Settlement Association

[Ivo]

Troon also ends in "oon".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Troon also ends in "oon".

Now that's a "novel" suffix that was new to me....Pictish?

Lytham St Annes and Dunoon are both places that host the Open Golf Championship......What a time to have a "Senior Moment"...Not my turn to go .....and suddenly deciding at add Dunoon (rather than Troon) to the event rota of the Open Golf Championship..

 

[Ivo]

You just linked to your answer Paul (although I do quite like said link; which course is close to Dunoon?)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

You just linked to your answer Paul (although I do quite like said link; which course is close to Dunoon?)

My apologies...It was not my turn to go...I have amended my last posting with an apology

 

[Ivo]

That didn't occur to me A senior moment from a not-so-senior person.

Wells-next-the-Sea also has a three word long suffix that relates to the sea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wells-next-the-Sea also has a three word long suffix that relates to the sea.

Bradwell-juxta-Mare is also a place which signifies the closeness to a maritime situation...and was made famous for its ancient chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall that was built in the area where St Cedd was said to have landed with missionaries in 653AD

 

[W-on-Sea]

Dungeness is another remote coastal location where a nuclear power station was constructed

 

[Class172]

Romney is also served by a narrow gauge railway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burscough (Martin Mere) and Romney (Romney Marshes) are areas of administration by a wetland trust.

 

[Ivo]

Brough also ends in "ough", making it potentially difficult for any non-local to pronounce correctly!

 

[Eagle]

You didn't say which Brough, so I'm going to choose for you.

Brough, Cumbria, is a tiny village that's nevertheless a primary destination on the A66, like Scotch Corner.

Why they don't use real destinations, like Appleby and Barnard Castle, is beyond me. (Actually no it isn't, it's because Brough and Scotch Corner are both major junctions.)

 

[Ivo]

To be honest it doesn't matter which, it applies to them all! (You can probably guess that I mean the one between Selby and Hull, although I do know of the one to which you refer.)

California, a suburb of Ipswich, also sounds like it's in the wrong place...

 

[Eagle]

Short Heath, a suburb of Birmingham, is also accessed by a station named after a road with another city in its name.

 

[Ivo]

I assume you refer to Chester Road?

Another more famous S______ Heath in Bimingham is Small Heath, known for, amongst other things, football, violence - and tornadoes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newton Heath and Small Heath both have historical football connections.

 

[Eagle]

Newton Heath was the site of a factory owned by Avro, who manufactured a well-known bomber plane called the Lancaster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Westminster and Lancaster both share a title of "Duke".

 

[gg1]

Wormwood Scrubs is another place where you will find a number of thieves and fraudsters

 

[Class172]

How on earth are we supposed to follow up from that one!?

 

[Eagle]

Wormwood Scrubs is a former ground of QPR FC, but they now play in Shepherd's Bush.

 

[Schnellzug]

Paradoxically, however, there is no Queen's Park in Shepherds Bush. There are, however, several in the UK, one of those best known of which is possibly in Glasgow, Scotland.

 

[W-on-Sea]

One of the rivers that runs through Glasgow, giving its name to various places there, is the Kelvin. This is also the name of a district of Sheffield

 

[Yew]

Sheffield wednesday play at Hillsborough in Sheffield, the only other football team named after a day of the week are the Abergavenny Thursdays

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Conwy and Abergavenney are medieval walled settlements in Wales.

 

[Eagle]

Conwy is also a county borough, as is Wrexham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigan and Wrexham both have long-standing coal mining history.

 

[Ivo]

Bolton also has a bus station managed by TfGM/GMPTE/Cuckoo-Cuckoo/Something.

at Wormwood Scrubs

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bradford and Bolton were towns supporting the Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War.

 

[Class172]

Bradford and Cardiff also has a numbered motorway spur serving it (M606 and A48(M) respectively).

 

[Eagle]

Cardiff and Salford are home to new studio complexes owned by the BBC.