Settlement Association

[Welshman]

Bury St Edmunds

also has a brewery

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lavenham in Suffolk also had a medieval woollen trade.

 

[Johnuk123]

Seething was also an East Anglian USAF WW11 airfield.

 

[Heinz57]

Cranleigh in Surrey also had a WWII airfeild (although this one was used by the RAF). It is of course Dunsfold, now more known for being home to the Top Gear test track and studio...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Steyning is also on the line of The Downs Link footpath and cycleway.

 

[Johnuk123]

Wallasey is another place with a thriving athletic club.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Irvine also had a gunpowder magazine.

 

[Johnuk123]

Dungannon also has a fine golf club.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nelson also has the remains of an Iron Age fort in its evirons called Castercliff.....the one in the Dungannon area is called Tullyhougue Fort

 

[Johnuk123]

Burnham Thorpe is the birthplace of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yatton has a church which is a Grade I listed building ( dedicated to St Mary)....whereas the Grade I listed church in Burnham Thorpe is named
All Saints

 

[Johnuk123]

Chedworth also is the site of a ruined Roman Villa.

 

[Welshman]

Cirencester

is also on the Fosse Way

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York also has an agricultural college (Askham Bryan)

 

[Johnuk123]

Towcester also has a fine racecourse.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunstable also lies on the line of the Roman road called Watling Street.

 

[Johnuk123]

Dudley also has a large zoo in its vicinity.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gloucester was another settlement to be beseiged during the English Civil War.

 

[Johnuk123]

Durham is another place that has a very old 'local' prison.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bishop Auckland also lies on the line of the river Wear.

 

[Welshman]

Anthony Eden was born in Bishop Aukland.
He later became [amongst other things] MP for Warwick.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caernarfon also has a castle that is a main tourist attraction in its environs.

 

[Welshman]

The Headquarters of Gwynedd County Council are in Caernarfon.
The Headquarters of Flintshire County Council are in Mold.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flint is another North-East Wales settlement to possess a ruined castle.

 

[Johnuk123]

Bodelwyddan is where our gold medalist Olympic athlete Jade Jones is from, she went to school in Flint.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bangor (with Penrhyn Castle) also has an edifice that has a medieval castle as its original core that was then completely built around in the 19th century to make a large private residence for a man of some substance.....or so I have been told very many years ago

 

[Welshman]

Bangor pier is the second-longest in Wales.
The longest in Wales is at Llandudno

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberystwyth is another Welsh coastal resort which was well patronised by holidaymakers in Victorian times and also was settled by tribal people in the Bronze Age.

 

[Welshman]

Lynmouth

also has a funicular railway.

 

[Johnuk123]

Bridgnorth has a funicular railway also.