Settlement Association

[TheEdge]

The River Stour of Stourbridge fame is a major tributary of the River Severn which flows through, among other places, Shrewsbury

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boroughbridge, near to York, was also the scene of a medieval English battle between the ruling king of England and rebellious barons.
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Boroughbridge is about 13 miles north-west of York...if that helps with its situation

 

[Welshman]

Wensley

is also on the River Ure.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby Malham is another settlement in North Yorkshire that has a church (St Michael's) of great antiquity (between 7th and 9th century AD) which is a Grade I listed building...the church at Wensley dedicated to the Holy Trinity is c.AD1300

 

[Welshman]

The writer Bill Bryson used to live in Kirkby Malham.
Apparently, he now lives in Wramplingham.

[clue - somewhere in Norfolk!]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tuttington in Norfolk also has a round-tower church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[Trainfan344]

St Paul has his own Cathedral dedicated to him in The City, London

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colchester was another settlement that the Romans had as their capital city in Britain and was also the scene of a retributionary attack and sacking by the joint forces of the Iceni and the Trinovantes tribal peoples.

 

[Bedpan]

Teignmouth also begins with a mis-spelt mineral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bristol was another settlement from which privateering under letters marque was carried out.

 

[Welshman]

Leyland

also gave its name to bus manufacturing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Golborne also has a brass band.

 

[ls2270]

Cwmbran also suffered a fatal explosion at its local colliery (in 1927).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newtown in Powys is another designated Welsh new rown.

 

[Welshman]

Robert Owen, social reformer, was born in Newtown. He was one of the forerunners of the Co-operative Movement, whose first major success is considered to have been with the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers in 1844.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bramhall Hall is a Grade I listed building.....as is Rochdale town hall.

 

[ls2270]

The headquarters of Servisair were formerly in Bramhall, but are now in Runcorn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worsley also lies on the line of the Bridgewater Canal.

 

[ls2270]

A native of Worsley was football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme, who was most famous for saying 'They think it's all over' at Wembley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cardiff also has an internationally recognised sporting stadium.

 

[Trainfan344]

Cardiff is famous for the TV program "Torchwood", This program was created by Russel T Davies, who was born in Swansea in 1963

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pembroke was another Marcher Lordship that was created after the Norman conquest of Britain.

 

[Welshman]

Fitzwilliam

also shares its name with a Cambridge college.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ackworth is another village in the Hemsworth improvement area.

 

[Trainfan344]

Glasgow was also subject to an improvement area

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dumbarton was also part of the historical Kingdom of Strathclyde.

 

[cjp]

Dumbarton was also part of the historical Kingdom of Strathclyde.

Dumfries

another dum town

 

[Trainfan344]

If you remove Dum from Dumfries, you get fries, Sandwich is another type of food.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hastings was another member of the medieval Confederation of the Cinque Ports.

 

[cjp]

Dover
Boyce , Lord Warden of The Cinque Ports is also Constable of Dover Castle