Settlement Association

[Commuter66]

Lyme Regis is also on a county border, in this case the Dorset/Devon border

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beer is another settlement where Jack Rattenbury, a noted 18th century smuggler, stored smuggled goods from France.

 

[Springs Branch]

Helmsley in Yorkshire also has a youth hostel operated by the YHA.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Filey is the opposite starting point on the Cleveland Way

 

[backontrack]

Tony Blair's father, Leo Blair, was born in Filey.

The Prime Minister following Tony Blair was Gordon Brown. His father, John Brown, was born in Seatown of Largo.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pittenweem is another settlement on the northern coastline of the Firth of Forth.

 

[backontrack]

The MP for the old seat of East Fife (including Pittenweem) was once the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith; his predecessor in the latter role, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, was MP for the old seat of Stirling Burghs; Culross was in that seat and, like Pittenweem, is a royal burgh and a coastal village.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Maldon in Essex is another settlement that has historical connections with salt-panning.

 

[Springs Branch]

Chelmsford is also located on the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chichester also has an Anglican cathedral.

 

[johnnychips]

Exeter is also an example of a Roman settlement.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunwich also once had a leper hospital in the times of the Middle Ages.

 

[Springs Branch]

Ravenscar, in North Yorkshire was also the site of a RAF radar station during World War II.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Runcorn also has a connection to the chemical industry.

 

[johnnychips]

Barton on Humber is also on the south side of the last bridging point on an estuary.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stixwould also lies on the line of the long-distance footpath called The Viking Way

 

[Commuter66]

Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire is also on the Sustrans National Cycle Network, the Part of route 65 known locally as the Hornsea Rail Trail

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Easton Bavents in Suffolk is another North Sea coastal settlement now subject to severe coastal erosion.

 

[johnnychips]

Lyme Regis is also a haunt of fossil-hunters.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Taunton was also subjected to a blockade during the First English Civil War.

 

[johnnychips]

Much Marcle is also noted for cider brewing (Weston's cf, obviously, Taunton).

 

[Harbornite]

Much Wenlock also begins with an M.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldeburgh also hosts a poetry festival.

 

[johnnychips]

Peter Pears, the long-standing partner of Benjamin Britten, is buried next to him at Aldeburgh. He was born at Farnham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

London also suffered from an outbreak of the Black Death in 1348.

 

[johnnychips]

York also has a Mansion House.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wakefield was also subjected to punitive action connected with the post-Norman Conquest time period during "The Harrying of the North".

 

[johnnychips]

Rotherham also has a chapel on a bridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haslingfield in South Cambridgeshire was another settlement that was set out and developed by the Germanic invaders called The Angles.

 

[Springs Branch]

Trimley St Martin in Suffolk was also associated with coprolite mining.