Settlement Association

[Ivo]

Portsmouth is the main settlement on Portsea Island, a very highly densely populated island (the most densely populated island in the country I believe). At the other end of the scale is the Ministry of Defence -controlled Foulness Island, whose most "prominent" settlement) goes by the name of Courtsend.

The entire island has an area of 9.195 square miles - and a resident population of 212.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Felixstowe also suffered as a result of the North Sea flood of 1953.

 

[Ivo]

Rugby is at the other end of the A14.

 

[Bedpan]

Badminton, another sport.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Badminton, another sport.

Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire has Badminton Park nearby, which is the place where Badminton House is situated. This is the home of the Duke of Beaufort and the estate of the house covers the settlements of both Great Badminton and Little Badminton and was where Queen Mary and her household stayed during the Second World War.. The link to sporting events on this thread follows as the Badminton Horse Trials are held in the grounds of Badminton Park.

 

[Ivo]

Truro was also represented in the original Transport Tycoon game as a location that could be served in the south-west of England.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penzance also was a stannary town.

 

[12CSVT]

deleted - got beaten to it

 

[Schnellzug]

Penzance was famously the home base of a team of Pirates in a popular light opera by Gilbert & Sullivan. Another popular base for pirates is Somalia- oh, no, sorry, that's not the Uk, is it. Another place in the West Country whose name appeares in a work of popular culture is Westward Ho!.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holne in Devon was the birthplace of Charles Kingsley who wrote Westward Ho! from which the settlement takes its name.

 

[Ivo]

Holne shares most of its name with Colne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberbeeg in Blaenau Gwent also possesses a packhorse bridge, similar to the Wycoller packhorse bridge in Colne.

 

[Ivo]

Considering it has only six letters, Exeter also has an unusually high frequency of the letter E in its name.

 

[Welshman]

Torpoint

also has a cable, or chain, ferry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowes also possesses a chain ferry that links it to East Cowes (which I have used on many occasions)

 

[Welshman]

Henley
also has a regatta.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Windsor also has historical connections of being a Demesne of the Crown.

 

[Ivo]

Wickford also has a name that can be split into two entirely unrelated words (unless being four-letter nouns counts :roll.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Braughing in Hertfordshire was the capital of the kingdom of the Celtic tribe called the Trinovantes, who were considered to be the most powerful tribe in Britain at the time of the first Roman invasion and they also had a large settlement at Wickford.

 

[Welshman]

Mardock

another station on the Buntingford Branch Line, which closed in 1964.

 

[Ivo]

Mardock

another station on the Buntingford Branch Line, which closed in 1964.

Sorry - wrong thread...

Returning to Paul's post, Watford is the largest town in Hertfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aylesbury was also on the line of the Sparrows Herne turnpike.

 

[Welshman]

{Buff}Orpington

another breed of duck

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wroxeter in Shropshire was another place where remains of a Roman bath-house have been found.

 

[Ivo]

This is kind of lame, but Bath still has Roman Baths.

:roll:

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Matlock is also a spa town.

 

[Welshman]

Whatstandwell

also on the River Derwent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ambergate also is on the line of the Cromford Canal

 

[Welshman]

Moses Gate

also sounds like it could have been an American scandal, but, AFAIK, it wasn't!

 

[Schnellzug]

The Heights of Abraham, a major tourist attraction in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England, was also named after a major Old Testament figure.