Settlement Association

[EbbwJunction1]

The writer and public speaker David Icke now lives in Ryde, although he was born in Leicester in 1952.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derby also lends its name to a type of cheese.

 

[Andy Pacer]

With Nottingham being the third of the ‘East Midlands Cities’

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Honiton also has a long historical connection to the trade of lace making.

 

[High Dyke]

Heckington is also renowned for its agricultural show; billed as the largest village show in England.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cley-next-the-Sea also had a Tower Mill constructed in the area of the settlement.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The singer James Blunt spent time, in his early years, at his grandfather's and later his father's windmill in the village. He (at that time known as James Hillier Blount) was born on 22nd February 1974 in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidworth']Tidworth, Hampshire.[/URL]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penton Mewsey was also once administered by the Hundred of Andover

 

[johnnychips]

Sir George Young, who lives there, was born in Oxford.

 

[Coventrian]

Oxford University Boat Club compete in the world-famous Boat Race against a team from Cambridge.

 

[cjp]

Cambridge university, like Oxford university has a distinct blue.
There was a regiment known as The Blues or the Royal Horse Guards. As a result of review and mergers in 1991 there is now a regiment known as the Blues and Royals who have barracks in both London and Windsor.

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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Welcome back to this quiz to cjp.

Alnwick also has a still-inhabited large castle.

 

[TheAdelante]

There is also a memorial of Admiral Lord Nelson in Liverpool.

I hope that counts, I’ve never participated in this game before!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portsmouth also has both an Anglican and a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Southampton F C have also won the FA Cup.

 

[Coventrian]

Southampton lies at the confluence of the Rivers Test and Itchen. The next major city on the River Itchen north of Southampton is Winchester where you can see the magnificent cathedral begun in 1079.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ottery St Mary also has a roadway named Paternoster Row.

 

[Coventrian]

Ottery St Mary is the birthplace of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Between 1797 and 1798 he lived in what is now known as Coleridge Cottage, in Nether Stowey, Somerset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huish Champflower was also once administered by the Hundred of Williton and Treemanners

 

[Coventrian]

Huish Champflower is part of the Bridgwater and West Somerset county constituency represented in the House of Commons by MP Ian Liddell-Grainger.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Combwich also lies on the line of the River Parrett

 

[Coventrian]

Continuing to flow northwest beyond Combwich, the River Parrett enters the Bristol Channel at Burnham-on-Sea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Notting Hill also hosts a carnival.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The film Notting Hill (a 1999 British romantic comedy film) was, unsurprisingly, set in Notting Hill. The screenplay was written by Richard Curtis, who had also written Four Weddings and a Funeral. Exterior shots of guests arriving for the funeral in that film were filmed in Thurrock, Essex overlooking the River Thames with the backdrop of the Dartford River Crossing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chorlton-cum-Hardy also has a church that is dedicated to St Clement.

 

[Coventrian]

The Chorlton-cum-Hardy name was adopted by Victorian property developers who arrived in the wake of the coming of the railway in 1880, to distinguish this Chorlton from Chorlton-upon-Medlock.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kidderminster also was chosen as a settlement in which to erect a church dedicated to St Ambrose.

 

[Coventrian]

Kidderminster's main industry was the production of carpets which is also a major trade in Axminster.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Axminster is at the crossroads of the A358, which links with the A303 at Ilminster, and the A35 from Southampton to Honiton, which has been diverted by a bypass to the south of the town.

 

[Coventrian]

Ilminster used to have a station on the Chard Branch Line but this closed in 1962.