Settlement Association

[cjp]

Tiddington is another small place which has a road grandly called Main Street

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolston in Warwickshire also lies on the line of the River Avon.

 

[DerekC]

Hoxne (Suffolk) also has a geological stage of the Pleistocene epoch named after it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alton Barnes in Wiltshire is another settlement where a Roman treasure hoard was discovered.

 

[cjp]

Alton Barnes in Wiltshire is another settlement where a Roman treasure hoard was discovered.

Sir Barnes Neville Wallis the inventor of the Dambusters' bouncing bomb was born in Ripley

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Westhoughton also had connections to the coal mining industry.

 

[cjp]

Chorley some nine or ten miles away has a Westhoughton Road

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eccles also lends its name to a food product.

 

[backontrack]

Dundee also has a sort of cake named after it.

 

[cjp]

The other (south) end of the Tay Bridge is at Newport-on-Tay

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Torryburn also lies on the line of the long-distance footpath known as the Fife Coastal Path.

 

[DerekC]

Woodplumpton (Lancs) also possesses a witch's grave

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cockerham was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Amounderness.

 

[cjp]

Whereas Plumpton's claim to fame is its racecourse

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heversham in Cumbria is another settlement that once was involved in brickmaking in historical times.

 

[DerekC]

In about 1065 Heversham was part of the lands of Tostig, brother of Harold II. Tostig was killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in September 1066

 

[backontrack]

I've never been to Stamford Bridge - or to Pwllheli.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rhosllanerchrugog has also hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales

 

[backontrack]

Mold/Yr Wyddgrug is also located in North Wales.

 

[Springs Branch]

Berwick-upon-Tweed is also a member of the Cittaslow "slow food" movement.

 

[backontrack]

Conwy also has city walls.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skipton also has a ruined castle.

 

[backontrack]

Harrogate is also on the A59.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bath is also a spa settlement.

 

[backontrack]

A particular type of biscuit, the Bath Oliver biscuit, was created by a William Oliver, a physician from Bath around 1750. Oliver incorporated both the city of Bath and his own surname into the name of the biscuit.

John Abernethy (also a physician!) is responsible for the Abernethy biscuit - like Oliver, Abernethy named the biscuits after himself - and the biscuits also share their name with the village of Abernethy in Fife.

Unfortunately, the biscuits weren't actually invented in Abernethy. Otherwise it would all be perfect...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brechin is the other settlement to have a surviving Irish-style round tower.

 

[backontrack]

Dornoch also has a cathedral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pittenween was also once granted the status of a Royal Burgh.

 

[backontrack]

'Pittenweem' derives from the Pictish pit (place) and Gaelic na h-Uaimh (of the caves); meaning Place of the Caves. The cave in question is thought to be St Fillan's cave.

A story is told about an occasion when St Fillan was ploughing the fields near Killin. Fillan had put a spell had been put on the ox, so that, when a wolf killed it, the wolf had to take the place of the ox and do its work.

 

[High Dyke]

Coatham Mundeville is another location associated with the Flax industry.