a church dedicated to St John the Baptist

 

[Calthrop]

Meliden, Denbighshire, also lies on the A547 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Connah's Quay (Formerly known as Wepre) was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ati's Cross.

 

[D6130]

Little Barford in Cambridgeshire is also the site of a combined-cycle gas-fired power station, built on the site of a former coal-fired station.

 

[Calthrop]

("Pedantsville"; the sources which I have, give Little Barford -- the village anyway -- as in Bedfordshire: just on that side of the Beds. / Cambs. border.) Little Barford's church, dedicated to St Denys, is nowadays redundant: in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Stanford Dingley, West Berkshire -- between Newbury and Theale -- also has a church dedicated to St. Denys: still doing its stuff, it appears.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yattendon in Berkshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Faircross.

 

[Hamma52]

Milton Abbas, Dorset, is also owned in its entirety by a private group/estate
(Though the "ownership" of Yattendon seems sketchy at best!)


(seen as Calthrop also striked out, we'll continue from here^^)

 

[Calthrop]

Yattendon village lies near to, though not actually on, the course of the River Pang. Hampstead Norreys, Berkshire, is located truly on said river.

 

[Calthrop]

Milton Abbas, Dorset, is also owned in its entirety by a private group/estate

This game is wonderful, as regards involvement of "way-out" saints. Milton Abbas's Abbey Church must be in running for championship re strange and elaborate dedications: with its being dedicated to St. Mary, St. Sansom and St. Bradwalader. The only other instance I can find of this last name: involves St. Breward, Cornwall (between Wadebridge and Camelford): name whereof, a worn-down form of (approximate) name of same guy, decicatee of village's church -- here, St. Branwalader. (Per Wiki, the place was commonly known until the 19th century by a corrupt form of the name, "Simonward". One feels that this stuff puts the "Throat Warbler Mangrove" nonsense, well and truly in the shade.)

 

[Tetragon213]

Widecombe-in-the-Moor also has a pub called "The Old Inn"

 

[High Dyke]

The Church of Saint Pancras at Widecombe-in-the-Moor is also known as the Cathedral of the Moor.

The church of St John the Baptist in Tideswell, Derbyshire is known as the Cathedral of the Peak.

 

[Hamma52]

A silver medal is more valuable than gold... right?
Tideswell has the distinction of being the second most populated settlement within the Peak District national park, after Bakewell.

Buckfastleigh, Devon, holds the same honour for Dartmoor National Park.
(and there's also another fantastic fact about "second place Buckfastleigh" that somebody may wish to pick up on for the next connection)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tavistock in Devon also is a settlement in the area of the Dartmoor National Park much visited by the tourist trade.

 

[Calthrop]

In keeping with the English aristocracy's tendency toward geographical illogic / incongruity: Tavistock was for long strongly associated with the Dukes of Bedford. The town still has a Bedford Square, with thereon, the Bedford building complex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Smethwick in the West Midlands also has a Sikh Gurdwara.

 

[Calthrop]

Charlie Chaplin (1889 -- 1977) is generally reckoned to have been born in London; but there is a -- likely apocryphal, involving some of his family roots being Romani -- suggestion that his birthplace was actually Smethwick. Chaplin's very first stage appearance was at the age of five -- an "emergency stepping-in" situation -- in Aldershot, Hampshire.

 

[Hamma52]

Going back to something I alluded to with #39,079, Aldershot has no repeated letters in its name, and at 9 letters long, that's fairly impressive.

Whilst my previous answer Buckfastleigh also follows this rule, you'd think at 13 letters that would take the crown for the longest name that has only unique letters, yet alas not!

Bricklehampton, Worcestershire, takes that honour of being the longest place name in England that has no repeated letters!

 

[Calthrop]

There is in Bricklehampton, a K6 type red public phone box. We are given to understand that there is another such in Cromarty, Highland. (It does not seem totally clear whether one or both of these, are still in use for purpose for which designed; or are preserved, non-working, for nostalgia / "local colour".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Plymouth also lends its name to a sea area referred to in the shipping forecast.

 

[Calthrop]

Hereford is also twinned with a settlement in Poland. Plymouth's "twin" is Gdynia (in the north of the country -- on the coast); Hereford's is Jaworzno ("way down south").

 

[Hamma52]

As one may expect, Hereford also has a name in Welsh, that being Henffordd. Logical, perhaps, given its proximity to the Welsh border.

One place however that is slightly more usual that has a Welsh exonym is Catterick, North Yorkshire, which features prominently in Welsh folklore as the location of Brwydr Catraeth, the Battle of Catterick. The battle of Catraeth took place between the Brythonic peoples of the Gododdin, and the invasive Angle tribes from Germany. The result - a win for the Angles, signified the beginning of the end for Welsh rule across northern England and Scotland, as the Hen Ogledd began to lose Territory.

 

[Calthrop]

As one may expect, Hereford also has a name in Welsh, that being Henffordd. Logical, perhaps, given its proximity to the Welsh border.

One place however that is slightly more usual that has a Welsh exonym is Catterick, North Yorkshire, which features prominently in Welsh folklore as the location of Brwydr Catraeth, the Battle of Catterick. The battle of Catraeth took place between the Brythonic peoples of the Gododdin, and the invasive Angle tribes from Germany. The result - a win for the Angles, signified the beginning of the end for Welsh rule across northern England and Scotland, as the Hen Ogledd began to lose Territory.

Further issues to do with the above-bolded North Yorkshire settlement and "different tongues / ancient history": the place's present-day name is usually reckoned to be a worn-down form of its name as a Roman settlement, Cataractonium = "place of a waterfall" in a mixture of the Latin and Greek languages; some, however, suggest that a contribution may have been made here by the Celtic name Catu-ratis = "battle ramparts". There is cited in support of the latter theory, the spelling (here transliterated from the original Greek) from Claudius Ptolemy's Geography, compiled about 150 AD: "Catouractonion". Another bit of mild dissension / confusion in which Ptolemy's work plays a part, involves the Roman name of what is now Chesterfield, Derbyshire: Uxellum or Uxela ?

 

[Hamma52]

Chesterfield's football team, Chesterfield F.C, were promoted to the EFL League 2 in 2023/24, after a fantastic campaign that year.

So too were Bromley F.C, from (as is a surprise to nobody), Bromley, Greater London.