Settlement Association

[High Dyke]

Skillington also has a Type 22 pillbox in its vicinity.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Middleton (near Manchester) also has a Grade I listed parish church (that of St Leonard).

 

[cjp]

Leeds has a suburb called Middleton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wrexham also has a Roman Catholic cathedral, but not an Anglican one.

 

[Welshman]

It does, however, have the parish church of St Giles, who is the patron saint of Edinburgh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldershot has also hosted a Military Tattoo.

 

[johnnychips]

Wrexham's football club's stadium is also called, 'The Recreation Ground'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigan also has a long association with coal mining.

 

[johnnychips]

Barnsley was where the ex-NUM president Arthur Scargill was born; a predecessor, Joe Gormley was born in Wigan.

Also, Colin Welland was born in Wigan. He played the English teacher in Kes, which was filmed in Barnsley.

 

[cjp]

Barnsley Fc are to play Scunthorpe later today

 

[12CSVT]

Port Talbot is associated with the steel industry

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hafod-y-porth is also a settlement that is the the environs of the Mynydd Margam.

 

[johnnychips]

Beddgelert has a farm called Hafod y Porth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coniston also has historical links to copper mining.

 

[johnnychips]

Lonnie Donegan was born in Bridgeton, Glasgow. One of his hits was, 'My Old Man's a Dustman'. The mountain behind Coniston, whose lower slopes incorporate the copper mines Paul referred to, is called Coniston Old Man.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wick also was chosen to be the site of a Carnegie Library

 

[johnnychips]

Penzance is the nearest town to the south-western extremity of the mainland, whereas Wick is that to the north-eastern.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newlyn was also attacked by a Spanish fleet during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604.

 

[High Dyke]

Fishermen from another major port - Lowestoft - were involved in the Newlyn riots of 1896, regarding the landing of fish on the Sabbath.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stratford was also involved in the very early development stages of the porcelain trade.

 

[cjp]

Shakespeare is sometimes as then Bard of Stratford(-on-Avon):
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre has been rebuilt in Southwark

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool also has two cathedrals.

 

[johnnychips]

Stirling also has a football ground pronounced Anfield, though spelt Annfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dryburgh also erected an edifice in honour of William Wallace.

 

[cjp]

Dryburgh made me think of Drybrough which is a beer brewed in Edinburgh

Cheers!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dumfries also has a Camera Obscura

 

[cjp]

Dumfries & Galloway springs to mind which makes me think of Galway and James Galway was born in Belfast

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glasgow also has historical links with the ship-building industry.

 

[cjp]

Inverness is another Scottish city

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wedmore was also chosen to be the site of a lunatic asylum.