Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire also has a church that is dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes.

 

[Calthrop]

Lancaster is also twinned with a settlement in Denmark. East Kilbride's "twin" is Ballerup; Lancaster's is Aalborg.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bideford is another English settlement where witch-trials were held.

 

[Calthrop]

Conwy (Conwy County Borough) also has a namesake settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada. (The Canadian settlement actually uses the spelling current in Britain in times past -- "Conway" -- but, one figures, "close enough...")

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Corfe in Dorset also has a ruined castle.

 

[DerekC]

Southsea in Hampshire, like Corfe Castle, has a model village (in the sense of a miniature) within its environs. Corfe's is a model of itself. Southsea's looks to be a bit more freelance!

 

[D6130]

Worth Matravers in Dorset is also situated on the so-called 'Isle' of Purbeck....in reality a wide peninsular.

@DerekC beat me to it by about a millisecond. Please continue from Southsea.

 

[Calthrop]

Southsea's Canoe Lake is the last remnant of what was, till the 19th century, a wide expanse of marsh and open water. It offers a good opportunity to see water birds -- including, per Wiki, "sometimes a lone feral black swan". Dawlish, Devon: has as residents on the watercourse through the town, several black swans -- descendants of those introduced by a long-ago benefactor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Methil in Fife also has a church that is dedicated to St Agatha.

 

[D6130]

Cockenzie in East Lothian also once had a coastally-sited coal-fired power station (visible across the Firth of Forth from the one at Methil - and vice versa).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aberlady in East Lothian also lies on the route of the long-distance footpath known as the John Muir Way.

 

[Springs Branch]

The substantial remains of the historic town walls at Aberlady are heritage listed in Scotland.

Another settlement with significant surviving town walls is Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mold in Flintshire also hosts an annual Food and Drink Festival.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The Welsh actor Rhys Ifans attended the Welsh-language high school Maes Garmon in Mold. He was born Rhys Owain Evans in Haverfordwest on 22nd July 1967.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bristol was also afflicted by a 14th century of the plague known as The Black Death.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

HMS Bristol (D23) was a Type 82 Destroyer, named after the City of Bristol and the only vessel of her class to be built for the Royal Navy. She was built by the Swan Hunter company which is based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hebburn in Tyne and Wear also lies on the line of the River Tyne.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Hebburn Town FC play at Hebburn Sports & Social Ground, and are currently members of the Northern Premier League Division One East. Another member of the same division is Yorkshire Amateur AFC, who play at Bracken Edge, in the Potternewton (or, until recently, Potter Newton) area of Leeds.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caerphilly in Caerphilly County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to St Martin.

 

[D6130]

Bridgnorth in Shropshire also has a castle with a leaning tower.

 

[Calthrop]

Stoke-on-Trent is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Bavaria. Bridgnorth's "twin" is Schrobenhausen (a new place to me -- one learns that it is only 25km. from Ingolstadt, which got a mention yesterday); Stoke's is Erlangen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gateshead in Tyne and Wear is another of the settlements chosen to host the National Garden Festival.

 

[D6130]

Crosby in Merseyside also has statues by Anthony Gormley in the vicinity.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aughton in West Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of West Derby.

 

[DerekC]

There are (confusingly) two Aughtons in Lancashire. The other one is on the north bank of the Lune, opposite the village of Claughton.

 

[D6130]

The brickworks at Claughton is fed from it's nearby clay pit by the last remaining aerial ropeway in the UK. At one time there were hundreds of these systems in use at collieries, brickworks, quarries and other types of industrial premises. One former installation was at Betchworth Lime Works in Surrey.

 

[Springs Branch]

Thursley is another village in Surrey with a Grade I-listed church dedicated to St Michael.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Framlingham in Suffolk also has a post-mounted illustrated village sign.

 

[Springs Branch]

Ilkley in West Yorks. also has an operational pillar box which carries the VR cipher.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Owthorpe in Nottinghamshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch.