Settlement Association

[Welshman]

Harlech

also has a castle commissioned by Edward I.

 

[Johnuk123]

Brora has a seaside golf course also.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Saltcotes in West Cumbria also has a connection to medeval coastal salt pans that were established there.

 

[Johnuk123]

Ardoch also has a Roman fort.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carpow is another settlement in Perth and Kinross to have had Roman military defensive positions.

 

[Welshman]

Crieff

also on the River Earn

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shrewsbury also had historical connections to the flax industry.

 

[Welshman]

The late [and much lamented] broadcaster John Peel was educated at Shrewsbury School. He later moved to Peel Acres in Great Finsborough, Suffolk, and is buried in the parish churchyard.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haughley is the other village connected with The Bog Race every Easter Monday with the village of Great Finborough.

 

[Johnuk123]

Birmingham has a New Street also.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cruester on the Isle of Bressay in the Shetland Isles was also where stone age burnt mounds were discovered.

 

[Johnuk123]

Burnt mounds can be found just outside Hednesford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigan has also historical connections to the coal mining industry.

 

[Welshman]

Wigan has been made famous by George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier.
Orwell is buried in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lydford in Devon also had an Anglo-Saxon settlement.

 

[Johnuk123]

Dudley also has a castle.

 

[ATW Alex 101]

Dudley is the name of a Harry potter series character, his second name is Dursley which is a settlement

 

[Johnuk123]

March also has a Sainsburys store.

 

[Welshman]

As you all no doubt know, March's Parish Church is dedicated to St Wendreda [the only known dedication].
But you must have heard of her sister, St Sexburgha - she was abbess at Minster-in-Sheppey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walton-on-the-Naze is another hyphenated named settlement where past coastal erosion have revealed many fossils contained in the London Clay sediments.

 

[dzug2]

Southend on Sea - between them they have the longest and second longest piers in Britain.

 

[12CSVT]

Hythe (Hants) has a pier railway

 

[dzug2]

Milford Haven is also near an oil refinery

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portsmouth is another settlement with a historical military port usage.

 

[dzug2]

Poole has ferry services to Cherbourg

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Christchurch also saw settlement occurring by the pre-Roman Celtic tribe known as the Durotriges.

 

[dzug2]

Wellington (as in Shropshire) is also the name of a major city in New Zealand

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fenny Stratford also lies on the route of the Roman road called Watling Street

 

[dzug2]

Wolverton is on the Grand Junction (now Union) Canal

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ely is also where the medieval field method of ridge and furrow was practiced.