Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Killingworth in Northumberland also has concrete hippos identical those in Glenrothes (by the same artist and using the same mould; on Garth 22).

 

[Calthrop]

Killingworth has an Australian namesake, in the New South Wales coalfield: named after the Northumbrian town because of the coal-mining connection. Ballina, Co. Mayo, also has a namesake settlement in New South Wales -- this has so far as I know, no mineral (or hippo) relevance .

 

[DerekC]

The City of Galway also has a "Salmon Weir Bridge", but the two structures are very different. Galway's was built of stone in 1818 and carries vehicular traffic, whereas Ballina's is a cable stayed lightweight structure built in 2009 to carry pedestrians.

 

[D6130]

Glasgow in Scotland is also a former European Capital of Culture.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Melrose in the Scottish Borders also hosts an annual Pipe Band championship.

 

[Calthrop]

Perhaps a little surprisingly -- the names of Melrose, and Great Malvern (Worcestershire) would seem likely to be linguistically related: there being sometimes a closer correspondence, especially "way back", between the Welsh / Breton, and Gaelic, strains of Britain's old languages; than one generally expects. These two settlements have in common, the Old Welsh / Ancient British / Brythonic "m-word" signifying "bare" or "bald". Malvern from moel-bryn = "bare hill"; Melrose from mailros = "bare peninsula" -- referring originally to the old site of Melrose, founded some 1,500 years ago on a neck of land by the River Tweed, several miles east of the present town.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Worcestershire Way is a long-distance footpath running between Great Malvern and Bewdley (surprisingly enough) in Worcestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quatford in Shropshire also lies on the line of the River Severn.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Quatford is located on the A442, just south of the town of Bridgnorth; to the north of the same town, also on the A442, lies the village of Sutton Maddock.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Posenhall in Shropshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Madeley Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Posenhall lies on the B4375, which joins with the B4376 just outside Much Wenlock.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ditton Priors in Shropshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Patton.

 

[Calthrop]

Ditton Priors lies in the shadow of Shropshire's highest hill, Brown Clee (1,770 feet above sea level). Berkshire's -- and indeed south-east England's -- highest hill is Walbury Hill (974 feet); nearest village to it is Combe, south of Hungerford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ramsden in Oxfordshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Akeman Street.

 

[Calthrop]

Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire -- just west of Leicester -- also has a pub called the Royal Oak.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ludlow in Shropshire also has a ruined castle.

 

[Calthrop]

Must not -- will not -- mention A.E. Housman ... Ludlow has a namesake settlement in California -- with what seems to me marvellous incongruity, in the Mojave Desert. Waterford also has a Californian namesake: this one further north, on a level with San Francisco.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Howth in County Dublin is another Irish settlement that was captured by the Normans in the 12th century.

 

[Calthrop]

The Irish poet, author and patriot William Butler Yeats (1865 -- 1939) lived for a considerable period of time in Howth; people however tend to associate him particularly with County Sligo, especially the mountain Benbulbin in that county: nearest settlement, Grange.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stranorlar in County Donegal also has a church that is named Church of Mary Immaculate.

 

[Calthrop]

Stranorlar and neighbouring Ballybofey lie on opposite sides of the River Finn, and are dubbed "the twin towns". Ballybofey is in fact the larger of the two.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fintown in County Donegal also lies on the route of the R252 regional road.

 

[Calthrop]

Fintown is in an area of Ireland, where the Irish language survives today as a birth-speech. The same applies to Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry.

 

[DerekC]

Pity - I was just about to avoid mention of the Fintown Railway, said to be the only narrow gauge line surviving in Ireland, but I have been gazumped! And Mrs C wants me to take her out!! Therefore I pass!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tallaght in County Dublin is another settlement that saw involvement in the Fenian Rising of 1867.

 

[Calthrop]

There would seem to be around Tallaght, a profusion of watercourses feeding variously into the Dublin area's Liffey / Dodder river system. One of these is called the Fettercairn Stream. Whether any kind of link, or just coincidence -- Fettercairn is also the name of a village in Aberdeenshire -- some way north of Montrose and Brechin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ellon in Aberdeenshire is another settlement that was created a Burgh of Barony.

 

[Calthrop]

Re Ellon, I always think of the local newspaper -- the Ellon Times, nicknamed the "Ellon Squeak". Idiosyncratically-named local papers: fondness felt for the Keswick Reminder: referred to as "the gentlest of newspapers" -- not into controversy and muckraking: just, about local benign doings and scheduling thereof.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rainow in Cheshire East also has connections to the sport of fell-racing.

 

[Calthrop]

Oswestry, Shropshire, also has a church dedicated to the Holy Trinity.