Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hampstead Norreys also lies on the line of the River Pang.

 

[johnnychips]

Sheffield also has a glass-covered indoor forest.

 

[Calthrop]

Stratford (now in London Borough of Newham) is also mentioned in passing in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

 

[Springs Branch]

National Express long distance coaches stop to pick up or set down at several convenient suburban centres on their way to or from central London.
One of these points is Stratford, another is Golders Green.

 

[johnnychips]

Stratfield Saye is another alliterative place name.

 

[Calthrop]

Staines is -- like the preceding settlement -- on or very near the old Roman road from London to Bath, popularly known as the Devil's Highway.

 

[johnnychips]

All Alone was a pigeon who transported an important message in World War Two from Vienna to Staines. Trafalgar Square, in London, is greatly associated with pigeons.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lechlade also lies on the line of the River Thames.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Anglican St Lawrence Church, dedicated to St Lawrence of Rome is the Parish Church of Lechlade. Percy Bysshe Shelly composed a poem after visiting the churchyard in 1815. He was born on 4th August 1792 at Field Place, Broadbridge Heath, near Horsham, West Sussex,

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Horsforth in West Yorkshire also has a Plymouth Bretheren Meeting Room.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Horsforth was considered to have the largest population of any village in the united Kingdom during the latter part of the 19th century. Several places currently claim to be the largest village in England, a title that is disputed as there is no standard definition of a village as distinct from a town and 'largest' can refer to population or area. A typical contender is Lancing in West Sussex, with a population of around 19,000.

 

[John Griffiths]

Lancing was a major market gardening centre, as was Feltham in west London, which once claimed to have the world's largest greenhouse (used to grow tomatoes).

 

[Calthrop]

... Feltham in west London, which once claimed to have the world's largest greenhouse (used to grow tomatoes).

Aylsham, Norfolk, featured -- as did the above-mentioned settlement -- as an element in a bout of manorial "horse-trading" between King Henry III and Hubert de Burgh, the Chief Justiciar and Earl of Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belaugh in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Bure.

 

[Calthrop]

Hoping that this association is not too "waterway-ish", to be acceptable as following from the preceding one: Rollesby, Norfolk, also gives its name to a Broad (term for shallow lake in this corner of the country), which is not accessible by boat from the area's main river system.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dumfries also has a church that is dedicated to St George.

 

[Springs Branch]

Stagecoach's North West Explorer ticket allows unlimited travel on that company's buses over a wide area, ranging from Dumfries in the north to Chester in the south.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Truro also has an Anglican cathedral.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There is a boat link from Truro to Falmouth along the Truro and Fal rivers four times daily, tide permitting. Among other places, these services call on the way at the village of Malpas.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mabe was also once under the jurisdiction of the Falmouth Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sherington, Bucks, also has a church dedicated to St Laud, 6th century bishop of Coutances in Normandy, patron saint of eye maladies. The town of Saint-Lo in Normandy is named after him.

 

[Calthrop]

Also on the A509 road is Isham, Northants.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mickleham in Surrey also had a 'Ham class' minesweeper named after it.

 

[Nick_C]

Abinger Hammer also lies within the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shere in Surrey also lies on the line of the River Tillingbourne.

 

[Calthrop]

Brenzett, Kent, is also mentioned -- in (another) poem in (another) book primarily aimed at children -- by Rudyard Kipling.

 

[John Griffiths]

Duxford,Cambridgeshire, also has a military aircraft museum.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cirencester is another settlement that holds an Advent Market.

 

[Springs Branch]

There are open-air swimming pools in both Cirencester and the sunny Cumbrian village of Shap.

 

[Nick_C]

Shap is most likely named after the nearby neolithic stone avenue. There's a much more famous one in Avebury, Wiltshire