Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Rufford has a pub called the Hesketh Arms; a few miles away, in Churchtown, Merseyside -- a north-eastern suburb of Southport -- there is another, and more widely acclaimed, hostelry of the same name. (The Heskeths are a prominent local family.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caerphilly in Caerphilly County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to St Helen.

 

[Calthrop]

The comedian and "sort-of-magician" Tommy Cooper (1921 -- 84) was born in Caerphilly; but most of his childhood was spent in Exeter, to where the family moved.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has both an Anglican cathedral and a ship canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Cheating a bit: Manchester has a namesake settlement in the US State of Kentucky. In the same state, is a town called Newport: not in fact named after any of the British Isles' numerous Newports; but after one Christopher Newport, involved in pioneering in those parts long ago. Seeing this as licence to pick my British Newport -- I'll go for Newport, Shropshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Preston in Lancashire also has a church that is jointly dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[Calthrop]

Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, is also twinned with a settlement in Poland. Preston's "twin" is Kalisz; Scunthorpe's is Ostrowiec Swietokryski.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alkborough in North Lincolnshire was also once administered by the Glanford Brigg Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Alkborough has a windmill of the "tower" variety -- now without sails, and used as a private dwelling. Burnham Overy, Norfolk (near Burnham Market) has in the "Staithe" part of the parish-- as opposed to the separate "Town" part -- a windmill of the same type; in nearer to original condition than Alkborough's, and in the care of the National Trust.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Creake in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Burn.

 

[Calthrop]

Much land surrounding North Creake, and many of the houses in the village, belong to the estate of the Earl Spencer; although his family seat is rather a long way away: Althorp Park -- nearest settlement Great Brington, Northamptonshire (a few miles north-west of Northampton).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bugbrooke in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Nobottle Grove.

 

[Calthrop]

Stock, Essex -- six miles south of Chelmsford -- also has a pub called the Baker's Arms (minutiae: it would appear that the Essex hostelry has the punctuationally-correct apostrophe, whereas the Northants. one doesn't).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heywood in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady and St Joseph.

 

[Calthrop]

Barnstaple, Devon, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Niedersachsen. Heywood's "twin" is Peine; Barnstaple's is Uelzen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wakefield in West Yorkshire also has a Chantry Chapel.

 

[Calthrop]

Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, was also the location of a battle in the Wars of the Roses.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kemerton in Worcestershire was also once administered by the Lower Division of the Hundred of Tewkesbury.

 

[Calthrop]

Kemerton in Worcestershire was also once administered by the Lower Division of the Hundred of Tewkesbury.

As came up in the game, concerning other settlements, a few days ago: in times past, county boundaries in this part of England were complex and tangled, including assorted enclaves, exclaves, and such things. It seems that a good deal of simplification of these matters took place in 1931: part of which, involved various swappings-around between Worcestershire and Gloucestershire -- Kemerton was in Gloucestershire prior to 1931. A "switch" in that year in the other direction, featured Blockley near Moreton-in-Marsh: pre-'31, in Worcestershire; since then, in Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Croome D'Abitot in Worcestrershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Oswaldstow.

 

[Calthrop]

Croome d'Abitot has an -- at least somewhat similarly-titled -- name-type "relative" in Ireland: the village of Croom, Co. Limerick; some ten miles south of Limerick city.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bruree in County Limerick also lies on the line of the River Maigue.

 

[Calthrop]

Eamon de Valera (1882 -- 1975), who served several terms as head of state of the Irish Free State / Republic of Ireland; spent some of his childhood in Bruree. Imprisoned in England for his role in the efforts to gain Irish independence, he escaped in February 1919 from Lincoln prison.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stamford in Lincolnshire was also one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw.

 

[Calthrop]

In the department of regrettable sports involving ill-treatment of animals -- banned by the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1835 -- Stamford held for some six hundred years, every 13th November, one of the less objectionable of such fixtures: a Bull Run, a la Pamplona -- last took place in 1839 (post-banning !). "Bull events" also continued illegally for some time, in other places: on record thus, is a bull-baiting at Loppington, Shropshire -- near Wem. (Loppington's bull-ring still physically survives.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Petton in Shropshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Pimhill.

 

[Calthrop]

Petton's church is dedicated to St. Raphael and St. Isidore -- a seemingly "way-out" pairing, and one which appears to be unique in Britain. Biggar, South Lanarkshire, has a church dedicated to one of the two, viz. Isidore.

 

[D6130]

Militant suffragette Alice Maud Shipley (1869-1951) is buried in the churchyard of Biggar Parish Church. She was born at Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Prior to the 1832 Reform Act: Ludgershall, Wiltshire, also had the status of a "rotten borough".

 

[D6130]

Kettlesing in North Yorkshire also has a pub named the Queen's Head.