Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

Kirkcaldy was the birthplace of darts legend Jocky Wilson.
When Wilson won the BDO World Championship in 1982, the runner-up in that competition was John Lowe, who was born in Chesterfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wingerworth was also once under the jurisdiction of the Chesterfield Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Wingerworth has a "Pumphouse Pond". So does Castleford, Yorks.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ribchester was also the site of a Roman settlement.

 

[John Griffiths]

Coal used to be shipped from Castleford by canal to the port of Goole using 'Tom Puddings', floating hoppers drawn in trains by tug boats.

 

[DerekC]

Ribchester is on the River Ribble which rises on Gayle Moor in the high Pennines, quite a considerable way above Ribblehead.

 

[John Griffiths]

Gayle had a meeting house of the Glasite (also known as Sandemanian) sect, as did (among other places) Galashiels.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brechin is another Scottish town where a Drill Hall was built.

 

[John Griffiths]

Brechin's football team, Brechin City, plays in League 2, as until recently did Berwick Rangers of Berwick.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ipswich also has a speedway club.

 

[John Griffiths]

Felixstowe is also a port in Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clacton-on-Sea is another North Sea coastal settlement where a Martello Tower was erected.

 

[John Griffiths]

Clacton was developed as a resort by the Victorian engineer Peter Bruff, who also built the pier at Walton-on-the-Naze.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lowestoft also has a maritime museum.

 

[John Griffiths]

Peterhead is also the easternmost mainland settlement of its country.

 

[LUYMun]

Peterhead's dialling code is 01779. The previous dialling code (01778) is for Market Deeping.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fishtoft in Lincolnshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Guthlac.

 

[John Griffiths]

Immingham also has a memorial to the emigrant Puritans from Scrooby who were to become known as the Pilgrim Fathers (even though the party included women)

 

[DerekC]

Gosport, like Immingham, was once home to a Royal Navy submarine base.

 

[johnnychips]

The athlete Roger Black was born in Gosport and took part in the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I could say that Manchester has also hosted the Commonwealth Games but that would be too similar an association, so I will say.......

Nottingham also has a modern tramway system.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wetherspoon aficionados visiting the city of Nottingham will find sustenance at the Roebuck Inn in St. James’s Street.
A possibly more up-market (non-‘Spoons) pub with the same name is located in the Cheshire village of Mobberley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bognor Regis also has a church that is dedicated to St Wilfrid.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sandringham was also a place of relaxation enjoyed by His Late Majesty King George V.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dundee also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.

 

[John Griffiths]

Oxford is also associated with the manufacture of marmalade.

 

[DerekC]

Oxford's greyhound racing track closed in 2012, so aficionados would need to go to the nearest open one at Reading

 

[John Griffiths]

Henry I, who is buried in Reading, entered this world, it is widely believed (especially in Selby), in Selby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stevenage is another location where a Roman silver coin hoard was discovered.

 

[DerekC]

Hemel Hempstead is another of the "new towns" developed in the 1950s to accommodate overspill from London.