Settlement Association

[High Dyke]

RAF Scampton was the wartime base of 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) who flew the iconic Lancaster bomber.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doddington in Kent also has a church dedicated to St John the Baptist... with the extra addition to the name of the church in this settlement that refers to his beheading.

 

[High Dyke]

Doddington Hall near Lincoln was built for Thomas Tailor who was the Registrar for the Bishop of Lincoln. Eventually the Hall was inherited by his granddaughter Elizabeth Anton who married Sir Edward Hussey of Honington, Lincolnshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Your knowledge of Lincolnshire appears to be encyclopedic in depth...


Dinas Powys in the Vale of Glamorgan was another site where an Iron Age fort was constructed.

 

[High Dyke]

Your knowledge of Lincolnshire appears to be encyclopedic in depth...

Thank you.

Torthorwald in Dumfriesshire also has a Community Council.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Knaresborough also once had an order of Trinitarian Friars in the settlement.

 

[Welshman]

Ramsgill [North Yorks]
is also on the River Nidd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ludlow also has a Michelin-star restaurant....three of them at the last count.

 

[Welshman]

Pontefract

also has a Suffragan Bishop

 

[Darren R]

Eccles is also famous for its 'cakes.'

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quarlton was another area administered by the Hundred of Salford

 

[Darren R]

The Knights Hospitallers also held land in Beverley, North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wimborne is also a minster town,

 

[Darren R]

Wimborne Minster Church houses the tomb of King Aethelred I, King of Wessex and Kent between 865 and 871. In 870 he suffered a heavy defeat to the Vikings at the Battle of Reading.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kelvedon also is another settlement with links to the trade of commercial seed growing.

 

[High Dyke]

Troywood (Fife) is also the location of a 'secret' nuclear bunker.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Troywood (Fife) is also the location of a 'secret' nuclear bunker.

On the assumption that the Troywood facility is in the environs of Anstruther.....

Stonehaven is another settlement with historical links to the herring fishing industry.

 

[High Dyke]

Inverary (Argyll & Bute) is another settlement with a former prison, now museum, that is a category A listed building.

 

[Welshman]

Liverpool
also has a Maritime Museum

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southwark also has two cathedrals...one C of E, the other R C.

 

[Welshman]

Congleton

was also notorious for its bear-baiting [and other good, healthy family sports!] in the 16th & 17th centuries.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Holmes Chapel also lies on the line of the River Dane.

 

[High Dyke]

Northwich is another settlement on the Cheshire Plain.

 

[Welshman]

Nantwich
also had a thriving salt-mining industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rushden also has historical links to the boot making industry.

 

[High Dyke]

Belfast also has a transport museum

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sunderland also has historical links to the shipbuilding industry.

 

[Welshman]

Not to be confused with Sunderland [Cumbria], which hasn't!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Isel is another settlement in the parish of Blindcrake.

 

[Welshman]

Bewaldeth

is also mentioned in the folk-song "The Horn of the Hunter" or "John Peel's Echo"