Settlement Association

[Hamma52]

Birkin has a small fishery on the fringes of the village. So too does Rode, Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Biddulph in Staffordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Lawrence.

 

[Calthrop]

Swansea is also twinned with a settlement in the Italian province of Emilia-Romagna. Biddulph's "twin" is Fusignano; Swansea's is Ferrara.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wallasey in Merseyside also has a church that is dedicated to St Hilary.

 

[Calthrop]

Wallasey has a "semi-sound-alike" in the shape of Wallasea Island, a remote area in Essex -- really a quasi-island; bounded respectively to north and south, by the Rivers Crouch and Roach -- a wonderful place for bird-life. Nearest "proper" settlement thereto, is probably the village of Paglesham, Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barrowby in Lincolnshire also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[High Dyke]

Little Humby, Lincolnshire was also once part of the wapentakes of Winnibriggs and Threo (or Threw)

 

[Hamma52]

Port Seton, East Lothian, is also served by a number 26 bus service

 

[Calthrop]

... was also once part of the wapentakes of Winnibriggs and Threo (or Threw)

Not meaning to nitpick here -- just whimsical-ness -- @Xenophon PCDGS: the above-mentioned one-time administrative division(s), at times quite a favourite of yours; but if I'm right, you render as "Winniebriggs and Theo": which has always tickled me, conjuring up visions of Mr. and Mrs. Briggs -- Winnie seeming definitely like the power-wielding, domineering one; and Theo the meek henpecked husband. @High Dyke: you would seem to favour a slightly different rendering.

Port Seton, East Lothian, is also served by a number 26 bus service

Scottish towns with "people" namesakes in a certain doleful ballad, involving four ladies called Mary -- (Port) Seton; and Hamilton: South Lanarkshire (main administrative centre of that council area).

 

[Tetragon213]

Camden (London) also shares its name with a place in Bermuda

 

[Calthrop]

A "big man" in the Camden Town Group of painters -- fl. in the early 1910s -- was Walter Sickert (1860 -- 1942), at whose Camden Town (north London) studio the group often met. Sickert is buried in St. Nicholas's Church at Bathampton, Somerset -- just east of Bath.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Charlcombe in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Hampton.

 

[Tetragon213]

Lansdown, Bath (1.5 miles northwest of Charlcombe) is home to a Charlcombe Inn

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Launceston in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Stephen.

 

[Calthrop]

Launceston was the county town of Cornwall until 1835; when that role was taken over by Bodmin. That proved "not for keeps": the county town is now Truro.

 

[Hamma52]

The main "high street" in Truro retains its delightful brickwork patterned cobbled street, whereas some other streets around are standard (boring!) asphalt.

Another place with a lovely cobbled high street is Guildford, Surrey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Godalming in Surrey also lies on the line of the River Wey.

 

[D6130]

Winchester in Hampshire is also home to a major 'public' school. (Godalming has Charterhouse).

 

[Tetragon213]

Salisbury also has a rather lovely cathedral

 

[Hamma52]

Salisbury gives its name to the nearby Salisbury Plain, famous of course as being home to Stonehenge.
Another plain in the UK would be the Solway Plain in Cumbria and southern Scotland. Whilst this is named after a river (or more estuary), rather than a settlement, this area, often overlooked in favour for its for more dramatic southern neighbours, is home to a variety of settlements, places of scientific interest and diverse landscapes.

At its heart is Wigton, Cumbria.

 

[Calthrop]

Probably Wigton's most renowned son is the writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg -- born there in 1939, and grew up there. Bragg now lives in Hampstead -- (largely) London Borough of Camden; but still owns a house near Wigton.

 

[Hamma52]

Hampstead is renowned for being one of the priciest and most exclusive postcodes in the UK. In fact, its home to more millionaires within its boundaries than anywhere else in the UK, based on area.
This is in contrast to Jaywick, Essex, long known for being the most deprived area of the UK, based on metrics such as net income, crime rate and health/education levels.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hunstanton in Norfolk also was heavily affected by the North Sea Flood of 1953.

 

[Calthrop]

Woburn, Bedfordshire -- most renowned for its stately home -- is also affected by pronunciation-disagreement (Hunstanton, or Hunston? Wo[as in "sorrow"]burn, or Wooburn?) -- with enjoyable rivalry and respective mickey-taking re who, out of which social "drawer", is liable to say it which way.

 

[Hamma52]

Woburn is home to one of few safari parks in the UK. Needless to say the lions, giraffes and elephants used to wandering the Serengeti must be wondering where they went wrong in life.

Longleat, Wiltshire, is also home to a safari park.

(There is a couple of things to say about Longleat outside of the Safari Park, however there's also a couple of smaller villages in the vicinity that I guess could come under the "Longleat Umbrella")

 

[Calthrop]

Near Longleat is the Site of Special Scientific Interest, of Longleat Woods: home to various interesting bird-life, including the -- now rather desperately rare in Britain -- lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos minor). Another place where one might have a chance of encountering this rarity: is the bird reserve of Rostherne Mere -- near Rostherne, Cheshire East; two or three miles south-west of Altrincham.

 

[High Dyke]

Michael Harold Wrigley OBE (30 July 1924 – 13 January 1995) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer, born in Rostherne. He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Combined Services cricket team in a rain-affected match against Surrey in 1946.

Later in his life he was a farmer. He was also a director of Pontefract Racecourse during the first half of the 1990s, until his death.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Totternhoe in Bedfordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Giles.

 

[Calthrop]

Totternhoe has a pub called the Old Farm Inn. Middleton St. George, County Durham -- just south-east of Darlington -- has a rather similarly-named pub: The Old Farmhouse.

 

[High Dyke]

Hatton pumping station at Swynnerton, Staffordshire has also been repurposed for other uses (residential). Passed the place a few times. It's a fine example of Victorian architecture.

The local community centre in Middleton St. George was formerly a pumping station dating back to 1930, having been sold to the parish council in 1980.