Settlement Association

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Sam Smith's Old Brewery is based in Tadcaster. They have a pub in Altrincham, Cheshire, called The Malt Shovels - and very good it is, too!

 

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Skegness also has a clock tower.

 

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Stoke-on-Trent is also on the A52 road.

 

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Gateshead has also hosted the National Garden Festival.

 

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Gateshead AFC were controversially voted out of the Football League in 1960 in favour of Peterborough United FC.

 

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Oundle also lies on the line of the River Nene.

 

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Oakham in Rutland is also the location of a major independent day and boarding school.

 

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Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire also has a buttercross.

 

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Historically, Whittlesey was connected to Peterborough and March by the Roman road Fen Causeway constructed in the first century AD, a route approximately followed by the modern A605.

 

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Swaffham also has a football team that plays in the The Eastern Counties Football League, currently known as the Thurlow Nunn League for sponsorship purposes.

 

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William Earl Johns (1893 – 1968), the creator of the fictional (?) air adventurer James Bigglesworth, was born in Bengeo, Hertford, but was living in Swaffham when he joined the Territorial Army as a trooper in the King's Own Royal Regiment (Norfolk Yeomanry).

 

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Great Amwell was also once administered by the Hundred of Hertford.

 

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Izaak Walton (c. 1593–1683) was an English writer, who was best known as the author of The Compleat Angler. A one time resident of Great Amwell, he was born in Stafford in c. 1593.

 

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Wednesbury was another of the five settlements chosen to receive much greater defensive fortifications, under the instruction issued by Ethelfleda, the daughter of Alfred the Great, in order to form a defensive ring against the Danes.

 

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Wednesbury is on Thomas Telford's London to Holyhead road, built in the early 19th century. The section between Wednesbury and Moxley was widened in 1997 to form a dual carriageway, completing the Black Country Spine Road that had been in development since 1995.

 

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Swinton (the one in the Salford area) is another settlement where existing houses faced demolition because of mining subsidence.

 

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The Rugby League career of the great David Watkins MBE ended in 1979 with a season at Swinton RLFC. The majority of his Rugby League career was, however, spent with Salford RLFC.

 

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Lancaster also has a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

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Preston is also located in a county inferior to Yorkshire.

 

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Lostwithiel is another settlement where a guildhall was constructed.

 

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Fowey is also along the River Fowey.

 

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Gordon Waller (1945-2009), of the singing duo Peter and Gordon, resided in Fowey for eight years during his children's youth, and his family maintains a lifelong association with the village. He was, however, born in Braemar, Aberdeenshire.

 

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Dunoon also hosts an annual Highland Games Gathering.

 

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Possibly Dunoon's most famous resident was Sir Harry Lauder (1870–1950), whose mansion, Laudervale, stood just south of Dunoon on Bullwood Road. He was born on 4th August 1870 in his maternal grandfather's house in Portobello, Edinburgh.

 

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Duddingston also lies on the line of the Figgate Burn.

 

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Dalmellington is also a location of a nature reserve administered by the Scottish Wildlife Trust.

 

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Aberlour also has an accredited curling club.

 

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Bushmills, County Antrim, also gives its name to a local whisk(e)y distillery.

 

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Bretherton in Lancashire also has a clock tower.

 

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The village of Bretherton is located at a north-western extremity of the Borough of Chorley.
Diametrically opposed, at the south-eastern extremity of the Borough, is the village of Rivington.