Settlement Association

[backontrack]

As Rugby saw the birth of Rugby Football, so did Sheffield see the creation of Association Football.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nottingham also has a modern tramway system.

 

[backontrack]

Mottingham is but a consonant-change away.

 

[johnnychips]

Preston: the county town of Lancashire's residents call themselves 'Proud Prestoners'. The etymology of Mottingham means 'the proud place.'

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lostwithiel also has a Guildhall.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Battles of Lostwithiel, or the Lostwithiel Campaign, took place near Lostwithiel and Fowey in Cornwall during the First English Civil War in 1644. They resulted in victory for the Royalists commanded by King Charles over the Parliamentarians commanded by the Earl of Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mevagissey also has an aquarium.

 

[johnnychips]

Mevagissey has a park commonly known as 'Hitler's Walk.' Legend has it that Adolf Hitler visited his sister in Liverpool before he rose to fame.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chapeltown in Leeds was also the scene of a race riot in 1981.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The rugby League player and coach Ellery Hanley MBE was born in Chapeltown in 1961. Among the clubs he played for was Wigan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caernarfon was also a military staging point during the Roman conquest of Britain.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Harlech also has a castle built by King Edward I.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abersoch is another coastal settlement set around the shoreline of Tremadog Bay.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In July 2017, Abersoch was named as one of the best places to live in Wales; also on the list was Hay-on-Wye.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barnard Castle is another settlement where a Butter Market building was constructed.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909 – 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law. He was born in Barnard Castle and died and was buried in Canterbury, Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winchester is at the other end of the medieval pilgrimage route known as The Pilgrims Way

 

[12CSVT]

Motherwell is also mentioned in this famous Dulux advert from the 1980s

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I can't match that in a visual sense, but I will offer you this:

Ian St John was born on 7th June 1938 in Motherwell and played 424 games, scoring 118 goals, for Liverpool.
He later played for Coventry City and Tranmere Rovers.

 

[High Dyke]

Barton-upon-Humber is also associated with the manufacture of bicycles.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Runcorn is also on the south side of the last bridging point over an estuarine river.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Unlike Runcorn, my home city of Newport in South Wales has retained it's transporter bridge!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has a velodrome.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Daniel Adamson (1820 – 1890) was an English engineer who became a successful manufacturer of boilers and was the driving force behind the inception of the Manchester Ship Canal project during the 1880s. He was born in Shildon, County Durham, on 30 April 1820.

 

[A Challenge]

Is the county town of Lancashire Lancaster not Preston?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Is the county town of Lancashire Lancaster not Preston?

My feeling is the county town is Lancaster and the county administration town is Preston, but I may be wrong in this.

 

[johnnychips]

My feeling is the county town is Lancaster and the county administration town is Preston, but I may be wrong in this.

Both, depending on which version of Wikipedia you read! Same problem with Matlock and Derby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Daniel Adamson (1820 – 1890) was an English engineer who became a successful manufacturer of boilers and was the driving force behind the inception of the Manchester Ship Canal project during the 1880s. He was born in Shildon, County Durham, on 30 April 1820.

Ryhope also lies atop the Durham coalfield.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Ryhope Engines Museum, a Grade II* listed building, is the most visited man-made landmark in Ryhope, and is based at the Ryhope Pumping Station, operational for 100 years before closing in 1967.

The volunteer-run museum contains two Victorian beam engines, which are kept in working order by members of the Ryhope Engines Trust. These engines are a near identical pair of double-acting compound rotative beam engines by the local North East firm R & W Hawthorn of Newcastle and are said to be 'possibly the finest pair of compound beam engines in Great Britain'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ryde on the Isle of Wight also has a mythical heraldic Sea Horse incorporated in its coat of arms.