Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Blantyre also gave its name to a colonial city in southern Africa.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pemberton was also the scene of a coal mining disaster with many fatalities in 1877.

 

[Springs Branch]

Until takeover by a local competitor in 1967, Massey Brothers was a well-regarded coachbuilder, producing buses for many municipal undertakings at their works in Pemberton.
Another company well known for the quality of its classic British buses was C.H. Roe, whose factory was located in the Leeds district of Cross Gates.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Euxton in Lancashire was also chosen as a site to erect a Royal Ordnance Factory.

 

[johnnychips]

Builth Wells also has a silent ‘u’ in its pronunciation.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bradford-on-Avon also has a Post Office bearing the cipher of King Edward VIII.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upottery in Devon also has a Buddhist monastery.

 

[DerekC]

The opening shots of the TV series Band of Brothers was shot in Upottery, but the majority of the early scenes were filmed at Hambleden in Buckinghamshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Illogan in Cornwall is another settlement where the remains of a Roman villa were unearthed.

 

[John Griffiths]

Richard Tangye, born in Illogan, was the joint founder of a family engineering firm which built the UK 's first funicular cliff railway in Scarborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Conwy also has a ruined castle.

 

[John Griffiths]

Gateshead also has a railway bridge designed by Robert Stephenson.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoke-on-Trent also has hosted the National Garden Festival.

 

[DerekC]

Half of the first transatlantic telegraph cable was manufactured in Gateshead. The other half was made in Greenwich.

Wimborne, like Stoke on Trent, has a minster church

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Marnhull in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Stour.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Marnhull is situated in the Blackmore Vale, as is the village and civil parish of Okeford Fitzpaine in Dorset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winterbourne Stoke in Wiltshire also has prehistoric round barrows in its environs.

 

[DerekC]

There are about twenty villages with the name "Winterbourne" or Winterborne" distributed around the chalk country of south and west England (mainly Dorset and Wiltshire) but Winterbourne House and Gardens are in Edgbaston, owned by the University of Birmingham. The reason for the name association in that location is unclear.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Headingley also has a cricket ground that hosts both Test and International matches.

 

[DerekC]

Arthur Ransome, the author of Swallows and Amazons, was born in Headlngley but lived for many years in the Lake District and is buried at Rusland

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beanthwaite was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ulverston Poor Law Union.

 

[johnnychips]

Spark Bridge is also on the A5092.

 

[Springs Branch]

Tytherington in Gloucestershire also has a village green.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tortworth was also once under the jurisdiction of the Thornbury Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In the Domesday Book of 1086, the manor of Tortworth is recorded as held by Turstin FitzRolf. He played a prominent role in the Norman conquest of England and is regarded as one of the few proven companions of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Turstin also held some property in Chepstow and the important crossing of the River Severn to Aust in Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanidloes also lies on the line of the River Severn.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Like Newport in South Wales, Llanidloes was notorious as a focus of industrial unrest during the Chartist revolt in 1839.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crickhowell also lies on the line of the River Usk.

 

[johnnychips]

Sir George Everest, after whom the mountain was named, may have been born in Crickhowell, or may have been born in Greenwich.

 

[John Griffiths]

Richmond was also the location of a royal palace.