Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Macduff formerly was named Doune, a name shared with Doune in the traditional county of Perthshire (now in Stirling district).

 

[DerekC]

Doune is host to a round of the British Hillclimb Championship , as is Shelsley Walsh in Worcestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Acton Beauchamp was also part of the upper division of the Hundred of Doddingtree.

 

[Springs Branch]

Chalfont St Giles also has a church dedicated to St Giles.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Fagans also has a noted Open Air Museum.

 

[John Griffiths]

St Fagan is named by the medieval historian Geoffrey of Monmouth as a missionary sent by Pope Eleutherius in the second century along with a companion, St Deruvian, in response to a request for baptism by the British King Lucius. Some sources have Deruvian as being the same as the (even more) obscure St Dyfan, after whom Merthyr Dyfan is named.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maenclochog is another Welsh settlement that had an early medieval-period example of a corn-drying kiln.

 

[John Griffiths]

Maenclochog is another Welsh settlement that had an early medieval-period example of a corn-drying kiln.

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Forest Row also has a Steiner-Walcott school.

 

[DerekC]

Forest Row has declared itself a Transition community, aiming to lead the way past peak oil and to minimise climate change by adopting a less energy-intensive, more localised way of life. So has Lampeter in Ceredigion.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wrexham is also the location of a constituent of the University of Wales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salford also has a Roman Catholic cathedral, but not an Anglican one

 

[DerekC]

Salford is named after a ford on the River Irwell, which rises near Weir, Lancs

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Broadclough in Lancashire also lies on the route of the A671 road.

 

[John Griffiths]

Dorking also lies on the line of a turnpike road authorised by a turnpike trust Act of Parliament passed in 1755.

 

[DerekC]

Nottingham, like Dorking, has a series of "caves" (actually manmade tunnels) beneath the urban area, excavated in sandstone rock.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Loughborough also had framework knitters in the Middle Ages.

 

[Springs Branch]

Loughborough University received its Royal Charter in 1966.
Also founded in the same year was the University of Surrey, located in Battersea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cricklade also lies on the line of the River Thames.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There is a local museum in Calcutt Street run by the Cricklade Historical Society, housed in a former Baptist chapel. T R Thomson of Costorphine near Edinburgh was a long-time resident of Cricklade and a moving spirit behind the establishment of the society. His book Materials for a History of Cricklade and various articles have enhanced the study of local history in the town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

There is a local museum in Calcutt Street run by the Cricklade Historical Society, housed in a former Baptist chapel. T R Thomson of Costorphine near Edinburgh was a long-time resident of Cricklade and a moving spirit behind the establishment of the society. His book Materials for a History of Cricklade and various articles have enhanced the study of local history in the town.

Did you mean Corstophine? I cannot trace a Costorphine.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Did you mean Corstophine? I cannot trace a Costorphine.

Yes, that's the one … apologies!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newark-on-Trent also has Polish war graves.

 

[John Griffiths]

Newcastle upon Tyne was also besieged during the Civil Wars of the 1640s.

 

[High Dyke]

The Tyne Bridge was constructed by local firm Dorman Long. They also constructed the Silver Jubilee Bridge in Runcorn.

 

[John Griffiths]

Redditch was also designated a New Town on 10 April 1964.

 

[DerekC]

Redditch was once a centre of needle making. Pins, on the other hand, were made extensively in the area of Gloucester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Northampton also has a Guildhall.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The author Jerome K Jerome died in Northampton on 14th June 1927, aged 68. He was born in Caldmore, Walsall, on 2 May 1859.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldridge also once came under the jurisdiction of the Walsall Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Woolley also shares its name with a character in The Archers.