Settlement Association

[cjp]

Samual Taylor Colridge was living in Nether Stowey when a Man from Porlock interrrupted his creativity

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stogumber is another settlement that was administered by the medieval Hundred of Williton and Freemanners.

 

[cjp]

There are many other places with White Horse Inns including one at Clun in Shropshire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cwmwd Deuddor was another of the Marcher Lordship settlements.

 

[cjp]

Cwmwd Deuddor was another of the Marcher Lordship settlements.

I am sorry but I cannot find this place on a map.
Is it a Welsh inland equivalent of Atlantis?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I am sorry but I cannot find this place on a map.
Is it a Welsh inland equivalent of Atlantis?

Would you settle for St. Clears as an alternative ?

 

[johnnychips]

The Normans also built a castle at Conisbrough in the 12th Century.

 

[Welshman]

Penistone is also on the River Don.

 

[johnnychips]

Scunthorpe has also had trouble with computer automatic censoring systems.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corby also overlies deposits of iron ore.

 

[Clip]

Sheffield was/is a site of a steelworks

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackpool also has a tramway system

 

[johnnychips]

Aintree also has a Grand National - the horse race that the famous roller coaster ride at Blackpool was named after.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chepstow also has a racecourse that holds steeplechase races.

 

[cjp]

Chepstow Villas is to be found in London's Notting Hill near Westbourne Grove

 

[Welshman]

Notting Hill was a romantic comedy starring Gina McKee, who was born in Peterlee.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skelmerdale also saw much new construction under the terms of the New Towns Act 1946.

 

[cjp]

Skelmerdale is home to an administrative centre of the Co-operative Bank whose Mr Paul Flowers hit the headlines a short while ago. Mr Flower's home is in Bradford

 

[johnnychips]

J B Priestley was born in Bradford. He wrote An English Journey. Beryl Bainbridge later wrote a new version, and she was born in Liverpool.

 

[Clip]

Brendan Rogers - he of that stupid saying 'We go again' - is the manger of Liverpool FC but the first club he managed was Watford

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mansfield also has a directly elected mayor.

 

[johnnychips]

Mansfield has a King's Mill hospital. Maidenhead is where the offices of Kingsmill Bread are situated.

 

[12CSVT]

Shaftesbury, Dorset was the filming location for a famous bread advert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doddington in Cambridgeshire is another settlement that erected a clock tower in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations for Queen Victoria.

 

[johnnychips]

Baslow (Derbyshire)'s church clock doesn't have numbers, but 'Victoria'. (I can't remember what fills the four remaining spaces).

EDIT: 1897

http://www.derbyshireheritage.co.uk/Menu/Townsandvillages/Baslow/baslow-curiosities.php

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Elvington also lies on the line of the River Derwent.

 

[Welshman]

Waddington also has an airfield much used during WWII

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sewstern also lies on the line of the long distance footpath called the Viking Way

 

[johnnychips]

Todmorden is also a place historically split between two counties.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Luddendenfoot also lies on the line of the Rochdale Canal