Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huncoat in Lancashire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Burnley Poor Law Union.

 

[D6130]

East Yelland in Devon was also once the site of a coal-fired powered power station.

 

[Calthrop]

Re the above-bolded: the village concerned, seems to be called just Yelland -- with "East Yelland" referring specifically to the power station. In the village's close vicinity is the small, but reckoned choice, Lower Yelland Nature Reserve. There is as it happens, another "little but splendid" nature reserve essentially sharing the name, but 250-odd miles to the north-east: Yellands Meadow Nature Reserve -- a riverside, traditionally-managed wildflower meadow. This reserve is in Swaledale -- nearest settlement of any significance, Muker (North Yorkshire).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grinton in North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Hang West Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Grinton has a church dedicated to St. Andrew. That of Walpole St. Andrew, Norfolk (west of King's Lynn, near the Lincolnshire boundary) is -- surprise, surprise -- also dedicated to that saint.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cameley in Somerset also has a church that is preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The tower of St James' Church contains a bell dating from 1779 and made by William Bilbie of the Bilbie family. They were bell founders and clockmakers based initially in Chew Stoke, Somerset and later at Cullompton, Devon from the late 17th century to the early 19th century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gladhayes in Devon also lies on the line of the River Culm.

 

[Calthrop]

Gladhayes in Devon also lies on the line of the River Culm.

I am getting the picture that Gladhayes is not a settlement proper (no mention -- on page or in index -- in the Michelin Britain Road Atlas). Gladhayes would appear to be a farm (with a barn of renown to students of that subject) in the immediate environs of Clayhidon, Devon (a couple of miles north-east of Hemyock). Might Clayhidon thus be taken, as the named settlement from which to "associate"? Assuming this to be so: Clayhidon has a pub called the Half Moon. Belchamp St. Paul (Essex -- a couple of miles south-east of Clare, Suffolk) has a pub of the same name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Foxearth in Essex was also once administered by the Hundred of Hinckford.

 

[Calthrop]

The apparently animal-related significance of Foxearth's name, is in fact the correct one (with many similar place names, that tends not to be the case) -- meaning, "fox's den". It would appear that over the medieval period, the name as written went through numerous minor mutations -- Wiki gives twelve variants, before eventual settling on the modern Foxearth. A number of other settlements have had over time, numerous variants of their name; before "stabilising" re the current one. A prominent instance of this is Coulsdon, Surrey (re which matter, I have posted before in this game) -- which according to Wiki, has had an enormous number of such: about twice as many as has Foxearth. (The Wiki entry re Coulsdon strikes me as quite possibly being -- concerning the name-versions thing -- a bit "dodgy".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whixley in North Yorkshire was also once the location of a large psychiatric hospital.

 

[Calthrop]

Whixley was for long, a prominent centre for the growing of cherries (far less so, nowadays). Very much the same situation obtains, in respect of a settlement a considerable way to the south: Flackwell Heath, Buckinghamshire -- very close to High Wycombe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldringham in Suffolk also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

Aldringham has a pub -- old, and interestingly historic -- called the Parrot and Punchbowl: seemingly (and unsurprisingly) the only hostelry of that name in Britain. However, "Parrot-and-something-else" pub names in themselves, are to be found elsewhere. Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, has a pub called the Dog and Parrot.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thrumpton in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basford Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

All Saints’ Church, Thrumpton is a Grade II* listed parish church, and is part of an informal grouping of five churches that are known collectively as "The 453 Churches" as they straddle the A453. One of the other churches in the group is St. Lawrence's, Gotham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stenness in Orkney is also the site of a Neolithic burial mound.

 

[Calthrop]

There is at Stenness, a large and quite spectacular garden named Happy Valley, created over the second half of the 20th century by a local resident and colourful character, Edwin Harrold -- the site noteworthy as a sizeable wooded area, crested via tree-planting by Mr. Harrold; unusual in largely treeless Orkney. Another Happy Valley, in a very different part of the British Isles; is an area of that name near Pennal, Gwynedd -- a little way west of Machynlleth. Some recent controversy re this Happy Valley (Welsh name, Cwm Maethlon), concerning painting-out by nationalistically-minded folk, of the name's English version on directional road signs.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dinas Mawddwy in Gwynedd also lies on the line of the River Dyfi.

 

[Calthrop]

Dinas Mawddwy lies at the southern end of the unclassified road between there, and Llanuwchllyn; which crosses the second-highest road pass in Wales, that of Bwlch y Groes. Wales's highest road pass is the Gospel Pass, on the likewise unclassified road between Hay-on-Wye and Abergavenny: nearest settlement to Gospel Pass, is Capel-y-ffin, Powys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanvihangel Crucorney in Monmouthshire also lies on the line of the River Honddu.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanvihangel Crucorney's pub, the Skirrid Mountain Inn, claims to be the oldest pub in Wales. A claimant to the title of Ireland's oldest pub, is Sean's Bar in Athlone, Co. Westmeath -- reputedly established in 900 AD. Nothing original reckoned to survive physically, one must figure; nonetheless, strong suspicion that re this business, somebody's been kissing the Blarney Stone ...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ardnacrusha in County Clare also lies on the line of the River Shannon.

 

[D6130]

Tongland in Dumfries & Galloway Is also the site of a hydro-electric power station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire also has a river bridge that was designed by Thomas Telford.

 

[Calthrop]

Aberdeen is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Bavaria. Tewkesbury's "twin" is Miesbach; Aberdeen's is Regensburg.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hull also has a maritime museum.

 

[Calthrop]

The "budget" supermarket chain Heron Foods, usually identified with Hull; in fact has its head office in Melton, East Riding of Yorkshire, eight miles west of Hull. (The name of this undertaking has me whimsically imagining its stores, as being particularly big on the stocking of frogs and sticklebacks.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hessle in the East Riding of Yorkshire is another settlement with industrial connections to chalk whiting.