Settlement Association

[High Dyke]

It also gives its name to the famous cheese, some of which is matured underground in the caves. Another place where cheese is matured underground is the Big Pit mining museum in Blaenafon, Wales

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saltaire is another British example of a World Heritage Site

 

[High Dyke]

Was a purpose built industrial settlement. Another was Nenthead, Cumbria.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rookhope in County Durham is another former lead-mining village that also lies on the line of the C2C long-distance cycle route.

 

[High Dyke]

Was referred to in the poem New Year Letter by W H Auden. He was born in the City of York.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wakefield was another settlement that suffered from the Norman retribution known as the Harrying of the North.

 

[Altnabreac]

Wakefield was granted City Status in 1888, the same year that Belfast was given that honour.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cardiff also has a district near its docks called Tigers Bay

 

[MK Tom]

The London Docklands are also home to a Torchwood base!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coventry was also subject to bombing by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.

 

[High Dyke]

Linwood in Scotland was the home of the factory that produced the Hillman Imp. Initially it was powered by a Coventry Climax engine.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dagenham also has historical links to the car-building industry.

 

[High Dyke]

The church of St Peter and Paul in Dagenham was once the Parish Church of George Carey who went on to be Archbishop of Canterbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsingham was another area of pilgrimage that saw a reigning medieval British monarch in attendance.

 

[High Dyke]

Arbroath is also home to a 10¼ inch gauge railway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Yarmouth was also well-known for causing part of its fish catch from trawlers to be smoked.

 

[High Dyke]

Crovie in Scotland was also affected by the 1953 North Sea flood.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Helmsdale is another marine settlement where crofters displaced by the Highland Clearances were resettled.

 

[High Dyke]

Ballymartin in Northern Ireland was also the location of a Chain Home Radar station during WWII.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Annaclone also has a County Down area Gaelic Football team.

 

[High Dyke]

the local area is known as the Brontë Homeland, after Patrick Brontë who was born there. Patrick outlived his wife, Maria and all of their children. He was later appointed a school examiner at a Wesleyan academy school in Guiseley, where he met Maria.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heavenfield in Northumberland also has a church dedicated to St Oswald.

 

[High Dyke]

is also the name of a Dark Sci-fi audiobook by the writer I G Hulme. He wrote it whilst residing in Robin Hood's Bay.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shap is another settlement that lies on the line of the 192 mile long Coast to Coast Walk.

 

[Welshman]

The Battle of Heavenfield was fought between Oswald of Bernica and Cadwallan ap Cadfan, King of Gwynedd.
Although now revived as a county name for NW Wales, the earliest mention of "Gwynedd" is thought to be on a gravestone in the church at Penmachno.

EDIT - Bother, bother!!

It took all of ten minutes to work-out that link with Heavenfield!


Drybergh [Scottish Borderlands] also had an abbey founded by the Premonstratensian Order.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Drybergh [Scottish Borderlands] also had an abbey founded by the Premonstratensian Order.

St Boswells also has a large statue commemorating William Wallace

 

[High Dyke]

EDIT - Bother, bother!!

It took all of ten minutes to work-out that link with Heavenfield!

I was having fun trying find something off my research... :roll:

St Boswells also has a large statue commemorating William Wallace

Wooler is also on the St Cuthbert's Way long distance footpath.

 

[Darren R]

Grace Darling, who is famous for her part in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838, came to Wooler whilst in the final stages of tuberculosis in 1842. She is buried with her mother and father in a modest grave in St Aidan's Churchyard Bamburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coldingham in Berwickshire was also an important settlement in the Brythonic Kingdom of Bryneich.

 

[High Dyke]

Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire is also a conservation village.