Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

"Last refuge of the desperate" -- according to Wiki, Tallentire lies just outside the Lake District National Park -- per atlas, it's two or three miles outside same. Silecroft, Cumbria (a little way west of Millom) is located, "no messing", just within the Lake District National Park.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ulpha in Cumbria was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bootle Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Ulpha's name is believed to originate from, in Old Norse, "hill frequented by wolves" (ulfr = wolves, haugr = hill). However, many English place-names which might appear superficially, to refer to the Three Little Pigs' enemy: in fact do not. Quite often, the "Wolf... or Wolv..." name, comes from one-time Saxon chieftains called Wulfhere or similar. A case in point is Wolferton, Norfolk (between King's Lynn and Hunstanton) -- "Wulfhere's farm / settlement".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mevagissey in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mevagissey was the birthplace of Andrew Pears (c1770-1845), the inventor of transparent soap. His product, Pears' Soap, was for a century or so from 1862 manufactured in the west London suburb of Isleworth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burnley in Lancashire also has a third-tier Crown Court.

 

[Calthrop]

Burnley is twinned with Vitry-sur-Seine, in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris. Twinned with another settlement located on that river -- Montereau-Fault-Yonne, 70 km. upstream from Paris -- is Otley, City of Leeds, West Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mirfield in West Yorkshire also hosts an agricultural show.

 

[John Griffiths]

Furniture designer and maker Thomas Chippendale was born in Otley and died at Hoxton in east London.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Community of the Resurrection, an Anglican religious order based in Mirfield, between the years 1931 and 1948 had a retreat house at St Leonard's, East Sussex.

 

[High Dyke]

The Never Turn Back is a grade II listed public house in Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, England. It was designed in the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles. As was Marine Court at St. Leonard's.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thrigby in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of East Flegg.

 

[John Griffiths]

Lee-on-the-Solent, Hants, also has a National Coastwatch Institution station.

 

[Calthrop]

Newent, Gloucestershire, also has a church dedicated to St. Mary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thrigby in Norfolk was also once administered by the Hundred of East Flegg.

This is the posting from which matters should continue.

 

[High Dyke]

Outwood, Surrey also has a surviving Post Mill

 

[Calthrop]

Outwood has an in-real-life pub with the "popular quasi-fictional / byword" name of the Dog and Duck; as has Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beaumaris in Anglesey also has a toy museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Reginald Wynn Owen (1876 -- 1950), architect who worked for the LNWR (his most noted work probably the Euston Station World War I memorial), was born in Beaumaris. He is buried in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford, Hertfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pevensey in East Sussex also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Rood.

 

[Calthrop]

Pevensey is featured in Salman Rushdie's (in)famous The Satanic Verses -- the protagonists arrive in Britain by landing at Pevensey Bay. Rushdie was, for a rather brief spell, a pupil at Rugby (Warwickshire) public school.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bedworth was also once administered by the Hundred of Knightlow.

 

[Calthrop]

"Pronunciation stuff" -- Wiki tells us that the inhabitants of Bedworth tend to say it as "Bed'uth"; though "everyone else's" pronunciation of the name, follows normal convention. Something we've had before in the game -- but there is a similar situation with Thurnscoe (Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire): local folk are apt to say the name as "Thunsker".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Laughton-en-le-Morthen in West Yorkshire was also once administered by the Strafforth and Tickhill Wapentake.

 

[High Dyke]

In the mid 11th century, Edwin, Earl of Mercia is believed to have built a Saxon hall in the village.

Edwin's lands centred at Gilling West in his brother's Northumbrian earldom, were given to Alain Le Roux (also known as Alan Rufus) in 1071 or perhaps earlier.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barningham in County Durham was also once administered by the Gilling West Wapentake.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Barningham, Well in North Yorkshire also has a pub called the Milbank Arms.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newton Abbot in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel.

 

[Calthrop]

A survey in 2023 by the Daily Telegraph, named Newton Abbot as one of the ugliest towns in Britain (resulting, I'd imagine, in a sharp decline in the number of buyers in Newton Abbot, of said newspaper). In a slightly-related vein -- Dylan Thomas in one of his works, engaging in paradox / oxymoron as granted to him by poetic license: refers to Swansea, his birthplace, as a "lovely, ugly town".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanilar in Ceredigion also has a church that is dedicated to St Hilary.