Settlement Association

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Sedburgh is known as "England's Book Town"; the Welsh equivalent is Hay-on-Wye, Powys.

 

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Cheltenham also hosts an annual literary festival.

 

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Cheltenham is also famous for being the headquarters of the Government Communications Headquarters, commonly known as GCHQ. The organisation moved there in 1954 from a Ministry of Defence site in Eastcote, within the London Borough of Hillingdon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ickenham was also once under the jurisdiction of the Uxbridge Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Pinner, like Ickenham, expanded enormously as part of Metro-land.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yiewsley also lies on the line of the River Pinn.

 

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Ronnie Wood was born on 1st June 1947 (he's now aged 72!) in Hillingdon, Middlesex. Long before becoming the guitarist in The Rolling Stones and Faces, he grew up in Yiewsley, attending St Stephen's Infant School and St Matthew's Church of England Primary School.

 

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Pendeen in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

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Pendeen is famous for the Geevor Tin Mine, which is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage. Another British Anchor Point is the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pit_National_Coal_Museum']Big Pit National Coal Museum Mining, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaenavon']Blaenafon.[/URL] [/URL]

 

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Llangwm in Conwy County Borough also has a Male Voice Choir.

 

[talerddig]

Male Voice choirs abound in Wales, but one I remember is the BRIGHTON Welsh Male voice choir

 

[johnnychips]

Southend also has a pier.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Farnborough also hosts an airshow.

 

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The Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) was formed at Farnborough Airfield ("RAE Farnborough") in 1904. RAE Bedford was a research site between 1946 and 1994, and was located near the village of Thurleigh, Bedfordfordshire.

 

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Farndish in Bedforshire also was once administered by the Hundred of Willey.

 

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The local author H E Bates would often come through the village on his nocturnal walks in the 1920s and 1930s. It was on one of the night walks that he got the inspiration for his first novel, The Two Sisters, when he saw a light burning in a cottage window. H E Bates was born on 16th May 1905 in Rushden, Northamptonshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belfast also has a transport museum.

 

[talerddig]

The Titanic brewery is famous for its beer, made in BURSLEM

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Longton also still has examples of Bottle Ovens.

 

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The author Arnold Bennett, who was born on 27th May 1867 in Hanley, Staffordshire, referred to Longton as Longshaw in his novels centred on the Potteries towns.

 

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First Potteries' "Kingfisher" bus route operates between Hanley and Uttoxeter.

 

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Swanage is another settlement where Bronze Age axe heads have been excavated.

 

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Limited ferry services run between and Swanage Pier and Poole Quay.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dorchester was another of the settlements occupied by the loose association of Belgic group of Celtic tribes that are commonly referred to by their group name of the Durotriges.

 

[talerddig]

LLANGADOG is one of many stations sited near to a Celtic hill fort

 

[fishquinn]

LLANGADOG is one of many stations sited near to a Celtic hill fort

Just a note that this is the settlement association quiz so a station wouldn't normally be allowed. In this case Llangadog is a settlement anyway so the association is fine.

Llanelli is also in Carmarthenshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brecon has also hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

 

[johnnychips]

York is also in the name of a National Park. (North York Moors cf Brecon Beacons).

 

[DerekC]

Stow in Lindsey also has a Minster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gautby in Lincolnshire also has an illuminated village sign.