Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frome in Somerset is another settlement where a hoard of Roman coinage was discovered.

 

[Welshman]

The town of Frome is on the River Frome, which rises near Witham Friary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Osmotherley in North Yorkshire is another settlement that once had a Carthusian Charterhouse.

 

[High Dyke]

P.S.....what is 'ossing ?

A Linkisheer word for complaining.

Osmotherley in North Yorkshire is another settlement that once had a Carthusian Charterhouse.

The Mem and I will be up that way just before Christmas...visiting Mount Grace Priory

Brant Broughton also has a Friends Meeting House

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gressingham in Lancashire also has a Grade I listed church... (St John the Evangelist)

 

[High Dyke]

The location gives its name to the breed of duck, a cross between a Wild Mallard and Pekin. The company that specialises in producing Gressingham Duck is based at Debach in Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Capel St Andrew is another settlement that was administered by the medieval Hundred of Wilford.

 

[High Dyke]

Walberswick is another Suffolk location that has a nearby river ferry operating.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Warsash in Hampshire also hosts a crabbing competition.

 

[Darren R]

Blyth in Northumberland also has a Nautical College (The Wellesley Nautical School)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seaton Sluice in Northumberland also had medieval connections to the salt industry.

 

[High Dyke]

Sunderland is another settlement that had a glass bottle works.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster also received its status as a city in the 20th century.

 

[High Dyke]

Sunderland is another settlement that had a glass bottle works.

Lancaster also received its status as a city in the 20th century.

Keeping the theme of aircraft types going brings us to Buckingham, no longer the county town of Buckinghamshire. The Bristol Buckingham was a British Second World War medium bomber

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolverhampton is another former medieval woollen "Staple Town".

 

[Darren R]

Bolton is another town whose football team are Wanderers.

(Similar quality team too....)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oxford also has an elephant featured in its town coat of arms.

 

[High Dyke]

The Morris Oxford was named by William Morris in recognition of its home city. Ironically under BMC the once rival, Austin A55 was a rebadged Morris Oxford which was named after the other great university city Cambridge

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ludlow also suffered from outbreaks of Sweating Sickness in the 16th century.

 

[Darren R]

Bridgnorth is another settlement granted a murage to maintain the town's defensive walls in order to protect themselves from marauding Welshmen. ()

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lynmouth also has a funicular railway.

 

[High Dyke]

Lynmouth also has a funicular railway.

Described by the artist Thomas Gainsborough as

"the most delightful place for a landscape painter this country can boast".

InMe, an English alternative metal band, make recurring references to the Lynton/Lynmouth area in their lyrical material. The band hails from Brentwood, Essex.

 

[cuccir]

To lower the tone somewhat, Brentwood is the main location in which 'The Only Way is Essex' is filmed. Newcastle-upon-Tyne is also home to a reality TV series, Geordie Shore.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Runcorn also has a noted river bridge.

 

[High Dyke]

Prior to the building of the bridge the only way to cross the river was using the Runcorn Ferry, which has a history dating back to the 12th Century. Aust, Gloucs. was another location that had a historic ferry service that declined once a nearby road bridge was built.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worcester was another settlement where Lollards were known to be in the 14th century.

 

[High Dyke]

Belleek in Northern Ireland is also associated with the production of porcelain.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Greencastle in County Down is another Northern Ireland settlement with a Royal Castle.

 

[Darren R]

Odiham in Hampshire also has a 13th century royal castle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Findon in West Sussex also had a Pest House.