Settlement Association

[Ivo]

Leeds is home to Yorkshire's other major out-of-town shopping facility.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool is at the other end of a famous named canal system that connected the Lancashire port with West Yorkshire.

 

[Schnellzug]

Hartlepool is another Pool that incorporates the name of a Bodily organ.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hartlepool is another Pool that incorporates the name of a Bodily organ.

Do not confuse Heart (bodily organ) with Hart (Old English term for a mature stag)..........

Scarborough was also attacked by the German warships of their High Seas Fleet during the First World War.

 

[Welshman]

Scarborough Fair and Brigg Fair are traditional English folk-songs.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Ferriby is also where remains of sewn boats from the pre-Roman period were found.

 

[Johnuk123]

Chasetown is of course another place that has a football club in the Evo-Stick league Northern Premier.

 

[Welshman]

Chasetown colliery was opened by the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, William Henry Paget.
There's a Paget Arms in Loughborough.
Are they connected?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kegworth is also on the route of the river Soar

 

[Schnellzug]

Kegworth was the location of the bus bodywork manufacturer Nudd Brothers & Lockyer Limited, which was acquired by Duple of Hendon in 1952.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kincardine hosts the national police college in Scotland, whereas its English equivalent is at Hendon.

 

[Johnuk123]

Sutton Bridge is another place with a swing bridge but unlike the previous settlement this bridge still opens.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Immingham also has a gas-fired power station.

 

[12CSVT]

Barrow Hill (Derbyshire) had a locomotive depot which was frustratingly almost impossible to view from a public vantage point

 

[Johnuk123]

Wookey Hole has a cave which is impossible to view unless you've paid.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Castleton in Derbyshire is home to the famous Blue John show cave.

 

[Johnuk123]

Eyam is a place within the Peak district. The Peak district shares it's name with the Peak Cavern (Devil's Arse) at Castleton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

London was also a "plague town" in 1665/1666, but the village of Eyam chose self-isolation from the other nearby Derbyshire villages to prevent the outward spread of the disease from there in 1666.

 

[Schnellzug]

i was going to come up with a clever Star Wars reference for Wookey Hole.

Actually, I can take it back to somewhere nearby, since the actual City of London qualfiies as the UK's smallest city, measuring just one square mile. It is also, in fact, England's smallest in population. Second in both these categories in England is Wells, which has a population of 10,400 or so.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Durham also possesses a magnificent Cathedral.

 

[Welshman]

York

also has superb minster you glimpse from the right-hand side of a northbound train on the EC main line.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester is also a walled city.

 

[Johnuk123]

Ilkley was also the site of a Roman Fort.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harrogate is also a Yorkshire spa town.

 

[Welshman]

There is also a Betty's Tea Room in Northallerton

 

[Johnuk123]

Halifax Vandals play in the same league as Northallerton Rugby club.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bournville also has a Serbian Orthodox church

 

[Johnuk123]

Invercloy has a chocolate facory as well.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Invercloy has a chocolate factory as well.

A cunning move on your part, as it took me some time to realise that Invercloy is covered by Brodick on the Isle of Arran.

Let us look to making a comparison between Scottish castles on off-shore islands

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Shapinsey on the island of Shapinsey, Orkney Islands, is home to Balfour Castle, whereas Brodick Castle is near to Invercloy, Brodick, on the Isle of Arran.

 

[Johnuk123]

Duart Castle is also on an island.