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Eagle
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Trafford is home to a nationally-renowned shopping centre, as is Greenhithe.
Ivo
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Not another OT link! :roll:
St Auustell is also home to a major modern facility that was built in a quarry area.
St Auustell is also home to a major modern facility that was built in a quarry area.
St Endelion is another settlement in Cornwall named after a saint.
Schnellzug
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I must say I'd never heard of St Endelion, but i find that On 25 August 2010 it was announced that British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha had named their newborn daughter "Florence Rose Endellion" after the village,[7] reflecting the fact she was born whilst the Cameron family were holidaying in Cornwall.
David Cameron is an Old Etonian, and Eton was where the Battle of Waterloo was won, according to something some poet or someone said once, I think, and Waterloo is, as well as a bridge and station in London, also an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England.
which takes us to Waterloo, Merseyside, in case anyone lost track.
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David Cameron is an Old Etonian, and Eton was where the Battle of Waterloo was won, according to something some poet or someone said once, I think, and Waterloo is, as well as a bridge and station in London, also an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England.
which takes us to Waterloo, Merseyside, in case anyone lost track.
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Eagle
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Why not just stop at Eton? I know things about that town without having to look them up. (Also: leaving the reference numbers in from the article? Smooth...)
Right... Crosby Beach (in Waterloo, Lancs) is home to sculpture by Antony Gormley, as is Gateshead.
gg1
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Falkirk also has an interesting piece of engineering built as a Millenium Project.
I'm referring of course to the Millenium Bridge across the Tyne and the very impressive Falkirk wheel.
I'm referring of course to the Millenium Bridge across the Tyne and the very impressive Falkirk wheel.
Xenophon PCDGS
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New Mills also has an engineering structure built for the Millennium called the Millennium Walkway
I tried hard not to emulate Victoria Wood with her "Minnellium":roll:
I tried hard not to emulate Victoria Wood with her "Minnellium":roll:
Eagle
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New Mills is in the East Midlands Region, as is Kings Sutton.
gg1
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Princes End (in the Black Country) also has a regal name.
Ivo
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A more well known location to have a name consisting of Princes __________ would be Princes Risborough.
The nearest motorway to Princes Risborough is the M40; this is also the case with Stratford-upon-Avon.
Schnellzug
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It's more fun taking it as many contrived stages as possible. :P]
Any road, as we seem to have got to Stratford-upon-the-Avon, this is famously on the river Avon, although this is not the same river Avon as flows into the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth, England.
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Avonmouth is at the end of the A4, as Holyhead is the end of the A5.
Ivo
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Holyhead is on Holy Island. Elsewhere, another Holy Island exists off the coast of Northumberland, with Berwick-upon-Tweed the local "major" settlement (which also just happens to be on another single-digit "A"-class road).
gg1
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Berwick upon Tweed is an English town who's football team plays in the league of another UK country, the same is true of Oswestry (the latter's team being TNS).
Dunstable and Oswestry both are served by the A5.
Eagle
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How's this for tangential?
Bournemouth contains Meyrick Park.
The cricketer Meyrick Pringle played for one season for Marylebone.
Bournemouth contains Meyrick Park.
The cricketer Meyrick Pringle played for one season for Marylebone.
Ivo
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There is also a Marylebone near Wigan.
Schnellzug
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Wigan is famous for its, that's right, Pier. And the longest one in the UK is, of course, in Southend, although so far as anyone is aware, George Orwell never went anywhere near there.
Ivo
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Boring! (sorry)
Worst connection ever: From Southend to Bath. Why? [insert lack of modesty here]
(sorry)Worst connection ever: From Southend to Bath. Why? [insert lack of modesty here]
Another 'lazy' association: Droitwich Spa is also a spa town.
Xenophon PCDGS
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I see that, once again, you have returned back to "home" territory.....
Hull was subjected to flooding caused by excessive railfall in the 2007 nation-wide flooding, as was Droitwich Spa.
Solihull and Kingston are both home to John Lewis department stores.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Wilmslow and Solihull do not have any university premises but they do have nature reserves.
Ivo
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From Wilmslow to Buckfastleigh.
gg1
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Newcastle also gives it's name to an alcoholic drink
deltic1989
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assuming thats Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. then ill go to Blackpool, another British settlement that has a landmark baring a resemblence to one in a forgien country.gg1:854759 said: