Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The church in Cranbrook, dedicated to St. Dunstan, was known as "The Cathedral of the Weald".

Tideswell in Derbyshire has the 14th century church of St. John the Baptist, that is known as "The Cathedral of the Peak".

 

[Welshman]

Neighbouring villagers called folks from Tideswell "Sawyeds" following the legend of a local farmer freeing a prize cow from a gate by the simple expedient of cutting its head off.

Neighbouring villagers to folks from

Slaithwaite

call them "Moonrakers" from the legend they tried to capture the moon by scooping its image out of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester also has a Philharmonic Orchestra

 

[Ivo]

Chepstow is also on the England-Wales border.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aintree also has a racecourse that hosts a "National" race over fences.

 

[Welshman]

The name "Aintree" is thought to be of Saxon origin, meaning "one tree standing alone".

As opposed to Sevenoaks

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunham Massey (just south of Altrincham) also has a National Trust administered estate with a large deer herd and an extensive selection of specimen trees.

 

[Clip]

Bradgate park in Leicester also has roaming deer.

 

[SwindonPkwy]

Gloucester, as both Leicester and Gloucester have red cheeses named after them.

 

[Clip]

Trowbridge,like Gloucester, is also a county town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York also had a Motte-and-Bailey fortification.

 

[Clip]

Kiddeminster Harriers play in the same football league as York

 

[SwindonPkwy]

Axminster, the connection being carpets.

 

[Clip]

Lincoln is situated at the other end of the Fosse way from Axminster

 

[ValleyLines142]

Cleveland is also a British town named after an American president.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Where is this town called Cleveland situated ?

I know there is an administrative AREA with that name in the North East.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Yeah.

 

[Welshman]

So I assume we're still at Lincoln, then.

Grimsby

[according to 14c legend, one of the Lincoln imps - possibly the one which broke chairs in the cathedral and tripped-up the Bishop, escaped to St James' Church in Grimsby]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We will carry on with this "area" as a special case....

Cleveland was one of the areas that was invaded and settled by the Angles (from the Germanic province of Schleswig) in the post-Roman era in Britain, where they established their kingdom called Nord Anglenen

Conversely. an association may then be made to the fact that the Angles also invaded and settled further southwards down the coastine in East Anglia where they established their kingdom of Ost Anglenen where a great find of their artifacts was found at the site called Sutton Hoo in Suffolk........which is at Woodbridge

(Never have I had to work so hard on making an association that finally gave a town as the clue for the next poster)

 

[Schnellzug]

Woodbridge is the site of a former RAF base that was actually used by the US Air Force, and was the scene of a famous UFO incident in 1980. Another area that was at one time famous for its Extraterrestrial activities was Warminster, where numerous ley lines converge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grimsby....[according to 14c legend, one of the Lincoln imps - possibly the one which broke chairs in the cathedral and tripped-up the Bishop, escaped to St James' Church in Grimsby]

It appears that this excellant posting has been missed, owing to the attempt to clarify an "area" rather than a "settlement" association posting that had been inadvertantly made.

Too late to be used as a clue, I will at least say that both Grimsby and Inverness, being North Sea facing areas, were both mentioned in one of Viking ORKNAYINGA SAGAS which concerned a voyage from Iceland to the coastal areas of the east side of Britain as far south as Suffolk.
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Woodbridge is the site of a former RAF base that was actually used by the US Air Force, and was the scene of a famous UFO incident in 1980. Another area that was at one time famous for its Extraterrestrial activities was Warminster, where numerous ley lines converge.

Warminster has a long settlement history and an association can be made to say that both this settlement and that of Bodfari (in Clwyd) have remains of an Iron Age Hill Fort.

 

[Welshman]

Bodfari is on the Offa's Dyke Path, which ends/starts on the beach at Prestatyn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ravenglass is also a west coast settlement that had a Roman bath house in its associated military buildings

 

[Schnellzug]

Another coastal settlement at one end of a famous 15" guage railway is Hythe.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Southend also has a pier with a railway on it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

....as does Southport

 

[Ivo]

Isn't Southport technically a tramway? The association is still adequate though.

Elsewhere, if I may say so, well done and thank you to Paul for recovering that overlap earlier today (when I was asleep ). Lastly, one more piece of housework, Lincoln wasn't named after Abraham Lincoln; it just happens to share the same name.

Anyway, Southport supposedly served as an inspiration for much of Paris. Conversely, much of Milton Keynes was based on American road-building principles.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Milton Keynes as known today just signifies a new-type settlement, but the area on which it was constructed goes back to the Bronze Age

Spaldwick (which is said to be in West Huntingdonshire) also had a thriving Bronze Age settlement.

 

[Welshman]

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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whilst the Synod of Chelsea was held in 787AD, it came long after the Synod of Whitby which was held in 664AD to confirm the decision made as to which school of thought should prevail over the other one.