Settlement Association

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Southwold also has a Maize Maze.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bridport also has a long historical connection with rope making.

 

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Bridport was the inspiration for Port Bredy in the novels by Thomas Hardy. Similarly, Bere Regis was the inspiration for Kingsbere in South Wessex.

 

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Guildford lies at the other end of the major A31 trunk road.

 

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Allan Wells MBE, the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, is now based in Guildford, but was born in Edinburgh on 3 May 1952.

 

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Oxford has also hosted a Parliament.

 

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Oxford is known as the "city of dreaming spires", a term coined by poet Matthew Arnold. Arnold grew up in Laleham.

 

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Edinburgh also has an archery club.

 

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Cardiff is also a capital of a UK state.

 

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Caernarfon also has hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

 

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Conwy also has a castle built by King Edward I.

 

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Chester also has walled ramparts that the public can walk upon.

 

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Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, OM, DSO**, DFC, Baron Cheshire of Woodhall in the County of Lincolnshire (1917–1992), renowned Second World War RAF bomber pilot and founder of the Leonard Cheshire Disability charity, was born in Hoole Road, Hoole, Chester (although he was brought up in Oxford); the house where he was born (now a guest house) bears a blue plaque attesting to this. Group Captain Cheshire died of motor neurone disease aged 74 in Cavendish, Suffolk.on 31 July 1992.

 

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Little Waldingfield was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Babergh.

 

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Little Waldingfield is located two miles from its sister village, Great Waldingfield, and both are in Suffolk.

 

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Malton in North Yorkshire was also subjected to an outbreak of Bubonic Plague in 1626.

 

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The White Rose Way, a 104 miles (167 km) walking trail between Leeds, West Yorkshire and Scarborough, North Yorkshire, passes through Malton; it also passes through Tadcaster.

 

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Colchester was also a Roman settlement

 

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Catterick is also noted for its military connections.

 

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Leeds was another settlement in the Brythonic Kingdom of Elmet.

 

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The city of Leeds stands upon the River Aire, as does the town of Skipton.

 

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Conwy also has a ruined castle.

 

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The River Conwy separates the town of Conwy from the town of Deganwy, although they are both part of the County Borough of Conwy.

 

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Portavadie in Argyll and Bute also has a marina.

 

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The Cowal Way, a long-distance waymarked footpath which starts at Portavadie, will take you to Inveruglas on the shores of Loch Lomond, 57 miles of walking later. (I'm tired just writing this!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Polruan in Cornwall also has a pedestrian ferry.

 

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Seathwaite is another location that only has one road into and out of the place.

 

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Seathwaite is the wettest inhabited place in England and receives around 3,552 millimetres (140 in) of rain per year.

St Osyth in Essex is claimed to be the driest recorded place in England (in fact, in the United Kingdom) with an average rainfall of just 513 mm per year.

 

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Llantrisant is another settlement where the tradition of Beating the Bounds has been carried out.

 

[DerekC]

The Royal Mint moved from the Tower of London to Llantrisant in 1967. (I think the Tower of London counts as a settlement)