Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Wells is twinned with Paray-le-Monial in the French departement of Saone-et-Loire. Macon, in the same departement, is twinned with the Borough of Crewe and Nantwich, Cheshire. A propos those two Cheshire settlements, I tossed a coin -- Nantwich won.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire also has brine springs.

 

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Saltdean in East Sussex also has a lido that had previously been closed for a considerable time.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arundel in West Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

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The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust also have a centre at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.

 

[D6130]

Ardrossan in North Ayrshire also has a dock gate pump house that has been converted into a restaurant.

 

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There was a time in the 1840s when the fastest route between Glasgow and London entailed using a ferry between Ardrossan and Fleetwood, Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dolphinholme in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Wyre.

 

[Calthrop]

@Xenophon PCDGS -- in this game, you seem decidedly fond of Dolphinholme. I tend correspondingly, to follow up rather facetiously with associations to do -- however tenuously -- with various other kinds of marine mammal. Getting increasingly desperate along these lines: I'm going for Morston, Norfolk -- between Blakeney and Wells-Next-The-Sea: Morston's name actually comes from the Old English for "marsh town or settlement"; but there is the archaic word "morse", meaning a walrus -- "reaching", I know. A slight bit more marine-mammal connection: seal-watching cruises based from nearby Blakeney, call in at Morston ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saxlingham in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of Holt.

 

[Calthrop]

Spaxton, Somerset -- five miles west of Bridgwater -- also has a church dedicated to St. Margaret.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Victorian religious cult known as Agapemonites, founded by a rather odd Somerset vicar called Henry Prince, had its headquarters at Spaxton, and prospered enough to have a church at Upper Clapton in London.

 

[Calthrop]

Clapton -- not sure to be honest, whether Upper or Lower; might I beg to be excused here? -- has a pub called the Anchor and Hope; which -- we learn -- survived rather against the odds, the heavy World War II bombing hereabouts. A more common British pub name, reverses the order of these words -- i.e., Hope and Anchor. Alnmouth, Northumberland, has a pub / hotel / restaurant thus named.

 

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When I visited Alnmouth a few years back, they were filming the TV Drama series Vera there. Another location used for fliming was Amble in the same county.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rothbury in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Coquet.

 

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Rothbury had a racecourse until 1965. Lewes in East Sussex had one until September 1964.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton in Derbyshire also has an Opera House.

 

[D6130]

Buxton Is reputed to be the second-highest market town in England. The highest is Alston in Cumberland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crowden in Derbyshire also lies on the route of the Pennine Way national trail.

 

[Calthrop]

Crowden would appear to be pretty much the northernmost settlement in Derbyshire. The county's southernmost, is Netherseal -- together with its neighbour Lullington -- in between Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Lichfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heysham in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[Calthrop]

The painter J.M.W. Turner (1775 -- 1851; he of Rail, Steam and Speed and Temeraire) made at least a couple of visits to Heysham -- landscape paintings resulting. In childhood, Turner had a sojourn in Margate, Kent: drawings made of which, indicated his talent as from an early age.

 

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Another artist with Margate connections is Tracey Emin. She went to school there, but was born in Croydon (London).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sydenham in south-east London also lies on the line of the now-defunct Croydon Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Norman Hunter (1899 -- 1995), author of the "Professor Branestawm" children's humorous fiction books (marvellous nonsense, about the Professor -- of staggering genius as an inventor, but utterly clueless as to all other aspects of life -- and his various comical associates): was born in Sydenham. For a while during World War II, Hunter and his family lived in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Missenden in Buckinghamshire also lies on the line of the River Misbourne.

 

[Calthrop]

Little Missenden's two pubs have, unfortunately, what must be among Britain's most boringly common pub names: the Red Lion, and the Crown. "Homing-in" at random, on the latter: Dyrham, Gloucestershire -- six or seven miles north of Bath -- also has a pub called the Crown.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tortworth in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Grumbald's-Ash.

 

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Nearby Tortworth Court was built for the 2nd Earl of Dulcie around 1850. He was educated at Eton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Repton also has a noted public school.