Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Faxfleet was formerly the location of a preceptory of the Knights Templar. Another such establishment was at Temple Guiting, Gloucestershire -- between Cheltenham and Stow-on-the-Wold. (We find in this game -- that though settlements with a "Temple-something" name will most usually have been places where long ago, those gentlemen did their thing; it's not invariably so, "either way around": as with no "Temple" in the name, example Faxfleet; or, a "Temple" place which is not about the K.T.s.)

 

[Radley]

The Port of Felixstowe is at the same latitude as Temple Guiting.

 

[Calthrop]

Spaldwick, Cambridgeshire -- between Huntingdon and Thrapston -- is also located on (or, by-passed, just marginally off) the A14 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stow Longa in Huntingdonshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Leightonstone.

 

[Radley]

RAF Kimbolton (Stow Longa) was a former RAF station assigned to the USAAF Eighth Air Force in the 1940s. RAF Bassingbourn was another member.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abington Pigotts in Cambridgeshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Royston Poor Law Union.

 

[Radley]

Rayleigh, Essex also has a church dedicated to St. Michael.

 

[Calthrop]

Interesting Wikipedia snippet: during the reign of Henry VIII, deer were constantly taken from the Rayleigh area to replenish the herds in Greenwich Park -- Royal Borough of Greenwich, Greater London. (That bloke has a lot to answer for, one way and another.)

 

[Radley]

Richmond, Greater London also has a pub named ‘The Mitre’.

 

[Calthrop]

Lincoln also shares the name of a US State capital -- the states concerned being respectively, Virginia and Nebraska.

 

[NorthOxonian]

Lincoln's most notorious mythical figure is its Imp - legend has it that this imp is also responsible for the iconic crooked spire in  Chesterfield.

 

[Calthrop]

Olave Baden-Powell -- wife of Robert Baden-Powell, and founder / first head of the Girl Guides, as with her husband and the Boy Scouts -- was born (1889) in Chesterfield. Between the World Wars, the Baden-Powells lived near Bentley, Hampshire -- between Farnham and Alton.

 

[Radley]

Wells, Somerset was also used as a filming location. Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz (2007) was filmed here.

(One of my favourite films too!)

 

[John Griffiths]

The last session of the 'Bloody Assizes' of 1685, presided over by Judge Jeffreys in the aftermath of the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, took place in Wells; the first session had been held in Winchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harrow is also a noted Public School.

 

[Calthrop]

Harrow's name is reckoned to originate from Old English hearg = [heathen] temple: said structure probably on Harrow's hill, where St. Mary's church now stands. In similar case is Great Harrowden, Northamptonshire (just north of Wellingborough) -- Harrowden =, from the Old English, "heathen temple hill".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashton-on-Mersey in Greater Manchester also has a church that id dedicated to All Saints.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sir Patrick Abercrombie (1879-1957), born in Ashton-upon- Mersey, was arguably the most prominent British town planner of the mid twentieth century. He is particularly noted for his plans of the County of London (1943) and Greater London (1944), and for plans of many other towns and cities, including those damaged by German bombing such as Hull and Plymouth.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sir Patrick Abercrombie (1879-1957), born in Ashton-upon- Mersey, was arguably the most prominent British town planner of the mid twentieth century. He is particularly noted for his plans of the County of London (1943) and Greater London (1944), and for development plans of many other towns and cities, including those badly damaged by German bombing such as Hull and Plymouth.

 

[Radley]

Southampton have also only won 1 league game away from home so far this season.

 

[91130nut]

Portsmouth also has a suburb called Shirley.

 

[Calthrop]

A rare, but not totally unknown, pub name: is "Portsmouth Arms". There's one such in North Devon, whose name is borne by an adjacent rail station on the Exeter -- Barnstaple route; but, with this seeming not to be a settlement as such -- I'll go for the Portsmouth Arms pub in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Fanum House in Basingstoke, at 83 metres height, is claimed to be the tallest building between London and New York. Hadrian's Tower in Newcastle upon Tyne is also 83m high, and is possibly the highest building between London and the North Pole. Or Morpeth at any rate.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salford also has a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

[Tetragon213]

Manchester is another city in the Ceremonial County of Grater Manchester

 

[Calthrop]

The USA is, one could say, "lousy with Manchesters". One state with a settlement of that name, is Georgia: which also has a namesake-settlement of Pembroke.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pwllcrochan in Pembrokeshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Pembroke Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Blakeney in Norfolk is also popular with the grey seal community.

 

[Calthrop]

Norfolk topographical-nonsense-rhyme:

Cromer crabs, Runton dabs / Beeston babies, Sheringham ladies / Weybourne witches, Salhouse ditches / And the Blakeney people / Sit on the steeple / And crack hazelnuts / With a five-farthing beetle [this last being an old-fashioned word for a sledgehammer -- nothing coleopterous]. Out of this, I choose at random, Weybourne -- in part, because of its associations outside this game's remit.

 

[John Griffiths]

Former Prime Minister John Major had a home in Weybourne; he was born and raised in the south London suburb of Worcester Park.