Settlement Association

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Ray Reardon MBE (1932-2004) was born in Tredegar and lived in Market Drayton until 1980. He won two of his six World Professional Snooker titles whilst living there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tobermory in the Inner Hebrides also has a clock tower.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Tobermory (no "a") gained prominence as the location for the 2000s BBC children's programme Balamory which made the coloured houses of the main street famous, although they are not unique to there. Another location used for filming was Kingston, a small hamlet near North Berwick, which provided Fenton Tower as the location for Archie's castle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fort Augustus in the Scottish Highlands is another settlement where ancient long-cist burial sites have been discovered.

 

[DerekC]

From Fort Augustus you can travel westwards on the Caledonian Canal until the sea lock at Corpach takes you out into the head of Loch Linnhe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lochgilphead in Argyll & Bute also has a marina.

 

[D6130]

Lochgilphead is the current administrative centre for the modern unitary authority of Argyll & Bute....whereas the historic county town of the former county of Argyll was Inveraray.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brechin in Angus was also created a Royal Burgh in the 17th century.

 

[D6130]

Abernethy is Perth & Kinross is another Scottish location for an Irish-style medieval round tower.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Guisbororough in North Yorkshire is also a settlement where the religious order of Augustinian Canons was established.

 

[DerekC]

Dorothy Robson was born in Guisborough in 1919. She was awarded the degree of BSc in Mechanical Engineering by the University of Leeds in 1940 and applied to join the RAF, but was rejected as too short. She joined the Ministry of Aircraft Production designing improvements to bombsights. Being pretty as well as highly intelligent she became well known as "Bombsight Bertha" in Bomber Command. In 1943 she went on a test flight, occupying the navigator's seat on a Handley Page Halifax. Sadly the aircraft crashed into a hill whilst flying very low at Enthorpe in East Yorkshire. Three of the crew were killed instantly and Robson died in hospital two days later.

She is commemorated on the Hartlepool War Memorial, the RAF 76 Squadron memorial in Malton and by being represented by a silhouette statue as one of ten women who played a vital role in World War II at the Women of War exhibition in Lincoln in 2025

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fangfoss in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Harthill Wapentake.

 

[D6130]

Appleton Roebuck in North Yorkshire also has a disused windmill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lanchester in County Durham also has a church that is dedicated at All Saints.

 

[DerekC]

Bristol is another place whose name is associated with a manufacturer of motor cars, now defunct (although in the case of Bristol, subject to a possible revival)

 

[D6130]

Bristol is another place whose name is associated with a manufacturer of motor cars, now defunct (although in the case of Bristol, subject to a possible revival)

Maybe I'm being pedantic but, IIRC, Lanchester cars were named after the suburb of Coventry in which they were manufactured, rather than the village in Co. Durham. Meanwhile....

Maxwelltown in Dumfries and Galloway also has a camera Obscura.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunoon in Argyll & Bute was also created a Burgh of Barony in the 19th century.

 

[DerekC]

Dunoon is the location for an annual Highland Gathering. Rather surprisingly, so is Corby in Northamptonshire.

Maybe I'm being pedantic but, IIRC, Lanchester cars were named after the suburb of Coventry in which they were manufactured, rather than the village in Co. Durham.

Taking a contrarian but probably equally pedantic view, I did say that the name was associated with, not that the cars were manufactured there.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tideswell in Derbyshire also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Baptist.

This church is known as "The Cathedral of the Peak"

 

[High Dyke]

St Margaret's Church in Wormhill, Derbyshire, also contains examples of wood carvings by the splendidly named Advent Hunstone, who was born in Tideswell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peak Forest in Derbyshire was also once administered by the Hundred of High Peak.

 

[DerekC]

Peak Forest was once a place where a minister could perform a marriage without first having to read the banns, as had to be done elsewhere in England. For this reason, like Gretna Green, Dumfries and Galloway, it was well known as a target for eloping couples.