Settlement Association

[johnnychips]

Ipswich Town's unofficial nickname is the 'Tractor Boys'. There is a branch of the Tractor Factory agricultural hire firm in Cotonwood in Shropshire.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Assuming that you mean Coton Wood in Shropshire, the head office of the company that you've mentioned operates there is at Kinnerley, Oswestry, Shropshire.

 

[High Dyke]

Winterborne St Martin also has a good example of a hill fort in its locale.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Catholic martyr John Adams was born in Winterborne St Martin in about 1543. He died (hung, drawn and quartered) at the former village of Tyburn, London on 8th October 1586.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Turvey in Bedfordshire also has a convent of Benedictine Nuns.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Mordaunt family were the Lords of the Manor of Turvey; The Fifth Baron Mordaunt was created the Earl of Peterborough in 1628.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Witton in Birmingham also has an Islamic Centre

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Aston Villa Football Club have played in Witton since 1897. However, the club was formed in March 1874 by members of the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel in Handsworth which is now part of Birmingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool was also the scene of race riots in 1981.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The actress Sharon Maughan was born on 22nd June 1950 in West Derby, Liverpool. She is married to the actor Trevor Eve, who was born on 1st July 1951 in Sutton Coldfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birmingham also has had archeological finds of Late Neolithic period Burnt Mounds

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The politician Joseph Chamberlain was heavily involved in local and national politics, being a former Lord Mayor of the city and representing Birmingham for many years. He was, however, born in Camberwell (then in Surrey, but now part of south-east London) in 1836.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

West Norwood also lies on the line of the River Effra.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

A notable resident of Norwood was Hiram Maxim (1840 – 1916), who developed his machine gun in the garden of his house in Norwood Road (Serbia House, now demolished). He died, aged 76, in Streatham, London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altrincham also has an ice rink.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Hewlett Johnson (1874 – 1966) later known as the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, was Curate and later Vicar of St Margaret's in the town from 1904 to 1924.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York also has a Church of England archbishop.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Chester also has a racecourse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chelmsford also has a cathedral of the Church of England.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

On 14th March 2012, the Lord President of the Privy Council and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced that Chelmsford, along with Perth in Scotland and St Asaph in Wales was to be granted city status to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangernyw also lies on the line of the River Elwy.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Llangernyw is the home of the Sir Henry Jones Museum, which is dedicated to the life of the philosopher and academic, Henry Jones, who grew up in the village. The museum is his childhood home, a small cottage, which has been preserved internally and externally. Sir Henry studied at Bangor Normal College and became a teacher at Brynamman in the Black Mountains of Wales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glanamman is another former coal-mining town that lies on the line of the River Amman.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The great Welsh entertainer Ryan Davies (1937 — 1977) was born in Glanamman, and educated at Bangor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prestatyn lies at the other end of the coastal footpath known as "The North Wales Path".

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Group Captain Carol Vorderman MBE RAFVR(T) spent much of her childhood in Prestatyn, but was born on 24th December 1960 in Bedford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Battle was also chosen as a site in which to erect a Benedictine Abbey.

 

[johnnychips]

Fulford was also the site of a battle in the Norman wars. Harald of Norway beat the English forces.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Acaster Malbis also lies on the line of the River Ouse.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Near to Acaster Malbis are the villages of Copmanthorpe, 2 miles to the north-west, Bishopthorpe, 2 miles to the north and Appleton Roebuck, 3.5 miles to the south-west.