Settlement Association

[High Dyke]

South Ockenden, Essex also has a round tower church.

The church is dedicated to St Nicholas, Bishop of Myra (now Demre in modern Turkey) in the 4th century; a signatory of the Nicene Creed; patron saint of Russia and Greece, and of children, merchants, pawnbrokers, sailors, scholars and travellers.

 

[Calthrop]

South Ockenden, Essex also has a round tower church.

Going to be an annoying pedant and nitpicker -- apologies; but necessary re my association -- correct spelling is South Ockendon. The settlement's name given in the Domesday Book, as Wocheduna (latter part thereof, Old English for "low hill in open country"): name conjecturally, from a Saxon chief named Wocca, whose tribe seemingly lived on a hill (shades of Alice Through The Looking-Glass !). Another "Ock-" place further north, with a comparable reckoned derivation, is Ockbrook, Derbyshire (between Derby and Nottingham). According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the settlement was founded in the 6th century AD, by one Occa (without the "W").

The church is dedicated to St Nicholas, Bishop of Myra (now Demre in modern Turkey) in the 4th century; a signatory of the Nicene Creed; patron saint of Russia and Greece, and of children, merchants, pawnbrokers, sailors, scholars and travellers.

To say nothing of his annual circumnavigation of the globe by flying-reindeer-drawn sleigh, delivering presents ...

 

[John Griffiths]

Pudsey in West Yorkshire also has a Moravian settlement.

 

[Calthrop]

Longridge, Lancashire, also has a church dedicated to St. Lawrence and St. Paul.

 

[High Dyke]

One notable resident of Longridge was the composer Ernest Tomlinson until his death in 2015. His Fantasia on Auld Lang Syne (1976) is a quodlibet, which in its 20 minutes weaves in 129 quotations from pieces by other composers and folk and popular songs.

Another composer associated with this style is Alun Hoddinott CBE (11 August 1929 – 12 March 2008). Alun was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition. He was born in Bargoed, Glamorgan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanbradach in Glamorgan also lies on the line of the River Rhymney.

 

[Calthrop]

Exmouth, Devon, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement -- in Brittany -- of Cotes d'Armor (formerly Cotes-du-Nord). Llanbradach's "twin" is Ploubezre; Exmouth's is Dinan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowes in the Isle of Wight also has a cross-river ferry service.

 

[High Dyke]

Lymington, Hampshire is also associated with the building of lifeboats for the RNLI.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

South Cadbury in Somerset also has the site of an Iron Age hill fort within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Fryerning, Essex -- six miles south-west of Chelmsford -- could also be seen as bearing a name associatable with a renowned chocolates-manufacturing firm.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Little Baddow in Essex was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chelmsford Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Garlinge on the Isle of Thanet, Kent, also has a pub called The Rodney.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sarre in Kent was also once administered by the Hundred of Ringslow.

 

[High Dyke]

Gifford, East Lothian was another location where a flame fougasse (sometimes contracted to fougasse and may be spelled foo gas) was deployed in WW2.

The flame fougasse was developed by the Petroleum Warfare Department in Britain as an anti-tank weapon during the invasion crisis of 1940. The design was reminiscent of a weapon dating from post-medieval times called a fougasse: a hollow in which was placed a barrel of gunpowder covered by rocks, the explosives to be detonated by a fuse at an opportune moment. A flame fougasse used various mixtures of petroleum or chemicals.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Saltoun in East Lothian also has a Grade A listed parish church.

 

[High Dyke]

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael. It was first consecrated in 1244. The theologian, Gilbert Burnet started his ministry there in 1665. He later went on to become Bishop of Salisbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also hosts an annual literary festival.

 

[Calthrop]

St. Albans, Hertfordshire, is also twinned with a settlement in Denmark. Edinburgh's "twin" is Aalborg; St. Albans's is Odense.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Melbourne in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael with St Mary.

 

[Calthrop]

Perth also shares its name with an Australian state capital (couldn't resist -- sorry !).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway also hosts an Arts and Music festival.

 

[Calthrop]

The longest "B" road (61 miles) in the UK, the B6318: runs between Langholm, and Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland (9 miles west of Newcastle-upon-Tyne).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belsay in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Castle Ward Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Road routes again, alas; but otherwise, I'm stuck. Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland; lies also on (or just fractionally off) the A696 road -- some seven miles north-west of Belsay.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mitford in Northumberland also lies on the line of the River Wansbeck.

 

[High Dyke]

The Mitford family held the Manor from Norman times. The ruins of their Manor House stand on the eastern side of the River Wansbeck. In about 1823 they abandoned the old Manor House for a new mansion house, Mitford Hall, which was designed by the famous Northern architect, John Dobson.

Dobson was responsible for many buildings, particularly around the north-east. He also built the Church of St Edward the Confessor at Sudbrooke, Lincolnshire in 1860.

Don't get the two Lincolnshire villages of Sudbrook and Sudbrooke confused.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buslingthorpe in Lincolnshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hundred of Lawress.

 

[Calthrop]

Buslingthorpe's parish church -- now disused, but open to the public -- is dedicated to St. Michael. The parish church of Workington, Cumbria: has the same dedicatee.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tallentire in Cumbria was also under the jurisdiction of the Cockermouth Poor Law Union.