Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tobermory was like Duart Castle, as both being locations used in the 1971 film "Where eight bells toll", based on the adventure novel by Alistair MacLean.

 

[Schnellzug]

The only other of the original Wombles to be named after somewhere in the UK was Wellington, who was named after the one in Somerset.

 

[Johnuk123]

Boot is a small village in Eskdale.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitehaven is also in the Borough of Copeland.

 

[Heinz57]

I'm going to bring this a little closer to home

Ilkeston - Both towns have a big mining history. There were several pits around the Ilkeston area (I beleive as many as seven differant pits)

 

[Welshman]

Boston

also has a Charter Fair

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Longthorpe, near Peterborough, also has a church dedicated to St Botolph.

 

[Heinz57]

Also located in Longthorpe is the Longthrope Hall, which currently serves as a Hospice for the Sue Ryder Foundation. As does Hickleton

 

[Johnuk123]

St. Paul's Walden - another place that has a Sue Ryder Home located in the fine house of Stagenhoe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitwell in Hertfordshire also has a soil that is clay-based and including flints.

 

[Welshman]

Not to be confused with Whitwell on the North shore of Rutland Water

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stannersburn in Northumberland is also a very small settlement near to the banks of an artificially created very large stretch of water (Kielder Water)

 

[Johnuk123]

Perry is another small village next to an ex-Borstal and also Grafham Water a large man-made reservoir.

 

[Heinz57]

It is also located in Cambridgeshire, as is St Neots

 

[Schnellzug]

Sy Neots is named after the Cornish monk Neot, who lived with a group of monks on Bodmin Moor near Bodmin, and never actually seemed to go anywhere near St Neots in his life.

 

[LE Greys]

Banff is another place reputed to be inhabited by big cats.

Perry is another small village next to an ex-Borstal and also Grafham Water a large man-made reservoir.

Wish I'd seen this earlier, I used to go sailing there, so could have linked to Wroxham as it also hosts Topper races.

 

[Johnuk123]

Buckie is another port on the same coastline.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fort William also play in the Highland League, as do Buckie Thistle.

 

[Johnuk123]

Invermoriston is also on the Great Glen Way footpath

 

[Schnellzug]

Access to Invermoriston was made easier with the construction of one of Thomas Telford’s famous bridges, which was built over the River Moriston to help improve Highland communications. The bridge was started in 1805 and was completed 1813. Thomas Telford did not, however, apparently do anything particularly of note in Telford in Shropshire, which was not invented until the 1970s.

 

[Johnuk123]

Wisbech also has an Asda supermarket.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York also was the site of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle.

 

[Heinz57]

Derby also has a history assosiated with the railways

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carlisle was also on the route taken into England in 1745 by "Bonnie Prince Charlie" and his army.

 

[Johnuk123]

The island of Eriskay is where the above Prince landed in a ship to start the Jacobite rising on August the 2nd. 1745

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holy Isle (Lindisfarne) in Northumberland is another settlement joined by a causeway

 

[LE Greys]

Iona is also a monastic settlement on an island that shares the same name (hope I've got that right)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gairloch on the western coastal fringe of Ross and Cromarty, is also where the ancient rock formation known as Precambrian Lewisian Gneiss forms an underlying substrate, that coastal erosion has gradually revealed.


Do I get a bonus mark for this answer.....I believe not for a grammatical howler, now corrected...

 

[Johnuk123]

Gairloch on the western coastal fringe of Ross and Cromerty, is also where the ancient rock formation known as Precambrian Lewisian Gneiss forms an underlying substrate, that coastal erosion has gradually revealed.


Do I get a bonus mark for this answer..

No, as you spelt Cromarty incorrectly..


Pilsdon also boasts an Iron Age fort.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hengistbury Head in Southbourne, Dorset is another place where Iron Age artifacts of the Celtic tribe, the Durotriges, have been found.

The word referred to in my previous posting has been amended...My "spellchecker facility" has decided that only American words will now be recognised, despite my amending the instruction page no less than four times since 1500 today.