Settlement Association

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Meifod in Powys has also hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales

 

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Dyffryn Hall, a Georgian period manor house, is situated to the west of the village; it was home to Clement Davies, the Montgomeryshire MP and leader of the post-war Liberal Party between 1945 and 1956. He died on 23rd March 1962, aged 78, at Montgomery in Powys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandegla-yn-Lal in Denbighshire also lies on the line of the footpath known as Offa's Dyke Path.

 

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Dyffryn Hall, a

Georgian period manor house, is situated to the west of the village; it was home to Clement Davies, the Montgomeryshire MP and leader of the post-war Liberal Party between 1945 and 1956. He died on 23rd March 1962, aged 78, at Montgomery in Powys.

I wonder if he ever visited Bunner the chandler, immortalised in song by Half Man Half Biscuit.

“And so returning to the car at Snailbeach, I set off in the direction of Montgomery, where I was more than certain my need would be met by Bunner the chandler who sold everything.”

http://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/a-to-z-bunner-the-chandler/

Amongst the many places also referenced by HMHB is Westward Ho! However the boys considered it a massive letdown.

“Westward Ho! (What a letdown)”

http://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/urge-for-offal/westward-ho-what-a-letdown/

 

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Edward Tegla Davies (1880 - 1967) was a Methodist Minister and writer, who was born on 31st May 1880 at Hen Giât, Llandegla, Denbingshire. He died on 9th October 1967 and was buried in Gelli Cemetery, Tregarth. Gwynedd.

 

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Llanberis also has historical connections to slate mining.

 

[johnnychips]

Matlock Bath is also a place to go rock climbing and canoeing.

 

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Mousehole also has an illuminations festival.

 

[DerekC]

Newlyn was also destroyed in a raid by the Spanish in 1595.

 

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Carmarthen is also associated with a Celtic language

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandeilo also lies on the line of the River Towy.

 

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Hunnington (Worcs) is also associated with a cast iron lattice truss bridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chaddesley Corbett was also once administered by the Hundred of Halfshire.

 

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Thurlby near Bourne is also a location where the church has a unique dedication in the UK.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sapperton also lies on the line of the Roman road known as King Street.

 

[DerekC]

Greywell also possesses a canal tunnel which is blocked by a roof fall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pucklechurch in South Gloucestershire is another settlement that once had an Anglo-Saxon royal hunting lodge.

 

[johnnychips]

Hatfield (South Yorkshire) also had a Young Offenders Institute.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newcastleton in Roxburghshire also has an outdoor activity centre.

 

[High Dyke]

Greywell also possesses a canal tunnel which is blocked by a roof fall.

Wrong Sapperton... We were at the one in Lincolnshire.

Newcastleton in Roxburghshire also has an outdoor activity centre.

Strathyre, Stirlingshire also hosts a music festival.

 

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Balquidder also lies on the line of the River Balvag

 

[DerekC]

The Scottish outlaw Rob Roy (Robert Roy MacGregor) died at Balquhidder. His name is borne by Kirkinitilloch football club

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bishopbriggs also lies on the line of the Forth and Clyde Canal

 

[DerekC]

Bishopbriggs gave its name to a type of sandstone quarried there. A very similar sandstone from the same geological formation is quarried in Dungannon, Co Tyrone

 

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Gareth Steenson, the Exeter Chiefs Outside Half, was born in Dungannon on 5 May 1984.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chichester is another cathedral city with a ship canal.

 

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After the Battle of Hastings the township of Chichester was handed to Roger de Mongomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, for courageous efforts in the battle, but it was forfeited in 1104 by the 3rd Earl.

 

[DerekC]

Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury in 1809, He died in 1882 at Downe in Kent, probably of Chagal's disease, a parasitic infection he may have contracted in Argentina in 1835.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Paul's Cray was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ruxley.

 

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The sister village of St Paul's Cray is St Mary Cray.