Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dover is another of the original Cinque Ports.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The name of the town of Dover derives from the name of the river that flows through it, the River Dour. This rises in the civil parish and historic village of Temple Ewell in the county of Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kearsney also lies on the line of the River Dour.

 

[High Dyke]

Alresford is also associated with the growing of watercress.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Martyr Worthy was also once administered by the Hundred of Fawley.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Martyr Worthy is on the course of the River Itchen, which has it's source just south of the village of Cheriton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upton-on-Severn was also the site of a battle in the English Civil War.

 

[cjp]

The River Severn has been known to cause flooding in Shrewsbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Salford also has a Roman Catholic catherdral

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Salford Red Devils RLFC play in the Super League; their home ground since 2012 has been the AJ Bell Stadium in Barton-upon-Irwell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Latchford also lies on the line of the Manchester Ship Canal

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Most Park Run events take place in public parks, as is the case in Latchford. Some, however, take place at other locations such as beaches (Portrush, Hastings), stately homes (Holkham Hall, Wimpole Estate, Lytham Hall) and prisons (HMP Haverigg and HMP Magilligan).

 

[Coventrian]

Hastings and Hythe were the second group of towns to join the Cinque Ports, the original group comprising Sandwich, Dover and New Romney.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gainsborough was also visited by Sweyn Forkbeard, the King of Denmark and Norway, in his invasion of England to avenge the deaths of Danish settlers in England during the St Brides Day massacre in November 1002.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The actor john Alderton was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire on 27th November 1940; he grew up in Kingston-upon-Hull where he attended Kingston High School.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rochester in Kent also has a Guildhall

 

[kevconnor]

Rocester also has a Guildhall

Hi Paul,

I am quite sure I know which Rochester you are referring to but are you please able to clarify you mean the town in Kent and not in Staffordshire?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hi Paul, I am quite sure I know which Rochester you are referring to but are you please able to clarify you mean the town in Kent and not in Staffordshire?

Mea culpa...

Indeed it was Rochester in Kent. My posting now has been edited.

 

[kevconnor]

Rochester in Kent also has a Guildhall

Wetherby (Yorkshire) is also the site of one of Brenda's Young Offenders Institutes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Musselburgh also has a racecourse that hosts both flat and National Hunt races.

 

[kevconnor]

Ravenglass (Cumbria) also sits at the mouth of a river called Esk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ribchester also was the site of a Roman military settlement.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Ribchester and District Angling Club (RADAC) leases fishing on the rivers Ribble and Hodder in the surrounding area. The River Hodder eventually joins the River Ribble near the village of Great Mitton, close to the River Calder.

 

[Coventrian]

All Hallows Church, Great Mitton is a designated Grade I listed building with 6 bells. The 5th bell was cast in 1834 at Whitechapel Bell Foundary, London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Haggerston was also once administered by the Hundred of Ossulstone

 

[DerekC]

The Regent's Canal passes through Kentish Town (as well as Haggerston)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Camden Town also lies on the line of the River Fleet

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Walthamstow is also one of the 34 major centres identified in The London Plan of 2016.

 

[johnnychips]

Stainforth in South Yorkshire also has a greyhound track.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Kewstoke, near Weston-super-Mare, also has a pub called the New Inn.