Settlement Association

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Southwold also has a local history museum.

 

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Newcastle-upon-Tyne is also well known for its breweries.

 

[John Griffiths]

Blackpool also claims to be the first pace in Britain to have electric street lighting (it was, using arc lights; Newcastle was the first to light streets with incandescent bulbs).

 

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Reading is another town with its own municipal bus operator.

 

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London Irish RFC have played its home games at the Madjeski Stadium in Reading for over 20 years. However, the club was originally based in Sunbury, Surrey, where they still have a presence.

 

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Wallingford is also located on the River Thames.

 

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The architect Sir Max Mallowan lived at Winterbrook House, Wallingford with his wife Dame Agatha Christie for many years and died there on 19th August 1978, aged 74. He is interred in the churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey.

 

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Didcot also transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire on the 1 April 1974.

 

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Ashampstead in Berkshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Moreton.

 

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Finsbury also contains a St Clement's Church.

 

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Twyford was also once administered by the very large area covered by the Hundred of Ossulstone.

 

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Chippenham is also located on the A4 road from London to Bristol.

 

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Luckington also lies on the line of the River Avon.

 

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John Thaw also once resided in Gorton

 

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Denton also lies on the line of the defensive linear earthwork known as the Nico Ditch.

 

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Alderley Edge also has a Festival Hall

 

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Footballer David Beckham, of Manchester United, lived in Alderley Edge.

 

[Springs Branch]

Manchester has a twin city, Chemnitz, in the German state of Saxony.
Also in Saxony is Dresden, twinned with the UK city of Coventry.

 

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On 7th December 2017, Coventry won the title of UK City of Culture 2021, after beating (amongst others) Paisley to the title.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster is another settlement where Witch Trials were held.

 

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The Ashton Memorial is a folly in Williamson Park, Lancaster, built between 1907 and 1909 by the millionaire industrialist Lord Ashton in memory of his second wife, Jessy. It is in the Edwardian Baroque style, and was designed by John Belcher, who was also responsible for the original Whiteleys store in Bayswater, London.

 

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The Marrakesh Restaurant in Bayswater is located at no. 8 Queensway W8.
In deepest Lincolnshire, there is another restaurant specialising in Moroccan cuisine and trading as Marrakesh in Louth.

 

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Lossiemouth in Moray also has a church that is dedicated to St James'.

 

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James Ramsay MacDonald FRS, twice Prime Minister of Great Britain (1924 and 1929 to 1935) was born at Gregory Place, Lossiemouth on 12th October 1866. He died at sea on 9th November 1937, and his ashes are buried alongside his wife Margaret at Spynie Parish Church, Elgin.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunfermline also received Royal Burgh status in the 12th century.

 

[John Griffiths]

Charles I was born in Dunfermline in 1600, and, after a life of some variety, died by beheading in 1649 outside the Banqueting House, Whitehall, in Westminster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has a Methodist Central Hall.

 

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In 1904, the Rolls-Royce motor car company was founded in Manchester by Henry Royce and Charles Rolls. Charles Rolls was born in Berkeley Square, London, the third son of the 1st Baron Llangattock and Lady Llangattock. Despite his London birth, he retained a strong family connection with his ancestral home of The Hendre, near Monmouth.

 

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Montrose also hosts an annual music festival.

 

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The skyline of Montrose is dominated by the 220-foot steeple of Old and St Andrew's Church, which was designed by James Gillespie Graham and built between 1832 and 1834. He was also responsible for the design of Hamilton Square in Birkenhead, Wirral, which has the most Grade I listed buildings outside of London.