Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Loughborough in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Soar.

 

[D6130]

Gloucester also has a bell foundry.

 

[Calthrop]

Gloucester has a namesake settlement in the US State of Massachusetts; as does Great Barrington, some twenty miles to the east. The English Great Barrington is in Gloucestershire (albeit right on the Oxfordshire border); however, the Massachusetts towns are pretty well at opposite ends of the state.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the River Windrush.

 

[DerekC]

Bourton on the Water has a model village which represents itself. Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire also has one (Bekonscot) but as far as I know this is freelance.

 

[Calthrop]

The author / poet / critic / theologian / humorist G.K. Chesterton (1874 -- 1936) died, and is buried, at Beaconsfield. He was famously absent-minded and impractical, tending to rely on his wife to keep him straight re mundane details -- hence his celebrated telegram to her in one occasion: "Am in Market Harborough [Leicestershire]; where ought I to be?".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arthingworth in Northamptonshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Market Harborough Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

The River Ise flows closely by Arthingworth; situated some way downstream on it, is Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire -- near Kettering.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holywell in Flintshire also has a wind farm within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Holywell in Flintshire also has a wind farm within its environs.

The above-bolded Holywell has a -- smaller -- namesake in Cornwall: Holywell (alias Holywell Bay), near Newquay.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Austell in Cornwall also has a holy well within its environs (called the Menacuddle Holy Well)

This answer would cover an association with the last two postings!!!

 

[Calthrop]

St Austell in Cornwall also has a holy well within its environs (called the Menacuddle Holy Well)

This answer would cover an association with the last two postings!!!

Holy wells, wind farms, holiday beaches -- one might say, "covering all bases" ...


St. Austell has a pub called the Seven Stars; as does Aberedw, Powys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Disserth in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St Cewydd.

 

[Calthrop]

Disserth has a "semi-namesake" a good deal further north: Dyserth in Denbighshire (near Rhyl).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abergwyngregyn in Gwynedd also has a waterfall within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Abergwyngregyn lies just within the Snowdonia National Park; Pentrefoelas (Conwy County Borough) lies just outside it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newcastle Emlyn in Carmarthenshire also has a noted watermill within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a legend of a fire-breathing wyvern which descended on, and threatened, Newcastle Emlyn; brave and resourceful locals managed, however, to dispatch it. Comparable to the better-known north-east English tale of the Lambton Worm -- seemingly the "Lambton" here, was the title of the noble Sir John who caught the brute in the river: no actual settlement called Lambton. The place most closely associated with the story, is Fatfield, near Washington, County Durham.

 

[D6130]

no actual settlement called Lambton.

There is, however, Lambton Castle....home of the brave and noble Sir John.

 

[Calthrop]

There is, however, Lambton Castle....home of the brave and noble Sir John.

But, as per the legend, negligent in churchgoing: hence as a punishment, his catching the monster on a Sunday fishing trip.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The place most closely associated with the story, is Fatfield, near Washington, County Durham.

Barnsley in South Yorkshire was also the scene of a colliery disaster.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a particularly esteemed variety of lamb chop, called a Barnsley chop. Likewise in the realm of settlement names roped-in re the butchering trade; according to the food writer Jane Grigson: Britain's finest kind of cured ham, is the Bradenham ham: called after the Buckinghamshire village of that name, near High Wycombe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shepshed in Leicestershire also has a church that is dedicated to St Botolph.

 

[Calthrop]

Sevenoaks, Kent, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Val d'Oise (part of "Greater Paris"). Shepshed's "twin" is Domont; Sevenoaks's is Pontoise.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worthing in West Sussex also suffered from the effects of the great storm of 1987.

 

[Calthrop]

Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of being Earnest while staying in Worthing; he named the play's hero, Jack / Ernest Worthing. Another prominent character in the play, with a "settlement-borrowed name", is Lady Bracknell (she of "A Hand-bag??", and "the line is immaterial"); after Bracknell in Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penrith in Cumbria also has examples of Neolithic standing stones in its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Between 2005 and 2016, there was displayed in Penrith an 18ft. tall statue of King Kong, by the artist Nicholas Monro. Its initial display location was in Birmingham, as from 1972; it spent time subsequently in Edinburgh, Penrith, and Leeds.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Catterick in North Yorkshire was also a settlement of the Brythonic Kingdom of Elmet.

 

[341o2]

Catterick has a racecourse as does Salisbury