Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

During the Roman occupation of Britain, Colchester (known as Camulodunum at the time) was destroyed during a rebellion by the local Iceni tribe in AD 61, led by their queen Boadicea.

The capital of the Iceni tribe was Venta Icenorum (translates as "marketplace of the Iceni") located at the modern-day Norfolk village of Caistor St Edmund.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The River Tas also flows through the village of Newton Flotman, in Norfolk.

 

[341o2]

Newton Flotman is on the route of the A140 as is Swainsthorpe

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Peter's Church, Swainsthorpe, is one of a number of churches that are part of the Tas Valley Team Ministry; one of these is All Saints in the village of Shotesham, South Norfolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheadle in Staffordshire also has a patchwork and quilting group.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I hope that this one is okay ....

The local football club for Cheadle is Cheadle Town FC, whose home ground is Park Road Stadium; the club plays in the North West Counties League Division One South. Amongst their opponents are FC Isle of Man; they play at The Bowl, Douglas, Isle of Man.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

No problems with the Isle of Man, as it is shown as one of the acceptable areas to use in the rules on the very first posting of this thread....

Dunfermline in Fife also has a church that is dedicated to St Ninian.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Thanks ... I thought that it would be okay!

At the west end of Dunfermline High Street is the Category A listed City Chambers, designed by James Campbell Walker and built between 1876 and 1879. Some four years after it's completion, he was also responsible for the design of the Town Hall at Hawick in 1883.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandovery in Carmarthenshire is another settlement chosen by the Normans to erect an 11th century motte and bailey castle, after their invasion.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

LLANGUNLLO is also served by the HoWL

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

LLANGUNLLO is also served by the HoWL

Wrong thread, perchance. Incidentally, the station is called Llangynllo and had a nice station canopy many years ago when I was there.

This is the Settlement Association Quiz....not the Station Association Quiz,

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Sorry, try again. LAMPETER is also generally known by an anglicised version of a perfectly good Welsh name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanddewi Brefi in Ceredigion also lies on the line of the River Teifi,

 

[Calthrop]

Llanddewi Brefi in Ceredigion also lies on the line of the River Teifi,

We learn that in the 6th century, St. David (Dewi) held at the above-bolded, the Synod of Brefi. Whitby (North Yorkshire) was also the venue of a momentous Synod, in the following century.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Whitby is heavily involved in the story of Captain James Cook, as it was where he learned seamanship. He was, however, born at Marton, North Yorkshire, in 1728.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Withington in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.

 

[Calthrop]

Withington in Greater Manchester also has a church that is dedicated to St Cuthbert.

Withington's name comes in part from "withy", from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "willow branch used for bundling". Withypool, Somerset (on Exmoor) derives its name similarly.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Withypool is on the River Barle in the Barle Valley; at Dulverton, the river is crossed by the Barle Bridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Exebridge on the border of Somerset and Devon also lies on the line of the River Exe.

 

[341o2]

As Exbridge lies on the confluence of the rivers Barle and Exe, so Tewkesbury is where the Avon meets the Severn

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bentley in South Yorkshire was also badly affected by the floods of July 2007.

 

[Calthrop]

Bentley lies on the River Don; which rises near Dunford Bridge, also in South Yorkshire -- in the Peak District.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hessle in the East Riding of Yorkshire also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Trans-Pennine Trail.

 

[Calthrop]

Hessle is one of a number of locations in Britain which have an adjoining area of some scenic attractiveness known -- one might feel, a bit melodramatically -- as "Little Switzerland" (Hessle's is the Humber Bridge Country Park, an area of old chalk quarries). Another "Little Switzerland" is at Willington in the middle of the Cheshire Plain, 9 miles east of Chester. (Well, parts of Switzerland are low-lying and quietly pretty, rather than mountainously superb.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arley in Cheshire East also had its Hall built to the design of the Nantwich-based architect, George Latham.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Arley Hall was built following it's inheritance by Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton DL, who was an English landowner and poet and a member of the Egerton family of Cheshire. He was born on 14th September 1804 at Norley Bank, Norley, Cheshire, and died, aged 87, on 6 December 1891 at Arley Hall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Poulton-le-Fylde in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[Calthrop]

The actress and music-hall entertainer Tessie O'Shea (1913 -- 1995) -- often billed, rather un-gallantly, as being a substantial lady -- lived for many years in Poulton-le-Fylde; she was born in Cardiff.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mold in Flintshire also is the site of a Crown Court.

 

[Springs Branch]

There's an Argos store in Mold.
Across the water in Ireland, there is another Argos in Co. Kildare at Naas.