Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bridgnorth also has a funicular railway.

 

[Calthrop]

In the English Civil War, Worcester -- not far away -- was also a staunchly Royalist community.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swanbourne in Buckinghamshire also has a church that is dedicated to St. Swithun.

 

[Calthrop]

Also with an actually -- not just "seemingly-but-in-fact-not-so" -- bird-type-related name, is Crakehall, North Yorkshire. The Bucks. village's name is thought to originate from Anglo-Saxon Suanaburna = "swan stream"; that of the Yorks. one, from Old Norse kraka = crow or raven, plus Anglian halh = a nook of land.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Preshome in Banffshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Gregory.

 

[Calthrop]

Catholic Bishop James Francis Kyle (1788 -- 1869), an impressive polymath -- "administrator, linguist, architect and scholar" -- lived for a long while at the above-bolded settlement. He was consecrated as bishop in 1828, at Aberdeen.

 

[Springs Branch]

There's also a pedestrian-only suspension bridge across a different River Dee in Chester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York also has noted city walls that the public can walk along upon.

 

[Springs Branch]

Celebrity 18th Century highwayman Dick Turpin was tried at the Assizes and subsequently hanged in York.
Turpin's eventual demise began when he was arrested for horse theft whilst staying at Brough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bridlington is another area where a settlement of the British Celtic tribe known as the Parisi was situated.

 

[Calthrop]

The above-bolded settlement is nicknamed by some, "the lobster capital of Europe". Padstow, Cornwall, is also a place of importance in lobster fishing and conservation.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Egloshayle also lies on the line of the River Camel.

 

[Calthrop]

The father -- quite eminent in his own sphere -- of the novelist Nevil Shute Norway (who wrote under just the first two of those three names) was born in the above-bolded settlement. Among Nevil's numerous novels, if I may put it thus: is What Happened to the Corbetts -- published 1939, reckoned to prefigure the impact of the coming World War II on the civilian population; it is set in and around Southampton.

 

[Nick_C]

Nevil Shute Norway has appeared in this thread before...

Southampton was the starting point of the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which was built at Harland & Wolff, Belfast

 

[Calthrop]

Bideford (Devon) has also named after it, a settlement in the US state of Maine (the one in Maine is actually "Biddeford" with two d's; but as we all know, those Yanks can't spell ).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The cricket umpire David Shepherd, famous for his reaction to the score 111, 222 and so on, was born on 27th December 1940 in Bideford; at the time of his death on 27th October 2009, he was living in neighbouring Instow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bishop's Tawton also lies on the route of the long-distance pathway known as the Tarka Trail.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Several sources dating from the 16th and 17th centuries record that the See of the first Bishop for Devon, created in the early 10th century, was at Tawton (later named Bishop's Tawton) in 905. However, by 909 the See was certainly at Crediton.

 

[Calthrop]

General Sir Redvers Buller, commanding British forces for part of the South African ("Boer") War, was born in the above-bolded settlement. Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, who performed the same role -- rather more successfully -- was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clounmacon also has a senior GAA team in the administered area of the North Kerry GAA.

 

[John Griffiths]

Broadcaster Fergal Keane' s grandfather was schoolteacher at Clounmacon. Keane himself was born in London, but brought up in Ireland and educated at the Presentation Brothers College, Cork.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ballincollig in County Cork also lies on the line of the River Lee.

 

[Springs Branch]

Faversham was also a location of one of the UK's three Royal Gunpowder Mills.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sunbury is another settlement that was settled by Huguenot refugees in the 17th century.

 

[Calthrop]

The Grand Order of Water Rats -- "a British entertainment industry fraternity and charitable organisation" -- was founded at the above-bolded settlement, in the late 19th century. The head of that outfit, called the King Rat, serves for a term of a year: the current King Rat is Duggie Brown, who was born in Rotherham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chesterfield also lies on the line of the River Rother.

 

[Calthrop]

Windsor has also given its name to an item of furniture.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandringham also is home to a royal residence.

 

[Calthrop]

Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, also had a minesweeper of the "Ham" class named after it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashbourne in Derbyshire also has a church in which a table tomb can be seen.