Settlement Association

[Clip]

Seaburn used to have its own set of illuminations. But they were rather poor in comparison to Blackpools. And not worth the trip down when you were a kid.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Farnborough also hosts an International Airshow.

 

[Ivo]

My hometown of Southend is also known for its airshow (or "Festival of the Air" as it gets called these days).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Must be careful to give a good association to the home town of Ivo...

Weymouth also grew as a seaside resort in the Georgian period.

 

[LE Greys]

Folkestone also has a harbour station, although not reached quite the same way.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester also has a racecourse.

 

[Welshman]

Tywyn

Tom Rolt, responsible for the setting-up of the Talyllyn Railway Preservation society, was born in Chester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Cadfan (AD530 - AD590) was a Breton nobleman who founded a monastery on Bardsey ( W. Ynys Enlli) after setting up a monastery in Tywyn, being appointed as Abbot of both.

 

[Welshman]

St Deiniol, first Bishop of Bangor, is reputed to be one of the 20,000 saints buried on Bardsey.
Gladstone established a library to the arts and theology dedicated to Deiniol at Hawarden

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caernarfon is another public airfield in North Wales.

 

[Welshman]

In 1911, David Lloyd George, MP for Caernarfon, agreed to a request from the Royal Family that the Investiture of the then Prince of Wales should be at Caernarfon Castle - a tradition which has continued...

Lloyd George, surprisingly, was born at Chorlton-on-Medlock

[and, despite the popular ditty and the fact my father was born in Wales, I don't think the two were aquainted]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Arundel Cathedral was designed by the Gothic Revival style architect, Joseph Aloysius Hansom, who also designed the almost cathedral-like great church of the Holy Name, in Chorlton-on-Medlock.

 

[Ivo]

Southgate is also an occasional home for a County Cricket side.

 

[clagmonster]

Barnet is also preceeded by the word 'New' in the name of a railway station.

 

[Schnellzug]

Bristol is also used in a popular piece of rhyming slang by the Cocknees. :roll:

 

[Ivo]

Barnet is also preceeded by the word 'New' in the name of a railway station.

Bristol is also used in a popular piece of rhyming slang by the Cocknees. :roll:

Explain please? I know almost no rhyming slang - it is stupid.

Anyhow, Leyland also gave its name to a popular bus manufacturer.

 

[Schnellzug]

Well, Barnet=Barnet fair=Hair, while Bristol is most commonly encountered in the context of "A nice pair of", and derives from the name of one of the football clubs. Bristol Cities = .

 

[Ivo]

Thus proving my point that they are stupid.

 

[Welshman]

Anyhow, Leyland also gave its name to a popular bus manufacturer.

Grimethorpe also has a famous brass band.

 

[4SRKT]

Grimethorpe also has a famous brass band.

Grimsby is also a Norse derived place name (possibly from the same root).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aylesby is another Lincolnshire settlement on the line of the river Freshney with the same Old Norse suffix of "-by".

 

[clagmonster]

Dundee is also a settlement with two football league teams.
Missed a page, that was supposed to be associated with Brizzle.
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Aylesbury has a similar name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beccles has an annual duck race, whereas Aylesbury is a well-known name for a specific large size duck, that used to be driven to market by drovers in days of yore.

 

[4SRKT]

Bungay is a town in Suffolk near Beccles, they have consecutive postcodes, and both sound mildly ridiculous.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire also has a Buttercross.

 

[4SRKT]

Burton upon Trent is another place whose station spelling differs from that in the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (Burton on Trent/Whittlesea = station; Burton upon Trent/Whittlesey = PAF)

 

[Welshman]

Masham

another brewing town/village

 

[4SRKT]

Chippenham is another place whose first four letters are a way of serving potatoes.

 

[Welshman]

Bakewell

just continuing your line of thought.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eccles also has an edible delicacy coupled with the name of the town.