Settlement Association

[DerekC]

Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart) is usually said to have got as far south as Derby on his 1745 expedition to seize the British crown. In fact he got a few miles further, to Swarkestone, where he would have crossed the Trent. However the lack of English and French support coupled with rumours of large Government forces being amassed, made his council decide to give up and return to Scotland.

 

[cjp]

Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart) is usually said to have got as far south as Derby on his 1745 expedition to seize the British crown. In fact he got a few miles further, to Swarkestone, where he would have crossed the Trent. However the lack of English and French support coupled with rumours of large Government forces being amassed, made his council decide to give up and return to Scotland.

The progress of the Jacobite army is set out in the visitor centre at Culloden
Culloden

 

[Peter Kelford]

Culloden is the end of the A96 road, the other end of which is outside St. Andrew's Cathederal, Aberdeen

 

[DerekC]

Marine Scotland's seawater fisheries research laboratory is in Aberdeen. The freshwater equivalent is at Pitlochry.

 

[Peter Kelford]

Marine Scotland's seawater fisheries research laboratory is in Aberdeen. The freshwater equivalent is at Pitlochry.

I didn't know that it was...

A part of Pitlochry is called Moulin, which is French for windmill. That takes us to Windmill Hill, Hailsham

 

[LUYMun]

Windmill Hill is on the southern edge of High Weald. Horsham is the western-most end of it.

 

[cjp]

Horsham lies on the river Arun which meets the sea at Littlehampton

Littlehampton

 

[Peter Kelford]

Littlehampton is the most populous Civil Parish in the Arun District. The least populous is South Stoke.

 

[LUYMun]

Littlehampton is the terminus of a railway line, where through trains are available to Bedford

Would this be allowed, even if the first page states?:

This works in the same manner as the Station Association Quiz, only this thread concentrates on inhabited locales instead of their railway stations ... everything in that thread railway-related.

 

[Peter Kelford]

I have modified my post, No13538.

 

[LUYMun]

Littlehampton is the most populous Civil Parish in the Arun District. The least populous is South Stoke.

South Stoke, West Sussex sits on the Monarch's Way long-distance footpath which travels from Arundel to Houghton.

 

[Peter Kelford]

Houghton Hall was built for Britain's first Prime Minister. The current countryside retreat of the prime minister is Chequers.

 

[DerekC]

Not sure that Chequers counts as a settlement - the occupants are very transitory! Anyhow it shares its name with the Chequers Inn at Well in Hampshire.

 

[cjp]

I know nothing about Well but there is the similarly named Somerset town of Wells.

 

[DerekC]

Wells was one of the locations of the Bloody Assizes, held in 1686 to try accused participants in the Monmouth Rebellion. More than 400 were hanged and 800 transported. One of the other locations was Dorchester (Dorset)

 

[Peter Kelford]

I know nothing about Well but there is the similarly named Somerset town of Wells.

Is that not a 'distinctively similar' reasoning to the previous association?

 

[Peter Kelford]

Wells was one of the locations of the Bloody Assizes, held in 1686 to try accused participants in the Monmouth Rebellion. More than 400 were hanged and 800 transported. One of the other locations was Dorchester (Dorset)

Dorchester sits at the North end of the A354, while Fortuneswell is at the south end of it.

 

[DerekC]

Fortuneswell is at the Eastern end of Chesil Beach. The western end is usually considered to be at Abbotsbury.

 

[cjp]

Abbotsbury is noted for its Swannery, there is nowhere called Swannery but there is Swanage

 

[johnnychips]

Basil Fawlty was apparently born in Swanage but his hotel is in Torquay.

 

[cjp]

Also part of the English Riviera is Brixham

 

[LUYMun]

Stagecoach bus number 12 operates every 10 minutes from Brixham Town Square to Newton Abbot.

 

[DerekC]

Wetherby, like Newton Abbot, has a racecourse.

 

[cjp]

Judi Dench was in the film called Wetherby. Dame Judith Dench was born in Heworth North Yorkshire

 

[DerekC]

Heworth Moor was the site of a historic meeting in 1642 between King Charles I and Lord Fairfax. Fairfax, who was MP for Boroughbridge and went on to command a parliamentary army, presented a petition asking the King to listen to his parliament and the concerns of the people and not to continue raising an army in preparation for war. The King refused to accept the petition, but Fairfax rode after him and put the petition on the pommel of his saddle.

 

[Peter Kelford]

Boroughbridge is on the Ure, the source of which appears to be somewhere near Aisgill.

 

[cjp]

Also on the same B6259 is the somewhat larger market town of Kirkby Stephen

 

[DerekC]

Keswick, like Kirkby Stephen, is home to a mountain rescue team.

 

[Peter Kelford]

Keswick is often considered the key town in the North Lakes, its southern equivalent is Windermere/Bowness (p.s. there's a great chippy on the Bowness-Windermere road).

 

[DerekC]

Bowness on Windermere, like Lerwick in Shetland was an official resting point for the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay.

PS - there is a great chippy in Bedale, N Yorks as well, but I wasn't sure whether that would be breaking the rules!