Settlement Association

[Springs Branch]

Seacombe on Merseyside also has a ferry service across the adjacent river.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bovey Tracey also had a town hall that was granted Grade II listed status.

 

[johnnychips]

Bakewell also has the headquarters of a National Park Authority on its outskirts.

 

[Springs Branch]

Garstang is also on the A6 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Easingwold is another settlement where a Poor Law Union was established.

 

[High Dyke]

Dursley also has a National School.

A National school was a school founded in 19th century England and Wales by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. These schools provided elementary education, in accordance with the teaching of the Church of England, to the children of the poor. Together with the less numerous British schools of the British and Foreign School Society, they provided the first near-universal system of elementary education in England and Wales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cromhall is another settlement that was once administered by the Upper Division of the ancient Hundred of Berkeley.

 

[Welshman]

As the name suggests, Long Whatton in Leicestershire is another ribbon-development along the main road. [It also has a Royal Oak pub!]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunham Massey is another village that has an organic farm.

 

[Springs Branch]

Woburn in Bedfordshire also has a deer park attached to its country house estate.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llantsillio in Denbighshire was also chosen as the site for a Cistercian abbey (Valle Crucis)

 

[Welshman]

Tintwistle

[Lantsilio is on the climb to the Horseshoe Pass out of Llangollen; Tintwisle on the climb to the Woodhead Pass out of Manchester]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Baslow also holds an annual well-dressing ceremony

 

[johnnychips]

Rowsley is at the other extremity of the Chatsworth Estate.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hathersage also lies on the line of the River Derwent.

 

[Springs Branch]

Thornton near Bradford is also associated with the life of novelist Charlotte Brontë.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Halifax also has connections to the wool worsted trade.

 

[me123]

Airdrie is another relatively unlikely town where an eponymous bank was founded.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ardrossan was also given the status of a Burgh of Barony

 

[Springs Branch]

Oban is also a terminal for Caledonian MacBrayne's ferries.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkwall also has a malt whisky distillery.

 

[me123]

Kirkwall is the largest settlement in Orkney, and Lerwick is the largest in Shetland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bettyhill is another settlement where a broch was constructed in prehistoric times.

 

[Welshman]

Barney & Betty Hill were allegedly kidnapped by extraterrestrials in 1961.

They lived in Portsmouth [New Hampshire] as opposed to Portsmouth [Hampshire].

 

[DasLunatic]

Cadnam is at the other end of the M27 motorway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mawdesley in Lancashire also hosts a horse show.

 

[me123]

Mawdesley's Amateur Dramatic Society has recently performed an adaptation of "Hi-De-Hi!". Don't worry if you missed it though, it'll be reprised by the theatre company in Chesham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wheathampsted is another area that saw settlements of the Iron Age Belgic people known as the Catuvellauni.


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A GENERAL REQUEST FOR CONTESTANTS TO NOTE

In future, can all associations upon this quiz be with the actual settlements concerned, as in the past, there have been posting submissions made where SURNAMES of personages have been used to make an association with a new settlement rather than that of an existing settlement.

 

[Springs Branch]

Comberton, near Cambridge, was also recorded in the Domesday Book.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grantchester is another settlement that was once administered by the ancient Hundred of Wetherley.