Settlement Association

[Deerfold]

No Place is also in County Durham (just down the road).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pity Me is another North-East settlement with a most unusual two word name.

 

[Welshman]

Windermere

[One explanation of "Pity Me" is that it derives from "Petit Mere" - a small lake - "mere" being OE for "lake".
Windermere is thought to have its derivation in the Norse "Vinandr's Mere"]

Now who said this quiz wasn't educational?

 

[Johnuk123]

Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave broke the world land speed record on Southport sands in 1926.

He was of course killed on Windermere in 1930 just after setting a new world water speed record.

 

[Ivo]

Southport is the most prominent settlement in Sefton Metropolitan Borough, even though Sefton itself is a mere village. Another seaside town to hold such a position would be Clacton, which is the most prominent settlement in Tendring District.

 

[Johnuk123]

Kenilworth also has a St.Johns church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skipton also has a ruined castle

 

[LE Greys]

Saltaire is also on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Port Sunlight also had workers houses of a good standard built by a philanthropic employer.

 

[Ivo]

The same can be said of Bournville.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Halifax also has a Serbian Orthodox Church (St John the Baptist)... whereas the one in Bournville is dedicated to St Lazar

 

[Schnellzug]

The Handley Page Halifax was one of the RAF's Big three heavy bombers of WWII. These were designed by Handley Page Aircraft, based at Radlett Aerodrome in Hertfordshire.

 

[Ivo]

Owing to its unusually high proportion of Jews, Radlett has been called "the new Edgware".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Plymouth is another area where Roman pottery has been excavated.

 

[Heinz57]

Plymouth has several theatres, one of which is called the Theatre Royal. Nottingham also has a theatre of the same name

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln was also one of the Five Burghs of Danish Mercia in The Danelaw.

 

[Johnuk123]

Watton was the last place Avro Lincolns flew from before they were scrapped in 1963.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Keighley also hosts an agricultural show.

 

[Schnellzug]

Another place that is not prernounced as might be assumed, and which also hosts a presrved railway, is Loughborough.

 

[Johnuk123]

Portsmouth has a University too.

 

[Welshman]

Nelson's Flagship HMS Victory can be seen at Portsmouth.
If you want to see the Cutty Sark, you have to go to Greenwich.

 

[LE Greys]

Greenwich is well known for having an observatory. Jodrell Bank is Britain's biggest radio observatory run by the University of Manchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackpool also has a tramway system.

 

[Welshman]

Morecambe had illuminations from 1949-1996

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bournemouth also has a fine example of an art-deco hotel (The Cumberland)

 

[Welshman]

Sandbourne, in Thomas Hardy's novels, is based on Bournemouth.
Melchester is based on Salisbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thirlmere also had an Iron Age hill fort (Castle Crag).

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Ellesmere port has a Thirlmere avenue in it

 

[Johnuk123]

Solihull has a large car making factory also.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Hounslow is also near an airport which Emirates fly from