Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Flookburgh was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ulverston Poor Law Union.

The bolded settlement is where the much-loved Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding, is actually made. Kendal not far away, is the traditional home of -- and the actual fabrication-place of at least some of -- another widely-relished sweet delicacy: the eponymous Mint Cake.

 

[John Griffiths]

Very unlike mint cake and toffee puddings are austere, almost Quakerly water biscuits. A major producer of these was founded by Kendal-born Jonathan Carr, who built his bakery and biscuit empire in Carlisle.

 

[johnnychips]

Blackpool also has a small airport.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester also has a zoo.

 

[John Griffiths]

Swansea also has an English football league club whose home pitch is more than 50% in Wales (not sure how much exactly of Chester's, hence the cautious wording).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ystalfera also lies on the line of the Swansea Canal.

 

[johnnychips]

In 1915, the organist of Antwerp cathedral gave a performance at Ystalfera church. Antwerp once had a VLM plane service to Manchester airport.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Exeter also has a ship canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

Town planning consultant Thomas Sharp (1901-78) drew up a post-war reconstruction plan for Exeter. He also produced an influential plan for the city of Durham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Truro also has an Anglican cathedral.

 

[Calthrop]

Truro also has an Anglican cathedral.

The actor and dramatist Samuel Foote -- who made up the much-relished nonsense "spiel" about "the grand Panjandrum himself" -- was born in the above-bolded settlement. In the following century Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), an exponent of nonsense on a bigger scale, was born at Daresbury, Cheshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Daresbury Hall in Daresbury, built in 1759, had by the late nineteenth century come into the hands of Sir Gilbert Greenall, of the eponymous brewing company, which had been founded by his great grandfather in 1762 in St Helens.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Widnes also lies on the line of the Sankey Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Widnes also lies on the line of the Sankey Canal.

There's an area of the bolded settlement, called Spike Island. There is another Spike Island in Cork Harbour, Republic of Ireland; a little way off the town of Cobh. (The Irish Spike Island has been a military establishment, then a prison; there are endeavours to develop it as a tourist attraction.)

 

[John Griffiths]

As with Cobh, parts of Castletownbere also remained under British military (naval) control after the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922: along with Lough Swilly, they were known as 'Treaty Ports' and remained under British control until 1938.

 

[Calthrop]

The hamlet of Bolventor, Cornwall: is also the nearest settlement to a (factual, though featuring in a work of fiction) location which supplies the title of a novel by Daphne du Maurier. The Irish- and Cornish-set novels concerned, are Hungry Hill and Jamaica Inn respectively.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tremaine was also once under the jurisdiction of the Launceston Poor Law Union.

 

[Nick_C]

Dorchester also has an asteroid named after it (3858 Dorchester, 3806 Tremaine)

 

[Calthrop]

Bristol is also a place-name which has long been "borrowed" by the hospitality industry, as an opulent-hotel title.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsall also has an Orthodox church that is dedicated to the Nativity of the Mother of God.

 

[DerekC]

The author Jerome K Jerome was born in Walsall. He died in Northampton, but his ashes were interred at Ewelme in Oxfordshire

 

[Calthrop]

Ipswich, Suffolk, also has connections with the family of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales.

 

[John Griffiths]

Thomas Wolsey, born in Ipswich in 1473, Cardinal of the church and Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII, was ordained priest in 1498 in Marlborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hungerford also lies on the line of the River Kennet.

 

[Nick_C]

John O'Gaunt is the patron of Hungerford. He's got a pub named after him in Horsebridge, Hampshire

(Edit - forgot which village the pub was in!)

 

[Calthrop]

Fullerton, Hampshire, also lies just off the A3057 road.

 

[DerekC]

National cycle route 246 passes through Fullerton and also the parish of Inkpen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

All Cannings in Wiltshire also has an Iron Age long barrow within its environs.

 

[John Griffiths]

East Cowes has mid nineteenth century concrete houses even earlier than those constructed in All Cannings.

 

[David Goddard]

Menai Bridge is home to the other UK branch of Waitrose & Partners which is located on an island