Settlement Association

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The English footballer and cricketer Joe Hulme (Arsenal FC and Middlesex) was born in Stafford on 26th August 1904. After a long career, he died on 27th September 1991, aged 87, in Winchmore Hill, North London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stand in Greater Manchester also has an Anglican Commissioners church.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church at Stand is known as All Saints' and is a Grade I Listed Building. It was designed by Sir Charles Barry and built between 1821 and 1826. Sir Charles Barry's last major commission was the Town Hall at Halifax, West Yorkshire, which is a Grade II* Listed Building.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Doncaster also has a Minster church.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Doncaster Knights RFC play in the English National Championship, along with Ealing Trailfinders RFC.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bray in Berkshire also has film studio connections.

 

[Springs Branch]

Thomastown, County Kilkenny, also has a Michelin Star restaurant.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The British songwriter and guitarist John Martyn lived in Thomastown from 1998 until his death in 2009. He was born (as Iain David McGeachy) on 11th September 1948 in New Malden, (then Surrey, now Greater London).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dundee also has a Hindu Temple.

 

[Springs Branch]

Dundee Cake is apparently a favourite of the Queen (Wikipedia says this, so it must be true).

Another item possibly available for High Tea at Windsor Castle, which is also named after part of HM's realm, is a Chelsea Bun.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitby was also the settlement where an historical Synod was held

(Whitby in AD664.....Chelsea in AD787)

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Whitby Town FC play in the Northern Premier League Premier Division; one of their opponents is Matlock Town FC

 

[Springs Branch]

High Peak Buses' "Transpeak" bus route also passes through Ashford-in-the-Water.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rowsley also lies on the line of the "Derbyshire" River Wye.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Rowsley is the junction of the River Wye with the River Derwent; the latter flows through Whatstandwell (also in Derbyshire) on it's way to the River Trent.

 

[cjp]

The Cromford Canal is a watery link connecting Cromford and Whatsandwell. The canal ends at Cromford

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nice to see a posting again on this quiz from you.......

Gayle in North Yorkshire is also the site of a cotton mill that was designed by Richard Arkwright.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

You should not confuse Gayle, North Yorkshire with Gayles, North Yorkshire. The latter is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, and is established in the district ward of Gilling West.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Uckerby was also once under the jurisdiction of the Richmond Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Uckerby is located at a cross roads on the B6271, which runs from Scourton in the north to Northallerton in the south.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York is another settlement to have suffered from the post-Norman invasion events during The Harrying of the North.

 

[backontrack]

Washington in the North East also has an American namesake.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skelmersdale was also included in the 1961-1964 Second Wave of settlements of the New Towns Act 1946.

 

[Springs Branch]

Tyldesley is also served by the A577 road.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mosley Common also had collieries on the Lancashire Coalfield.

 

[Springs Branch]

Until 1958, the South Lancashire Transport Company operated trolleybuses through a number of industrial settlements to the west of Manchester.
Among these were Mosley Common and Bolton.

 

[Andy Pacer]

Luton is another town to boast a transport 'Interchange'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stockport also has historical links to the trade of hat making.

 

[Springs Branch]

Birkenhead is also on the River Mersey

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Repton also has a suffragan bishop,