Settlement Association

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The music festival at Glastonbury is a whole lot larger.

 

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Lynton also lies on the line of the Samaritans Way South West long distance footpath.

 

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The similar sounding Linton on Ouse has a large RAF Base which is simply referred to as Linton.

 

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For many years, and especially since the foot-and-mouth outbreak of 2001, Sedbergh has been promoted as a destination for walkers and ramblers. In 2015 the town was accepted as a Walkers are Welcome town. Bromyard in Herefordshire was accepted in 2010.

 

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At the beginning of the 18th century the manorial rights for Linton on Ouse were sold to University College, Oxford, who built a school in the village in 1871.

 

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Chedworth in Gloucestershire also has an eponymously named Silver Band.

 

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The Red Arrows used to be based at nearby RAF Kimble, they are now based near Lincoln at RAF Scampton

 

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Rothiemurchus in Inverness-shire also has a church that is dedicate to St John the Baptist.

 

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Rothiemurchus promotes itself as Rothiemurchus by Avimore , Avimore being a more widely known Scottish ski centre up in the Cairngorms

 

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Stenness in Orkney also has a stone circle in its environs.

 

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Although the Orkney Islands are er islands off the north of Scotland Stenness is on the part of known as The Mainland. By contrast Balfour is the settlement on Shapinsay a much smaller island within the Orkney Islands

 

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Lochranza on the Isle of Arran is also served by a commercial ferry service.

 

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Lochranza has a field study centre, where schools from all over the UK come to study the locality's interesting geology and the nearby Hutton's Unconformity to the north of Newton Point, where the "father of modern geology" James Hutton FRSE (1726 - 1797) found his first example of an angular unconformity during a visit in 1787. James Hutton FRSE was born, largely educated and died in Edinburgh.

 

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Stalybridge also has an archery club.

 

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At the time of the 1863 riots in Stalybridge (put down by the police with military aid) William Chadwick was Chief Constable of the borough’s police force. Previously to his appointment Chadwick had been a police inspector in Ashton-under-Lyne

 

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Whaley Bridge also lies on the line of the Peak Forest Canal.

 

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The river Goyt passes though Whaley Bridge upstream of which is the Fernlee reservoir which was created by the Stockport Water Corporation

 

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Luton also has historical links to hat making.

 

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Prestwick also has an international airport.

 

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Birkdale also has a noted golf club.

 

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Albert Pierrepoint, the most famous British hangman of modern times, lived in Birkdale in later life and had a tobacconist's shop in Birkdale village. He was born on 30th March 1905 in the village of Clayton in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

 

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Summerbridge in North Yorkshire is another settlement where a Neolithic stone axe head was found.

 

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Summerbridge has one public house, the "Flying Dutchman"; it is owned and operated by Samuel Smiths Old Brewery, who are based in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.

 

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Kettlewell in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Wharfe.

 

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Stirling also has a Youth Hostel

 

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Stoke Heath in Shropshire also is the site of both an adult prison and a YOI.

 

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Stoke Heath is just down the road from Stoke on Tern but it is about 20 miles away from Stoke-on-Trent

 

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Ebbw Vale is another of the five settlements to have hosted the National Garden Festival.

 

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Arthur Smith played rugby for (among other teams) Ebbw Vale RFC and Scotland; he was born in Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, in 1933.

 

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Oakbank (near to Perth) is another settlement where a prehistoric crannog was erected in its environs.