Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Oh, @D6130 -- I'd done a wonderful elaborate one following from Sherburn in Elmet; re which you've "ninja'd" me: I promptly deleted it. Cosi la vita, as they probably don't say in your second homeland .

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Middleton St George in Co. Durham also has a former RAF station which became a commercial airport....in this case, Teesside Airport.

Cotherstone in County Durham also lies on the line of the River Tees.

 

[Calthrop]

Cotherstone in County Durham also lies on the line of the River Tees.

Cheese-related stuff always goes down well in this game: we learn that Cotherstone cheese is a celebrated delicacy of this village, famed since at least 1858. Another cheese venue of renown is Long Clawson, Leicestershire (between Melton Mowbray and Bingham) -- where among other cheese-type doings: paneer (cheese of Indian type and origin) is made on a commercial scale -- which one feels to be a wonderful incongruity.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hethersett in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Remigius.

 

[Calthrop]

Rural unrest and disturbances occurred in 1549 in various more-southerly parts of England, brought about by assorted grievances -- both secular and religious -- on the part of sections of the populace: these movements were in the main initially non-violent, but were often savagely put down by the authorities. Hethersett was a centre of these events; as was, further west, Barford St. Michael, Oxfordshire -- some way south of Banbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Deddington in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Swere.

 

[Calthrop]

Deddington in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Swere.

Staying in this immediate area -- though going just over the county boundary, to feature Aynho, Northamptonshire (which incidentally has railway relevance): a splendid local rhyme discovered (libelling poor Deddington):

Aynho on the Hill
Clifton in the Clay
Dirty, drunken Deddington
And Hempton high way

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wappenham in Northamptonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of King's Sutton.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Wappenham has some of the earliest architectural works by Sir George Gilbert Scott, amongst them the red-brick vicarage, east of the church, which was built in 1833 as a home for his father (Reverend Thomas Scott) who was vicar of Wappenham at the time. It was Gilbert Scott's first work, built while he was still an assistant architect. A few years later (in 1836) he designed the vicarage at Dinton, Buckinghamshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nether Winchendon in Buckinghamshire also lies on the line of the River Thame.

 

[Calthrop]

About seven miles north-east of Nether Winchendon, by unclassified minor roads: is Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire -- one of England and Wales's seemingly innumerable Whitchurches.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bath in Somerset also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[Calthrop]

Derby is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Niedersachsen. Bath's "twin" is Braunschweig; Derby's is Osnabrueck.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln was also one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw.

 

[D6130]

Wells in Somerset also has a cathedral with three towers.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoney Stratton in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Bath Forum.

 

[Calthrop]

Stoney Stratton in Somerset was also once administered by the Hundred of Bath Forum.

A handy "cheat-ish" stratagem when little or nothing can be found, concerning a place (as seems to me re the above-bolded one): there is a settlement a fair way further north, with a name identical save for one letter -- viz. Stoney Stretton, Shropshire: about half-way between Shrewsbury and Welshpool.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yockleton in Shropshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Ford.

 

[Calthrop]

Yockleton's pub, now rather staidly called the Yockleton Arms, previously bore the name of the Pink Elephant. There is a Pink Elephant Restaurant in Meltham, Kirklees, West Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandal Magna in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Agbrigg Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Ranworth, Norfolk -- some seven miles north-east of Norwich -- also has a church dedicated to St. Helen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woodbastwick in Norfolk was also once under the jurisdiction of the Blofield Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Woodforde Broadland Brewery is located in the village and produces cask ales such as Wherry Bitter, Nelson's Revenge, Norfolk Nog and Headcracker. The brewery has two tied houses in the county of Norfolk; one is the Brewery Tap (called the Fur & Feather) situated next to the brewery, and the other one is The Lord Nelson in Burnham Thorpe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glenariffe in County Antrim also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a Forest Park -- wooded nature conservation area -- near Glenariffe, and bearing the village's name. Another such area in Northern Ireland is Tollymore Forest Park: adjacent to Bryansford, Co. Down -- near the bigger settlement of Newcastle, Co. Down.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilcoo in County Down also has a senior level Gaelic Football club.

 

[Calthrop]

Halifax, West Yorkshire, also has a church dedicated to St. Malachy (I suspect that Halifax's is likely one of fairly few in the island of Great Britain, dedicated to this gentleman).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hull is the other settlement mentioned in "The Beggar's Lament"

 

[Calthrop]

Gateshead (Tyne and Wear) is also twinned with a settlement in Japan. Hull's "twin" is Niigata; Gateshead's is Komatsu.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoke-on-Trent was also chosen as a settlement in which to host the National Garden Festival.