Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Keeping the suffix running....


Ribchester also had a Roman military fort.

 

[TheEdge]

The village of Wroxeter sits on the site of what started as a Roman military fort, became the fourth largest city in Roman Britain and is now a small village again.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Orpington is another settlement where excavations have revealed the remains of a Roman bath house.

 

[Ivo]

Surbiton is also on the fringe of London.

 

[LE Greys]

The Good Life, set in Surbiton, was actually filmed in Northwood

 

[Welshman]

Unfortunately, Kegworth was also the scene of an air disaster, where 47 were killed in 1989.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leicester was another settlement in the pre-Roman tribal area of the people called the Coritani (sometimes called the Corieltauvi)

 

[Ivo]

Lampeter is another University location whose name begins with L.

 

[Deerfold]

Cardiff was also a site with a part of the University of Wales present.

Apologies for the earleir edit - for some reason my browser wasn't showing me all the posts.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Machynlleth also has been the capital city of Wales (in days long passed).

 

[Ivo]

Walton-on-Thames has also become known to people all over the country this century because of some misdeed involving a girl's abduction

 

[Deerfold]

There is also a Wagamama restaurant in Harrogate.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheltenham also has a noted ladies college.

 

[LE Greys]

Goodwood also has a racing festival, but with motor racing rather than horse racing

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worcester also lies on the line of the Monarch's Way long distance footpath.

 

[TheEdge]

While Worcester Cathedral already contains the grave of a Plantagenet king Leicester is now awaiting the internment of one.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lincoln was another one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw.

 

[Welshman]

Guildford

also has an Anglican Cathedral on a hill, which can be seen from miles around.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tiverton was another settlement that had strong medieval links with the wool trade.

 

[Ivo]

Bodmin, like Tiverton, has to make do with a parkway connection to the railway network after Dr B closed the station serving the town itself.

How to make a railway-based Settlement association

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Does anyone remember the days when Class172 was a regular contributor on here with his encyclopedic road connections ? As a tribute to those days, I will say......

Derby is also served by the A38.

 

[Welshman]

Wakefield also has a chantry/bridge chapel

 

[Ivo]

Wells is also the smallest, southernmost and last alphabetically in a localised triangle of three cities (Bradford/Leeds; Bristol/Bath)

 

[12CSVT]

Ripon is an English city which was cut off from the railway network under Beeching

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

North Elmham in Norfolk also possesses an Anglo-Saxon cathedral.

 

[Johnuk123]

The actor John Mills who was certainly not a hamactor was born in North Elmham he also once lived in a Hams Lane.

He was educated at Balham Grammar school and he died in Denham.

So Denham is the next to follow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bodelwyddan also had a First World War army training camp (Kinmel Park)

 

[Deerfold]

Bodelwyddan also had a First World War army training camp (Kinmel Park)

The National Portrait Gallery also has a site in Central London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York is another ancient city in Britain that has a large river flowing through it.

 

[Deerfold]

Cambridge also has 5 Park and Ride sites in a ring around the City Centre.