Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigan and New Tredegar both have a coal mining history.

 

[Class172]

Wigan and Carnforth have their own motorway spur off the M6 (J25; J35).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haworth and Carnforth have railway locomotive preservation heritage.

 

[Ivo]

Using the serif form of the small case letter "A" ["a"], Haworth + one 180° rotation = Heworth.

(Assume this refers to Heworth on the T&W and not any others there may be; I was only aware of the one until I checked for this.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peak Dale and Heworth (the one in Tyne & Wear) both have a history of quarrying.

(The other Heworth that I know is in the York area).

 

[12CSVT]

Middlewich also has a freight-only railway line

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northwich and Middlewich have a very long historical association with the salt industry.

 

[Class172]

No prizes for guessing what comes next; with a post like that Paul it was inevitable.

Droitwich Spa also has a very long association with salt, however the salt is used in a somewhat different way that of the Cheshire towns.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harrogate and Droitwich Spa are both places where the water is used for "betterment"....

 

[Class172]

Harrogate Spa and Bath Spa are, well, it's prettly obvious what the connection is…

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I am glad to see your return "to the fray" which will awake some dormant quizzes......though a little bit on the lazy side using the "Spa" association again.

Bolton (Le Mans Crescent) and Bath (Royal Crescent) both possess dramatic architectural buildings that are built on a curve.

 

[Class172]

Bolton is served by a triple-digit road with the same numbers (A666); the same applies to Nuneaton (A444).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Canterbury and Nuneaton were both settlements that were entered in the Domesday Book.

 

[Class172]

Call me lazy for using the Spa connection too many times — I've lost count how many times you've used the Doomsday Book connection.

Canterbury (A2) and Hindhead (A3) are served by single-digit roads.

 

[Eagle]

I've lost count how many times you've used the Doomsday Book connection.

Particularly as you could use it to connect to the vast majority of settlements in England. :P

To stop you doing it again, I'm going to Scotland.

Hindhead has the UK's most expensive road mile for mile, the Hindhead tunnel. Before it opened in summer 2011, that record was held for about a week by the M74 in Polmadie.

 

[Class172]

Polmadie (M74) and Cumbernauld (M80) are both places now served by motorway extensions opened this year.

 

[Eagle]

Cumbernauld is a new town, as is Glenrothes.

 

[Class172]

Stonehaven is also served by the A92.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birchington-on-Sea (Minnis Bay) and Stonehaven (Fetteresso Castle) are places where examples of Neolithic pottery have been found.

 

[Class172]

Southend-on-Sea also has an 'on-Sea' suffix to it's name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southport and Southend-on-Sea are both settlements with a pier (and a compass point in the first five letters of each of their names).

 

[Class172]

Southampton also has a compass point as a prefix.

 

[Nym]

As with Northampton, the polar opersite of Southampton

Although both see frequent services from Seimens rolling stock...

 

[Class172]

Northampton (A43, A45) is served by two roads in the A4x series; so is Evesham (A44, A46)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wisbech and Evesham are famous market-gardening areas.

 

[Class172]

The land around Wisbech and Pevensey was historically marshland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I surprise myself sometimes.....

Reculver (Regulbium) and Pevensey (Anderitum) were two of the nine named "Saxon-shore Forts" constructed by the Romans.

 

[Welshman]

Whitby

The West Front and twin towers of St John's Cathedral, Paramatta, NSW, were modelled on the parish church of Reculver in 1817-19.

Earlier, in the 1770s, Captain James Cook had "discovered" New South Wales for the Europeans.

Although being born in Marton near Middlesbrough, James Cook is mainly associated with Whitby, as he moved there in 1746, and there is now the museum to his memory.

I, too, surprise myself at times.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The suffix ending of -by is a Viking terminology and is the most commonest Scandinavian suffix in The Danelaw, which originally signified a farmstead, but gradually in England began to be applied to villages and towns (and even cities). Whilst settlements are found in Eastern England coastal areas from Yorkshire down to Norfolk, the suffix also occurs in inland Yorkshire, parts of the Midlands and the Lancashire and Mersey areas.

Grimsby and Whitby are examples of this that are found in the coastal areas of the North Sea.

 

[Class172]

Grimsby is at one end of the A46, Bath is at the other.