Settlement Association

[DerekC]

Braemar's proper name is Castleton of Braemar. There is, of course, another Castleton in Derbyshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Taunton also had a medieval period leper hospital.

 

[DerekC]

The Grand Western Canal was planned to run from Taunton to the River Exe, but only got as far as Tiverton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Guildford also had strong medieval connections to the wool trade.

 

[LUYMun]

Guildford is halfway on the A3 trunk road, between London and Portsmouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lymington also has a ferry service to the Isle of Wight.

 

[DerekC]

Whitstable, like Lymington, used to have an important sea-salt industry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Solihull also has a church dedicated to St Alphege, who was an archbishop who was captured by Vikings in an 11th century raid.

 

[LUYMun]

Aston also has the West Midlands Police force in its area.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ward End was also once under the jurisdiction of the Aston Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Greywell in Hampshire also has a pub called the Fox & Goose (and it's not a bad pub).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heckfield also lies on the line of the River Whitewater.

 

[LUYMun]

Neville Chamberlain was a British Prime Minister between 1937 and 1940. He was born in 1869 in Edgbaston, and died a few months after his resignation in 1940 in Heckfield.

 

[DerekC]

Reading Bus No 7 has a stop on the borders of Heckfield. In the southbound direction it terminates at Fleet.

Edgbaston is best known for its test cricket ground. The most famous test cricket ground is probably Lord's in St Johns Wood.

 

[johnnychips]

The family of Lucien Freud, the painter, escaped persecution to St John's Wood. He attended school later near to Totnes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pickering also has a castle site under the stewardship of English Heritage.

 

[Springs Branch]

Two of the main streets in Pickering are named Eastgate and Westgate.
Co. Durham goes one better with two entire villages being named Eastgate and Westgate. The two are near to each other in Weardale, and close to the market town of Stanhope.

 

[johnnychips]

William Crozier was born in Stanhope and became the editor of the Manchester Guardian newspaper.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Waterfoot also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

[Springs Branch]

Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School is located in Waterfoot.
Another location with a selective co-educational secondary school maintained by the Local Education Authority is the Lincolnshire town of Caistor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stixwould also lies on the line of the long-distance trail known as the Viking Way.

 

[John Griffiths]

Viking power in England was centred on the so-called 'Five Boroughs', one of which was Derby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leicester also lends its name to a type of cheese.

 

[John Griffiths]

Leicester is home to one of the only two teams not from Manchester or London to have been champions of the English Premier League (Association Football). The other is from Bolton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leicester is home to one of the only two teams not from Manchester or London to have been champions of the English Premier League (Association Football). The other is from Bolton.

You are at risk of incurring the wrath of the long-suffering supporters of Blackburn Rovers....

 

[John Griffiths]

I am red-facedly amending that to Blackburn

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lewes also has a brewery in its environs.

 

[Springs Branch]

Widecombe in the Moor also has a church dedicated to St Pancras.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The church mentioned above is known as the Cathedral of the Moor, whereas in Tideswell in Derbyshire, the church of St John the Baptist is known as the Cathedral of the Peak.

 

[Springs Branch]

Residents of Tideswell are sometimes known as Sawyeds owing to local folklore describing a farmer who supposedly found his cow with its head stuck in a five barred gate, and, rather than damage the gate, cut the cow's head off - as the cow was perceived to be more easily replaced than the gate.

The same story is told of (and the moniker Keawyed applied to) residents of Westhoughton.