Settlement Association

[Welshman]

Arthur Wellesley [1st Duke of Wellington] died in Walmer.

The Area Headquarters of the Yorkshire Duke of Wellington Regiment is at Wellesley Park, Halifax.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doncaster also has a Minster church.

 

[deltic1989]

Blackburn also has a football team with the suffix Rovers.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Drigg is another settlement where a Royal Ordnance Factory was built.

 

[Johnuk123]

Portknockie also has a Victoria Hotel.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lybster was also a herring port of note in Victorian days.

 

[Welshman]

Lybster hosts the world Knotty Championship.
Shinty is a variant of Knotty.
Newtonmore has been the Shinty League champion team since 2010.

 

[High Dyke]

The Highland Folk Museum at Newtonmore was a Gold Award winner in the Green Tourism Business Scheme; as was The Threshold Centre at Gillingham in Dorset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nympsfield in Gloucestershire also has a Stone-Age barrow.

 

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Challock is also a home to a gliding club.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nottingham also hosts a Goose Fair.

 

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Kennington also has a cricket ground which host international cricket

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester is another settlement where there was a reading of the Riot Act followed by action against the assembled crowd by the military.

 

[deltic1989]

Lincoln is another city where the football related question "City or United?" can be posed.

 

[High Dyke]

Salisbury also has a surviving copy of the original Magna Carta.

 

[Welshman]

Salisbury is at the confluence of five rivers - one of them is the River Ebble.

This is not to be confused with the River Hebble, which meets the River Calder at Salterhebble - originally a village and now a district of Halifax.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sowerby Bridge was also served by the waterway known as the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

 

[High Dyke]

Rushbearing is a traditional ceremony that takes place here. Another festival that is firmly rooted in the history of this nation is Well Dressing. This custom is closely associated with Staffordshire and Derbyshire, where it is said to have originated in Tissington in 1349

 

[Welshman]

Just when I thought my inspiration was beginning to flag, I remembered that Flagg is also on the Limestone Trail.

 

[High Dyke]

That reminds me...i need to take my Lincolnshire Flag when i go on holiday so i can celebrate Lincolnshire Day on October 1st. I'm staying in St Ives in Cornwall

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool also has a Tate Gallery establishment.

 

[High Dyke]

Gosport also has a ferry service

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newbury also had a Mesolithic settlement within its environs in which hunting camps were an essential part of that settlement.

 

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Huntingdon also has a racecourse

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cockermouth is another settlement that was chosen by the Normans to erect a castle after their 11th century invasion of Britain.

 

[High Dyke]

Llanrwst was also affected by the floods in 2009.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhosllanerchrugog is another settlement to have experienced the effects of the Welsh Religious Revival of 1904/1905.

Let us all now rise, brothers and sisters, to sing the hymn that was the one made famous by that revival...
"Here is love, vast as the ocean"

 

[High Dyke]

Birkenhead is one of the few locations outside of Wales that has hosted the National Eisteddfod

 

[deltic1989]

That reminds me...i need to take my Lincolnshire Flag when i go on holiday so i can celebrate Lincolnshire Day on October 1st. I'm staying in St Ives in Cornwall

I have one of those in my living room window........in Nottingham. I am a proud Lincolnite that....er.....lapsed.

My Father was born in Birkenhead, and brought up in Alsager

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rostherne also has a mere within its boundaries.