Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester was also chosen to be the site of a television studio that is now closed.

 

[Springs Branch]

Goole is also an inland port which handled significant sea-going traffic in the past.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mexborough also lies on the line of the River Don

 

[Springs Branch]

Kirkcaldy is the birthplace of another championship darts player - 1980s legend Jocky Wilson.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northampton also has a Gilbert and Sullivan society.

 

[AndyPJG]

British Timken also manufactured roller bearings in Aston, Birmingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Everton is another Premiership football team that does not have the name of the city in its name, but just that of the city district.

 

[AndyPJG]

Norton, Runcorn also has a Grade II listed water tower.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cartmel was also chosen to be the site for an Augustinian order priory.

 

[AndyPJG]

Wincanton, Somerset is also home to a National Hunt racecourse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoke-on-Trent also has links to the pottery industry.

 

[AndyPJG]

Bristol also has two professional football teams.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsall also has an Orthodox Church dedicated to the Nativity of the Mother of God

 

[Springs Branch]

Bradford also operated trolleybuses into the 1970s.

 

[12CSVT]

Lacock, Wiltshire has a photography museum

 

[AndyPJG]

Kettlewell, North Yorks holds a Scarecrow Festival too.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bainbridge also appears on Sheet 98 of the Ordnance Survey's 1:50,000 Landranger series maps.

 

[johnnychips]

Ripon traditionally also has a horn blower to sound the curfew.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ely also has a cathedral.

 

[Springs Branch]

St Neots is also on the Great Ouse river.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsingham was another settlement that received many pilgrims in the Middle Ages

 

[Springs Branch]

Audley End also has a 10¼" gauge miniature railway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sutton Scarsdale in Derbyshire also has a site that is administered by English Heritage.

 

[Springs Branch]

Directly to the north, Thirsk is also at Longitude 1°20' W.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontefract also has a racecourse

 

[Springs Branch]

The last three posted locations have all been close to the 1°20' W line of Longitude.

Another place at this same Longitude is Newbury, which also has a racecourse

I know the idea is to change the associated feature between posts, but I thought three racecourses in a precise North-South line was worth a comment!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Settlement Association Quiz...Rules:

• Repeating any of the previous three clues or names of settlements in a link is forbidden
• Associations provided should be clearly dissimilar to each of the previous three associations.
• Settlements may be anywhere in the United Kingdom.
• A description of the association should be incorporated in each posting, without simply posting the name only.

Perhaps this is an opportune time to show the rules of this particular quiz
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Another place at this same Longitude is Newbury, which also has a racecourse

Gosport also had a Mesolithic period settlement where hunting camps were incorporated.

 

[Springs Branch]

Dartmouth is also home to a Royal Navy training establishment.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Henley also hosts an annual regatta.

 

[AndyPJG]

Chertsey also has a stone multi-arch bridge over the River Thames, opened a year earlier in 1785.