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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salcombe Regis in East Devon also has a church that is jointly dedicated to St Mary and St Peter.

 

[Tetragon213]

Bognor Regis shares a suffix

 

[High Dyke]

Claudy, County Londonderry also suffered a bomb attack during the Troubles.

 

[Calthrop]

Rather elaborate, but "anyhow": folk songs involving a geographical feature of the place concerned -- The Banks of Claudy; and [Haughs of] Drumdelgie (haugh = flat alluvial riverside land) -- about an establishment near Cairnie, Aberdeenshire (between Huntly and Keith, via road route).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dundee also has a church that is dedicated to St Martin.

 

[Calthrop]

Another, rather less well-known, "Dun-" place -- Dunkirk, Kent (between Faversham and Canterbury) -- also has a namesake settlement in New York State, USA (though I rather suspect the American "Dunkirk" will actually be called after the place in France).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hackington in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Westgate.

 

[Calthrop]

The modern civil and ecclesiastical parishes of Hackington, do not include the ancient village centre (now swallowed-up by Canterbury). The greater part of the civil parish is centred on the settlement of Tyler Hill, a couple of miles north of the city (and incidentally, of rail significance).

 

[High Dyke]

Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire also has an area of Ancient Woodland under the remit of the Woodland Trust.

Incidentally, their headquarters is at Grantham.

 

[Calthrop]

There have also been reports, in recent times, from Gilwern, Monmouthshire -- three-and-a-half miles west of Abergavenny -- of sightings of a mysterious big cat ("panther-sized") in the vicinity of the settlement.

 

[D6130]

Talybont-on-Usk Is also situated on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Vaynor in Brecknockshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Penkelly.

 

[Calthrop]

Ynysybwl, County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, also has a church dedicated to St. Gwynno.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bangor in Gwynedd also has a Welsh Calvanistic Methodist chapel.

 

[High Dyke]

Bangor is the only place in Wales which continues to hold city status by ancient prescriptive right, due to its long-standing cathedral and past privileges granted. St Davids, Pembrokeshire had also been a city by prescriptive right, but lost its status in the 1880s and was only formally restored to city status in 1994.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Amroth in Pembrokeshire also lies on the route of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path National Trail.

 

[Tetragon213]

East Williamston a few miles away also has a church to St Elydir (though with a variation in spelling)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gumfreston in Pembrokeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Narberth.

 

[High Dyke]

William Wogan (1678 – 24 January 1758) was an Irish religious writer, close to a number of leading evangelicals of his time, and sympathetic with early Methodism. He was the son of Ethelred Wogan, the rector of Gumfreston in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

In 1718 Wogan married Catherine Stanhope (a friend and protegee of Lady Elizabeth Hastings), and by her he had an only daughter Catherine, who was married to Robert Baynes, rector of Stonham Aspal, Suffolk.

 

[Calthrop]

Peasenhall, Suffolk -- five miles north-west of Saxmundham -- is also located on the A1120 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knodishall in Suffolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Blything.

 

[Calthrop]

Knodishall has a pub called, per Net, the Butchers Arms ("apostrophe-freaks" would not be happy). Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire -- a few miles north-east of Stroud -- has one with the better-punctuated name of the Butcher's Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Torquay in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Apostle.

 

[Calthrop]

Stretching things a bit perhaps -- the Borough of Torbay (chief settlement therein, Torquay) is twinned with a settlement in the German Stare of Niedersachsen: viz. Hameln (of the rats / piper / kids). Also twinned with a settlement in that State, is Penzance, Cornwall; whose "twin" is Cuxhaven.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Zennor was also once under the jurisdiction of the Penzance Poor Law Union.

 

[Hamma52]

Zennor is a very interesting place etymologically speaking. It's believed to originate from "St. Senara", with the town's website stating "[the name originated from...] the Breton princess Azenor who was falsely accused by her husband, and thrown into the sea in a barrel and floated to Ireland, founding Zennor along the way".

What's peculiar though is that Zennor has long been recognised as a haven for the Cornish language. Whilst its name in Cornish (Eglossenar) raises few eyebrows, its commonly accepted Anglicised name (Zennor), contains a letter that does not feature in the Cornish language (the letter Z!), raising questions about etymological authenticity and anglicised place names.

A similar oddity can be observed with the suburb of Van, Caerphilly, which contains a letter V - a letter that doesn't exist in Welsh. (The suburb's Welsh Name, Y Fan, again checks out, as a singular F in Welsh is pronounced as we would a V in English)

 

[High Dyke]

Van Castle was abandoned in the mid-18th century when the Lewis family moved to St Fagans Castle.

 

[Calthrop]

I seem able to find nothing else about St. Fagans, except for its being the venue of Wales's National Museum of History. The equivalent "across the water" would appear to be Ireland's National Museum -- in different sections: in Dublin; and in Castlebar, Co. Mayo -- am going for the latter, because it would seem somewhat "odder".

 

[D6130]

Castlebar is the county town and largest settlement in Co. Mayo. The second largest is Ballina.

 

[Calthrop]

Tamworth, Staffordshire, also has a namesake settlement in the Australian State of New South Wales.