Settlement Association

[LadyDeltic]

Although the Met Office is currently based in Exeter, it was formerly based in Bracknell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penrith also has Neolithic standing stones ...(Long Meg and her daughters)

 

[Ivo]

Penrith has a "suburb" by the name of Carleton. Carleton is not to be confused with Tarleton (among other places).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sollom is also a settlement in the coastal mosslands of the Lancashire Plain which, like Tarleton, was subject to Viking settlement.

 

[Schnellzug]

Sollom should not be confused with Sodom, which really is a place in the UK, it's a settlement on Whalsay, Shetland.

:P


(ok, technically, its' the anglicisation of Sudheim, but it's good enough, surely.)

 

[LE Greys]

I hate to bring this up, but this does rather associate with the village of Bottom's Fold

 

[LadyDeltic]

Ashton-under-Lyne is also in the Tame Valley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stretford is at the other end of the medieval linear defensive earthwork known as the Nico Ditch.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

anfield also is also a town with a famous football stadium

 

[Ivo]

Urgh

A more worthy suburb of Liverpool with regards to stadia is Walton

My saying this is technically hypocritical, given Everton played at Anfield for the first 14 years of their existence.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

a slightly strange association

walton is a name of a car on popular game grand theft auto and grand theft auto is made by rockstar north who are based in edinburgh

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunbar was also another major settlement of the sub-Roman Brythonic tribal people known as the Gododdin, whose kingdom was in the Hen Ogledd region.

 

[Johnuk123]

Fraserburgh is another Scottish town with a lifeboat.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peterhead also retains its links to the fishing industry.....but nowhere as important as it used to be before the fishing quotas were introduced.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

not to be confused with peterborough

 

[LE Greys]

Now linked with Norwich by an insurence company.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

mansfield also have a footy team who have a yellow home kit

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigan also has historical links to the coal mining industry

 

[Schnellzug]

And its Pier is almost as famous as that at Brighton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holmfirth was also a place where many of the early British films were made.

 

[Welshman]

Bamforth & Co Ltd is now based in Leeds

 

[Clip]

There is a Leeds in Kent which has a fantastic castle. To get to it by train you would get off at the county town of Maidstone.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rochester also lies on the route of the river Medway.

 

[Schnellzug]

Probably the most famous Earl of Rochester was the infamous poet, man about town and friend of King Charles II, John Wilmot, the 2nd earl. He is buried at Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, and to be honest it's surprising he wasn't a lot earlier.

 

[Johnuk123]

Newmarket is another place with a large horse racing course.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Same with Uttoxeter

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkham is another site used by Fox's Biscuits.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Dartmoor is also a location where a prison is located.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dartmoor is also a location where a prison is located.

The return of the Pedantmaster General.......:roll:


Dartmoor is not a settlement as such, as defined in the rules of this quiz.

The prison is at Princetown

 

[Ivo]

Sorry - I have to agree. Dartmoor is a landscape, not a settlement.

Princetown has a name that is similar to a major US University (Princeton). Grangetown's name is also similar to such an institution (Georgetown).