Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gresford was also the scene of a mining disaster with a very large number of fatalities.

 

[John Griffiths]

Holywell also has one of the Seven Wonders of Wales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ferneyhalgh in Lancashire is another settlement where pilgrimages were made in past times.

 

[John Griffiths]

And in modern times.

The shrine at Fernyhalgh contains relics of St Thomas Becket, martyred in Canterbury.

 

[DerekC]

The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, like the ancient ecclesiastical buildings in Canterbury, form a World Heritage Site.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coventry is another settlement that was chosen as a site for a Carthusian monastery.

 

[John Griffiths]

Llandaff also has a cathedral that was severely damaged by bombing during WWII.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontcanna also lies on the line of the River Taff.

 

[John Griffiths]

Pontcanna was the home of independent TV station TWW (popularly TellyWellyWales); Border Television, now ITV Border, is based in Carlisle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derby was also on the route into England taken by the Jacobite army in 1745.

 

[John Griffiths]

Newport also received a City Charter in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanidloes was also a centre of Chartist unrest in 1839.

 

[DerekC]

Peterborough, like Newport, has a branch of the Passport Office.

From Llanidloes you can walk along the Glyndwr's Way long distance footpath to Machynlleth

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llangefni also has a "stand-alone" clock tower.

 

[John Griffiths]

Newport (IoW) is also the second largest settlement of an island county.

 

[DerekC]

Bath, like Newport (IoW), has a postal museum

 

[johnnychips]

Stratford also stands on a River Avon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Street in Somerset also has a place of worship named the Church of the Holy Trinity.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sir Gareth Edwards, an alumnus of Millfield School in Street, was born in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen.

 

[DerekC]

Blue Lias limestone used to be quarried at Street. It still is at Somerton.

Secondary school age children from Gwaun Cae Gurwen who want to learn in Welsh can go to Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera

 

[John Griffiths]

Brecon also had (now closed) a brewery that produced the Champion Beer of Wales (as judged by CAMRA).

 

[DerekC]

Gerald of Wales, historian and royal clerk to King Henry II, was born in Manorbier but became archdeacon of Brecon, later trying and failing to be appointed as Archbishop of St Davids, independent of Canterbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nevern in Pembrokeshire also has a noted cromlech within its environs.

 

[johnnychips]

Perranporth also has a Celtic cross.

 

[DerekC]

Perranporth has strong connections with Poldark through its author Winston Graham, who lived there for many years. I was surprised to learn that the town scenes of the recent TV series were mostly filmed at Corsham in Wiltshire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashbourne in Derbyshire is another settlement where almshouses were built.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Tissington Trail bridleway, footpath & cycleway starts in Ashbourne and passes through, not surprisingly, the village of Tissington

 

[DerekC]

Wirksworth, like Tissington, has an annual well-dressing ceremony.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Halkyn in Flintshire also has a long historical connection with the lead mining industry.

 

[DerekC]

Dan Jones, missionary of the Church of Jesus of Latter Day Saints and translator of the Book of Mormon into Welsh, was born in Halkyn in 1810. Dan Jones, author, historian and TV presenter, was born in Reading in 1981.