Settlement Association

[Ivo]

Folkestone's most famous suburb is surely Cheriton, which is known for its railway facility. Elsewhere, the same could be said of Brentwood, whose most famous suburb is probably Shenfield, which is known for the same reason, albeit not to the same degree.

Fishguard goes well with Chipping Sodbury...

:roll:

 

[gnolife]

Fishguard goes well with Chipping Sodbury...

Just one chip? are they cheapskates round there?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Folkestone's most famous suburb is surely Cheriton, which is known for its railway facility. Elsewhere, the same could be said of Brentwood, whose most famous suburb is probably Shenfield, which is known for the same reason, albeit not to the same degree.

Rochester was also the scene of a battle between the Roman Legions under Claudius and the combined tribal forces of the Ancient Britains.

 

[Welshman]

Charles Dickens is to Rochester what Thomas Hardy is to Dorchester

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huddersfield is the site of an Iron Age hill fort, called Castle Hill.....whilst the one at Dorchester is called Maiden Castle.

 

[Ivo]

Wigan is another place where one could argue that among two sports clubs that share the same stadium, the football club is the less prominent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tarleton also lies on the line of the River Douglas

 

[Ivo]

Burscough is also on the A59.

I have no idea how many times I have been through Tarleton...!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Baroldswick is also situated on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool canal.

 

[Clip]

Barnoldswick is one of the longest place names in the United Kingdom without repeating any letters as does Buslingthorpe which has one extra letter

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

You set something of a poser, as Buslingthorpe can refer to an area of Leeds or a rural area in Lincolnshire......so I will choose the latter.


Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire is another area where a deserted medieval village once was siuated.

 

[Welshman]

Professor Maurice Beresford also discovered the remains of an abandoned village at Bittesby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sevenoaks also possesses a Hollow Way (a type of sunken pathway from medieval times) called Seal Hollow Road.

 

[4SRKT]

Nine Elms is also a number of trees.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woolwich was also served by the first of the Thames steam boat services.

 

[LE Greys]

Sandbanks, another place with an active ferry service (albeit chain rather than screw-propelled)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Cowes is another settlement with a chain link ferry.... (linking it to Cowes)

 

[Ivo]

East Tilbury is also considered the "eastern" settlement in relation to a more prominent town nearby that is known for water-based transport.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cliffe (on the Hoo Estuary) is the site of Cliffe Fort which was chosen in the 1860's as the site for a Royal Commission Fort.....opposite on the other side of the river to another Royal Commission Fort called Coalhouse Fort at East Tilbury.... to act in the defence of the river approaches to London.


I should receive a bonus point for this posting.....

 

[Clip]

You can see Southend on Sea from Cliffe.





I should lose 10 points for being so obvious

 

[Ivo]

You can see Southend on Sea from Cliffe.





I should lose 10 points for being so obvious

You can lose 10 points for being obvious and 990 points for stating the forbidden town

Anyway, to link to Stupid Ville, Farnborough is also known for its airshow.

 

[Clip]

You can lose 10 points for being obvious and 990 points for stating the forbidden town

Anyway, to link to Stupid Ville, Farnborough is also known for its airshow.

News to me it was forbidden.

Margate also has an airshow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cranbrook in Kent also has a Smock Mill (Union Mill).....the one in Margate is called Drapers Mill

 

[Ivo]

Another Cranbrook exists in East London, close to Ilford.

News to me it was forbidden.

It's not

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Dunmow in Essex sees the start of the river Roding into which the Cran Brook from the London area of Cranbrook so eventually flows.


I must qualify for University Challenge if I keep up submitting answers of this calibre. .....Mind you, being retired means not having to work for a living and free to indulge myself on many of the sub-forums of Railforums UK

 

[Ivo]

Battlesbridge is another Essex settlement that has seen its bypass* bypassed by a dual-carriageway primary route in the last ten years or so.

In both cases the former route isn't really a bypass, but it serves the role of a bypass.

I must qualify for University Challenge if I keep up submitting answers of this calibre. .....Mind you, being retired means not having to work for a living and free to indulge myself on many of the sub-forums of Railforums UK

Weren't Manchester disqualified not so long ago though?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Weren't Manchester disqualified not so long ago though?

Not so, young pedant. The full truth of the matter is that in the final of the 2009 University Challenge, Corpus Christi (Oxford) had narrowly beaten Manchester, but they were subsequently disqualified by having a member of their team who was not an undergraduate. It was revealed by PricewaterhouseCoopers that the person concerned was in full-time employment with them as a trainee accountant.

The 2009 University Challenge title then was given to Manchester University.
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Battlesbridge is another Essex settlement that has seen its bypass* bypassed by a dual-carriageway primary route in the last ten years or so.

In both cases the former route isn't really a bypass, but it serves the role of a bypass.

Porthmadog is another location where tidal gates are used. Their new tidal gates are the Glaslyn Gates.

 

[Ivo]

My mistake Sorry about that. I knew they were involved, but I must have jumped to the conclusion that it was they who had fallen foul of the rules.

Relating to Porthmadog, Newtown in Powys is another Welsh town to have the English word for a certain species of animal in its name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clun in south Shropshire is another area where the great defensive earthwork called Offa's Dyke was constructed under the instructions of Offa, the Anglo-Saxon King of Mercia. before his death in 796AD.

 

[Welshman]

Clunbury

another of A.E. Housman's "quietest places"