Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanstead Abbotts also lies on the line of the River Lea.

 

[John Griffiths]

Peacehaven also lies on the prime meridian.

 

[John Griffiths]

Tewin has also been Best Kept Village in Hertfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ayot Green was also once under the jurisdiction of the Welwyn Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

The Ayot Greenway will take you from Ayot Green to Wheathampsted.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chesham was another of the areas settled by the Iron Age Belgic people known as the Catuvellauni.

 

[DerekC]

Aneurin Bevan, often known as the father of the NHS, lived for a while and died in Chesham. He was born in Tredegar.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontllanfraith also lies on the line of the Sirhowy River.

 

[Springs Branch]

Neil Kinnock, a former leader of the Labour Party, once had a house in Pontllanfraith.
Another settlement in South Wales where Kinnock has lived in the past is Peterston-super-Ely.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ovingdean in East Sussex also has a church with a lych gate at the entry to the church grounds.

 

[John Griffiths]

Rottingdean was also incorporated into Brighton in 1928.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lacey Green in Buckinghamshire also has a smock mill.

 

[DerekC]

The celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal spent a lot of his childhood in Lacey Green, but is best known as the proprietor of the Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hammer films were also made at studios in Cookham Dean.

 

[DerekC]

St Martin's Church, Ruislip, like St John the Baptist Cookham Dean, has two lych gates.

 

[Springs Branch]

Ruislip lends its name to the title of the 1970s novel Tropic of Ruislip, written by Welsh author Leslie Thomas.
Thomas was educated at Kingston Technical School in Kingston upon Thames.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Long Ditton was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Kingston.

 

[John Griffiths]

Long Ditton is the resting place of Sydney Camm, designer of the Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft, who was born in Windsor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tamworth also has a noted Norman castle.

 

[John Griffiths]

Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, the most powerful woman in early medieval proto-England, died at her capital Tamworth in 918 and was buried in Gloucester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harwich also has a Guildhall.

 

[johnnychips]

Hull’s passenger port facilities are also some distance from the settlement centre.

 

[John Griffiths]

King 's Lynn is also a medieval urban settlement founded by a church body and subsequently taken over and renamed by the crown.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bristol also has a long history of maritime trading.

 

[John Griffiths]

Maidenhead also has a bridge designed by IK Brunel.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doddington in Cambridgeshire also had a clock tower erected as part of the town's celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria.

 

[johnnychips]

Stainton in South Yorkshire also has a pub called The Three Tuns.

 

[John Griffiths]

Not quite sure of the connection there...

 

[johnnychips]

Accidentally replied for Doddington in Lincolnshire. Now corrected.

 

[John Griffiths]

Cheers, Johny. The Earl of Scarborough, Lord of the manor of Stainton, also owns Lumley Castle in Chester-le-Street.