Settlement Association

[A Challenge]

Canary Wharf is also in the borough of Tower Hamlets. It is certainly a tale of two cities...

 

[cjp]

Continuing the avian connection - Birdlip

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Old Sodbury in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the long-distance footpath known as the Cotswold Way.

 

[cjp]

of a similar name Chipping Sodbury

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Chipping Sodbury hosts a weekly parkrun, as does Stonehouse in Gloucestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

South Benfleet in Essex also has connections to brickmaking.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Castle Point district of Essex includes South Benfleet, Thundersley, New Thundersley and the town of Hadleigh.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barling Magna was also once administered by the Rochford Poor Law Union.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wrea Green in Lancashire also has a duck pond.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Blacko has also won the Lancashire Best Kept Village competition in past years.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burscough also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

There is also a Church dedicated to St John the Baptist in Newport, South Wales (about half a mile away from where I live!).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Middlesbrough also has a transporter bridge.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

As is the case with Middlesbrough FC, the football team representing Sunderland have also comparatively recently moved from their old ground to a new one.

 

[johnnychips]

And they've both been relegated...

Birkenhead also once had an extensive shipbuilding industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ludlow also has a Church of England Suffragan Bishop

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The town of Ludlow was described by Sir John Betjeman as "probably the loveliest town in England".

He wasn't as complimentary about the town of Slough -
"Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now, "

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Gothic Revival Architect, William Butterfield, also worked on St Mary's Church, Ottery St Mary, Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Exeter also has an astronomical clock.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The comedian Tommy Cooper lived in Exeter from the age of three, although he was born in Caerphilly.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nantwich has also hosted a cheese festival.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The town of Carmarthen is also the venue of an English Civil War re-enactment event by The Sealed Knot, principally Sir Henry Vaughan's Company.

 

[johnnychips]

Tintagel is also a place associated with Arthurian legend.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Criccieth also has a ruined castle in a coastal location.

 

[Springs Branch]

Newcastle, County Down, also as a RNLI lifeboat station.

 

[johnnychips]

Withernsea also has part of its shore protected by rock revetments.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Waxholme was also once administered by the ancient Hundred (South Hundred) of Holderness.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Waxholme is now part of the civil parish of Rimswell in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in an area known as Holderness.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Grimston (in the East Riding) was also once administered by the Patrington Poor Law Union.