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[Johnuk123]

Pembrey was another place that had a factory producing TNT in WW1.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ingleborough in North Yorkshire also was the site of an Iron Age hill fort.

 

[Johnuk123]

Ampfield in Hampshire is where the Rev. W. Awdry was born in 1911, he is famous for the Thomas the Tank Engine books.

His book Enterprising Engines featured Spamcan which took the form of a BR/Sulzer class 44 one of which D7 (44007) was called Ingleborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yeovil is also on the line of the Monarch's Way long distance footpath.

 

[Schnellzug]

Yeovil was, and still is, the home of Westland Aircraft, whose chief designer, Teddy Petter, subsequently moved on to English Electric, whose aircraft division was based at Warton near Preston, UK.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coningsby also has connections with the Royal Air Force.

 

[Temple Meads]

Battle also has a fighting connection in it's name.

EDIT: too late, Paul beat me to it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Battle also has a fighting connection in it's name.

EDIT: too late, Paul beat me to it.

I think that Battle and the Royal Air Force have a very good connection and as such, this posting must be allowed to stand.

Cockersand on the Lancashire coastline also had an Abbey.....as was the case with Battle.

 

[Johnuk123]

Brookhouse is also a passing place on the Lancashire Coastal Way.

 

[Welshman]

Silverdale is at the northern end of the Lancashire Coastal Way

 

[LE Greys]

Golder's Green - precious metals

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Clerkenwell was another area where property was owned by the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta, sometimes referred to as The Knights of St John.

 

[Ivo]

In spite of Clerkenwell having an LU line running beneath it, there is no LU station named "Clerkenwell". This is also true of nearby Bloomsbury.

 

[Schnellzug]

The Bloomsbury Group was an enormously influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, the best known members of which included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. It is easy to do, but John Maynard Keynes should not be confused with Milton Keynes.

:roll:

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sigwells in Somerset has also connectional links to Bronze Age artifacts

 

[Welshman]

Sigwells overlooks Cadbury Castle, which, AFAIK, has no connection with the Cadbury Family at Bournville.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Port Sunlight also had housing built for its employees by a philanthropic company owner.

 

[Welshman]

To continue the theme, so did Saltaire

 

[Johnuk123]

To further continue the theme so did Bournville

 

[Ivo]

To further continue the theme so did Bournville

Hang on a minute, how does that "further" continue the theme? That just brings us back to the place that started it

Still true though, so continuing on from Bournville, Stanford-le-Hope is another location whose name has a remote French influence.

 

[Johnuk123]

Layer De La Haye also in Essex is another place with a French sounding name.

 

[Ivo]

Layer-de-la-Haye's common name is just Layer. Colchester's most prominent football team, Colchester United, were until recently based at Layer Road stadium, which was so named because it was on Layer Road, which itself was so named because er, it goes to Layer-de-la-Haye.

I haven't been down there for ages. Even my mother has been on Layer Road more recently than me hock:

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

London was another Roman settlement to feel the wrath of Boudicca during the revolt of the Icini tribal peoples and their allies.

 

[Johnuk123]

St. Albans was also on the hit list of Bouddica.

 

[Welshman]

St Alban's is thought to be named after Alban, the first English martyr, who was beheaded there. Some of his relics used to be preserved at St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough.

 

[LE Greys]

Amesbury is another site where one might find experimental aircraft (nearest place to Boscombe Down)

 

[Ivo]

Boscombe Down would naturally lead us to, well, Boscombe (!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walton-on-the-Naze is another area where Copperas (ferrous sulphate) is found.

 

[Ivo]

Blackpool is another coastal settlement that is known for a tower.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sheffield also possesses a tramway system