Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, is also the location of an independent, co-educational boarding school.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Creeveroe, Co.Armagh is another settlement to have been visited by the "Time Team" television series of programmes.


(County name now amended)

 

[Springs Branch]

The Creeveroe in question is in Co. Armagh, not Co. Antrim, but that does not affect the next association which is......

Kendal is also at latitude 54° 21'N

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Topcliffe in North Yorkshire is also a settlement where a Norman motte and bailey castle was erected.

 

[Springs Branch]

Kensington, in West London, also has a church dedicated to St Columba.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea also has a church dedicated to St Columba.

QUERY RAISED

This is the Settlement Association quiz and the link above is not a settlement in its own right, but a conjoining of two distinctly seperate settlements.

 

[Springs Branch]

.....is not a settlement in its own right, but a conjoining of two distinctly seperate settlements.

My post has been edited clarifying location of the church in question.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thank you for your clarification.

Tring also has a Natural History Museum.

 

[Springs Branch]

Cirencester was also on the route of the Roman road known as Akeman Street.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abingdon also has the remains of an Iron Age oppidum within its environs.

 

[Springs Branch]

Production of Old Speckled Hen beer has moved from the Morland Brewery in Abingdon to Greene King in Bury St Edmunds

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mold also holds an annual food festival.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The actor Rhys Ifans was born in Haverfordwest in 1967 and attended the Welsh-speaking high school Maes Garmon at Mold.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanstadwell also lies on the line of the River Cleddau.

 

[Springs Branch]

Barmouth also has a church dedicated to St Tudwal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barnstaple is also a settlement that is situated on the banks of an estuarine location.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Phi Vickery, the former England Prop, was born in Barnstaple in 1976. During his rugby career, he played for Wasps, who at the time were playing at Adams Park, High Wycombe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Much Wenlock also has a Guildhall.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Much Wenlock was historically the chief town of the ancient borough of Wenlock. The "Much" was added to the name to distinguish it from the nearby village and civil parish of Little Wenlock, and signifies that it is the larger of the two settlements.

 

[deltic1989]

11 year old Alice Glaston from Little Wenlock was hanged in 1546. The youngest known female to be judicially executed in the UK.
The last female to be judicially executed in the UK was Ruth Ellis. Born in Rhyl, Flintshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Possibly the most famous former pupil of the Blessed Edward Jones Catholic High School in Rhyl is Honorary Group Captain Carol Voderman RAFAC, who was a pupil there in the 1970s. She was, however, born in Bedford on 24th December 1960.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Darley Dale in Derbyshire was also chosen as a site in which to erect a Benedictine Abbey.

 

[Springs Branch]

Fallowfield, near Manchester was also once a residence of the engineer and philanthropist Sir Joseph Whitworth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Reddish also lies on the line of the Anglo-Saxon defensive linear earthwork known as the Nico Ditch.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Reddish has been home to at least three breweries. One of these was Richard Clarke & Co., who brewed in the area for over 100 years before being taken over, and later closed, by Boddingtons in 1962. Boddingtons were based at the Strangeways Brewery in Manchester, but this closed in 2004 and production was moved to Samlesbury in Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Poxwell in Dorset is also the location of a noted Grade I listed country house.

 

[Springs Branch]

Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire also has a Bronze Age ring cairn in its vicinity (in fact several at Stocksbridge according to the website www.stone-circles.org.uk)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Langsett also lies on the line of the Little Don River.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Langsett is also a village and civil parish near Penistone in South Yorkshire which, on 26th February 2007 was officially declared a Fairtrade Town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rochdale also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.