Settlement Association

[Schnellzug]

Guildford was where Ford Prefect claimed to come from in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, although he was actually from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
Oh, Betelgeuse doesn't count? Ok, the Ford Prefect was a popular make of 1960s Car, which were manufactured in Dagenham, in Essex.

 

[Eagle]

Guildford was where Ford Prefect claimed to come from in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, although he was actually from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
Oh, Betelgeuse doesn't count? Ok, the Ford Prefect was a popular make of 1960s Car, which were manufactured in Dagenham, in Essex.

Too slow :P Still on Blandford

 

[Schnellzug]

Yes, i saw that. While there's not so much that can be said about Blandford, it is, however, home to the Badger Brewery, in which respect it shares something in common (breweries, if not badgers) with Burton-on-Trent.

 

[Ivo]

Crawley is also home to a recent addition to the Football League.

 

[W-on-Sea]

And Crawley football club's success has been largely due to the financial largesse of a man who formerly funded Boston Utd, before it all went horribly, if deservedly, wrong. In the season Boston belatedly had points deducted for malpractise, but were still allowed to go up to the league (I forget the exact details, so this may be slightly inaccurate as a precis).

Anyway the point is, the team who were denied a rightful league place by the Boston cheats was Dagenham and Redbridge, who, then as now, play in Dagenham - to where all roads lead, evidently

 

[Eagle]

Bridgend is also home to a Ford factory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln (Ermine Street) and Bridgend (Crack Hill) had Roman roads in their environs

 

[martinsh]

Like Lincoln, Salisbury is famous for it's cathedral

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Durrington Wells (West Kennet Long Barrow) and Salisbury (Old Sarum) both have Neolithic period remains in their environs.

 

[Schnellzug]

Excavations at Durrington Walls found evidence of a number of antedeluvian dwellings. Some of the homes excavated showed evidence of a cobb wall and their own ancillary building, and in this respect were remarkably similar in layout to a house at Skara Brae in Orkney.

 

[Bedpan]

Lyme Regis - also has a cobb wall (assuming that the house in Skara Brae had one).
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Luton (well, the Luton borough anyway) is one of the few other areas to have two separate single-digit A-roads passing through it.

Sorry to be a spoiler but I don't think that the A5 encroaches into the Luton Borough Council area, it goes through Dunstable which is in Mid Bedfordshire DC.

 

[Ivo]

OK, urban area. I knew it was one or the other

Next location: Bognor Regis. No prizes for guessing why.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brighton (as Bristelmestune) and Bognor Regis ( as Bucgan Ora) were both Anglo-Saxon south coast settlements.

 

[Ivo]

Oxford can also claim to have one of the best local bus networks outside London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cambridge is also an excellent place to study at University.

 

[Ivo]

If this was QI that so would have been buzzed. Cambridge to/from Oxford must be the most common link we've made.

Anyhow, the number 7 bus from Cambridge runs to what is surely the most pleasant town in my home county, the beautifully named Saffron Walden.
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Hmm... Four I think. Not as bad as I'd thought.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harbledown (with Bigbury Wood Hill Fort) and Saffron Walden both had settlements of tribes in both the Iron Age and the Bronze Age periods of time.

 

[Schnellzug]

Oxford can also claim to have one of the best local bus networks outside London.

In which they've apparently installed hidden microphones to eavesdrop on passengers' conversations. Oxford Bus Company: brought to you by the Stasi.


Anyway, to continue, the name 'Harbledown' is thought likely to be the medieval village of 'Bobbe-up-and-doun', which is where Chaucer and his pilgrims rested on the way to Canterbury. It was so-called because the road was of poor quality and would 'bob up and down'. Later this became Harbledown.

Another town to have roads of poor quality and standards of maintenance is Weymouth, Dorset, England, or at least that's the impression you'd get from the local paper, where "HELL FOR MOTORISTS" was the lead story on the website the other day.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holyhead and Weymouth are both ferry ports

 

[Class172]

Holyhead and Dover are both ferry ports at the end of single digit roads (A5 and A2 respectively).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Both York (as Eboracum) and Dover ( as Porte Dubris) had Roman military strategic bases.

 

[deltic1989]

Nottingham has also had a Royal Navy Type 42 Destroyer named after it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Durham and Nottingham both have a High Sheriff

 

[Class172]

The A167 also serves Darlington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

London and Darlington had strong Quaker colonies.

 

[Class172]

Manchester and London have orbital motorways (well the M25 isn't exactly orbital).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Croydon and Manchester have tramway systems

 

[Class172]

Halifax and Croydon both have 'wierd' road systems in the centres.

 

[gg1]

Croydon and Hounslow were both at one time the site of international airports.

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Beaten too it, on to Halifax then:

Scarborough is also home to a football club formed from the ashes of a former league club which went out of business.

 

[Ivo]

Lincoln is another place I had a Uni interview that led to nothing

In which they've apparently installed hidden microphones to eavesdrop on passengers' conversations. Oxford Bus Company: brought to you by the Stasi.

I thought that was the taxis?