Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Wealdstone, London Borough of Harrow, also has a skate park -- dedicated to skateboarding. Both settlements' skate parks are held in high regard by those who take part in, or follow, that pursuit.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colwyn Bay in Conwy County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to St Joseph.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The actor Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett (Timothy Dalton), who was the fourth actor to portray the fictional secret agent James Bond (in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989)) was born in Colwyn Bay on 21st March 1946. However, before his fourth birthday, the family moved back to England to Belper in Derbyshire, where he attended Herbert Strutt Grammar School.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rednal in the West Midlands also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Anglican church of St Stephen's on Edgewood Road, Rednal has a 450 pipe organ which was moved from St John's Methodist Church, Selly Oak in 1960.

 

[Calthrop]

Selly Oak -- not the most posh area of greater Birmingham, though by no means the worst -- is sometimes jocularly referred to as "Smelly Oak". In a similar vein, Littlehampton, West Sussex, is apt to be ironically dubbed L.A. (Little 'Ampton, get it?) -- because unlike Los Angeles, it is so not a cutting-edge and "happening" place.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The English actor, comedian, singer and monologist Stanley Holloway OBE was born in Manor Park, Essex (now in the London Borough of Newham) on 1st October 1890. He died, aged 91, at the Nightingale Nursing Home in Littlehampton on 30th January 1982.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Macclesfield in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Barnabas.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Macclesfield RUFC are based at Priory Park, Macclesfield and currently play in the fifth tier of the English Rugby Union system, Regional 1 North West. One of their opponents in the current (2023 / 2024) season has been Wirral RFC, who are based in Thornton Common Road, Clatterbridge, Wirral.

 

[Calthrop]

Clatterbridge's name is cognate with the Clatter Brook: which close to the hamlet, flows into the little River Dibbin; which in turn debouches into the Mersey estuary some three miles to the east, at Bromborough, Wirral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thornton Hough in Merseyside was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Wirral.

 

[Calthrop]

There is very near Thornton Hough, a pub called the Red Fox. Hertford has a Silver Fox pub.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tewin in Hertfordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hertford Poor Law Union

 

[Calthrop]

Tewin has associations with eighteenth-century highway-robbery happenings: viz. activities of this sort by Walter Clibbon, a pie-maker of Tewin, and his two sons, around Ware near Hertford; involving at least one murder. Clibbon was shot, fatally, in an affray near Tewin in 1782 (there is a modest monument marking the spot); one of his sons was convicted at Hertford Assizes, and executed, a few months later -- the other son escaped. Similar doings in the same era in the region of Burford, Oxfordshire, perpetrated by natives of Burford the three brothers Tom, Dick, and Harry (truly) Dunsdon: the three all met ugly ends, two of them on the gallows.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ducklington in Oxfordshire also lies on the line of the River Windrush.

 

[Calthrop]

Sandwich, Kent, also has a hostelry called the Bell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hastings in East Sussex was also one of the five major Cinque Ports.

 

[Calthrop]

Kingston upon Hull is also twinned with a settlement in Sierra Leone. Hastings's "twin" is -- appropriately -- Hastings; Hull's is Freetown, the capital.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bradford in West Yorkshire was also honoured with city status on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

 

[Calthrop]

Two cities with, in their history, episodes of different kinds; but both involving, broadly, wartime restraint and "sparing". In the English Civil War, the Earl of Newcastle's troops had in December 1642 just taken -- or were with certainty about to -- strongly-Parliamentarian Bradford. Spending the night at a "stately home" hard by the city, the Earl awoke during the night to see in his room, a spectral-seeming woman dressed in white, wringing her hands and saying in imploring tones, "pity poor Bradford". Shaken by this visitation, he decided to be merciful to the city, and ordered his troops to refrain when occupying it, from wanton killing / rapine / looting / destruction; they mostly complied. Three centuries later: throughout the course of World War II, no bombs were dropped on the historic and beautiful central area of the city of Oxford. No certainty as to how this came about: maybe just "happenstance"; maybe tactical factors were involved; maybe some sort of behind-the-scenes deal between the warring sides -- "we'll spare Oxford if you spare [wherever]" -- assorted possibilities.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hawkesbury in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the Oxford Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Clara, Co. Offaly, also has a namesake river in Australia. The Hawkesbury is near Sydney, New South Wales; the Clara is in north Queensland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Malin in County Donegal also has the site of an ancient ringfort within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Another settlement with a name also applied to one of the Shipping Forecast's "sea areas": is Cromarty, Highland.

 

[D6130]

Congleton in East Cheshire is also home to a microbrewery.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northwich in Cheshire West & Chester also lies on the line of the River Dane.

 

[Calthrop]

Ripley, Derbyshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Jura. Northwich's "twin" is Dole; Ripley's is Lons-le-Saunier.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glossop in Derbyshire also hosts a music festival.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hilary Mantel, the author perhaps best known for the Booker-winning Wolf Hall about Thomas Cromwell, was born in Glossop and died in Exeter.

 

[D6130]

Tiverton in Devon also lies on the line of the River Exe.