Settlement Association

[Welshman]

The Methodist Church at Mellor, Lancashire, is also in the West Pennine Moors Circuit.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoneyhurst is another Lancashire settlement to have had a working stone quarry.

 

[Ivo]

Portsmouth is also famous for something that forms part of its name.

 

[gnolife]

Southampton aldo had ferry services to the Isle of Wight

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southampton also had ferry services to the Isle of Wight

....and still does , as I remember from using them only two weeks ago.

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Christchurch was also visited by St Birninius, the first Bishop of Dorchester, with missionaries,

 

[Deerfold]

de Havilland also had a factory in Hatfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kenilworth was another settlement often visited by Queen Elizabeth I

 

[Deerfold]

Barking also has a canine connection

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whalley also had an abbey that suffered degredations after the Reformation.

 

[Deerfold]

Luddenden Foot also lies alongside the river Calder.

 

[Welshman]

Edinburgh also has a St Cuthbert's church.


Further to a recent past answer -

The Halifax head office still has a well in it giving access to the spring the brewery used.

I used to work next to the door to the room with the well in it.

Really! That's interesting. Thank you.
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Luddenden Foot also lies alongside the river Calder.

Literature connections:-

Branwell Bronte [of the Bronte family] used to work at Luddenden Foot station.
Ted Hughes was born in neighbouring Mytholmroyd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gauxholme also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal

 

[Welshman]

Stubbins

is another industrial Pennine Village, which, along with Gauxholme and Mytholmroyd also sounds like it properly belongs on the shelves of a chemist's shop.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Baxenden is another settlement where a calico printworks was established.

 

[Welshman]

Baxenden is the home of Holland's Pies.

But if a Cornish Pasty is more to your taste, Ginster's started baking in Callington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trewinnion is another site of a Cornish Iron Age hill fort.

 

[Ivo]

Trewinnion doesn't appear in my atlas or on Google Maps

The closest I can find is Trewithian.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trewinnion doesn't appear in my atlas or on Google Maps

The closest I can find is Trewithian.

There is an entry in Wikipedia on Trewinnion.

It is a hamlet in central Cornwall, situated north of the village of Summercourt and about 6.5km south-west of Newquay. It is in the civil parish administration of St Enoder.

Always glad to be of assistance, as and where I can.

 

[Ivo]

Helston is also in the wider SW Grid Reference, as specified by OS.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liskeard was another one of the Cornish stannary towns.

 

[Ivo]

Liscard sounds the same but is not spelt the same.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Totland is another coastal settlement where a defensive battery was installed in its environs.

 

[Welshman]

Fionnphort is in the western part of the Isle of Mull

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tobermory is another island settlement to have featured an exhibition on the life and works of St Columba

 

[Welshman]

The CBeebies series "Balamory" was based on Tobermory.
Likewise Heartbeat's "Aidensfield" was based on Goathland.

 

[12CSVT]

As well as having a preserved railway, North Weald is another place where you can often see some old road vehicles in action.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirton in Lincolnshire also has an organic farm...Woodlands Organic Farm, that has won Radio 4 awards.

 

[Johnuk123]

Frickley was one of the football teams that the Kirton born Oliver Ryan played for.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Delph also has a brass band

 

[Johnuk123]

You can also become a Brownie in Doddington (Fenland)