Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Woodhead of Fyvie in Aberdeenshire also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

Roadside of Catterline , also in Aberdeenshire (a few mile north of Inverbervie) is a similar instance of this way of constructing place-names: a tiny settlement [as here, Woodhead / Roadside], a short way removed from a bigger and more prominent one [Fyvie / Catterline]; with the word "of", intervening.

(The Scots seem to like, place-names-wise, this "A of B" formula -- it crops up all over Scotland, in various "forms and contexts"; of which the "little place 'of' big place", as above, is just one.)

 

[John Griffiths]

Inverbervie also lies by the A92.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Montrose has also connections to the trade of flax spinning.

 

[Calthrop]

Edinburgh is also associated with, and is the burial-place of, a World War II animal hero. Montrose has Bamse the St. Bernard dog, who was owned by a Norwegian naval captain -- fierce protector at need, of his human shipmates; Edinburgh, Wojtek the bear (born in Iran), mascot of and occasional assistant with military tasks for, the Polish 2nd Army Corps.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dumfries also has a camera obscura.

 

[Calthrop]

Can I get away with: Crewe also receives a mention in T.S. Eliot's poem Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat ?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sleaford has also hosted a cheese market.

 

[Springs Branch]

Warminster also has a church dedicated to St Denys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Catterick is also a garrison town.

 

[Calthrop]

Lincoln's name is also a recognisable worn-down form of that of the Roman settlement from which the modern ditto, developed -- Lincoln = Lindum Colonia, Catterick = Cataractonium .

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kings Lynn was also the scene of anti-Semetic riots in 1190.

 

[Calthrop]

Blantyre (South Lanarkshire) is also the birthplace of a renowned explorer, after whom a city on another continent is named. (Blantyre's chap -- David Livingstone, who gives his name to Livingstone, Zambia; Lynn's -- George Vancouver: city of that name in British Columbia, Canada.)

 

[Springs Branch]

Blantyre, unsurprisingly, is home to the Blantyre Miners Welfare Social Club.
The Greasley Miners Welfare Social Club, on the other hand, is located in the Nottinghamshire village of Newthorpe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Papplewick was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basford Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Alan a Dale, the companion of Robin Hood, is said in legend to be buried at Papplewick. Hood is likewise believed to have been buried at Kirklees Priory in Clifton, West Yorkshire

 

[Calthrop]

Alan a Dale, the companion of Robin Hood, is said in legend to be buried at Papplewick. Hood is likewise believed to have been buried at Kirklees Priory in Clifton, West Yorkshire

Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire, is the home of a renowned brass band -- as is the above-bolded settlement (though the latter's band shares its name with presumably neighbouring Lightcliffe).

 

[johnnychips]

Maltby also has a closed colliery.

 

[Calthrop]

Ashbourne, Derbyshire, also has a tradition of ancient-style free-for-all minimal-rules football (any number of local dwellers may participate), played along and in the local watercourse...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lower Peover also has a church that is dedicated to St Oswald.

 

[Calthrop]

Droxford (Hampshire) was also a location chosen for military and political high-ups to engage in discussion / conferring / planning, during World War II.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fareham also lies on the route of the A32 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Fareham also lies on the route of the A32 road.

Scraping-the-barrel time: the humorist Paul Jennings -- for whose stuff I have a considerable liking -- was given to having fun with spelling British place-names backwards and "seeing what he came up with". Giving this treatment to the above-bolded town made "Maheraf", which he thought sounded like the name of an oasis in Tunisia; doing the same with nearby Gosport, produced "Tropsog", which suggested to him "an island off Denmark".

 

[John Griffiths]

Blyth, Northumberland, was also a wartime submarine base.

 

[Calthrop]

Blyth, Northumberland, was also a wartime submarine base.

Salt extraction and processing has also been important to the economy of Middlewich (Cheshire) -- still going on there; in the above-bolded town, the salt industry is no more.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woodchurch in the Metro borough of Wirral also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[Calthrop]

Woodchurch in the Metro borough of Wirral also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

Richard Adams (17th-century religious writer) was born in the above Wirral settlement. A more famous writer named Richard Adams -- his most renowned work, Watership Down -- was born at Wash Common, just outside Newbury, Berkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dowth in County Meath also has Bronze Age tumuli within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Dowth in County Meath also has Bronze Age tumuli within its environs.

This is a real four-eyed you-know-what... I'm going to go with: the name is the same but for one letter, as Howth in County Dublin. Howth is pronounced, I understand, to rhyme with "both", not with "south": so one would guess that the same applies to Dowth. (Louth, also broadly-speaking in those parts, I gather does rhyme with "South" -- at least, there's a song in which it does.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Waterford is another Irish settlement that was captured by the Normans in the 12th century.

 

[John Griffiths]

Crystal glass products were famously manufactured at Waterford until 2009; Ulverston in Cumbria has an active crystal glassworks.