Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Robert Burns, buried in Dumfries, was born in Alloway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Patna also lies on the line of the River Doon.

 

[hst43102]

Northleach also has a pub named the Wheatsheaf Inn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ilford also has a church that is dedicated to SS Peter and Paul.

 

[Springs Branch]

London's busiest bus route is service 25 from Ilford into central London.
Manchester's busiest single bus route is the 192, running to the city centre from Hazel Grove.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Woodcroft in Gloucestershire also has a public house called The Rising Sun.

 

[DerekC]

Woodcroft is on the River Wye which rises on the slopes of Plynlimon in Mid-Wales, not far from the settlement of Eisteddfa Gurig.

 

[John Griffiths]

Eisteddfa Gurig is the location of the Elvis rock, a tribute to the King of Rock and Roll, whose only footfall on British soil took place on 3 March 1960 at Prestwick Airport, Prestwick, Ayrshire

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Musselburgh has also hosted the prestigious golf event called The Open Championship.

 

[Springs Branch]

Since 2007, Musselburgh has been home to Queen Margaret University.
Also instituted in the year 2007 is the University of the West of Scotland, with multiple campuses, but strongest historical associations with Paisley.

 

[John Griffiths]

Paisley is associated with the manufacture of thread, one of the major companies being Clark & Co. The Clarks, growing wealthy, moved, as is so often the case, to the fleshpots of SE England, and two later members, art historian Sir Kenneth Clark and lascivious Tory MP and diarist Alan Clark, lived at Saltwood Castle, Hythe, Kent.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandwich was also one of the five towns in the Confederation of Cinque Ports.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Sandwich also gave its name to the food by way of John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, and the word sandwich is now found in several languages. John Montague died on 30th April 1792, aged 73, in Chiswick, Middlesex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kenilworth also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Two Castles Run began in 1983 as a fun run between Warwick Castle and Kenilworth Castle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stivichall was also once under the jurisdiction of the Warwick Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Stivichall is a mainly residential area of south Coventry on the right terraces of the vale carved by the River Sherbourne, which rises in the village of Allesley.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wolston was also once administered by the Hundred of Knightlow.

 

[Springs Branch]

Wolston lends its name to the geological Wolstonian Stage of the middle Pleistocene epoch.
The glacial Wolstonian Stage immediately followed the inter-glacial Hoxnian Stage, named after the Suffolk village of Hoxne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corbridge in Northumberland was also the settlement where a hoard of Roman gold coins were unearthed.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Northumberland County Show, an agricultural event, was held in the fields outside Corbridge each year before moving to Bywell, Northumberland in 2013.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bellingham also lies on the line of the River Tyne.

 

[hst43102]

Horton-in-Ribblesdale is also a stop on the Pennine Way.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sedbergh was also once administered by the Ewcross Wapentake.

 

[hst43102]

Sedburgh contains the Cross Keys Inn, a National Trust property. Lydford in Devon also contains a pub of the same name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Parracombe in Devon also has a church that is dedicated to St Petrock.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church of St Andrew, Winterborne Tomson in North Dorset is also in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

 

[hst43102]

Winterborne Zelston is also on the River Winterborne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pimperne in Dorset also was once under the jurisdiction of the Blandford Poor Law Union.

 

[hst43102]

Eastleigh also contains a Go South Coast bus depot.