Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sadberge in County Durham also lies on the line of another Roman road....Cade's Row.

 

[John Griffiths]

Hexham also had (and still has, though no longer in operation) a bishop's gaol.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kelso also has a National Hunt racecourse.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Kelso Rugby Seven a Side Tournament is on of the ten competitions which make up the Border Sevens circuit, known as the Kings of the Sevens competutiition. Another one in the same competition is the Peebles Sevens.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cupar in Fife was also a Scottish Royal Burgh.

 

[Springs Branch]

Irvine in North Ayrshire was also granted a charter as a Royal Burgh in the 14th Century.
Duplicate association deleted. Please continue from Cupar.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Cupar is the historic county town of Fife, although the Fife Council now sits at Glenrothes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cumbernauld is another of the Scottish New Towns that were established at the end of the Second World War.

 

[Springs Branch]

New Cumnock has also been a winner of the Plook on the Plinth category of the Carbuncle Awards for "the most dismal town in Scotland".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary and explorer in Africa David Livingstone was born on 19 March 1813 Blantyre. There is a memorial plaque commemorating the centenary of Livingstone's birth in St. James's Congregational Church in Hamilton, the church he attended as a boy.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lanark also lies on the line of the River Clyde.

 

[John Griffiths]

'Lanark' is the title of a novel by Alasdair Gray (1934-2019), who was born in Riddrie, Glasgow.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peterhead is also another Scottish settlement with a HM Prison establishment.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Peterhead RFC play in the Caledonia Regional League Division 3 North; one of the teams that they play is Shetland RFC, who play at North Lochside, Lerwick.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stornoway also has an offshore island coastal weather station.

 

[DerekC]

The RNLI station at St Peter Port, like Stornoway, has a Severn class lifeboat

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cleethorpes has also been a Gold Award winner in RHS Britain in Bloom competition in the coastal resort over 12,000 population section.

 

[johnnychips]

Weston-Super-Mare is also famous for how far the tide goes out.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lower Weare in Somerset also lies on the line of the River Axe.

 

[DerekC]

Lower Weare was granted to Walter of Douai after the Norman Conquest. He was the also the feudal baron of Bampton in Devon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Internet connection is really poor in this area today....also noticing a propensity of double postings occurring on this website.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The English Civil War reached Bampton in 1645, when Royalists from Tiverton Castle burnt the town, so that few buildings earlier than the 17th century survive.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Guildford also had strong links to the medieval wool trade.

 

[johnnychips]

Llantrisant is the site of the Royal Mint, which was in Guildford in Saxon times.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St Osyth in Essex is another settlement where the tradition of Beating the Bounds has been carried out.

 

[John Griffiths]

When the Augustinian priory at St Osyth was founded circa 1121, it acquired as a relic an arm bone of Saint Osyth, brought from Aylesbury.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tring also lay on the line of the Sparrows Herne turnpike.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Tring bypass was designated a motorway (the A41(M)) from its opening in 1973 until 1987. Another demoted motorway, the A102(M) (now A12 and A102) ran inter alia through Bromley-by-Bow in east London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wheathampstead also has the line of the River Lea within its boundaries.