Settlement Association

[NorthOxonian]

People from Burghead are sometimes described as Brochers, as are people from Fraserburgh.

 

[D6130]

Peterhead is another major fishing port in Aberdeenshire.

 

[Calthrop]

Newcastle upon Tyne is also twinned with a city in Norway. Peterhead's "twin"" is Alesund; Newcastle's, Bergen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Benwell in Tyne and Wear was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newcastle upon Tyne Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Born not far away, in 1828 -- in Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland -- was Joseph Swan, inventor of the incandescent light bulb; and founder in 1881 of the world's first factory for making same -- situated in Benwell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wakefield in West Yorkshire also has a minster church.

 

[Calthrop]

Cornholme, West Yorkshire, also lies on the River Calder.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wadsworth in West Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Todmorden Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

Claygate in Surrey also has a pub named The Hare and Hounds.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has a place of worship called the Church of the Holy Name,

 

[Springs Branch]

Manchester has a recognised Gay Village, centred on Canal Street.

Similarly, Newcastle upon Tyne has the Pink Triangle based around Times Square.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bruisyard in Suffolk is another settlement where a religious house of the Poor Clares order of nuns was established.

 

[Calthrop]

Bruisyard used to have a vineyard (closed in 2002). Wayford, Somerset (near Crewkerne) has a still-functioning vineyard.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Wayford Manor House was rebuilt around 1600 by Charles Daubeney, probably with William Arnold (c1595–1637) as master mason. The latter was an important master mason in Somerset and was the head of a migrating band of professional Somerset stonemasons who worked on many houses. He was known to have been living in Charlton Musgrove near Wincanton in 1595 where he was Church Warden.

 

[Calthrop]

Holme, Cumbria (near Arnside) also has a pub called the Smithy.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The B6384 begins at a junction with the A6070 and runs west and north west through Holme. It then runs north west and west to Milnthorpe, where it ends.

 

[Calthrop]

The mixed-fruit drink UmBongo was created and formerly made in Milnthorpe, by the firm of Libbys. It is nowadays packaged by Gerber Juice, at their base in Bridgwater, Somerset.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The major rugby team in Bridgwater is Bridgwater & Albion; the major rugby team in Plymouth is Plymouth Albion.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ellesmere Port also has a noted aquarium.

 

[D6130]

Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire also has a waterways museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Stoke Bruerne features as a setting in the 1945 Ealing Studios film Painted Boats. A scene of action in another Ealing production made some years later -- which we all know well -- is Monkton Combe, Somerset.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Monkton Combe has one public house, the Wheelwright's Arms, which gained its name from the wheelwrighting business that worked from its yard until 1934. Another place which has a pub with the same name is Havant, although I can't say whether it carries that name for the same reason.

 

[D6130]

Continuing with the pub theme, Cleckheaton in West Yorkshire also has a pub called The Old House at Home.

 

[Calthrop]

Cleckheaton's neighbouring community of Heckmondwike, is another such, of the several towns in this reach of the old West Riding -- the Spen Valley -- which have long tended to be "joke-fodder" for the rest of England: for having what are to outsiders, especially funny-sounding names; and for being (while no doubt in many respects, places of great worthiness) somewhat short on charm / beauty / culture / sophistication.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newtownabbey in County Antrim also has a place of worship called the Church of the Holy Spirit.

 

[Calthrop]

Dunkeld, Perth & Kinross, also has a "sister city"" in the USA. Newtownabbey's "sister" is Gilbert, Arizona; Dunkeld's is Asheville, North Carolina.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Killiecrankie in Perth and Kinross was also the scene of a battle during the Jacobite Rising of 1689 to 1692.

 

[D6130]

Inveruglas in Argyll & Bute is also the site of a hydro-electric power station.

 

[Calthrop]

Inveruglas lies on the western shore of Loch Lomond, which is -- this far north -- quite narrow. A pedestrian ferry plies between Inveruglas and, on the opposite side of the loch, a place long celebrated for its beauty: the settlement of Inversnaid (Stirling and Falkirk).

 

[D6130]

Inversnaid lies on the line of the West Highland Way long distance footpath which runs (or walks!) from Milngavie, North West of Glasgow, to Fort William.