Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winchcombe also once had a religious house erected by the Benedictine order.

 

[Ivo]

Another smaller settlement in the South West famed for its religious house is the similarly named Widecombe(-in-the-Moor). Unlike most settlements famous for their churches however, however, this location isn't famous for the church itself per se - but more for something said to have happened in it long ago.

 

[Eagle]

Another place with a church dedicated to St Pancras is, erm...

Toxteth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

London was also the scene of riots.... (in 1517, called the Evil May Day riots).

 

[Eagle]

Cricklade is also on the Thames.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cirencester also lies on the line of the Roman road called Ermin Street.

 

[Eagle]

Bradford, Wiltshire is another market town on the edge of the Cotswolds.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eaton in Cheshire also had archaeologically uncovered remains of a Roman villa.

 

[Welshman]

Stapleford Hall in Leicestershire also has a private railway in the grounds.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leeds also has a Grade I listed building (Leeds Town Hall)

 

[Ivo]

St Albans is also home to a railway station that is sometimes given the suffix "City".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Towton in North Yorkshire was also the scene of a battle in 1461 in the Wars of the Roses.

 

[Welshman]

Edmondthorpe [Leicestershire]

another village whose church is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The church of St Oswald's in Ashbourne also has decorated tomb monuments (in the interior of the church).

 

[Welshman]

Catherine Booth - the "Mother of the Salvation Army" was born in Ashbourne. Her future husband to be, William Booth, was born in Sneinton, Nottingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Old Buckenham in Norfolk was another settlement where a tower windmill was erected.

 

[Welshman]

Waddington [Lincs] also has an annual airshow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln also lies on the line of the long-distance footpath that is called The Viking Way

 

[Ivo]

Oxford also gave its name to a county.

 

[Bedpan]

Washington also shares a name with an ex USA President

 

[Ivo]

You wait ages (almost 90 hours) for one and then two come along at once

Sorry Bedpan - a touch too late. Oxford is the current location.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

After the Norman invasion of 1066, Durham was another settlement that was subject to military action by these invaders.

 

[Welshman]

Monmouth

[The present Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, was previously bishop of Monmouth - the Archbishop elect, Justin Welby, is now Bishop of Durham]

 

[dzug2]

Kemble is at the other end of the Wysis Way

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Gloucester is also a calling point on the Wysis Way

 

[Ivo]

Camberley also sees Stagecoach Gold bus services. And very nice they are too.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Finchley was another area that was at one time frequented by Highwaymen.

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Holyhead is a place I've never been to either!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newhaven also has ferry services to an EEC country.

 

[Welshman]

Huddersfield

also has the site of an ancient hill fort on a "Castle Hill"