Settlement Association

[D6130]

Lewes in East Sussex also has a ruined priory.

 

[Calthrop]

Indulging my fondness for town-twinnings: Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Lewes's "twin" is Waldshut-Tiengen; Ellesmere Port's is Reutlingen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gloucester also has a branch of the National Waterway Museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Gloucester Cathedral features in some of the Harry Potter films; as does Alnwick Castle, Northumberland.

 

[DerekC]

George Biddell Airy, seventh Astronomer Royal, was born in Alnwick in 1801. He is best known for his work in establishing international acceptance of a prime meridian passing through Greenwich (although the French stuck to Paris until 1911)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dartmouth in Devon is another settlement that was chosen to establish a naval college.

 

[Calthrop]

Thomas Newcomen, inventor of the atmospheric pumping engine, was born in Dartmouth in 1664. Another -- slightly later in history -- notable pioneer of the use of steam power, James Watt: was born in Greenock, now in Inverclyde, in 1736.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peterhead in Aberdeenshire was another of the Scottish whaling ports.

 

[Calthrop]

Peterhead's local newspaper, the Buchan Observer, is locally known as the "Buchanie". In similar wise -- the local paper of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (not very far away), the Ellon Times; is affectionately called the "Ellon Squeak".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Metlick in Aberdeenshire also lies on the line of the River Ythan.

 

[Calthrop]

Metlick in Aberdeenshire also lies on the line of the River Ythan.

Catherine Gordon, the -- rather feckless -- mother of the poet George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron), 1788 -- 1824: was the heiress of Gight Castle, near the above-bolded. During the poet's youth: she, and he during educational vacations, lived in Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lingfield in Surrey also has a racecourse with an all-weather track.

 

[Calthrop]

Hilperton, Wiltshire (near Trowbridge) also has a village lock-up: a village-centre small, secure chamber for temporary confining of minor offenders.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prestbury in Cheshire East also has a set of ancient stocks.

 

[341o2]

Prestbury has a Bridge Inn as does Salisbury

 

[D6130]

Salisbury Cathedral has the tallest spire in these islands. The second tallest is that of Norwich Cathedral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fakenham in Norfolk also lies on the line of the River Wensum.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Before 1066 the manor of Fakenham was held by King Harold, before being taken by King William the Conquerer. The manor was relatively large, containing surrounding villages such as Pudding Norton and Thorpland.

 

[Calthrop]

Pudding Norton might be thought -- if whimsically -- to have a counterpart on the other side of England, at least as regards the culinary / "baked goods" theme: Pie Corner, Herefordshire -- north of Bromyard.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There is a road junction in Newport, South Wales, known as Pye Corner ... it's actually within the community of Rogerstone.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Deiniolen in Gwynedd is another of the Welsh settlements that were chosen to receive a Carnegie library.

 

[Calthrop]

Poulton-le-Fylde -- Borough of Wyre, Lancashire -- also has a brass band of some note. (The Gwynedd village's band is called Seindorf Arian Deiniolen -- sounds kind-of German ...)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worsthorne in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[D6130]

Elland in West Yorkshire also has a small independent craft brewery.

 

[Calthrop]

Elland has a -- reputedly haunted -- Fleece Inn. Bretforton, Worcestershire -- near Evesham -- has a pub of the same name; so far as I know, spook-free.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pendeen in Cornwall also has a noted Silver Band.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The naturalist and antiquary Reverend William Borlase was born at Pendeen Manor. He was vicar of St Just for 40 years and rector of Ludgvan for 50, though much of those periods overlapped, as he held both posts at the same time.

 

[Calthrop]

It has been suggested -- no date given; and, one feels, rather improbably -- that Ludgvan was the home of the last wolf in Great Britain. This is a subject, with a seemingly infinite number of places offered as candidates. There would appear to be a consensus that Ireland had wolves for a bit longer than the larger neighbouring island: until some time in the 18th century? Again, a myriad spots given as the place of killing of Ireland's last wolf: something of an outlier of same, suggests a location near Glenarm, Co. Antrim, in 1712.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Galway in County Galway also has a rowing club.

 

[Calthrop]

Ireland's smallest museum, the Nora Barnacle House Museum, is in Galway. Nora Barnacle, who was born and grew up in Galway, was the lifelong "significant other", and ultimately wife: of the author, poet and literary critic James Joyce (1882 -- 1941). For a while in Joyce's youth: he, with parents and siblings, lived in Bray, Co. Wicklow.