Settlement Association

[EbbwJunction1]

Bowness-on-Solway is the western end of the Hadrian's Wall Path. On it's way to the eastern end at Wallsend, the Path passes through Heddon-on-the-Wall in Northumberland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wroxeter in Shropshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[John Griffiths]

Corbridge is also situated by the remains of a Roman town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Esh Winning also lies on the route of the Roman road called Dere Street.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Esh Winning FC are currently members of the Northern League Division Two. Another club in the same division are Ryton & Crawcrook Albion FC, who play at Kingsley Park, Crawcrook, near Ryton, Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winlaton was also once under the jurisdiction of the Gateshead Poor Law Union.

 

[johnnychips]

The gates of Buckingham Palace were forged at Winlaton. Buckingham Palace is in London.

It really is amazing what you find out by reading this thread!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Marlow also lies on the line of the River Thames.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Junior Wing of the Royal Military College, which is now at Sandhurst, was from 1801 until 1812 based in West Street, Marlow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swallowfield also lies on the line of the River Blackwater.

 

[Springs Branch]

Saltburn-by-the-Sea is also located at longitude 0° 58'W.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shankin also has a cliff lift.

 

[Nick_C]

Charles Darwin wrote the Origin of Species in Shanklin. He was born in Shrewsbury

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shepton Mallet also holds a flea market.

 

[John Griffiths]

Wandsworth also had a prison where hangings were carried out.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Between Wandsworth town centre and the river is the site of Young & Co's Ram Brewery. Brewing by Young's stopped in September 2006 when Young & Co merged its operations with Charles Wells of Bedford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Battle was also chosen as a site to erect a Benedictine abbey.

 

[Springs Branch]

Darlington also has a twin town located in the Somme department of France.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rugeley in Staffordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Augustine.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 1855, Rugeley gained notoriety when a local doctor, William Palmer, was accused of murdering an acquaintance, John Parsons Cook. He was put on trial for the murder of Cook at the Old Bailey, London. Palmer was found guilty of murder, and hanged publicly outside Stafford Gaol on 14th June 1856.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hawick is another settlement where the Normans built a motte-and-bailey castle.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The late, great, television commentator Bill McLaren was born in Hawick in 1923. He played in a Scotland rugby trial in 1947 and was on the verge of a full international cap before contracting tuberculosis. As a result of this, he spent 19 months in a sanatorium in East Fortune, East Lothian.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yatesbury in Wiltshire also had an operational military airfield during the First World War.

 

[John Griffiths]

The church at Corhampton, Hants, also has a canonical sundial.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Droxford also lies on the line of the River Meon.

 

[John Griffiths]

Lewes in Sussex also lies in the South Downs National Park.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[John Griffiths]

Scarborough also has a song about its fair.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

South Shields is also an east coast settlement that was attacked by Germany during the First World War.

 

[John Griffiths]

South Shields is at the NE end of the Wrekendyke, a Roman road which branched off the main road from Chester-le-Street to Newcastle at Wrekenton