Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Dundrod, Co. Antrim, also lies on the line of the B101 road.

 

[johnnychips]

Whereas the Northern Ireland motorcycle Grand Prix takes place at Dundrod, the British F1 Grand Prix takes place at Silverstone. The circuit is near to a settlement of the same name.

 

[Springs Branch]

Compton Bassett in Wiltshire also has a pub named The White Horse Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worcester also has a church that is dedicated to St Swithun.

 

[Calthrop]

Malmesbury also has a namesake town in the Western Cape area of South Africa.

 

[Springs Branch]

William of Malmesbury, the 12th Century historian, is ranked more-or-less on a par in the scholarly league table with the Venerable Bede, who is sometimes called "The Father of English History".
Bede was born in Northumbria, in what is believed to be present day Jarrow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lindisfarne was also subjected to an attack on its religious houses by Viking raiders in the 8th century AD.

 

[Calthrop]

West Mersea, Essex, is also reached by a road part of which, for a portion of each 24 hours, is covered by high tide and thus impassable; though the Northumbrian settlement is thus affected for considerably more of each day, than the Essex one.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lydney in Gloucesteshire also has a yacht club.

 

[Springs Branch]

Rodborough is another Gloucestershire settlement with a curry house named Bengal Balti.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Reverend Wilbert Awdrey, who wrote The Railway Series of children's books that inspired the TV series Thomas and Friends, moved to Rodborough in 1965 and lived there until his death at the age of 85 on 21 March 1997. He was born in Ampfield, near Romsey, Hampshire, on 15th June 1911.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lockerley in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Romsey Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Lockerley lies on the southern bank of the River Dun about two miles upstream from its confluence with the River Test. The River Dun rises to the south-east of Salisbury near West Grimstead, Wiltshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Largs in North Ayrshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a ferry service from Largs to the island of Great Cumbrae, lying just "offshore" from Largs. The island's main settlement is Millport.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandrindod Wells also has a bowling club.

 

[Calthrop]

Llandrindod Wells held for a while in recent years, an annual weekend "steampunk" festival -- part of the town's larger annual Victorian Festival. Hebden Bridge (West Yorkshire) still holds an annual weekend dedicated to things in the Steampunk realm.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a suburban area of Manchester, and has also been granted Fairtrade Zone status.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wembury in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Werburgh.

 

[Calthrop]

Two comic films made for television in the early 1980s -- Five Go Mad on Mescalin and Five Go Mad in Dorset -- were ribald parodies of Enid Blyton's "Famous Five" books; with the "children" getting involved in all kinds of unwholesome stuff. The former was largely shot in Wembury; some scenes of the latter were filmed in Broadhembury, East Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pooley Bridge in Cumbria also has the remains of a prehistoric hillfort within its local environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Pooley Bridge, at the lower end of Ullswater, is the starting / terminating point for public ferries operating on the lake. Public ferry services also ply on Coniston Water.

 

[DerekC]

Perhaps the most famous events to occur at Coniston were the world water speed record setting runs achieved Donald Campbell in Bluebird K.7. He died there when Bluebird suffered an engine flame-out, lost stability, became airborne and crashed during a further attempt, aiming to exceed 300mph, on 4th January 1967. Campbell, whose body was recovered in 2001, is buried in Coniston but was born in Kingston upon Thames.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ewell in Surrey also lies on the line of the Hogsmill River,

 

[Calthrop]

Yateley. Hampshire, also has a Morris-dancing side.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dogmersfield in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hartley Wintney Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

North Warnborough, Hampshire, also lies on the line of the Basingstoke Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heckfield in Hampshire also lies on the line of the River Whitewater.

 

[Calthrop]

Neville Chamberlain -- he who tried unsuccessfully to sort things out with Germany -- died at Heckfield; he was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

 

[DerekC]

J R R Tolkien lived in Edgbaston in his teenage years and the idea of two towers, good and evil, was apparently prompted by two towers in the town. Less plausible seems the idea that the industrial wilderness of Isengard and the tower of Orthanc was prompted by a water mill at Hall Green.