Settlement Association

[cjp]

Pittenweem is also on the coast

 

[High Dyke]

Girvan also has an example of a tolbooth - Auld Stumpy

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Filey also hosts a folk music festival.

 

[High Dyke]

The church at Waltham-on-the-wolds was also damaged by an earthquake (2008).

Filey was affected by the Dogger Bank earthquake in 1931

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Meldrum in Aberdeenshire also has a television transmitting station in its environs.

 

[cjp]

Meldrum in Aberdeenshire also has a television transmitting station in its environs.

Interestingly Drumnadrochit although not on the coast has a RNLI team on hand

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Strathpeffer also has a shinty club.

 

[Welshman]

Lynton [North Devon] also has a hotel which used to be patronised by Shearings Coach Holidays [Valley of Rocks Hotel]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hastings also has a funicular railway.

 

[cjp]

Clacton on Sea also a has a Pier

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Osyth also has a Martello Tower.

 

[cjp]

Frating is also in Tendering

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A "heaven-sent" opportunity to publicise my own village...


Prestbury also has a village hall.

 

[cjp]

I suspect Preston is a long
way from Prestbury (and lacks a village hall)

 

[deltic1989]

A "heaven-sent" opportunity to publicise my own village...


Prestbury also has a village hall.

A lot of famous residents there including Noddy Holder, who moved there from Walsall (damn too slow, OK Preston)

----------EDIT---------
The first Motorway in the the UK, The New Preston By-pass, currently forms part of the M6.
Which has it's northern terminus (if that be the correct word) at Gretna Junction (J45)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A lot of famous residents there including Noddy Holder, who moved there from Walsall

It would appear that your posting, good as it is, was "pipped at the post" by cjp
--- old post above --- --- new post below ---

----------EDIT---------
The first Motorway in the the UK, The New Preston By-pass, currently forms part of the M6.
Which has it's northern terminus (if that be the correct word) at Gretna Junction (J45)

Chester, like Gretna, is also a border settlement.

 

[cjp]

Colchester also has strong Roman Connections

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

London was another settlement to receive the wrath of the forces of Boudica as retribution against the Romans.

 

[cjp]

London was another settlement to receive the wrath of the forces of Boudica as retribution against the Romans.

Londinium surely

Close to Chichester is Fishbourne where can still be seen the remains of a palace or villa, famous for its mosaics, where Romans relaxed between battles with the nasty natives.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Silchester in Hampshire is another settlement that was a base for the Belgic tribe called the Atrebates.

 

[cjp]

Ilchester is where they mix up cheeses with fruit and stuff to create abominations!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Poole was another important settlement of the Celtic trible called the Durotriges.

 

[cjp]

You can "Go To The Dogs" in Poole , just as one used to be able to in Walthamstow

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bow is another settlement with a noted eel and pie shop (G.Kelly)

 

[deltic1989]

The Bow Street Runners, were recognised as one of the first organised police forces in the United Kingdom, Inverness Burgh Police was another example which pre-dates Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police Service.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fort Augustus also lies on the line of the Caledonian Canal

 

[cjp]

Before they built the bridge Inverness was connected to the Black Isle by the ferry to North Kessock - a pleasent trip on a sunny day
Beaten again by Paul

Fort William is at the west end of the waterway

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Before they built the bridge Inverness was connected to the Black Isle by the ferry to North Kessock - a pleasant trip on a sunny day
Beaten again by Paul

Fort William is at the west end of the waterway

Ayr was another settlement that was chosen for the site of a military fort.

A pity about your North Kessock thwarted posting, as I was about to respond with...."Eilean Domnuil on North Uist was another site where a crannog was built"

 

[cjp]

Ayr made me think of Air on a G string by Bach,
this is or was used in the Hamlet advertisements,
a Hamlet is a small Settlement,
I believe Paul lives Cheshire way so I was about offer Croughton, which I am but
Croughton in Northamptonshire where there is something of a Danger Zone marked on my aviation charts

Phew

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Delamere in Cheshire is another settlement to have the remains of an Iron Age fort in its environs..... Eddisbury fort