Settlement Association

[Class172]

Cirencester is also on the Fosse Way.

 

[Schnellzug]

I thought that was the taxis?

Apparently OBC have been doing it for some time, ostensibly to record conversations betwen the driver & people purchasing tickets.
:-/


To continue the thread, another place that's almost equally difficult to spell and pronounce is Towcester.

 

[Ivo]

Settle's name is also very similar to a cheap kitchen appliance that is very draining on current (toaster/kettle).

 

[gg1]

Settle's name is also very similar to a cheap kitchen appliance that is very draining on current (toaster/kettle).

Settle = Kettle - fair enough
Cirencester = Toaster - erm

In that case, so does Cliftonville (Breville)

 

[Ivo]

Settle = Kettle - fair enough
Cirencester = Toaster - erm

In that case, so does Cliftonville (Breville)

Schnellzug said Towcester after Cirencester (he just underlined it instead of putting it in bold)

 

[gg1]

Schnellzug said Towcester after Cirencester (he just underlined it instead of putting it in bold)

In that case:

Atherstone is also a town on the A5.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton (as Aquae Arnemetiae)) and Atherstone (as Manduessedum) were both Roman settlements.

 

[Ivo]

In the same way that Buxton is on the periphery of the Peak District, Bangor is on the periphery of Snowdonia.

 

[Eagle]

Bangor has been a city since "time immemorial" (the mid-6th century to be precise), as has Bath.

 

[Ivo]

"Our" Christmas Lights were turned on by John Cleese roughly nine hours ago. Mr Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare (shudder).

I've been reading back through the thread Some of yours are really quite clever Eagle!

 

[Eagle]

Peterston super Ely (in Glamorgan) is another super place.

 

[Ivo]

From Peterston to Peterhead.

 

[Schnellzug]

Peterhead is, interestingly, often referred to as The Blue Toon and people who were born there as Blue Tooners. More correctly they are called Bloomogganners, supposedly from the blue worsted stockings that the fishermen originally wore.

A place that has a football club that is popularly known as the Toon is, of course, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Bloomogganners also might well be a Geordie oath.

 

[deltic1989]

Grimsby, another place whose local football team play in black and white stripes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In The Danelaw, words having the suffix "-by" originally meant a farmstead, but this evolved to mean a village, town or even a city.

Whitby is a North Sea coastal settlement, as is Grimsby.

 

[W-on-Sea]

Abingdon, like Whitby, had a great abbey that now is little more than devastated ruins

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cirencester and Abingdon both have the remains of an Iron Age Oppidum within their environs.

 

[Ivo]

Cirencester has a direct bus connection to Swindon.

 

[W-on-Sea]

...As does Faringdon (to return to Berkshire-masquerading-not-very-convincingly-as-Oxfordshire)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the Domesday Book, Lancaster is shown a having a geld land tax of 7.5 units and manors in Amounderness, whereas Abingdon is shown as having a manor and a mill.

 

[gg1]

Wellington also shares it's name with a WW2 bomber.

 

[Ivo]

Christchurch also shares its name with a more famous settlement in New Zealand.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanfairpwll has a 90 foot high monument erected in honour of Henry Paget, the Marquis of Anglesey, who lost a leg at the Battle of Waterloo and Wellington has a 175 foot high monument erected in honour of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, who was in charge of the British forces at the Battle of Waterloo.

This entry has associations covering titled people, monuments and the same battle

 

[Ivo]

Sorry Paul

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sorry Paul

No problem, but I was not going to delete my posting after so much research:roll:

Southampton and Christchurch were both visited by St Birinius, the first bishop of Dorchester, with missionaries.

 

[Ivo]

Although city rivalries are mostly rare in this country, Southampton hate Portsmouth!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salford and Portsmouth both have cathedrals.

 

[Ivo]

Salford and Portsmouth both have cathedrals.

Interestingly, both were granted City Status in 1926. The last city to have this honour bestowed upon it before these two was Stoke-on-Trent.

 

[deltic1989]

Newark-on-Trent is another settlement that sits on the banks of the trent with an electrified railway passing through.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caernarfon and Newark-on-Trent both have castles.