Settlement Association

[D6130]

Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire is also associated with the early days of the co-operative movement.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsden in West Yorkshire also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.

 

[Tetragon213]

Littleborough also lies on the ruote of the A6033

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belfield in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the River Roch.

 

[High Dyke]

Quenington, Gloucestershire also has a connection to the Knights Hospitallier order.

 

[Calthrop]

Quenington's pub is called the Keepers' Arms (has featured, sometimes under other names, in various film / TV offerings). Kentisbeare, Devon -- just east of Cullompton -- has a pub with name on same theme: the Keeper's Cottage.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Helston in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary.

 

[D6130]

Southport also has a pub named the Blue Anchor.

 

[High Dyke]

Opened in August 1860, Southport Pier is the oldest iron pier in the country. Its length of 1,108 m (3,635 ft) makes it the second-longest in Great Britain.

The oldest cast iron pier in the world is Town Pier, Gravesend, in Kent, which opened in 1834. However, it is not recognised by the National Piers Society as being a seaside pier.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangefni in Anglesey also has a clock tower.

 

[Tetragon213]

Llangefni is the 2nd largest settlement on Anglesey. The largest is Holyhead

 

[D6130]

Fishguard in Pembrokeshire is also a departure point for ferries to Ireland.

 

[High Dyke]

Rhosllanerchrugog (or simply Rhos) in the historic County of Denbighshire (now Clwyd) has also hosted an Eisteddfod.

 

[Calthrop]

My late parents and their siblings grew up in Chester and environs; they took pleasure in their youth, in "mock-Englishing" mickey-taking (mostly affectionate) re Welsh words; and names of settlements in Wales, more or less within Chester's ambit. Rhosllanerchrugog, they called "Roast Lamb and Goosegogs"; Abergele (Conwy County Borough), "Aberjelly".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanddulas in Conwy County Borough was also once administered by the Hundred of Isdulas.

 

[Tetragon213]

Broughton is also on the North Wales Expressway

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saltney in Flintshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hawarden Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

"Repeating myself" from an earlier posting here; but -- more early-20th-century Chester nonsense heard from the generation before mine: it being a dearly-held Chester credo that the people just over the border in Wales, were weird -- Saltney's main industry and occupation was reputed to be vinegar-mining. A more widespread "urban / rural legend" re perceivedly strange places and mines there, for unmineable substances: involves treacle -- legendary "treacle mines", in assorted settlements up and down Britain. One such is Corpusty, Norfolk -- a little way east of Melton Constable.

 

[High Dyke]

Near to Corpusty is Little London. It is one of many locations in the UK with such a name. We also find a Little London in Hampshire.

 

[Tetragon213]

Near to Corpusty is Little London. It is one of many locations in the UK with such a name. We also find a Little London in Hampshire.

I'm sorry to be an anorak here, but which Little London were you referring to? There's the big Little London north of Basingstoke, and then a tiny Little London north of Andover!

 

[High Dyke]

I'm sorry to be an anorak here, but which Little London were you referring to? There's the big Little London north of Basingstoke, and then a tiny Little London north of Andover!

The Little London near Basingstoke. I knew i should've picked a different one.

 

[Tetragon213]

The Little London near Basingstoke. I knew i should've picked a different one.

No worries.

Little London north of Basingstoke, as we have just seen, is not to be confused with Little London (north of Andover)

 

[Calthrop]

There is also an outlying part of Spalding, Lincolnshire, called Little London.

Take heart, guys -- things could be worse. I lately read in a book devoted to assorted strange trivia: that there are 299 places in Iran, called Mohammadabad. Thank heaven we're not doing Iranian "Settlement Association" ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quadring in Lincolnshire was also once under jurisdiction of the Spalding Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Womenswold, Kent -- seven miles south-east of Canterbury -- also has a church dedicated to St. Margaret of Antioch.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Goodnestone in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Wingham.

 

[Calthrop]

Goodnestone in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Wingham.

More churches, I'm afraid: it's that -- or Goodnestone's Jane Austen connection, and I go on too much about Ms. A., whose works I find awful -- in fact, un-tackleable. Goodnestone has a church dedicated to the Holy Cross; as has Tramore, Co. Waterford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Downpatrick in County Down also has a racecourse.

 

[D6130]

Dublin also has a cathedral dedicated to St Patrick.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballingeary in County Cork also has a Famine Soup Pot memorial.