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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woodstock in Oxfordshire was also once noted for its bell foundry.

 

[Johnuk123]

Wednesbury has also got a public swimming pool.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Irlam also had a historical link to steelmaking.

 

[Johnuk123]

Corby also had a very large British Steel plant.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scunthorpe also overlies deposits of iron ore.

 

[Johnuk123]

Redcar has a speedway team in the same league as Scunthorpe Scorpions.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ludlow also has a racecourse

 

[Welshman]

Pontefract
also has a Suffragan Bishop

 

[Ivo]

Canterbury also has two distinct passenger railways - granted, one of Pontefract's is rarely used - running through its environs.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dartford was another large settlement of the Jutes in Britain after their influx in post-Roman times.

 

[LadyDeltic]

Chilworth also has a history of gunpowder manufacturing.

 

[Ivo]

Welcome to the thread dear lady

Osterley is also known for a prominent "upper class" estate (Chilworth Manor; Osterley Park).

 

[Clip]

Southend is the polar opposite and is well known for being a bit, erm, scummy.

 

[Johnuk123]

Crick is also like Southend airport a Stobart group base.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brentford is also on the line of the Grand Union Canal.

 

[Clip]

Brentford Football club play in red and white stripes. As do Stoke city

 

[Johnuk123]

Sunderland also play in red and white stripes.

 

[Schnellzug]

The civil version of the Short Sunderland was known as the Sandringham.

 

[Johnuk123]

Southampton has an aviation museum called Solent Sky where you'll find a Short Sandringham.

 

[LadyDeltic]

Bristol is also the location of a BBC regional broadcasting centre (BBC West's main studio is based in Bristol, while BBC South's main studio is based in Southampton).

 

[Johnuk123]

Dudley also has a zoo like Bristol.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Conwy also has a ruined castle.

 

[Johnuk123]

Kenilworth also has a very ruined castle.

 

[Schnellzug]

Sir Walter Scott wrote the novel Kenilworth, about Sinister events in times of olde. Another in a similar vein was Woodstock.

 

[Johnuk123]

Wellington was also a WW2 bomber similar to Blenheim which is Woodstocks most famous ancestral home.

 

[Schnellzug]

The Duke of Wellington did not apparently actually say that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, (that was apparently Hitler) although it has gone down on the Duke's record of history for saying so.


* Thanks to the QI Second Book of General Ignorance for that.

 

[Johnuk123]

Stowe is also a very famous public school.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunham Massey also has a large National Trust property with extensive garden areas.

 

[Ivo]

Another location with the somewhat unusual suffix "Massey" would be Stondon Massey, near Brentwood.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stondon meant "stone hill" in the days of the Saxons and another very old settlement to have this word in its name is Lower Stondon in the county of Bedfordshire.