Settlement Association

[Welshman]

Queensbury is also the home of a Brass Band [Black Dyke Mills Band]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huddersfield was also once noted for the production of worsted cloth.

 

[Welshman]

Ripon [as well as Huddersfield] is now an Episcopal Area in the new C of E diocese of West Yorkshire and The Dales. [Previously, it was a diocese in its own right].

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Masham also lies on the line of the River Ure.

 

[cjp]

there is also a brewery in Plockton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Helensburgh also hosts a regatta.

 

[cjp]

Lying opposite Helensburgh (which has a great ice-cream shop whose name escapes me) on the other side of the Clyde is Greenock

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clydebank also suffered two nights of intensive bombing by the Luftwaffe in 1941.

 

[Welshman]

Wallsend also used to have a thriving ship-building industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maryport had a Roman fort (Alauna) at the western extremity of Hadrians Wall.....Wallsend had a Roman fort (Segedunum) at the eastern extremity of that wall

 

[Springs Branch]

Goole was also a busy port for the shipment of coal during the Industrial Revolution.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Keadby is another inland port.

 

[Springs Branch]

Thorne, in South Yorkshire, is also the site of one of the few locks needed on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wroot also lies on the line of the footpath called The Peatlands Way

 

[Welshman]

Mehatabel Wesley Wright [ a name to conjure with!] did not get on too well with the people of Wroot, writing of the place:-

What a lamp is hid admidst such a sordid race

She presumably found Epworth, where she was born, more pleasant.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beltoft is another settlement on the land area known as the Isle of Axholme

 

[Welshman]

Beltoft is a hamlet in the parish of Belton[Lincolnshire].
As is Sandtoft.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkley also was once a part of the Hundred of Mutford and Lothingland.

 

[cjp]

Keeping a religious connection (kirk) I offer Temple Fortune a part of London (which I suspect had a connection with Knights Templar)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southport also has a Reform Synagogue

 

[cjp]

Great Yarmouth also has a seaside amusement park

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rockland St Mary also lies on the line of the River Yare

 

[cjp]

Rockland St Mary also lies on the line of the River Yare

In Devon there is the similarly named Ottery St Mary

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newton Poppleford also lies on the line of the River Otter

 

[johnnychips]

Evesham is also known as an area renowned for market gardening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frome is another settlement where a large hoard of Roman coinage was discovered.

 

[Springs Branch]

Knutsford also has a church dedicated to St John the Baptist.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lymm is another area that was once administered by the ancient Hundred of Bucklow.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wilmslow is also on the course of the River Bollin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Westhoughton also has a church that is dedicated to St Bartholomew.