Settlement Association

[Calthrop]

Capel Curig in Conwy County Borough also lies on the line of the River Llugwy.

The A4086 road -- which diverges from the A5 at Capel Curig -- also features at (as in, passes through) Llanrug, Gwynedd: four miles east of Caernarfon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Linlithgow in West Lothian also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael.

 

[D6130]

Falkland in Fife also has a ruined former royal palace.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rothesay in Argyll & Bute was also created a Royal Burgh in the 15th century.

 

[D6130]

Tighnabruach in Argyll & Bute is also a calling point for the paddle steamer 'Waverley' during the season.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kames in Argyll & Bute also lies on the route of the A8003 road.

 

[D6130]

Scottish artist Hamilton Macallum was born at Kames in 1841. He died at Beer in Devon in 1896.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Combe Martin in Devon is another coastal settlement with historical connections to smuggling.

 

[Calthrop]

The invaluable Wiki informs us that Combe Martin's main street is reputedly the longest village street in England; but that this is in fact a misapprehension -- the country's actual longest village street is that of Stewkley, Buckinghamshire (a little way north-west of Leighton Buzzard).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haworth in West Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to Sr Michaels and All Angels.

 

[D6130]

The literary Bronte sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - were brought-up in Haworth, where their father was the rector. However all three were born in nearby Thornton, West Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burnsall In North Yorkshire was also once administered by the Staincliffe Wapentake.

 

[D6130]

Tadcaster in North Yorkshire is also situated on the River Wharfe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Church Fenton was also once administered by the Barkston Ash Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

In times past, Church Fenton was a centre for the growing, boiling and bottling of chicory. Nowadays, the concern which claims to be Britain's only firm commercially growing chicory: is based at Spalding, Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Market Harborough in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Welland.

 

[Calthrop]

Market Harborough has a church dedicated to St. Dionysius -- a new one on ignorant me, who was at first put in mind of Dionysus aka Bacchus, Greek god of wine-making / fertility / insanity / the theatre / other good stuff. It would seem that few churches in Britain are dedicated to Saint D. -- but another one that is: is at Ayton, Scottish Borders -- not many miles over the border, from Berwick-upon-Tweed.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grantshouse in Scottish Borders also lies on the line of the Eye Water.

 

[Calthrop]

Grantshouse is the point where the north-to-south A6112 road joins the A1. Some five miles south of Grantshouse on the A6112, is Preston, Scottish Borders ("not to be confused with...").

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Addiscombe in South London also has a post-mounted wrought-iron village sign.

 

[Calthrop]

The novelist and dramatist R.F. Delderfield (1922 -- 72) lived for some of his childhood in Addiscombe; one of his novel series is set in that basic area of South London. He spent much of later parts of his life; and died; in Sidmouth, Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ilfracombe in Devon also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the South West Coast Path.

 

[Calthrop]

Bideford in Devon, is the alternative -- and preferred -- port for the regular boat service to Lundy Island (apologies, as I've tendered before, if I seem a bit obsessed with that place !). Bideford is the norm for this purpose; but vagaries of tides in the Taw / Torridge estuary mean that at times, a Bideford sailing won't work: in which case Ilfracombe is used as the "second-string" departure point and/or destination (in those circumstances, coach connections laid on at no extra charge).

 

[Fermiboson]

The invaluable Wiki informs us that Combe Martin's main street is reputedly the longest village street in England; but that this is in fact a misapprehension -- the country's actual longest village street is that of Stewkley, Buckinghamshire (a little way north-west of Leighton Buzzard).

<off topic> do you have a source for that? It would make a useful correction to Wikipedia. </off topic>

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bideford in Devon, is the alternative -- and preferred -- port for the regular boat service to Lundy Island (apologies, as I've tendered before, if I seem a bit obsessed with that place !). Bideford is the norm for this purpose; but vagaries of tides in the Taw / Torridge estuary mean that at times, a Bideford sailing won't work: in which case Ilfracombe is used as the "second-string" departure point and/or destination (in those circumstances, coach connections laid on at no extra charge).

Lancaster is another place where witch trials were held.

 

[Fermiboson]

Bideford in Devon, is the alternative -- and preferred -- port for the regular boat service to Lundy Island (apologies, as I've tendered before, if I seem a bit obsessed with that place !). Bideford is the norm for this purpose; but vagaries of tides in the Taw / Torridge estuary mean that at times, a Bideford sailing won't work: in which case Ilfracombe is used as the "second-string" departure point and/or destination (in those circumstances, coach connections laid on at no extra charge).

Bideford lies on the A386. A similarly sized town which lies on the A683 also with a ferry service is Heysham, Lancashire.

 

[Calthrop]

(Posts #33,474 and #33,475: since @Xenophon PCDGS's comes first, I take it that Lancaster; rather than @Fermiboson's Heysham; is the one from which to follow on; but will await confirmation.)

<off topic> do you have a source for that? It would make a useful correction to Wikipedia. </off topic>

I think most users of Wikipedia are agreed, that it is by no means invariably accurate or consistent; and sometimes contains decidedly improbable stuff. In referring to Wiki for purposes of this game, I tend freely to use it as contributing to the game's fun, and don't worry overmuch about how right or otherwise, its info may be. I got the stuff about longest village streets, actually from the Wiki entry on Combe Martin. Quoting verbatim: "It is believed that the street is the longest village street in England, but this is actually a myth. It was recorded measured at around a mile and a half long. The actual longest street is in Stewkley, Buckinghamshire. The myth has several possible origins..." -- a couple thereof, accordingly given -- lookable-up in the Wiki entry, if one is interested. Wiki's entry re Stewkley, contains nothing about that settlement's village street ! As said, I don't take Wiki material with an ultra-high degree of seriousness.

 

[OxtedL]

Yes it looks like Lancaster is this most recent move, unless someone can quickly think of a link between Lancaster and Heysham (perhaps the Stagecoach 1 bus route...!)

 

[Fermiboson]

Yes it looks like Lancaster is this most recent move, unless someone can quickly think of a link between Lancaster and Heysham (perhaps the Stagecoach 1 bus route...!)

That works, and both lie on the A683, and you must go through Lancaster to go anywhere else from Heysham on the rail network? Xenophon and I decided to just leave it to whoever is doing the next association to choose which one to go from. Or since you're the quizmaster, I presume you can also decide.

 

[Calthrop]

Reference the preceding posts: taking Heysham to be potentially "on the table" -- there is at Heysham, an archaeological site which features a pre-Roman labyrinth carving -- one of only three such in the British Isles. One of the other two is at Tintagel, Cornwall.