Settlement Association

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Nothing like a bit of cunning Paul
Now I had never heard of Rothes whereas I do know of Glenrothes in the Kingdom Of Fife where, in my murky past as a student, I visited to play hockey -I was goalie.

 

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The River Leven Bridge, which spans Riverside Park and carries the town's Western Distributor Road, is a cable-stayed bridge that was completed in 1995. The bridge was designed by Dundee-based Nicoll Russell Studios, Architects and was commissioned by the Glenrothes Development Corporation (GDC) as a landmark creating a gateway into Riverside Park that could be seen from further afield. The bridge was constructed by Balfour Beatty Construction (Scotland) and it was the first reinforced-concrete cable-stayed structure ever built in the UK.

 

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Forfar was also once known for the production of jute.

 

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Following the A90, which bypasses Forfar, northwards one ends up in the Middlefield part of Aberdeen.

 

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Kittybrewster is another (and better known) area of Aberdeen

 

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Like Aberdeen Cromarty has associations with North Sea oil

 

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Plymouth also lends its name to a sea area of the British Shipping Forecast.

 

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Plymouth has a Hoe from where one can look down on Drake's Island. Francis Drake was born in Tavistock

 

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Barnstaple also has a Pannier Market

 

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Barnstaple Rugby Football Club play in the RFU National League 2 South, which is one of the two fourth tier league in the English rugby union system. One of the clubs that they play is Chinnor RFC, who play at Kingsey Road, Thame, Oxfordshire.

 

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RAF Thame became Haddenham airfield from where the Upward Bound Trust has offerred subsidized flight to many including Duke of Edinburgh Award aspirants but they have now been told to leave with one month's notice.

 

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The Church of England Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is of 12th-century Norman origin but parts of may still remain from its first building, which was Saxon. King William II granted the parish to the Benedictine abbey of Rochester, Kent.

 

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Like Rochester, Elgin used to be a city but has had its city status revoked.

 

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Forres is another settlement in Morayshire to have been granted Royal Burgh status.

 

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Roy Williamson, the Scottish songwriter and folk musician who is best known for writing "Flower of Scotland", died in Forres of a brain tumour in 1990. In 1965, he teamed up Ronnie Browne to form The Corries. The partnership lasted over thirty years, following their first performance together at the Jubilee Arms Hotel in Cortachy, Angus.

 

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OS Maps show the hotel as being in Dykehead rather than Cortachy but it really does not matter since in either event if one follows the B955 in a southerly direction one ends up in the burgh of Kirriemuir featured in lengthy Rugby Song "The Ball Of Kirriemuir" but is perhaps more politely known for the Camera Obscura on the Hill of Kirriemiur donated by J M Barrie of Peter Pan fame.

 

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Kirriemuir Thistle Football Club are a Scottish junior football club, whose home ground is Westview Park, Kirriemuir. They play in the Scottish Junior Football East Region Premier League, also known as the McBookie.com East Premier League. One of the teams that they play against is Blackburn United Football Club, who play their home matches at the purpose built Dem-master Community Stadium (New Murrayfield Park), Blackburn, West Lothian.

 

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The Beatles sang of a Blackburn Lancashire

 

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Bristol also has a Rovers football team.

 

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Naseby also suffered an outbreak of the Black Death in the 14th century.

 

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The Battle of Naseby (14th June 1645) was a decisive engagement of the English Civil War, fought on between the main Royalist army of King Charles I and the Parliamentarian New Model Army, commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.

It followed the Royalists' storming of the Parliamentarian stronghold of Leicester, and the lifting of Fairfax's siege of Oxford, the Royalist capital, and the subsequent engagement with the King's main army.

 

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Frederick Levi Attenborough one time principle of University College Leicester - now the university - was born in Stapleford in Nottinghamshire

 

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Papplewick was also once administered by the Broxtowe Wapentake.

 

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Papplewick School, however, is a non-selective independent day and boarding preparatory school for boys aged 6–13 (Years 2–8) and is located in Windsor Road, Ascot, Berkshire.

 

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Wells in Somerset also has a religious building that incorporates a Tree of Jesse window.

 

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Wells is named from three wells dedicated to Saint Andrew, one in the market place and two within the grounds of the Bishop's Palace and Cathedral. Several legends state that the relics of Saint Andrew were brought by divine guidance from [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople']Constantinople to the place where the modern Scottish town of St Andrews in Fife stands today.[/URL]

 

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Glasgow also has a university that was opened in the 15th century.

 

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Glasgow has a Charing Cross. The London Charing Cross name comes from of one of the Eleanor Crosses, such a cross is to be found in Geddington

 

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Finedon also lies on the line of the River Ise.

 

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The listed parish church in Norwood Green is also dedicated to St. Mary The Virgin.