Settlement Association

[DerekC]

Wolverton has a secret garden, but the secret garden which inspired Francis Hodgson Burnett's book is said to be in Rolvenden, Kent

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saxtead Green in Suffolk also has a post mill.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Saxtead Green is a village on the A1120 road, which links Stowmarket to Yoxford in the county of Suffolk. En-route, the road passes through the village of Stowupland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Long Melford also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

Ballinasloe (Co. Galway) lies also, only just within the county to which it belongs: it being -- just -- on the relevant-county side, of a river which forms the county boundary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glinsk is another town in County Galway that lies on the line of the River Suck.

 

[Calthrop]

Lusk (Co. Dublin) is another monosyllabic Irish settlement ending in "-sk".

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Go Ahead Ireland bus service 33a runs from Balbriggan to Dublin Airport via Lusk and Swords.

 

[Calthrop]

The Go Ahead Ireland bus service 33a runs from Balbriggan to Dublin Airport via Lusk and Swords.

I fear a bit, getting in bother for this one's being just too far-fetched; but am trying to vary things where I can. The Ward River which runs through the above-bolded settlement, is locally called (nobody seems to know quite why) "The Jacko". Jacko Vance, the extremely evil villain of Val McDermid's thriller The Wire in the Blood, has a rural hideaway wherein he does his victims to death: near Greenhead (Northumberland -- on Hadrian's Wall).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Greenhead is on the Military Road, which is the name given locally to part of the B6318 road in Northumberland. The main person behind it's construction was Field Marshal George Wade PC (1673 – 1748), who was born in Killavally (also known as Killawalla), Westmeath, Ireland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lochgelly in Fife also has a church that is dedicated to St Patrick.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Lochgelly, as part of the old parliamentary constituency of West Fife, was known as "Little Moscow" up to the 1950s owing to its Communist political leanings. Another place with the same nickname is the village of Chopwell in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.

 

[John Griffiths]

From the mid twelfth century to the dissolution of the monasteries, the manor of Chopwell belonged to Newminster Abbey in Morpeth, Northumberland.

 

[High Dyke]

Morpeth Town FC have previously won the FA Vase competition, for association football. The current holders are Chertsey Town FC, from Chertsey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peterhead also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[Calthrop]

Peterhead also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

You don't say ! (Sorry -- couldn't resist ). Whitby was also an important whaling-fleet headquarters a couple of hundred years ago.

 

[John Griffiths]

Whitby was an inspiration for Bram Stoner's novel Dracula, as was Slains Castle in Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carnoustie is also said to be the site of a battle between the Scots and the invading Danes.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Carnoustie HSFP RFC have their home ground at Links Parade, and play in Division 2 (Midlands Section) of the Caledonia Regional League, where one of their opponents is Panmure RFC, who are based in Broughty Ferry, near Dundee.

 

[Calthrop]

Penlee, Cornwall, has also been the location of a disaster in which the entire crew of the community's lifeboat lost their lives in the course of a rescue attempt.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Phillack was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Penwith.

 

[Springs Branch]

Phillack's local pub is the uniquely-named Bucket of Blood.
Another oddly-named (and also reputedly haunted) pub is The Quiet Woman in the Derbyshire village of Earl Sterndale

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Helston also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.

 

[Calthrop]

Holyhead also (like a great many other places) features in Daniel Defoe's Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain. published 1724 -- 27.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Scottish civil engineer, architect, road, bridge and canal builder. Thomas Telford FRS FRSE (1757 – 1834) was largely responsible for the rebuilding of the road between London and Holyhead, now known mostly as the A5. Telford was also responsible for the design of the 'Parliamentary Church' or 'Parliamentary Kirk', which was a programme begun after an Act of Parliament in 1823 provided a grant of £50,000 for the building of up to 40 churches and manses in communities without any church buildings. One of these small churches was built at Ardalum on the Island of Ulva between 1827 and 1828.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tigharry on North Uist was also subjected to the 19th century clearances of the Scottish offshore islands.

 

[Calthrop]

Ashcott, Somerset, is also in close proximity to a prominent and valued RSPB reserve with much "avian good stuff".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Middlezoy was also once administered by the Hundred of Whitley.

 

[Calthrop]

Tullyallen, Co. Louth, is also near the site of a renowned battle in the politico-religious disturbances of the very late 17th Century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Magherafelt in County Londonderry also has a church that is named the Church of the Assumption.