Settlement Association

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Cambridge is a short bicycle ride away, and also lies on the River Cam (or Granta).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheltenham also hosts a folk festival

 

[johnnychips]

Newmarket is also an important horse racing centre.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Snailwell was also once administered by the Hundred of Staploe

 

[johnnychips]

Hardley in Norfolk also has a church with a round tower.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rockland St Mary is another settlement that is on line of the River Yare.

 

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Epping is another locality hit by a V2 rocket during WW2.

 

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Fritham is another settlement that is situated near to an ancient forest.

 

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Beaulieu is also in the New Forest National Park.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Backbarrow also has a motor museum.

 

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Hull is another locality where the synthetic mineral-based pigment Ultramarine Blue has been manufactured.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dolgellau is also an estuarine settlement.

 

[johnnychips]

Llangollen has also hosted the eisteddfodd.

 

[Gathursty]

Another settlement beside the A5 is Capel Curig.

 

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Ruthin is another settlement in North Wales which was the site of a Roman fort.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beaumaris also has a preserved old gaol as a tourist attraction.

 

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Harlech is also the site of one of Edward I's Welsh castles.

 

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Birkdale is another settlement that has a golf course with the word "royal" in its title.

 

[johnnychips]

Blackburn Rovers is the team supported by comedian Lee Mack, who went to school in Birkdale.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fazakerley is another settlement where a Royal Ordnance Factory was situated.

 

[cjp]

Aintree of horse racing fame is a more widely known part of the Liverpool sprawl

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maghull whilst being another area that benefited from the Alt Drainage Act 1779, also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal

 

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Blubberhouses is also situated on the A59 Trunk Road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wormingford also has a church dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[cjp]

Gliding also takes place at Shenington

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stoke Orchard was also once administered by the Upper Division of the ancient Hundred of Tewkesbury.
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Purfleet is another settlement where bare-knuckle boxing was once staged over 100 years ago.

 

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Berwick-upon-Tweed is also the site of an eighteenth-century gunpowder magazine.

 

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Chester also has a noted sandstone arched bridge.

 

[Darren R]

Chester racecourse, The Roodee, is regarded as being the shortest flat racecourse in England. The longest flat racecourse in England whose full circuit is used regularly for races, is at Pontefract.

(Yes I know York is longer, but the full length isn't regularly used for races.)

 

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Newbury is on the same line of Longitude 1° 19' W, around 150 miles south (and also has a racecourse).