Settlement Association

[341o2]

As Cork is Ireland's second largest city, so is Birmingham to England

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bournemouth also has a symphony orchestra.

 

[Calthrop]

There is a nature reserve adjacent to Bournemouth, wherein can be found all of Britain's six native species of reptile. The same is true of the nature reserve at Woolmer Forest, near Bordon (Hampshire).

 

[John Griffiths]

Tidworth is also a garrison town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bulford in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Amesbury.

 

[Calthrop]

Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, also has nearby carved in a white chalk hill, a figure of a creature which is not a horse. At Bulford it's a kiwi, carved by New Zealand soldiers in 1919; at Whipsnade a lion, to advertise Whipsnade Zoo.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ipswich also has a church that is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.

 

[Calthrop]

Normanton (West Yorkshire) also shares its name with a settlement in Queensland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Senghenydd in Gwent also has historical connections to coal mining.

 

[Calthrop]

Hoping that this is moving on sufficiently, topic-wise: Cadeby, South Yorkshire, has also been the site of a notable colliery disaster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cilybebyll in the Neath/Port Talbot region also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

 

[Calthrop]

Cilybebyll in the Neath/Port Talbot region also has a church that is dedicated to St John the Evangelist.

@Xenophon PCDGS: you do come up with some doozies -- prompting me to desperate expedients ! Another settlement in the Celtic parts of our islands, with a semi-phonetically "Killib" beginning: is Killybegs, Co. Donegal .

 

[John Griffiths]

Howth in County Dublin also has an annual 'blessing of the boats' service.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Artane in County Dublin was also once administered by the ancient Barony of Coolock.

 

[John Griffiths]

Brian McFadden of boy band Westlife was born in Artane. He now lives in Rochdale.

 

[Calthrop]

Bradford (West Yorkshire) is also twinned with a town in Pakistan. Rochdale's "twin" is Sahiwal; Bradford's, Mirpur.

 

[John Griffiths]

Bradford was nicknamed 'Worstedopolis'; another such name, 'Ironopolis', was attached to Middlesbrough.

 

[Calthrop]

Middlesbrough in its coat of arms, lays some claims as it were, to the explorer James Cook; whose early life was, broadly, in the locality. (Middlesbrough's coat of arms includes a star; in tribute to Cook, whose own coat of arms does likewise.) Cook spent his later childhood and early teens in Great Ayton (a few miles south-east of Middlesbrough), where his father was employed.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kildale in North Yorkshire also lies on the line of the River Leven.

 

[Springs Branch]

Kessingland in Suffolk also has a B&B named The Old Rectory.

 

[341o2]

Barry in Wales is home to the Photographer Academy and uses a former church for its studio

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tyne Dock is another settlement that historically had large-scale exports of coal.

 

[Calthrop]

Rotherhithe (London Borough of Southwark) also features former docks, now filled-in -- in Rotherhithe, transmuted to a various-characteristics "green space" / nature reserve.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Millbank is another London area that was affected by the 1928 River Thames flooding.

 

[Calthrop]

In the purlieus of Millbank is the area formerly known as Tothill Fields -- for long a wild, marshy and undeveloped stretch of land; in the mid-18th century, it was the home venue of the Westminster Cricket Club. Also renowned in the early annals of cricket, is Hambledon (Hampshire).

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower was a Welsh naval officer and colonial governor and commander-in-chief of Newfoundland. He was born in Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire in 1742 and died in Hambledon, Hampshire in 1814.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bridell in North Pembrokeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Cilgerran.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Church in Wales parish of Bridell is on the A478, which starts from the roundabout with the A487 south of Cardigan. After passing through Pen-y-Bryn in Bridell parish, it crosses the River Plysgog, and climbs through the hamlet of Rhoshill.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penrhos in Gwynedd also lies on the route of a historical drovers road.

 

[Calthrop]

Aberdaron also lies in -- in fact, near the western extremity of -- the Lleyn Peninsula.