Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Todwick in South Yorkshire also has a church that is jointly dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[Tetragon213]

An airport at Todwick to serve Sheffield was planned but shelved in the late 60's

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also has a modern tramway system.

 

[Tetragon213]

Belfast is also the capital of a UK constituent country.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton in Derbyshire also has an opera house.

 

[Calthrop]

Mary Queen of Scots, during her long, unhappy and for her ultimately lethal, exile in England; made a number of visits to Buxton. at the start of this sojourn, her first landing in England was at Workington, Cumbria. (I recently learnt of her Buxton presence, in the reading of a historical novel: which I found quite absorbing; until a plethora of "new-but-already-featuring-in-previous-unread-by-me, books in series" characters, "did my head in" and led me to give the book up.)

 

[High Dyke]

Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire also had a Peel (Pele) Tower.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lower Sapey in Worcestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Bartholemew.

 

[Calthrop]

My AA Britain Road Atlas has not heard of Lower Sapey; however, it features its neighbours Upper Sapey and Sapey Common. "Border" doings: Upper, and Common, are per Wiki, and atlas, in Herefordshire, but only just -- in a "promontory" of the county, jutting out into Worcestershire; Lower Sapey would appear thus, to be just on the Worcs. side. Barnby in the Willows, Nottinghamshire -- just east of Newark -- is in similar case: on the edge of a Notts. "promontory", and very nearly in Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Snodland in Kent also has a church that is dedicate to All Saints.

 

[Calthrop]

Snodland is twined with Moyeuvre-Grande, in the French departement of Moselle. I can't find a British settlement twinned with anywhere else in that department; but Newcastle upon Tyne is twinned with Nancy in the adjoining dep. of Meurthe-et-Moselle

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prudhoe in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Tyne.

 

[Calthrop]

Also with an associatedly-named place in the far north of North America: is Burnside, Fife (eight miles north-west of Glenrothes). Said locations, respectively: Prudhoe Bay on the north coast of Alaska; and the Burnside River in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Strathy in Sutherland also has a Presbyterian church.

 

[Calthrop]

Canisbay, Caithness -- just west of John o' Groats -- is also located on the A836 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf also has a Unitarian Congregation.

 

[Calthrop]

Caerphilly, Caerphilly County Borough -- not very far away -- is twinned with a settlement in the German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg; as is (or, was?) Aberdare. Aberdare's "twin" -- or ex-same: Ravensburg; Caerphilly's, Ludwigsburg.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derby also lends its name to a variety of cheese.

 

[High Dyke]

Shrovetide football was played at Derby every year, possibly from as early as the 12th century. It was banned in 1846, although it was played once more in 1870.

Other places, with localised informal football games that were invented and played during the Middle Ages, include Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands. The Ba' Game is a version of medieval football played in Scotland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wasdale Head in Cumbria also has a church that is dedicated to St Olaf.

 

[DerekC]

Wasdale Head claims to have the highest mountain, the deepest lake, the smallest church and the biggest liar in England. Its claim to the smallest church is disputed by Bremilham in Wiltshire, but as to the other claims I can't say!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Draycot Cerne in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Malmesbury.

 

[High Dyke]

Haltham-on-Bain in Lincolnshire also has a redundant church that is now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hagworthingham in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Hagworthingham in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Horncastle Poor Law Union.

With the above-bolded; and another "Hag"-commencing settlement -- Haggerston, Northumberland (7 miles south-east of Berwick-upon-Tweed) -- we learn that their name-derivations would seem to have nothing to to with unprepossessing not-young ladies with imaginably evil agendas; rather, they concern people's proper names. The former is reckoned likely to involve Old English words adding up to "homestead of the family or followers of a man called Haguweard"; the latter, to come from the name of the family who held the local castle many centuries ago: the de Hagardestons (probable Norman conquerors). (There is the east London district also called Haggerston; but I thought the Northumbrian settlement seemed to be better fun !)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yeavering in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Glendale Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

"Wriggling out of it" -- Glendale as mentioned, in connection with Yeavering -- there is another Glendale: a settlement (community-owned estate, comprising sundry small crofting townships) on the Isle of Skye, HIghland -- on the Duirinish peninsula, about as far west on the island as one can get. (The Skye Glendale is reckoned a "tautologous place-name": each syllable, a different-language synonym for the same thing -- "Valley-Valley" (Gaelic gleann, Norse dair).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Camastianavaig in the Isle of Skye was also involved in the crofting dispute that culminated in "The Battle of the Braes"

 

[Calthrop]

Kilrush, Co. Clare, is also a good spot for seeing bottlenose dolphins.

 

[Tetragon213]

Kilkee was also once served by a (now closed) narrow gauge railway