Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheltenham also hosts a music festival.

 

[DerekC]

Cheltenham is well known as the home of GCHQ, the UK's centre for cybersecurity and signals intelligence. Also well known is that its predecessor was GC&CS, the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newton Blossomville was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newport Pagnell Poor Law Union.

 

[johnnychips]

Newton Blossomville was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newport Pagnell Poor Law Union.

What a lovely name. Unfortunately nothing to do with blossom but a previous lord of the manor.

Sir Thomas Armstrong, the famous musician, lived here for a while, but is buried at nearby Olney.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Ives in Cambridgeshire also lies on the line of the River Great Ouse.

 

[John Griffiths]

Rotherham also has a bridge chapel.

 

[johnnychips]

Thrybergh is also along the Don Valley Way.

 

[DerekC]

On the far side of Thrybergh Country Park is Hooton Roberts

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rothiemurchus in Invernes-shire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[Springs Branch]

Close to Rothiemurchus, the Cairngorm Club Bridge is an iron footbridge built by the climbers' club in 1912 to cross the Am Beanaidh.

Another settlement with a footbridge constructed for tourism purposes is in Cornwall at Tintagel.

 

[John Griffiths]

Arthuret in Cumbria is also thought by some to have associations with King Arthur.

 

[DerekC]

Nanpantan in Leicestershire, like Arthuret, has a holy well in the vicinity

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Osgathorpe is another settlement on the route of the defunct Charnwood Forest Canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

Chester-le-Street also has a church (St Mary & St Cuthbert) with a hagioscope.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanhope also lies on the line of the River Wear.

 

[John Griffiths]

Stanhope churchyard boasts a fossilized tree stump; Victoria Park in Glasgow has an entire fossil grove.

 

[DerekC]

Stretham near Ely. like Glasgow, has a speedway track.

 

[Springs Branch]

Falkenham in Suffolk has also been associated with the discovery and mining of coprolites.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thurton in Norfolk also has a church that is dedicated to St Ethelbert.

 

[DerekC]

Horndean in Hampshire, like Thurton, hosted a classic car show this year.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

South Stoneham is another Hampshire settlement where a workhouse was erected.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sefton also gave its name to a Rural District dissolved in 1932.

 

[DerekC]

There used to be Earls of Sefton but the family seat was in Croxteth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Altcar also lies on the line of the River Alt.

 

[DerekC]

Great Altcar possesses a "Tickles Farm". Lewannick in Cornwall possesses a "Tickles Ground".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunterton also lies on the line of the River Inny.

 

[John Griffiths]

Okehampton was also in the Hundred of Lifton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barnstaple also had connections to the medieval wool trade.

 

[John Griffiths]

Denton also has a bridge with sixteen arches.

 

[johnnychips]

Mossley is also in Tameside MBC.