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[Eagle]

Piddington also has a MOD-owned railway.

Didn't even have to look that one up, which is just as well as Landwick has no Wikipedia article.

 

[Ivo]

Too bad I did :roll: Wiki indicates that there are three villages named Piddington; however, the one you mean is quite obvious. Its local city is Oxford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Too bad I missed out on Piddington in Oxforshire....you will now never learn the historical associations it had..:roll:

Rochester and Oxford had castles built by the Normans.

 

[Ivo]

Aye...

Elgin is also a former city.

Go on then; enlighten us all if you so wish (But a History lesson at 0520? Hmm...)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Forres and Elgin were the two most northerly Royal Burghs that were deemed to be so in the first creation of these in 1153AD.

 

[Ivo]

Seen as I'm having a Pokémon week...

Gravesend also shares the first five letters of its name with a Pokémon [Forretress; Graveler]

I couldn't find anywhere whose name begins "Starm" though...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Since when was Forres a Pokemon....a new one on me(would it be like MacBeth)....joking, really!!

Huddersfield and Gravesend have had Iron Age settlements in their environs (Incidentally. Gravesend was sacked during the Hundred Years War).

 

[Schnellzug]

Staying away from either Motorways, football or Pokemons, Huddersfield railway station was described by John Betjeman as 'the most splendid station facade in England'. John Betjeman was not, as people probably know, so fond of Slough. :cry:

Incidentally. Gravesend was sacked during the Hundred Years War

for a series of bad results, I suppose.

 

[Class172]

The A4 runs through both Slough and Swindon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Horwich and Swindon had large locomotive works.

 

[Schnellzug]

Horwich should not be confused with Harwich.






What?

 

[deltic1989]

Hull also has a ferry port.

 

[Class172]

Dartford and Hull are both near to river bridges.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bury and Dartford have had a paper-making tradition stretching back to the Middle Ages

 

[Schnellzug]

Bury is the current location, and seems set to be so for as long as anyone can foresee, of a steam locomotive that the most well equipped workshops in the country at York have been unable to get right.



Was that controversial?

 

[Class172]

York and Oxford have large ring roads/by-passes that are formed of more than one than one road number.

 

[gg1]

Washington also has a large car factory.

 

[Ivo]

@ Class172: I'm sure you've used that exact match before now...!

Lincoln also shares its name with a prominent US President.

Staying away from ... Pokemons

Ten lines, Schnellzug! Hup two, hup two! I must learn to pluralise the word Pokémon correctly

(No "s" at the end )

I can forgive not using é though, because it's easier and so common. Even the official website's domain name doesn't use it.

 

[gg1]

I'm sure you've used that exact match before now...!

Nope, just done a thread search and no-one has mentioned Washington yet.

 

[Ivo]

Yes. That's because YOU SNUCK IN BEFORE I POSTED IT!!!!!

I had meant Class172. Post edited.

 

[Class172]

Bath is also served by the A46

I don't think I used that exact link, it may have been a variation though.

 

[Schnellzug]

Lincoln, going back to where was last got to, was shot by John Wilkes Boothe while watching the play Our American Cousin in the Ford Theatre, or I suppose I should probably say Theater, in washington DC. Ford is also the name of a popular brand of car, manufactured in (all together now) Dagenham, Essex.
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I'm not going to change it, being proud of my contrived Dagenham link.



:cry:

 

[Ivo]

For Class172:

Dated 2nd November

York and Runcorn were places that were attacked by the Danish Vikings.

Oxford also has a large ring-road (made up of more than one road number) around it.

You also did it with Cambridge and the former A45 I believe! Not complaining of course; somewhat impressed in fact.

Anyhow, to a city that has more Georgian houses than my adopted home city, in spite of Bath's fame for such work: Liverpool.

 

[Class172]

The M57 also serves Skelmersdale.

You also did it with Cambridge and the former A45 I believe! Not complaining of course; somewhat impressed in fact.

One was Ipswich, the other was Cambridge.

 

[Schnellzug]

In the early-20th century Victoria County History, Skelmersdale was described as "a particularly bare, unpleasing district" owing to its coal mines and brickworks.[5]
Another town that is regarded by some, although by no means all, as being of an unpleasing nature, although so far as I can ascertain it has never had any brickworks, is the fabled town of Weston-super-mare.

 

[Ivo]

Another town that is regarded by some, although by no means all, as being of an unpleasing nature, although so far as I can ascertain it has never had any brickworks, is the fabled town of Weston-super-mare.

Er-hum Maybe I should actually do that Scott's Seaside Slanders thing after all! Although, I have to tell you that Weston is not definitely my least favourite town around here (although it is among seaside locations), because both Chippenham and Calne can put up a good fight!

...

Southend (ouch) also has a locality within its borough named Milton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackpool and Southend are both seaside resorts with airports

 

[Ivo]

While Blackpool has three piers, Bournemouth has three cliff railways.

 

[Eagle]

Bournemouth is a very large settlement with no motorway connection and only one railway line, like Aberdeen.

 

[Ivo]

Not Misty Mistley then?

Scrabster also has ferry links to the Orkney Islands.