Settlement Association

[Class172]

The M5 also bypasses Gloucester.

 

[gg1]

Goole is also an inland port

 

[Ivo]

Goole sounds like Poole.

lame

 

[Yew]

Poole had a thriving textile industry, so did Pleasley

 

[Eagle]

Poole had a thriving textile industry, so did Pleasley

Poole never had a textile industry... :?

It's always primarily been a mercantile port and secondarily a pottery town.

EDIT Okay, I guess you could say it was part of the textile industry because it was a major port for exporting wool to the continent in medieval times...
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Pleasley had a colliery, as did Hamstead, Birmingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Appley Bridge (Leeds and Liverpool Canal) and Hamstead , Birmingham (Tame Valley Canal) share a former water-borne method of goods transport.

 

[W-on-Sea]

Like Appley Bridge, Appleford has a name that suggests fruit and crossing water

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Albans and Appleford-on-Thames both had Roman-British settlements

 

[AlterEgo]

St Asaph - also named after a saint.

 

[Schnellzug]

Saint Asaph (or Asaf, Asa) was, in the second half of the 6th century, the first or second Bishop of St Asaph, i.e. bishop of the diocese of Saint Asaph, the Welsh See now of that name. There is a street in Brockley, South East London named after him.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wakefield and Brockley (South-East London) are both areas famous for rhubarb growing.

 

[Ivo]

Wkefield is the "lesser of three cities" [subjective but realistically accurate] in a metropolitan county, as is true of Wolverhampton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brentford was the scene of a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the Danish Vikings, as was Wolverhampton ...(where, incidentally, Google thinks I now live:roll:...instead of near to Macclesfield)

 

[Schnellzug]

Brentford was the scene of a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the Danish Vikings, as was Wolverhampton ...(where, incidentally, Google thinks I now live:roll:...instead of near to Macclesfield)

Oh, I am sorry. Google thinks I live at Upton Scudamore. I haven't the heart to tell it I'm not.

Anyway, Brentford was the home of the 18th/19th century architectural father and son partnership, the Hardwicks. mr. Hardwick senior was a tutor of J.M.W Turner, who painted a stormy scene (now in the Cincinnati Art Museum), on a visit to Lyme Regis, in Dorset, England.

Aren't you impressed with the amount of research that goes into these answers.

 

[Eagle]

Lyme is full of fossils of large marine reptiles; at least one of which now resides in the Natural History Museum in Kensington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Both Liverpool and London have a district called Kensington.

 

[Ivo]

Liverpool was home to the world's first electric overhead railway, which is sadly a thing of the past. However, ever since the 1980s, an electric overhead railway has existed in and around Poplar.

 

[W-on-Sea]

A name associated with trees, that railway, and the Commercial Road-East India Dock Road all connect Poplar with Limehouse

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wapping and Limehouse had great river traditions

 

[Mvann]

There is a wapping in London and also in Liverpool.

 

[Bedpan]

Liverpool sounds as if it starts witrh a connection with an organ and ends with a connection with water. So does Hertford

 

[Ivo]

Not bad!

Milton Keynes is also a major destination on a long-distance road transport service that accepts ENCTS passes (X5/724).

 

[Eagle]

Leamington is also accessed from junctions 13 and 14 of a motorway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bognor Regis and Royal Leamington Spa (to give it its full name) both suggest a royal connection.

 

[Buttsy]

Weymouth is a seaside town (and had Regis in it's original name) as is Bognor Regis

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wembley Stadium and Weymouth (Sailing events at Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy) will both host games events in the 2012 London Olympic Games.

 

[Schnellzug]

[pedant] Strictly speaking, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis were two seperate towns, one on either side of the harbour.
[/pedant]

Wembley is the host of a famous International Stadium, much in fact, like Romford.

(if you're a fan of the Dogs, it's famous, anyway.)

 

[Eagle]

Strictly speaking, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis were two seperate towns, one on either side of the harbour.

Yeah, but not since *checks Wikipedia* 1571, though, when they were merged.

Romford has traditionally been a "swing constituency" between Labour and the Conservatives, as has Stourbridge.

 

[Ivo]

Altrincham is another area of medium importance in a major built up area.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bury and Altrincham are both interchanges having TfGM bus stations outside the station area and are both terminal stations of the Manchester Metrolink.

Yes, I am aware that this is the SETTLEMENT Association Quiz, but this is still a valid answer