Settlement Association

[johnnychips]

And so is Millers Dale in Derbyshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashford in the Water also lies on the line of the River Wye.

 

[cjp]

There is another river Wye at West Wycombe

 

[Darren R]

West Wycombe is famous for its cave system known as the Hellfire Caves. Knaresborough is famous for Mother Shipton's Cave.

 

[johnnychips]

Matlock Bath also has a petrifying well.

 

[Darren R]

Buxton is another Derbyshire spa town.

 

[johnnychips]

Alston is also a contender for the market town highest above sea level in England.

 

[Darren R]

Although Alston no longer holds a regular market, the present market cross was erected in 1981 to replace one demolished the previous year by a lorry. Another town with a (slightly more famous) market cross is Banbury.

 

[12CSVT]

Gloucester is mentioned in a children's nursery rhyme.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derby has a cheese named after it.

 

[johnnychips]

Malton is also a town on a (different) River Derwent.

 

[High Dyke]

Whilst Malton may be known as Yorkshire's Food Capital. The title of Rural Capital of Food belongs to Melton Mowbray.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hurworth-on-Tees also has a church with a Sanctus Bell (All Saints)..the church at Melton Mowbray with another one is dedicated to St Mary
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Malton is also a town on a (different) River Derwent.

I was just pipped at the post before I had a chance to say that Chicksands also was the site where a Gilbertine Order priory was erected.

 

[High Dyke]

Hurworth-on-Tees also has a church with a Sanctus Bell (All Saints)..the church at Melton Mowbray with another one is dedicated to St Mary
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I was just pipped at the post before I had a chance to say that Chicksands also was the site where a Gilbertine Order priory was erected.

Sorry dear chap.

Whorlton also lies on the River Tees.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Launceston is another settlement where the Normans erected a motte and bailey castle.

 

[High Dyke]

The Roman Catholic martyr Cuthbert Mayne was executed at Launceston. Another martyr was the English Jesuit Henry Walpole (1558 – 7 April 1595). He was born in Docking, Norfolk.

I am now away on holiday and won't be back again until Tuesday 16th September.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Finedon also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

 

[cjp]

If you continue a little way down the A6 over the river Nene one comes to Higham Ferrers

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gatton in Surrey was another of the small settlements that was declared to be a rotten borough for electoral purposes..

 

[cjp]

Gatton Park was landscaped by Capability Brown as was Warwick Castle

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

London also suffered from a "Great Fire" in the late Middle Ages that destroyed many of its properties.

 

[cjp]

Holmes Chapel, although a long way from London, has a London road

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heaton Chapel also has the name of a religious edifice contained in its name.

 

[cjp]

Swinton is on the NW side of Salford about the same distance away along the A6 as Heaton Chapel is to the SE of Salford

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aspull is another settlement that was part of the medieval Hundred of Salford.

 

[cjp]

Coalville also has mining associations

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Altrincham also has a clock tower.

 

[cjp]

Altringham has a Garrick Playhouse. The Garrick Theatre in London was designed by Walker Emden who also designed what was the Civic Theatre in Barnsley

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Market Harborough was also passed through by the 1936 Jarrow March.

 

[cjp]

Market Rasen