Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Bacup was also created a Municipal Borough in 1882.

 

[DerekC]

The World Gravy Wrestling Championship takes place every year near Bacup. The World Pie Eating Contest. on the other hand, took place last year in Wigan.

NB - Gravy and pies are intimately connected in my mind.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caernarfon is another of the sites chosen by the Romans for a military staging point during their conquest of Britain.

 

[John Griffiths]

Caernarfon Castle is modelled in part on the walls of Constantinople, a city founded by Constantine the Great, who was proclaimed emperor at York.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The UK Snooker Championship is currently held in the Barbican Centre, York; when it was first held in 1977, the venue was The Tower Ballroom, Blackpool.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newquay is also a coastal resort with a zoo as one of its attractions.

 

[John Griffiths]

The parish church (CoE) in Isleworth was also destroyed by an arson attack.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burnley also has a "third-tier" Crown Court.

 

[John Griffiths]

Arthur Henderson, Nobel Peace Prize winner and MP for Burnley 1924-31, lived for much of his childhood and youth in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

[DerekC]

Elswick was the original home of the Elswick Bicycle Company, later acquired by the Hopper Bicycle Company, which moved all production to Barton on Humber.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boothby Graffoe also lies on the line of the Viking Way long-distance footpath.

 

[DerekC]

Boothby Graffoe is a "spring line village" - sitting below the Lincoln Edge limestone ridge. Edburton in Sussex is similarly situated in relation to the chalk ridge of the South Downs.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upper Beeding was also once under the jurisdiction of the Steyning Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Upper Beeding is very close to Windmill Hill in the South Downs. There are many other Windmill Hills. Perhaps the best known (certainly to archaeologists) is near Avebury in Wiltshire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stenness in Orkney also has a noted henge.

 

[DerekC]

From Stenness a bus runs every half hour or so to Kirkwall

 

[John Griffiths]

The 'Kirk' of Kirkwall was dedicated to the Norwegian St Olaf. Another church dedicated to St Olaf is St Olaves's, Hart St, in the City of London.

 

[DerekC]

The City of London still maintains its own police force, founded in 1839. This is sometimes thought to be the oldest in the UK. In fact the Metropolitan Police, founded in 1829, is older and the City of Glasgow had its own police force much earlier, in 1800, although this is now merged into Police Scotland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Andrews also has a university that was opened in the 15th century.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

John Knox (c1513 – 1572), the leader of Scotland's Reformation and the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. is believed to have been educated at the University of St Andrews. He was born in Giffordgate, a street in the town of Haddington, East Lothian.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Linton also lies on the line of the (Scottish) River Tyne.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

East Linton is home to some of the offices of 4J Studios, most often known for bringing Minecraft to consoles; the company's head office is in Dundee.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Forfar was also connected with the production of jute.

 

[John Griffiths]

Linlithgow is also the county town of a shire that once bore its name.

 

[DerekC]

Winchburgh, like Linlithgow, is on the line of the Union Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tarbrax in South Lanarkshire was also connected to the shale oil mining industry.

 

[DerekC]

Tarbrax was the site of a reported UFO event in the 1970s. The mist famous UFO event reported in the UK was near Rendlesham, Suffolk in 1980.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bollington in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to St Gregory.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The television presenter and antiques expert David Dickinson lives in Bollington, although he was born on 16th August 1941 in Cheadle Heath, Stockport.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheadle Hulme is also a district of Stockport.