Settlement Association

[backontrack]

Winchester also has an important diocese.

 

[cjp]

Canterbury cathedral is at the other end of the Pilgrims Way

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boughton (near to Chester) also had a medieval leper hospital.

 

[cjp]

In Boughton in Northamptonshire there is stately home open to public in which is hung a painting by Gainsborough who was born in Sudbury (Suffolk)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wokingham also had medieval links to the silk trade.

 

[johnnychips]

Will Young was the first Pop Idol and he came from Wokingham. In second place came Gareth Gates from Bradford. (W Yorks)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gloucester was also garrisoned by the Parliamentary forces during the English Civil War.

 

[cjp]

Nursery rhyme time.
Dr Foster was in Gloucester
and the fine lady ( of no name) was riding to Banbury cross

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chipping Warden also lies on the line of the Rver Cherwell

 

[Springs Branch]

Ormskirk also has a church dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Market Drayton also has historical links to the baking of gingerbread.

 

[cjp]

West Drayton is nowhere near Market Drayton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Braunston in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the Grand Union Canal.

 

[cjp]

Close by the locks at Braunston is a canal museum. Close by the flight of locks at Hanwell is the site of a lunatic asylum which had a museum occasionally open to public in which one could see an original padded cell.
HANWELL

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Greenford is another area that was once part of the Hundred of Elthorne

 

[cjp]

Heading off from Greenford along the A40 one could end up in Fishguard

 

[Springs Branch]

Liverpool is another location served by Stena Line ferries.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Norwich also has both Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals.

 

[Springs Branch]

Motherwell F.C.'s shirts also feature the colour yellow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sheffield also has historical links to steelmaking.

 

[johnnychips]

Dunford Bridge is the nearest settlement to the source of the Don, on which Sheffield stands.

 

[cjp]

Kemble is also close to a river source [Thames]

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Kemble is also close to a river source [Thames]

As is Hull

Sheffield also has historical links to steelmaking.

Pity I couldn't answer with something about Redcar!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

As is Hull
!

Halifax is also mentioned in "The Beggars Litany"...."From Hell, Hull and Halifax, Good Lord deliver us"
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[Springs Branch]

Oban also has a late-Victorian folly in the form of a prominent tower.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mallaig also has ferry services to offshore islands.

 

[Springs Branch]

Craster, in Northumbria, also retains a traditional kipper smokehouse.

 

[johnnychips]

Portballintrae NI also has basalt cliffs nearby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tobermory is another settlement where a ship of the Spanish Armada sank on its attempt to navigate around the north of Britain after the abortive invasion.

 

[Springs Branch]

Dalwhinnie is also has a whisky distillery which takes the settlement's name.