Settlement Association

[Ivo]

I'm sure I've made this link before, but Plymouth's main rival as the de facto Capital of the South-West is Bristol.

EDIT: Yep...

 

[221129]

Exeter also has a direct bus to the airport

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Durham also has a cathedral.

 

[Welshman]

Barnsley

also home to militant miners in the 1970s

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Helens also has a long historical link to the glassmaking industry.

 

[Welshman]

Huyton

was also in the West Derby Hundred

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ipswich was also a main settlement where the Angles made their base after their invasion.

 

[Clip]

Ipswich is on the river Orwell as is Felixstowe

 

[221129]

Southampton also is a major port/docks

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portsmouth also has ferry services to the Isle of Wight.

 

[Welshman]

Liverpool

in addition to being a port, it also has two cathedrals - Roman Catholic and Anglican.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bath has buildings such as The Circus that are Grade I listed which were built to the designs of John Wood, the Elder, who was also responsible for the design of Liverpool Town Hall, which is also a Grade I listed building.

 

[Welshman]

Ingleton

reminds me of "ingle-nook"
Betjeman wrote of very ordinary little woman and a thumping crook being little lower than the angels when holding hands in an ingle-nook.
The ingle-nook in question was in a Bath teashop

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheddar also possesses notable show-caves.

 

[Clip]

Cliftonville(Margate) has a curious shell grotto

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Waterlooville also has a rather Gallic suffix to its name.

 

[Welshman]

Elephant & Castle

another community thought to be named after a pub/coaching inn

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coventry has an Elephant and Castle on its symbolic signs.

 

[Welshman]

Mystery Plays have also recently been revived at Lichfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Truro also has a three-spired cathedral.

 

[Ivo]

Truro is the country's most southerly city. Norwich is the country's most easterly city.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gainsborough was also a settlement that that was attacked by the raiding parties of Sweyn Forkbeard, the King of Denmark, in the period AD 1004 to 1011.

 

[Welshman]

Not to be confused with Gainsborough House, the home and museum to Thomas Gainsborough, in Sudbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Braintree was another town that was settled by Flemish silk weavers, after they were afforded the protection of King Edward III.

 

[Ivo]

Braintree shares several similarities with Bicester, including among others the presence of a Shopping Village facility.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Malmesbury in Wiltshire is also one of the main settlements that were used by the West Saxons in their first inward settlement wave of Southern Britain.

 

[Welshman]

Aldhelm, first Abbot of Malmesbury, also founded a church at Bradford on Avon

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chipping Sodbury also sees the River Avon, as it rises in that area.

 

[Temple Meads]

Fishguard goes well with Chipping Sodbury...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Folkestone is another ferry port commencing with "F" in its name.