Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Box, Wiltshire also lies on the Bybrook river.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Anglican cleric and noted children's author Rev. Wilbert Awdry lived in Box for much of his childhood (it is possible his writing career may have been catalysed by an early interest in the transport infrastructure around the village).
W. V. Awdry was born in the vicarage in the Hampshire village of Ampfield.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seatown in Dorset also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the Monarch's Way.

 

[341o2]

While the Monarch butterfly is predominately US, occasional migrants arrive in the UK, the first recorded instance was at Neath

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberystwyth also has the site of a Celtic hillfort within its environs.

 

[John Griffiths]

Edinburgh also has a National Library.

 

[Calthrop]

Edinburgh has long been popularly nicknamed "Auld Reekie" (=Old Smoky / Dirty -- thanks to city's multitude of ever-smoking chimneys). On a much smaller scale: Bagillt (Flintshire) was -- owing to the muck from its various industries -- in former times anyway, known to folk in the surrounding area, as "Dirty Bagillt" (it was reckoned tactful not to say this actually to the townspeople).

 

[John Griffiths]

There is a Lake Bagillt in Chubut province, Argentina, the heart of Welsh settlement in that country. A major Welsh-founded settlement in Chubut is Puerto Madryn, which is a twin town of Nefyn, Gwynedd.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Porthmadog in Gwynedd also has a maritime museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Both Porthmadog and Lyme Regis, boast impressive feats of building in stone "where land meets sea", bearing very similar names. Porthmadog's Cob is a lengthy embankment created for land-reclamation purposes; Lyme's Cobb is a harbour edge / breakwater.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel.

 

[johnnychips]

The disgraced politician Charlie Elphicke was born in Huntingdon but was the MP for Dover.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hastings was also one of the five original settlements of the Cinque Ports Confederation.

 

[Springs Branch]

The first section of Hastings' trolleybus system was inaugurated in 1928 - the same year that trolleybuses started to run in Doncaster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thurrock in Essex also had a medieval woolmarket building.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The body of Captain William Kidd was displayed in Thurrock. He had been convicted of piracy and hanged on 23 May 1701, at Execution Dock, Wapping, and his body was gibbeted (i.e. left to hang in an iron cage over the Thames at Tilbury Point) as a warning to future would-be pirates for twenty years.

 

[Calthrop]

Wapping's "main street" is Ratcliff Highway -- more often especially nowadays, simply called The Highway -- celebrated for centuries "in song and story", for copious violent and raffish doings. A near-correspondence in name, concerns a presumably more tranquil place: the village of Ratcliffe on the Wreake, between Leicester and Melton Mowbray.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Barton Seagrave in Northamptonshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Botolph.

 

[Calthrop]

Alton, Staffordshire, also has a fun-and-amusement park in its near vicinity.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Combridge in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Churnet.

 

[Calthrop]

Combridge in Staffordshire also lies on the line of the River Churnet.

Dare I submit that the maps would suggest to me, that Combridge is actually on the River Dove: a mile or two south of the Churnet's confluence with the Dove? At all events, and whichever the river: Combridge is only just in its county -- the river marks the boundary with Derbyshire. Things are similar for Scarva, Co. Down "but only just therein" -- the boundary with Co. Armagh is immediately west of the village.

 

[John Griffiths]

Boscobel, Shropshire, also has a tree associated with a seventeenth century British monarch (Charles II hid in the Boscobel Oak; William III slept beneath the Scarva Chestnut).

 

[Calthrop]

Boscobel gets a brief "glancing" mention in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire. During a fairly short sojourn in England in the early 1920s, Nabokov studied at the University of Cambridge.

 

[John Griffiths]

Another Russian-born novelist, Yevgeny Zamyatin, lived in and set his satirical novel 'Islanders' (1917) in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oxford also has a Real Tennis facility.

 

[John Griffiths]

Dundee is also renowned for marmalade.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Belfast was also a major linen manufacturing centre.

 

[DerekC]

Bristol , like Belfast, is classified as a "Gamma Plus World City" by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network

 

[D6130]

Glasgow, like Bristol, became rich on the proceeds of the tobacco and slave trades in the eighteenth century.

 

[Springs Branch]

Glasgow was the last city in Scotland to operate trolleybuses, closing in May 1967.
The last municipal trolleybuses in the UK ran until March 1972 in Bradford.