Settlement Association

[deltic1989]

Windsor also lends its name to a royal residence.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chepstow also was a site that the Normans chose to erect a castle upon after their invasion in the 11th century.

 

[Johnuk123]

Huntingdon is another place with a racecourse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brackley also is on the line of the River Great Ouse

 

[Ivo]

Tyldesley also shares its name with a porminent football commentator.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tyldesley also shares its name with a porminent football commentator.

I bow to your deep knowledge of certain arcane English words as the only example that I was able to trace of the word PORMINENT occured in a 1979 research paper on the development of acute Dystonia and Tardive Dyskinisia in Cebus monkeys.

If you have found a football commentator with this condition, I would suggest he makes a visit to the nearest Oriental and Tropical Diseases hospital..
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Tyldesley

To return to "normality"....


Boothstown is also on the line of the Roman military road that connected their forts at Coccium (Wigan) and Mamucium (Manchester)

 

[Welshman]

Whereas

Boothtown is a suburb of Halifax on the Bradford Rd, where Percy Shaw came up with the idea of his cats' eyes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Halifax Parish Church has the regimental colours of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, whereas the regimental museum is in Boothtown.

 

[Ivo]

I bow to your deep knowledge of certain arcane English words as the only example that I was able to trace of the word PORMINENT occured in a 1979 research paper on the development of acute Dystonia and Tardive Dyskinisia in Cebus monkeys.

If you have found a football commentator with this condition, I would suggest he makes a visit to the nearest Oriental and Tropical Diseases hospital..

Hamilton also shares its name with a prominent - there, I spelt it correctly this time - location in Canada.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester also possesses a high-grade racecourse.

 

[Welshman]

Holyrood

Chester Racecourse is at the Roodee [Eye or Island of the Cross].
Rood is an ancient word for religious Cross
Holyrood means Holy Cross.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burton upon Trent also has a brewing industry tradition

 

[Heinz57]

It also plays host to a pretty good model railway show [DEMU in the town hall] as does Birmingham [Warley in the NEC]

That was a pretty rubish fact wasn't it?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bourton-on-the-Water also was the scene of finds of Roman pottery and coins.

 

[Johnuk123]

Beaconsfield also has a model village.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire also has extremely high "average price" house prices in the property market.

 

[Welshman]

John Laurie was one of Chalfont St Peter's notable residents.
He appeared [amongst many other characters] as Private Frazer in "Dads' Army", many of the outdoor scenes being filmed in the Thetford area.

 

[Johnuk123]

Fakenham is in the same football league as Thetford Town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheltenham also has a connection to National Hunt horse races.

 

[LE Greys]

Harrogate is another spa town

 

[Ivo]

Shepton Mallet also has a cenotaph.

 

[Temple Meads]

Moreton-in-Marsh is also on the Fosse Way.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dumfries also hosts an Agricultural and Horse Show.

 

[Johnuk123]

Chalfont St. Peter is the resting place of the Dads Army actor John Laurie, he was born in Dumfries in 1897.

 

[Welshman]

Chalfont St. Peter is the resting place of the Dads Army actor John Laurie, he was born in Dumfries in 1897.

What goes around, comes around! - see my post 2357

Terrington St Clement

another settlement incorporating a Saint's name

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tideswell in Derbyshire has its parish church of Church of St John the Baptist given the name of "The Cathedral of the Peak", whereas Terrington St Clement has its parish church of St Clement given the name of "The Cathedral of the Marshland"

 

[Johnuk123]

Mansfield is the birth place of Ric Lee the drummer who was in the 60's/70's group Ten Years After.

As we all know he now lives in Tideswell.

 

[Welshman]

Halifax

also had a brewery - Ramsden's [and I bet Ronald Reagan never had a pint of that, neither!]

 

[Johnuk123]

Beverley is another place with a Minster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walsingham was another great English medieval pilgrimage settlement.