Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Addlestone also lies on the line of the River Bourne.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Abbey Rangers Football Club play at Addlestone Moor, and are currently members of the Combined Counties League Premier Division. Another member of the Division is Balham Football Club, which are based in Balham (or, as Peter Sellers once said "Gateway to the South"), in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burton on Trent also has historical connections to the brewing industry.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Lieutenant-Colonel James Herbert Porter, CBE, DSO* was an English brewer and brewing executive who was
born in Burton upon Trent, the son of a master brewer in 1892. He began working for Newcastle Breweries in 1909 and, as Assistant Brewer, he worked alongside the firm's Chief Chemist, Archie Jones, to create a new formula: Newcastle Brown Ale, which was first advertised in 1927. Bottling of Newcastle Brown Ale moved to the John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, in 2007.[

 

[cjp]

EPSOM also has a race course

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Epsom is the source of the Hogsmill River, which flows into the River Thames at Kingston upon Thames on the reach above Kingston road bridge.

 

[kevconnor]

BBC broadcaster John Inverdale for a long time has resided in Kingston upon Thames but was actually born in Plymouth.

 

[backontrack]

Bottesford, Leicestershire, is also near the border of a county.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knipton in Leicestershire also lies on the line of the River Devon.

 

[cjp]

Knapton in Norfolk is just a vowel away from Knipton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pickering also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Pickering is home to Pickering Town F.C., who currently play in the Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division, as do Bridlington Town FC.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brough is another settlement that was once occupied by the pre-Roman Celtic tribe known as the Parisii.

 

[backontrack]

Brough is another settlement that was once occupied by the pre-Roman Celtic tribe known as the Parisii.

Brough lay on the route of the Roman Ermine Street; this led north to Eboracum, and from there Dere Street continued northwards, passing through present-day Aldborough, near Boroughbridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whixley was also part of the lower division of the Claro wapentake.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Whixley is at one end of the Roman Road known as Rudgate; the other end is at Hazlewood in Derbyshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Poulton-le-Fylde also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[DanTrain]

Poulton-le-Sands had it’s French sounding suffix added at the same time as Poultin-le-Fylde to distinguish them from each other

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cockerham was also once administered by the Hundred of Lonsdale, South of the Sands.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Cockerham is located on the River Cocker, at the estuary of the River Lune. The River Cocker rises near to Yeat House Farm and Higher Knowle Hill south of Quernmore, near Lancaster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Macclesfield also was once part of a Royal Forest hunting area.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Neville John "Noddy" Holder, MBE lives in Macclesfield, but was born in Walsall on 15th June 1946.

 

[backontrack]

Whixley is at one end of the Roman Road known as Rudgate; the other end is at Hazlewood in Derbyshire.

Haha!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Neville John "Noddy" Holder, MBE lives in Macclesfield, but was born in Walsall on 15th June 1946.

Bristol also has an Orthodox Church that is dedicated to the Nativity of the Mother of God.

 

[backontrack]

Bristol also has an Orthodox Church that is dedicated to the Nativity of the Mother of God.

Aardman are based in Bristol. They created the Wallace and Gromit films, which are set in Wigan (and on the moon).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gargrave also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

 

[johnnychips]

Keld is also on the Pennine Way.

 

[backontrack]

Keld is also on the Pennine Way.

Near Keld, Swaledale joins Arkengarthdale, in the valley of which Whaw can be found.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rostherne in Cheshire East also has a Site of Special Scientific Interest within its environs.

 

[johnnychips]

Rostherne is next to the stately grounds of Tatton Park, and has links to High Legh; next to the stately grounds of Lyme Park is High Lane.