Settlement Association

[EbbwJunction1]

I did indeed - although I was writing that at the same time as yours!

Harrogate CC play in the Yorkshire Premier League North. In 2019, one of their opponents were Clifton Alliance CC, who play at Shipton Road, Rawcliffe, York.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blacktoft also lies on the line of the River Ouse.

 

[John Griffiths]

Gilberdyke was also in Howdenshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ottringham was also once administered by the Wapentake of Holderness.

 

[kevconnor]

Thornham in Norfolk was also a village used in the naming of Ham Class minesweepers by the Royal Navy in the 1950’s

 

[John Griffiths]

Selsey, West Sussex, also has a pub called The Lifeboat Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Silchester is another of the major settlement areas of the Iron Age Belgic tribe known as the Atrebates.

 

[Springs Branch]

Herne Bay in Kent is also located at latitude 51° 22' N.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eddington also lies on the line of the Plenty Brook.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Herne Bay Cemetery lies at the southern end of Eddington and is controlled by Canterbury City Council. Edmund Reid, the Head of the Metropolitan Police's Criminal Investigation Department, who investigated the Whitechapel murders in 1888, is buried in plot J62.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Loughborough was another settlement to have a noted bell foundry.

 

[John Griffiths]

Thomas Cook 's first organised excursion was to Loughborough, all the way from Leicester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derby also lends its name to a type of cheese.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The part of the A52 linking Derby and Nottingham was renamed Brian Clough Way in 2005.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sheffield also has a modern tramway system.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The first World Snooker Championship, currently played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, was held in 1927 and was won by Joe Davis, who won the first fifteen championships before retiring, undefeated, from the event after his success in 1946. Joe Davis OBE was born on 15th April 1901 in
Whitwell, Derbyshire.

 

[John Griffiths]

Lullington has also won the award for being Best Kept Village in Derbyshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Willesley was also once administered by the Repton and Gresley Wapentake.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The ancient parish of Willesley became a civil parish in 1866, but in 1936 the civil parish was abolished, and almost all of the parish was absorbed into Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swepstone was also once under the jurisdiction of the Ashby de la Zouch Poor Law Union.

 

[DerekC]

Bitteswell in Leicestershire, like Swepstone, has an Ashby Lane

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brynmawr also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary.

 

[Springs Branch]

Before its demolition in 2001, the former Dunlop Semtex rubber factory in Brynmawr was a Grade II* listed building.
Another Grade II* listed former industrial building is the Pear New Mill, located in the Stockport district of Bredbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Delph also lies on the line of the River Tame.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Delph is home to one of the Saddleworth Whit Friday brass band contests. In the village of Dobcross a Henry Livings memorial prize is open to bands who play on any of the morning's walks on Whit Friday.

 

[John Griffiths]

Scenes from the film Yanks were also filmed in Stalybridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Golcar also lies on the line of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 1970, three 1840s weavers' cottages were converted into the Colne Valley Museum. Exhibits include a handloom and a Spinning Jenny, invented by James Hargreaves, who was born on 13th December 1720 in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burscough also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

 

[DerekC]

Lossiemouth, like Burscough, was once home to a Royal Naval Air Station.