Settlement Association

[Johnuk123]

Headcorn is another place with Head in it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sudbury also has connections to a medieval weaving industry.

 

[Welshman]

The painter Thomas Gainsborough was the son of a Sudbury weaver. He is now interred at Kew.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Didsbury in Manchester also has a botanical garden (Fletcher Moss).

 

[Johnuk123]

Doncaster was the birthplace of the actress Diana Rigg who starred in the Avengers t.v series.

Some of the early Avengers episodes were made in the now demolished Capitol theatre in Didsbury.

 

[Welshman]

Diana Rigg is probably best remembered[from a rail enthusiast's point of view, I mean], for being strapped to the rails of the miniature railway in Stapleford Park, near Melton Mowbray.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hawick also has historical connections to the stocking knitting industry.


Poynton also has a miniature railway (Brookside Miniature Railway)

 

[Johnuk123]

Malvern is another town that is near to a BAE establishment.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Matlock Bath also is associated with the use of its waters as a spa town.

 

[Johnuk123]

Whatstandwell is also on the river Derwent.

 

[Welshman]

Langley Mill

also on the Cromford Canal

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Guildford is another place where parachutes were made during the Second World War.

 

[Welshman]

Liverpool

also has an Anglican cathedral built in the 20th century.

 

[Johnuk123]

Bispham is where the actor/comedian Ricky Tomlinson was born but he's lived in Liverpool most of his life.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thornton is another settlement in the Fylde area that was settled by the pre-Roman Celtic tribe known as the Setantii.

 

[Welshman]

Whereas Thornton Heath is quite a walk from the Fylde.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bath has also been the scene of large finds of Roman coinage.

 

[Welshman]

Robert Adam, who designed the Pulteney Bridge, also designed the Red Lion Inn in Pontefract [amongst many other buildings]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ayr also has flat racing on its racecourse.

 

[Welshman]

Stratford-on-Avon

Ayr is to Robbie Burns what Straford-on-Avon is to William Shakespeare

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saffron Waldon in Essex also has historical links to a medieval sheep-rearing trade that provided both woollen fleeces and mutton.

 

[Welshman]

"Saffron Walden" is, in my humble opinion, the far more superior tune to the words "Just as I am", written by Charlotte Elliot, whose Father, Henry Venn, was a leading member of the Clapham sect.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wandsworth was also part of the medieval Hundred of Brixton.

 

[Johnuk123]

Full Sutton is also home to a prison.

 

[LE Greys]

King's Sutton is a somewhat different Sutton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashurst in Hampshire also has a historical link to saltpetre useage in the manufacture of gumpowder.

 

[Johnuk123]

Branscombe is the birthplace of Millvina Dean the last survivor from the Titanic.

When she died she was living in Ashurst.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Exeter was also a settlement area of the the pre-Roman Celtic tribe known as the Dumnonii

 

[Johnuk123]

Caerphilly is where Tommy Cooper was born but he lived in Exeter from the age of 3.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beaumaris also has a castle that was built in the 13th century.