Settlement Association

[EbbwJunction1]

The village of Wycoller in the civil parish of Trawden Forest in Pendle, Lancashire is also on the Pennine Bridleway.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ceres in Fife also has an ancient packhorse bridge.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Italian balloonist Vincenzo Lunardi landed in the parish of Ceres after his first flight in Scotland in October 1785. A couple of weeks later, on 5th December, he flew from St. Andrew's Square in Glasgow to Milton of Campsie, a large village formerly in the county of Stirlingshire, but now in East Dunbartonshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Strathnairn in the Scottish Highlands also has a church that is dedicated to St Paul.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

St Donnan Church, Lochalsh is also part of the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness.

 

[D6130]

In medieval times, the cathedral for that diocese - now in ruins - was at Elgin in Morayshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dunfermline in Fife was also created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Dunfermline Abbey parish church was designed by the Scottish architect William Burn (1789 – 1870). It was built between 1818 and 1821 on the site of the medieval choir and transepts which had been the eastern part of the Abbey. William Burn also designed Ardanaiseig House, near Kilchrenan, Argyll, which is now a hotel.

 

[D6130]

Kilchrenan churchyard contains the tomb of Sir Colin Campbell, who was killed in the nearby Battle of the Red Ford against the neighbouring MacDougall clan in 1294. The seat of the Clan Campbell is at Inveraray Castle in Argyll & Bute.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Worcester also hosts an annual music festival.

 

[D6130]

Stourport also lies on the River Severn.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Heptonstall in West Yorkshire also has a church in current use situated in the same area of a ruined previous church.

 

[D6130]

Heptonstall church yard contains the grave of "King" David Hartley, leader of a ruthless gang of late eighteenth century counterfeiters based in nearby Cragg Vale. He was hanged at York on 28th April 1770, for complicity in the murder in Halifax of excise officer William Deighton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire is another settlement that is served by the B6138 road

 

[Calthrop]

Wrenbury-cum-Frith, in Cheshire East, also has a pub called the Dusty Miller.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Marbury in Cheshire East was also once administered by the Hundred of Nantwich.

 

[Calthrop]

Gnosall in Staffordshire also lies on the Shropshire Union Canal.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Biddulph in Staffordshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Lawrence.

 

[DerekC]

Biddulph possesses a folly known as "Prospect Tower". A folly of the same name also exists on the Cotehele estate at Calstock, Cornwall

 

[D6130]

The poetry publishers Peterloo Poets was based in Calstock until closing down in 2009.They were previously based in Liskeard, Cornwall.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Totnes in Devon also has a Guildhall.

 

[Calthrop]

Irresistible to me -- one of the various goofy "clerihews on British places" from the book of general "humour", published in the 1940s, which we had at home (apologies if I've used this one already in the game):

You can't get Watneys
At Totnes;
But Beer
Is quite near.

(Actually it isn't, really -- being about as far east as you can get in Devon, whereas Totnes is closer to the middle of the county.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Porthcothan in Cornwall also has a cave system that was once used by smugglers.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In January 2014, Porthcothan was affected by Storm Anne, which reduced a local arch, Jan Leverton's Rock, to rubble. Another place where there was damage from the same storm was Rock-a-Nore, an urban area of Hastings, East Sussex, where saturated ground and heavy seas led to a section of cliff to collapse, which was filmed.

 

[Calthrop]

Anstruther, Fife, also has a museum devoted to the fishing trade.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burntisland in Fife was also created a Royal Burgh in the 16th century.

 

[johnnychips]

Darrell Street, the drummer of Nazareth, played in the Burntisland Pipe Band as a child. He was born in Bournemouth.

 

[Springs Branch]

Before formation of PTEs at the end of the 1960s, another town whose Corporation Transport Department painted their buses a shade of pale yellow* was Wallasey.


* Wallasey's local buses were universally regarded as being yellow, although the colour was officially known as "sea green". There's an urban legend about how this choice of colour came about - well outside the scope of this thread!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penzance in Cornwall also has a church that is dedicated to St Hilary.

 

[Springs Branch]

A good number of Cornish and Welsh settlements have Twin Town arrangements with places in the Brittany region of France

Penzance is one of these, another (twinned with Pluguffan) is Llandovery in Carmarthenshire.