Settlement Association

[johnnychips]

The documentary film maker Adam Curtis was brought up in Platt, but was born in Dartford.

 

[John Griffiths]

As was Mick Jagger, who lived for some time overlooking a higher reach of the Thames at Richmond Hill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Greenwich is another settlement where a royal residence was based.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 1997, the area of Greenwich known as Maritime Greenwich was added to the list of World Heritage Sites, for the concentration and quality of buildings of historic and architectural interest. In 2000, the Blaenafon Industrial Landscape, which surrounds the town of Blaenafon in Torfaen, was also added to the list.

 

[John Griffiths]

When Blaenafon's ironworks opened in 1788, many of its workers came from Rugeley in Staffordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Darlington also has a church that is dedicated to St Augustine.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Like Darlington, Bristol has a theatre called "Hippodrome".

 

[DerekC]

In the 18th Century Liverpool, like Bristol, profited enormously from the transatlantic slave trade.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Norwich also has both Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sir Garnet Wolseley, for whom a rather good pub in Norwich was named, was born in Dublin.

 

[DerekC]

Who could think of Dublin without thinking of Guinness? The Guinness you buy throughout the UK and Ireland is indeed brewed there, because their brewery in Park Royal closed down in 2005.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Park Royal was the site of two of the early homes of Queens Park Rangers Football Club, namely the Horse Ring (later the site of the Guinness Brewery) and the Park Royal Ground. Their current ground is Loftus Road in White City.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harlow also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima.

 

[John Griffiths]

'The Lawn' in Harlow, opened in 1951, was Britain's first residential tower block. It was designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd, who also was the architect of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Didcot Power Station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aston Tirrold was also once under the jurisdiction of the Wallingford Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Well, Hampshire, like Aston Tirrold, has a Chequers Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woodingdean in East Sussex is another settlement to have had a water well.

 

[Springs Branch]

Brighton & Hove Bus route 2 passes through Woodingdean. While some buses continue on to Steyning, more than half of westbound trips on Service 2 terminate at Shoreham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancing also has a shingle spit caused by the effects of longshore drift.

 

[John Griffiths]

Marlborough is also home to a public school founded on Anglican principles in the 1840s.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wymondham also suffered from a destructive Great Fire in the 17th century.

 

[Nick_C]

Wymondham lies on a Roman Road, which went to Venta Icenorum, on the site of which is the modern-day settlement of Caistor St Edmund

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The River Tas flows northwards through Stoke Holy Cross, Dunston, Caistor St Edmund, Markshall and Arminghall. It joins the River Yare at Trowse - just south of Norwich.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arminghall was also once administered by the Hundred of Henstead.

 

[Nick_C]

Durrington (Wiltshire) also has an ancient wooden henge

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buckie also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[DerekC]

The Speyside Way runs from Buckie to Aviemore.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kingussie also lies on the route of the B9152 road.

 

[John Griffiths]

Beauly also has a renowned shinty team.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ardchattan was another of the three sites in Scotland that were chosen as places of establishment of monks of the Vaulliscaulian Order.