Xenophon PCDGS
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Blackpool and Rhyl are "cheap and cheery" seaside resorts.
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Ivo
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Unless something way beyond even our most ambitious and wildest expectations should result, the early 21st Century history of both Blackpool and Edinburgh will be dominated by folly relating to their respective tramways...
Xenophon PCDGS
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Clitheroe and Edinburgh have stone-built defensive positions built upon crags.
Ivo
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The A59 also bypasses Skipton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Conwy and Skipton have castles that are tourist attractions and incur admission charges.
Back to welsh: Porthaethwy is also bypassed by the A55.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Responding to you in like manner with one clarification for some forum members.........
Llandegfan and Porthaethwy (Menai Bridge) are both on the route of the Afon Cadnant, before it flows into the Menai Straits.
Llandegfan and Porthaethwy (Menai Bridge) are both on the route of the Afon Cadnant, before it flows into the Menai Straits.
Schnellzug
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One of the most famous residents* of Llan- whatever it was, is Aled Jones off of Walking in the Air, who once appeared in the leading role in the long-running production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on a Blackpool pier.
*not necesarily now, but he did at one time
*not necesarily now, but he did at one time
Xenophon PCDGS
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Chester and Blackpool have zoos.
Ivo
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Chester's name in Welsh means "Fort". Tilbury is famous for its fort.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Colchester and Tilbury had Roman settlements
Ivo
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One from last night that I alluded to (in the Football thread): Colchester United consider their main rivals to be Wycombe Wanderers.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Goosnargh and Wycombe are both entered in the Domesday Book.
Eagle
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Goosnargh was a minced oath often associated with a man called Ford.
(Ford, Sussex, is the one we'll continue from.)
gg1
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so is Wednesbury
Schnellzug
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Wednesbury is another of Ford Prefect's favourite oaths?
Any road, since we have two simultaneously, let me try this...
Ford was a popular make of Car, manufactured at Dagenham among other places. Dagenham is on the Thames Estuary. Wednesbury, meanwhile, is near the source of the river Tame. So we've now got from Dagenham to Wednesday and everyone's happy. :roll:
Wednesbury, meanwhile, was fortified by Ethelfleda, daughter of Alfred the Great, who had his capital at Winchester, Hampshire.
Winchester is near to the site of a controversial motorway extension (Twyford Down); the same applies to Oxford (M40 J8-9).
Ivo
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Cambridge comes along with Oxford once again, this time for the former Varsity Line.
Cambridge was once by-passed by the A45, this is no longer the case; this also applies to Ipswich.
Ivo
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Not bad for someone of school age!
The modern A45 east of the Cambridge area, which is of course the A14, runs to the south of Ipswich en route to Felixstowe.
The modern A45 east of the Cambridge area, which is of course the A14, runs to the south of Ipswich en route to Felixstowe.
Felixstowe is also at the end of a primary road (A14) with junction numbers, as is Holyhead (A55).
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Oh I know all my roads...Not bad for someone of school age!
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Ivo
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It shows 
Sounds like me at your age!
To complete a very particular set, and to bring us back into East Anglia, the remaining location is either Ipswich, where numbering ends on the A12, or Great Yarmouth, where the road itself terminates. Given our recent link at Ipswich, let's choose the latter: Great Yarmouth.
Sounds like me at your age!To complete a very particular set, and to bring us back into East Anglia, the remaining location is either Ipswich, where numbering ends on the A12, or Great Yarmouth, where the road itself terminates. Given our recent link at Ipswich, let's choose the latter: Great Yarmouth.
Great Yarmouth is at the end of the A47, Birmingham is at the other end.
Ivo
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Keeping this up, the other regional capital on the A38 is Bristol.
Eagle
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Actually the "capital" of South West England (i.e. where the regional governmental department is situated) is Plymouth, also on the A38 :P
Bristol/Plymouth is the last major settlement on the A4/A38; Carlisle is the last on the A6 (and the last on the A7).
Ivo
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Luton (well, the Luton borough anyway) is one of the few other areas to have two separate single-digit A-roads passing through it.
Slough also has its own un-numbered motorway spur serving it.
Ivo
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Controversial one now (after this, I'm off): Guildford is also a cess pit just outside the M25.
Eagle
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Blandford also has a silent D.