Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Twineham in West Sussex was also once administered by the Hundred of Buttinghill.

 

[Calthrop]

Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, also has a place of worship but no pub. (In the Ulster settlement, this has been deliberate and a matter of principle; one would reckon that in the Sussex one, it's just down to circumstances.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lurgan in County Armargh also has historical connections to the linen industry of Ulster.

 

[Calthrop]

George William Russell ("AE"), 1867 - 1935 -- writer, editor, critic, poet, painter, Irish nationalist, and mystic -- was born in Lurgan; he died in Bournemouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leicester also has a Symphony Orchestra.

 

[John Griffiths]

Before achieving fame as a playwright, Leicester-born Joe Orton and his partner Kenneth Halliwell achieved some notoriety for making changes to the dust jackets of library books, and received short prison sentences. The books are now reassured artefacts of the local history centre and museum in Islington, north London.

 

[Calthrop]

Douglas Adams, best known for his cod-sci-fi work The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, lived for the final couple of decades of the last century, in Islington (which he featured in various contexts, in "Hitchhiker's"). He was born in, and attended university at, Cambridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shrewsbury is another settlement to have suffered an outbreak of Sweating Sickness in medieval times.

 

[Calthrop]

Colchester also has two different pronunciations, both reckoned valid. With the Shropshire town, it's -- first syllable -- "Shroaz" or "Shrooz"; with the Essex one, "Col" (as with word for a mountain pass), or "Coal": I gather that with Colchester, the former is more often heard, but nobody brands the latter as wrong.

 

[John Griffiths]

Newark was also besieged during the Civil Wars of the 1640s.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Haywood in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Trent.

 

[Calthrop]

Great Haywood in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Trent.

I can't resist that Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings guy (and I don't mean Peter Jackson). J.R.R. Tolkien and his recently-wed wife Edith lived for a while at Great Haywood in 1916. Later, they lived for a few years in Leeds.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldborough in North Yorkshire was also a settlement of the Brythonic Kingdom of Elmet.

 

[Calthrop]

Masham, North Yorkshire, also lies on the line of the River Ure.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bellerby in North Yorkshire also lies on the route of the A6108 road.

 

[Calthrop]

According to Wiki, "The residents of Bellerby are ... proud of their large population of ducks who thrive in the becks and in the suitable gardens of many friendly residents." There is a situation bearing some similarities, in Lynton (North Devon); the creatures concerned there, being numerous feral goats. A less idyllic state of affairs than seems to obtain with the Yorkshire ducks -- some Lynton residents like the goats, others emphatically do not: regarding them and their depredations, as a pest.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Studland in Dorset also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the South West Coast Path.

 

[DerekC]

Standing on Studland Heath is the Agglestone, reputedly thrown by the Devil at Corfe Castle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flint also has a ruined castle.

 

[Calthrop]

Another Welsh town with a US namesake, is Montgomery. (Both Flint, Michigan; and Montgomery, Alabama; are reportedly -- for different reasons -- not the happiest or most appealing of places.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clitheroe in Lancashire also has a Norman castle that was situated on a high crag that gave full views on both the town and the surrounding areas.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Old Bell Museum in Montgomery is not, as its name suggests, a museum of old bells, but is housed in the former 'Old Bell' inn. Another museum in an ex-pub is the Manor House Museum in West Bromwich.

 

[Springs Branch]

Clitheroe in Lancashire also has a Norman castle that was situated on a high crag that gave full views on both the town and the surrounding areas.

Clitheroe has a reputation as the Food Capital of Lancashire.
Across the Pennines, the food capital of Yorkshire has been claimed to be Harrogate.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a long area of public parkland in Harrogate, called The Stray. Within York there are four areas of open land, similarly named, viz. " ***** Stray" -- four areas, four different "Stray" names.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stillington in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Foss.

 

[Calthrop]

Oswaldkirk also lies on the B1363 road (at its junction with the B1257).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Askrigg in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Oswald.

 

[Calthrop]

Again the Herriot man, of whom frankly I get a bit tired -- charming though it all is: one TV series of All Creatures... was filmed in Askrigg, with the village representing Darrowby; a later one, with Grassington (North Yorkshire) performing that function. (I've heard that his "Darrowby" originally per the books, is actually a fictionalised version of Thirsk; not sure now, how true that is.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Presteigne in Powys also hosts a Festival of Music and the Arts.

 

[Calthrop]

Another town in Wales, with Welsh name unrecognisably different from English ditto (at least to one not well-versed in the other language), is Mold, Flintshire. Presteigne = Welsh Llanandras; Mold = Welsh Yr Wyddgrug.