Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kilrush in County Clare also lies on the line of the River Shannon.

 

[Calthrop]

Kilrush is a renowned dolphin-watching spot, thanks to a large pod of bottlenose dolphins resident in the Shannon estuary a little way off the town. Also big on the present-day dolphin scene is Chanonry Point on the Moray Firth: near Fortrose (Highland).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sanquhar in Dumfries and Galloway was also created a Royal Burgh during the reign of King James VI.

 

[Calthrop]

Sanquhar has the world's oldest curling society, formed in 1774. The first known written mention of curling, or a recognisable ancestor of the sport: tells of its taking place in 1541 at the then abbey of Paisley, Renfrewshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Busby in East Renfrewshire also lies on the line of the White Cart Water.

 

[Calthrop]

Busby in East Renfrewshire also lies on the line of the White Cart Water.

Busby has a pub called the White Cart -- naturally, after the above-named watercourse; nothing to do with pale-coloured animal-drawn conveyances. On that general pub-naming theme: England must have scores of pubs called the Waggon and Horses; one of which is in Halstead, Essex.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Plymouth also has a church that is dedicated to St Andrew.

 

[Calthrop]

Plymouth's basketball team is called the Plymouth City Patriots. That of Leicester, goes by the name of the Leicester Riders.

 

[Springs Branch]

In the 1970s and 80s, Leicester City Transport Dept had a number of Scottish-built Volvo Ailsa buses (a type admired by some enthusiasts for their noisy thrash and characteristic gearbox sounds).

One of the largest fleets of Ailsas of all was in its home country, operated by Tayside Regional Council, based in Dundee.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Southampton also has a Sikh Gurdwara.

 

[Springs Branch]

RMS Titanic set sail on 10 April 1912 from Southampton's White Star Dock on her ill-fated maiden voyage to New York.

Titanic was built in Belfast

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lisburn in County Antrim was also a noted linen-producing centre.

 

[Calthrop]

Active British Army barracks named after locations in France / Belgium, of British military action in World War I: are to be found in Lisburn; and in Aldershot, Hampshire. Lisburn has Thiepval Barracks; Aldershot -- Mons, and St. Omer, ditto.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yateley in Hampshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Crondall.

 

[Calthrop]

The novelist and poet Flora Thompson (1867 -- 1947), best-known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford, was employed as a post-office clerk at various places in southern England, including for a while Yateley. She is buried at Dartmouth, Devon; having died at Brixham in that county.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Henley-on-Thames also hosts an annual regatta.

 

[Calthrop]

Brighouse, West Yorkshire, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Henley-on-Thames's "twin" is Leichlingen; Brighouse's is Luedenscheid.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mirfield also lies on the line of the River Calder.

 

[Calthrop]

Queensbury, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, also lies on the A644 road.

 

[DerekC]

Queensbury is home to the Black Dyke Band, which claims to be the most famous brass band in the world. Nevertheless the band ranked No1 is the Cory Band, from Ystrad, Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Preston in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Stephen.

 

[D6130]

St Walburge's RC church in Preston has the third tallest spire in the UK. The second tallest is that of Norwich Cathedral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York also has a Castle Museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, is also twinned with a settlement in China. York's "twin" is Nanjing; Sunderland's is Harbin (Manchuria).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanhope in County Derham also lies on the line of the River Wear.

 

[John Griffiths]

Haltwhistle in Northumberland also has an outdoor heated swimming pool.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crediton in Devon also has a place of worship named Church of the Holy Cross.

 

[Springs Branch]

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Crediton was founded by Edward VI, refounded by Elizabeth I, and survives today as Queen Elizabeth's School, a state-run academy.

Another surviving school originally founded in the name of Elizabeth I is Queen Elizabeth's School in Barnet, North London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire was also the scene of one of the battles of the War of the Roses.

 

[Springs Branch]

Tewkesbury Abbey (or more strictly the Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin) is said to have the largest Norman church tower still in existence and be the third largest church in Britain that is not a cathedral.

It is beaten in the ecclesiastical size stakes by Westminster Abbey and Beverley Minster at Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire.