Settlement Association

[DasLunatic]

Colchester was also founded by the Celts.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winchester is another settlement that once held the title of "Capital of "England"" in days of yore.

 

[backontrack]

Scone was also the capital of the country it's in.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Merton in Surrey was another settlement where a religious house of the Augustinian Canons Regular was established.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wapping is another settlement used in filming of the fictional Sun Hill police station in the TV series The Bill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stepney is another settlement that once was administered by the ancient Hundred of Occulstone.

 

[cjp]

Stepney had a plague pit at St Paul's Church, Shadwell

 

[Springs Branch]

Staithes in North Yorkshire was also associated with the life of Captain James Cook.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is another coastal settlement to have used boats called cobles.

 

[cjp]

Mining for coal was also undertaken at West Hougham

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leiston in Suffolk is another settlement where a religious house of the Premonstratensian Canons was established.

 

[cjp]

The museum in Sudbury (Suffolk) is a lot smaller: but admission is free.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wokingham also had medieval links to the silk trade.

 

[Springs Branch]

Dudley is another location which was formerly a detached exclave of a geographically separate county, prior to implementation of the Counties (Detached Parts) Act of 1844.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester also has a large zoo in its environs.

 

[backontrack]

Conwy is also a walled town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skipton also has a ruined castle

 

[backontrack]

Harrogate is also bypassed by the A59.

 

[Darren R]

There is also a Betty's Tea Room in York.

 

[DasLunatic]

Chappel also has a railway museum.

 

[Darren R]

Farnham in Surrey also holds an annual Beer Festival.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tichborne in Hampshire also lies on the line of a Mesolithic period trackway called Harrow Way.

 

[johnnychips]

Winchester also has a charitable 'Dole'.

 

[DasLunatic]

Many of Blackpool's residents are on the dole.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sheffield also has a tramway.

 

[Springs Branch]

Motherwell was previously associated with the steel industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bath is another settlement where the Romans erected a bath house.

 

[johnnychips]

Buxton, as well as also being a Roman spa town, has a Georgian crescent of terraced houses.

 

[Darren R]

Manchester also has an Opera House (that seldom - if ever - actually stages any opera! )

 

[Springs Branch]

Goole was also a significant inland port for sea-going ships.