Settlement Association

[Deerfold]

From where you can follow the A719 to Ayr.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Auldearn was also a created a Royal Burgh in 1214.

 

[Deerfold]

Fife also has a Doocote, historically used for housing Doves.

 

[Clip]

Grinstead also has a football team with an 'East' prefix

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashbourne also has historical almshouses.

 

[Ivo]

Hello

Birchwood also has a type of tree in its name.

That was my first contribution to the Quiz forum for seven weeks hock:

 

[gnolife]

Hello

Birchwood also has a type of tree in its name.

That was my first contribution to the Quiz forum for seven weeks hock:

Why've you abandoned us??? :cry:

Chikorita used Razor Leaf.

Pontefract is also close to the M62 motorway

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester also has a racecourse.

 

[Clip]

As does Folkestone

 

[gnolife]

Fishguard also has a harbour. And this is post 4000

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holyhead is also a port with ferry services across the Irish Sea.
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...... And this is post 4000

Of which the top three posters are...

Paul Sidorczuk...1415
Welshman..........494
Ivo...................464

 

[Welshman]

Have I really posted so many?

Portsmouth is another port on an island off the mainland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gravesend was also sacked during the Hundred Years War

 

[Deerfold]

Teddington also has a lifeboat station.

 

[deltic1989]

Teddington was the scene of 2 murders in 1953. The culprit Alfred Whiteway was hanged at Wandsworth Prison.
The gallows from Wandsworth Prison are now on display at the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham

 

[Deerfold]

On Monday the band Halestorm will play a gig in Nottingham. This rock band should not be confused with the similarly named Scottish Pirate Metal band "Alestorm" who hail from Perth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tain was another of the first-created Royal Burghs prior to 1153AD.

 

[Ivo]

I just want to say guys, thank you ever so much for making this thread such an outstanding success. My appreciation goes to Paul in particular for the initial suggestion of something to stabilise the oft-derailed Station Association thread.

Wick is another Highland location with only four letters and one syllable in its name.

 

[Deerfold]

Batley also benefited from a Carnegie library.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tyldesley also had a rugby (league) club that was a founder member of the Northern Rugby Football Union that officially broke away from the national governing body of Rugby Union in 1895 which enabled player professionalism to commence.

 

[Deerfold]

The historic company Lancashire United Transport was founded in Tyldesley. The current company of that name is legally based in Burnley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cliviger is another settlement that once was part of the medieval Hundred of Blackburnshire.

 

[Deerfold]

Cliviger Parish Council is one of the largest in England. Another of the largest is Ripponden.

 

[Welshman]

Ripponden, along with Sowerby Bridge down the valley, have seen the revival of the old Rushbearing festival.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hebden Bridge is also on the line of the Rochdale Canal.

 

[deltic1989]

Bernard Ingham, who was educated at Hebdon Bridge Grammar School, was press secretary for Margret Thatcher. Who was born in Grantham

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whittlesey is another settlement where Bronze Age items have been unearthed.

 

[Deerfold]

Bernard Ingham, who was educated at Hebden Bridge Grammar School

Close!

Following on from Whittlesey, another even older market town is Htchin.

 

[Johnuk123]

Datchworth play rugby in the same league as Hitchin.

 

[Deerfold]

There is also a "Plough" pub in Ratby.