Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch on Anglesey, is also located at latitude 53° 14' N

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Inverness also has a James Pringle Weavers shop.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Karen Gillan (born 28th November 1987)in Inverness, played Amy Pond, companion to the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC One series Doctor Who between 2010 and 2013. She was educated at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts drama school, whose BA (Hons) Acting Programme is based in their Avondale Building in Clapham, London.

 

[John Griffiths]

Abolitionist William Wilberforce lived part of his life in Clapham. He was born in Hull.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

One of the attractions in the city's Museums Quarter is the Arctic Corsair (H320), a deep-sea trawler that has been converted into a museum ship . She was built in 1960 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Shipbuilders in Beverley, East Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gosford in Oxfordshire was also the site of a preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers.

 

[John Griffiths]

Gosforth in Newcastle upon Tyne also has a name that means goose ford

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fenham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Poor Law Union.

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Bath also has an, albeit much nicer looking, "Royal Crescent".

 

[John Griffiths]

Eye of the beholder, lxfe, eye of the beholder!

Buxton was also a Roman spa.

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Eye of the beholder, lxfe, eye of the beholder!

Ah yes, that is indeed true.

York is also the location of another branch of Bettys Café Tea Rooms.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like the Barbican in York, the Crucible in Sheffield hosts a premier snooker tournament.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nottingham also has a modern tramway system.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Norwich is also a UNESCO City of Literature.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool also has both Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The 2014 Tour of Britain cycle race began in Liverpool on 7 September, utilising a city centre circuit to complete 130 km of racing. The race included nine stages and finished in London on 14 September. The seventh stage began at Camberley and ended in Brighton.

 

[John Griffiths]

Whitley Bay also changed its name to avoid confusion with another settlement (it was originally just Whitley and was sometimes confused with Whitby; Camberley was originally Cambridge Town).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Ian La Frenais OBE was born on 7th January 1936 in Monkseaton, Northumberland; he received his early education at Park Primary School in Whitley Bay.

 

[DerekC]

Monkseaton suffered a flash flood in 2012, but it was much less serious than the similar event sixty years earlier at Lynmouth in Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Babbacombe also has a funicular railway.

 

[John Griffiths]

Beaconsfield also has a model village (Bekonscot).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Beaconsfield is also home to the Chiltern Shakespeare Company, which annually holds amateur performances of Shakespeare plays, whereas Stratford-upon-Avon is the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

 

[John Griffiths]

J B Priestley, who died in Stratford in 1984, was born in Manningham, Bradford, in 1894.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Manningham is the location of Valley Parade football stadium, which has been the home of Bradford City FC since they were founded in 1903. The stadium has also been used by Bradford RLFC in recent years while the Odsal Stadium was redeveloped. For the 2020 season, though, the club will play their home games at the Crown Flatt Stadium, Dewsbury.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cleckheaton was also served by the Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Drighlington was also once administered by the Hundred of Morley.

 

[Springs Branch]

Hindley, Greater Manchester, was also endowed with a free grammar school in the 17th Century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lunt is also a settlement that once had its legal land ownership disputes brought before the Wapentake Court of the ancient Hundred of West Derby.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The A565, which is at the western edge of Lunt, runs between Liverpool and Tarleton in Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rufford also lies on the line of the River Douglas.