Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hughenden Valley in Buckinghamshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hughenden Valley has a King George V Playing Field - one of 486 in the UK and Guernsey. Another was provided to honour the late king in South Cave, Yorkshire (ER)

 

[Calthrop]

Britain has numerous pubs called the "Fox and ... [something]": some words succeeding the "and", being more commonly met with, than others. Pubs in this name-category, with rather seldom-encoutered ones: are the Fox and Coney at South Cave, and the Fox and Pelican at Grayshott, Hampshire (adjacent to Hindhead, Surrey).

 

[DerekC]

The Cowherds Inn, at Highfield, Southampton, like the Fox and Pelican, was once owned and run by the "People's Refreshment Houses Association Ltd" (PRHA) - the objective of which was originally associated with the temperance movement and aiming to control alcohol sales by limiting the profits that could be made. Latterly the organisation was said to be trying to gentrify the considerable number of pubs they owned. They sold out to Charringtons Breweries in 1962.

(I hope another pub link is OK - didn't want to waste this piece of useless information that I certainly didn't know before!)

I will go so far as to copy some of the information I found about the PRHA:

"The PRHA was founded in 1896 and leased pubs on reformed lines with the aim of encouraging temperance. A list of 61 pubs run by the association, published in 1907, showed a considerable aggregation of PRHA houses on the western side of the country and seven pubs were in Shropshire. Two of these were project pubs and had been owned by the Earl of Powis. At the peak of its powers, the PRHA controlled around 130 pubs across England, but interest in the movement waned and by 1962 the Association's freehold properties and leasehold interests were acquired by Charrington's Anchor Brewery (Dover Kent Archives 2021)."

 

[Calthrop]

The Cowherds Inn, at Highfield, Southampton, like the Fox and Pelican, was once owned and run by the "People's Refreshment Houses Association Ltd" (PRHA) - the objective of which was originally associated with the temperance movement and aiming to control alcohol sales by limiting the profits that could be made. Latterly the organisation was said to be trying to gentrify the considerable number of pubs they owned. They sold out to Charringtons Breweries in 1962.

(I hope another pub link is OK - didn't want to waste this piece of useless information that I certainly didn't know before!)

In this game, pubs are fun ! -- the more the merrier (likewise churches -- let's be inclusive !

Above quote -- my italics -- as they say in Ireland, there's no harm in hoping ...

Wiki remarks about Southampton's Highfield: "Old maps of Southampton suggest that the name originated from 'Hayfield' or 'Hay field'. As with most suburbs of Southampton... Hayfield's origins are very much as a rural district". There is a good deal further north, another Hayfield -- Derbyshire, a little way east of Greater Manchester. Wiki isn't specific about reckonable origins of this Hayfield's name -- as is well known, settlement names' origins are often not the most obvious-seeming.

 

[John Griffiths]

Actor Arthur Lowe was born and brought up in Hayfield, where hif father worked on the railways. He died in Birmingham while on tour in 1982.

 

[Calthrop]

"Low-hanging fruit" -- York also has a namesake settlement in the US State of Alabama.

 

[D6130]

Chester city centre has also retained virtually its entire circuit of walls.

 

[Calthrop]

Sir John Vanbrugh (1664 -- 1726), "architect, dramatist and herald", spent his childhood and adolescence in Chester. His later years were spent in what is now the London Borough of Greenwich.

 

[D6130]

The Royal Observatory was formerly located at Flamsteed House in Greenwich Park, but was relocated in the 1930s to the castle at Herstmonceux, near Hailsham in East Sussex.

 

[Calthrop]

Inverness is also twinned with a settlement in the French departement of Seine-Maritime. Herstmonceux's "twin" is Varengeville-sur-Mer; Inverness's is Saint-Valery-en-Caux. (The latter would be -- I'd guess -- associated with doings in 1940, when sizeable units of a Highland regiment were cut off at S-V-e-C by the rapid German advance into France: they renownedly passed the hours until inevitable capture, by dancing reels etc. on the beach.)

 

[John Griffiths]

Inverness has a building called Cromwell's Tower. Burton Green, Warwickshire, has a building called Cromwell Tower. Neither has any historic link with Oliver (or Thomas).

 

[Calthrop]

Pubs, to which I tend to default -- Burton Green has a pub / restaurant called Hickory's Smokehouse; formerly an unpretentious pub called the Peeping Tom -- that appropriately enough, with Coventry being not many miles away. Coventry itself had a pub -- long defunct, if I read the info correctly -- whose official name was always the Railway Inn; but which was for much of its life, unofficially named the Peeping Tom: even to the extent of that name being emblazoned on the pub's exterior.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bulkington in Warwickshire also has historical links to the trade of ribbon weaving.

 

[Calthrop]

Another village with a "Bulk..." name (neither associated with girth-and-weightiness), is Bulkeley, Cheshire (between Nantwich and Wrexham). Bulkington's name is thought to come from Domesday Book's version Bochintone = "estate associated with a man called Bulca"; Bulkeley's, from Old English bulluc + leah = pasture where bullocks graze.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Utkinton in Cheshire West & Chester was also once administered by the Nantwich Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Utkinton lies on the long-distance path the Sandstone Trail -- whose southern terminus is Whitchurch, Shropshire (one of England and Wales's "umpteen" Whitchurchs).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shrewsbury also has a church that is dedicated to St Alkmund.

 

[D6130]

Longton in Lancashire also has a pub named 'The Dolphin'.

 

[Calthrop]

The long-distance walking route the Ribble Way begins at its southern end, at Longton. It passes, near its opposite extreme, through Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire.

 

[D6130]

Todmorden in West Yorkshire also has a pub named the 'Golden Lion '.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Littleborough in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Littleborough lies on the A58 road; whose eastern extremity is Wetherby (City of Leeds, West Yorkshire).

 

[D6130]

Sedgefield in Co Durham also has a racecourse

 

[Calthrop]

Rochdale, Greater Manchester, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Sedgefield's "twin" is Hamminkeln (not the piper-and-rats place !); Rochdale's is Bielefeld.

 

[D6130]

Clophill in Bedfordshire also has a pub called the Flying Horse.

 

[Calthrop]

Clophill's parish church has been dedicated to St. Mary, "from way back" -- first church of that name, in use approx. 1350 -- 1850; superseded then, by new structure (same dedicatee) -- old church basically fell into ruin. Also with a parish church dedicated to St. Mary, is Hugh Town, Isles of Scilly -- Hugh Town is actually on the island of St. Mary's, thereof.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lerwick in Shetland is another settlement with a lifeboat station on an offshore island.

 

[Calthrop]

Lerwick holds the biggest and best-known of Shetland's fire-centred Up Helly Aa festivals, taking place in late January. Another generally-northerly settlement in Scotland, where a similarly-themed January custom (on the 11th of the month) takes place: is Burghead, Moray. As Wiki rather engagingly puts it, "Perhaps a little slow to change, the folk of Burghead ignore the fact that the calendar changed in 1752 [the old "give us back our eleven days !" story], and celebrate the New Year [on the 11th] by burning the 'Clavie', a half-barrel nailed to a long pole used for salmon fishing".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhynie in Aberdeenshire is another settlement that had the site of a Pictish fort within its environs.