Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Irresistible "semi-look-and-sound-alike" connection: the Cornish name of Newquay in Cornwall, is Tewinblustri -- an interesting fact which has come up before on this game, though via a different association. (One figures that Newquay's coastal setting, is probably quite a blustery one -- hence the good surfing?).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackpool is also a seaside resort with a zoo.

 

[High Dyke]

Blackpool is referenced in the Half Man Half Biscuit song '1966 and all that'.

What about George Farm? Oh, Blackpool? Yeah, he was great.”

The HMHB song 'The Referees Alphabet', brings us to Yate, and describes the town as "the place Referees come from

The Y is for Yate

 

[John Griffiths]

The mineral celestine (or celestine), a source of strontium, was mined and quarried at Yate. Celestine deposits were also found at Aust, Gloucs.

 

[D6130]

Prior to the opening of the Severn Bridge in 1966, there was a car and passenger ferry service from Aust to Beachley on the Welsh side of the estuary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woolaston in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Westbury.

 

[Calthrop]

Bishop Auckland, County Durham, also has a church dedicated to St. Andrew.

 

[D6130]

Dunham Massey in Cheshire also has a deer park.

 

[John Griffiths]

Runcorn also lies on the Bridgewater Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

There is within Runcorn's town limits: Floodbrook Clough, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. it is described as an ancient semi-natural woodland: one of the best examples in Cheshire, of clough woodland on keuper marl -- which last is, I learn, a geological formation of multiple layers of mudstone and sandstone, of Triassic age. The Kingscourt Brick Company, of Kingscourt, Co. Cavan: proudly describes its bricks as of high quality, made from locally-sourced keuper marl.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tallow in County Waterford also has a place of worship named Church of the Immaculate Conception.

 

[John Griffiths]

Wick in Caithness also has a name reminiscent of components of a candle.

 

[Tetragon213]

Wick is home to the UK's shortest street. The previous record holder was Bacup (Lancs)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bury in Greater Manchester also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

[Tetragon213]

Chester is also a place name that is usually a suffix as opposed to a standalone name, with both roots referring to a fort in ancient times.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Musselburgh in East Lothian also has a racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Also with an -- at least in theory -- shellfish-associatable name: is Winklebury, Hampshire -- formerly a hamlet in its own right; now a suburb of Basingstoke, north of the town, designated "Winklebury and Manydown". (This settlement is -- unlike Musselburgh -- far inland: nothing available on its name-derivation, but one would suspect its not being to do with the sea-creature the winkle.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mapledurwell in Hampshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basingstoke Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

I'm having fun today with hitherto unknown-to-me technical terms. Have learned that a "cruck" building, is one featuring "crucks": curved timbers, one of a pair, which support the building's roof -- a technique in favour centuries ago, but long superseded. Rye Cottage in Mapledurwell, built in 1487, was the last cruck-built house in Hampshire. The large main barn of Barlow Woodseats Hall -- at the village of Barlow, Derbyshire (four miles north-west of Chesterfield) -- is claimed to be the largest continuously-roofed cruck barn in Derbyshire -- possibly even the largest such in the UK.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Denton in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Lawrence,

 

[Tetragon213]

Luton is also strongly associated with the hat making industry.

 

[Calthrop]

Shepton Mallet, Somerset, is also twinned with a settlement in Sweden. Luton's "twin" is Eskilstuna; Shepton Mallet's is Bollnas.