Settlement Association

[Johnuk123]

Wednesbury is another town ending in bury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stafford was also another of the five towns to receive much greater defensive fortifications under the instructions of Ethelfleda, the daughter of Alfred the Great, so as to be in a defensive ring against the Danes.

 

[Johnuk123]

Preston was another place that had an English-Electric plant.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Garstang was another parish and township in the Middle Ages that was part of the Hundred of Amounderness.

 

[Welshman]

John [now St. John] Plessington, who was hanged, drawn and quartered at Boughton, near Chester in 1679 for being a Roman Catholic priest, was born just outside Garstang.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Canterbury also possessed a medieval leper hospital

 

[Welshman]

Some buildings in Bath have also been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buxton is also famous for the quality of its waters from deep depths.

 

[Welshman]

Manchester

also has an Opera House

 

[dzug2]

Exeter also has a ship canal

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chichester possesses both a cathedral and a ship canal.

 

[Welshman]

Ewell

also on Stane St.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leatherhead was also part of the Saxon period Copthorne Hundred.

 

[Johnuk123]

Ewloe also has a soon to close Unilever office.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dolwyddelan also was a settlement where a castle was built by the Welsh princes.

 

[deltic1989]

Dolwyddelan Castle was used to film the exterior castle scenes in the 1980 movie Dragonslayer.
Lincoln Cathedral was used to double as Westminster Abbey in the film The Da Vinci Code

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Richmond (the one up north) was also where the Normans decded to build a castle

 

[Welshman]

Not to be confused with the one down saarf [on Thames], which is supposed to be one of the "happiest places to live" in the UK.

 

[David Goddard]

Staines has recently gained the suffix so is now Staines-on-Thames

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bodmin was another place which was one of the 21 horse changes in 1805 from Falmouth to London described as the Trafalger Way where despatches were carried with news of the victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.

 

[Welshman]

Ilkley

is also known for its Moor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Church Stretton is also a spa town

 

[Johnuk123]

Cheltenham is a spa town too.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aintree also has a racecourse

 

[Welshman]

Workington

[Aintree is famous for, amongst other things, The Grand National. The Leyland National was assembed at Workington]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ipswich also has a speedway club.

 

[deltic1989]

Ipswich had a close affiliation with a Royal Navy ship, the now De-commisioned HMS Grafton (Type 23 Frigate). Nottingham shared a similar affiliation with another de-commisioned Royal Navy ship HMS Nottingham (Type 42 Destroyer).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Honiton also has historical links to the lace making industry.

 

[Johnuk123]

Teignmouth is another Devon town with a fine golf course.

 

[LE Greys]

An obscure one this. In Teignmouth, there is a building called Pellew House, presumably after Admiral Pellew who later became Viscount Exmouth.