Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Formby boasts the UK's first lifeboat station; the first purpose-designed lifeboat was designed and built by Henry Greathead of South Shields.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Porthcawl also has a land-based lighthouse.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Welsh professional golfer Brian Huggett, MBE was born in Porthcawl on 18th November 1936. He played in six Ryder Cup matches representing Great Britain and Ireland between 1963 and 1975, and was non-playing captain in 1977, when the matches were held at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandudno also has a pier.

 

[John Griffiths]

Llandudno has wild goats on its headland, Great Orme; so, formerly, did Gateshead: the name means 'headland of the goats'.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ebbw Vale has also hosted the National Garden Festival.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Coleg Gwent is Wales' largest further education college, based at various locations in the former county of Gwent, South Wales. One of the campuses is at Ebbw Vale, and another is at Usk.

 

[John Griffiths]

Abergavenny was also burned by the forces of Owain Glyndwr in 1403.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The former Glamorgan cricketer Malcolm Nash (1945 – 2019), who was famous for bowling to Gary Sobers when he hit six sixes in one over, was born in Abergavenny. This famous over happened on 31st August 1968 at the St Helen's Ground, Swansea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanelli also has associations to the tinplate industry.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Who beat the All Blacks? Why, Newport RFC in 1963!!

 

[John Griffiths]

Middlesbrough also has a transporter bridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowpen Bewley was also once under the jurisdiction of the Stockton-on-Tees Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Most of the town of Blyth, Northumberland lay originally in the township of Cowpen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Upnor in Kent was also raided by Dutch naval forces in the 17th century.

 

[Springs Branch]

Tonbridge is also on the course of the River Medway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Teston in Kent is another settlement with historical connections to the manufacture of cricket balls.

 

[John Griffiths]

Appropriately enough, as without cricket balls there wouldn't be a test on.

Barham Court in Teston was home to Randall Fitzurse, one of the assassins of Thomas Becket. Another, Hugh de Morville, held the castle at Knaresborough.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Squadron Leader James Harry "Ginger" Lacey DFM*, Second World War RAF fighter pilot, attended school in Knaresborough. Lacey was from Wetherby but his academic achievements enabled him to attend school in Knaresborough rather than Wetherby.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cartmel also has a racecourse that holds National Hunt races.

 

[John Griffiths]

Nottingham also has a restaurant with two Michelin stars.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sheffield also has a modern tramway system.

 

[John Griffiths]

Scunthorpe is also famous for steel manufacture.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corby is another settlement to geologically overlie deposits of iron ore.

 

[John Griffiths]

Ascot is another town that has no links with the domestic appliance that shares its name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wells in Somerset also has a religious building that incorporates a Tree of Jesse window.

 

[John Griffiths]

Abbotsbury is also noted for its connection with swans.

 

[johnnychips]

Lulworth is also on the Jurassic Coast.

 

[DerekC]

Otterburn in Northumberland, like Lulworth, is home to a military firing range.

 

[John Griffiths]

Otterburn Hall was purchased in the early 1920s by members of the Northern Allotment Society, an organisation which was also responsible for the development of (inter alia) the Darras Hall estate at Ponteland.