Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worthing in West Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew the Apostle.

 

[Calthrop]

Worthing's Dome Cinema is one of Britain's oldest -- founded in 1910 as a combined skating rink and theatre, with the name of Kursaal. It was renamed the Dome in 1915, owing to World War I anti-German sentiments -- which seem a bit misplaced, since its founder wasn't even German: he was a Swiss impresario. Southend-on-Sea has an amusement park with built-up entrance pavilion, founded near end of 19th century: which has from then up to this day, been uninterruptedly named the Kursaal -- this may have something to do with those who originated it, having been Brits ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandudno also has a noted pier.

 

[Calthrop]

In the mid-19th-century, devotees and/or publicists of Llandudno were calling it "The queen of the Welsh watering-places". A little later, this eulogy was being bestowed also on Tenby, Pembrokeshire. A little matter of north versus south?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also hosts an art festival.

 

[D6130]

MAXWELLTOWN in Dumfries & Galloway also has a camera obscura.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunoon in Argyll and Bute was also created a Burgh of Barony in the 19th century.

 

[Springs Branch]

Until withdrawal at the end of the Cold War, Dunoon was a garrison town for US Navy personnel staffing their nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch.

Another settlement which has retained a peacetime US military presence (US Air Force this time) is Mildenhall in Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Springs Branch]

Jaywick in Essex is another settlement which suffered multiple fatalities during the 1953 East Coast Floods.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wrabness was also once under the jurisdiction of the Tendring Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Wrabness (which sounds as though it should be somewhere in Sutherland or Caithness, not Essex) was the location of a Royal Navy Mine Depot from 1921 to 1963. Another RN Mine Depot was located from 1935 to 1989 at Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Letchworth Garden City also has a meeting house of the Society of Friends.

 

[Springs Branch]

Letchworth is twinned with Chagny, a settlement in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.

Belfort, another city in the same French region, is twinned with the English town of Stafford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wednesbury in the West Midlands was another of the towns that were given greater defensive fortifications against the Danes under the instructions of Ethelfreda, the daughter of Alfred the Great.

 

[Springs Branch]

Hindley in Greater Manchester was also a historical centre of nail manufacturing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lydiate in Merseyside was also once administered by Hundred of West Derby.

 

[Calthrop]

My chum Gerard Manley Hopkins -- poet, Jesuit priest, and teacher -- stayed in 1880 -- 81 at Rose Hall House, Lydiate: this being the home of Randall Lightbound, a prominent local Catholic. Hopkins was born in 1844 in Stratford, now in the London Borough of Newham.

 

[Springs Branch]

Stratford is the location of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station, constructed in flamboyant style by Joseph Bazalgette as part of London's massive Victorian-era sewerage infrastructure.

A more contemporary design of sewage pumping station was constructed in the 1990s to service the Docklands Redevelopment, and is located at North Woolwich, also in the Borough of Newham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Perth also has a church that is dedicated to St John.

 

[Calthrop]

A number of UK settlements have at any rate, been twinned with settlements in Russia -- these links having tended to be terminated / suspended owing to regrettable events in the past couple of years. Perth's Russian twin is / was Pskov; whereas Exeter is or was twinned with Yaroslavl.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chichester in West Sussex also has both an Anglican cathedral and a ship canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Also with a human namesake, surname-wise, who achieved renown for sailing solo round the world: is Blyth, Northumberland -- the respective intrepid sailors being Sir Francis Chichester; and Chay (Sir Charles) Blyth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Earsdon in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Tynemouth Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

In a few months I shall be giving a talk to the Earsdon WI; I gave the same talk a few months ago to the WI at Ponteland, Northumberland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buckley in Flintshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Matthew.

 

[Calthrop]

Buckley -- in a mostly English-speaking part of Wales -- had in the fairly recent past, its own very distinctive English dialect (now mostly "extinct") -- Wiki's description is to the effect of, full of colloquialisms peculiar to it, and often unintelligible to outsiders. In the accompanying list of such colloquialisms are "A lick and a promise" = a quick wash; and, to "chunner" = grumble / mumble / complain. In my childhood, my late parents frequently used both of those. Possibility seen, of their use in our family originating from my father; whose family in his youth dwelt -- though they were, solidly, ethnically English -- in Penyffordd, Flintshire: a couple of miles south-east of Buckley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ysceifiog in Flintshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the large acreage Holywell Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Ysceifiog is located just off the A541 road, which runs from Wrexham to near Denbigh. The section of this road west of Mold (including Ysceifiog turn-off) is reputed to be the most dangerous, traffic-accidents-wise, in North Wales. Allegedly the similarly most dangerous road in the island of Ireland, is Northern Ireland's A5 from [London]derry to Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone -- that settlement being just north of the Irish border: south thereof, the road becomes the N2 to Dublin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballymagorry in County Tyrone also lies on the route of the Northern Ireland A5 road.