Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Humshaugh in Northumberland was also once under the jurisdiction of the Hexham Por Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Mutters darkly about Humshaugh, a place about which grievance is held

Humshaugh was the home for many years of Eric Boswell, composer of the population song 'Little Donkey'. Boswell was born in the Millfield district of Sunderland

 

[Calthrop]

Sunderland's location in the rain shadow of various mountains to its west, make it one of the least rainy cities of Northern England. Another settlement appreciated for its dryness, is Ashford, Kent; reckoned one of the driest places in the UK.

 

[John Griffiths]

From 1969 to 1997, Ashford was home to the Joint Services School of Intelligence, based at Templar Barracks. In 1997 the school was relocated to Chicksands in Bedfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Astwick in Bedfordshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Biggleswade Poor Law Union.

 

[John Griffiths]

Sandy on Bedfordshire also lies on the River Ivel.

 

[Calthrop]

Sandy has a pub called the Sir William Peel -- after Captain Sir William Peel, VC (1824 -- 58): hero of the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny (he died in India in the years concerned, though not as a direct result of Mutiny doings). There is incidentally, a statue of the Captain in the south transept of St. Swithun's Church, Sandy -- just across the street from the pub. Another noteworthy gentleman named Peel, pub-name-commemorated: is thus featured -- with local appropriateness -- by the Old John Peel Inn at Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria.

 

[High Dyke]

Normanton on Soar, Nottinghamshire is also the location of a chain ferry.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pyle in Bridgend County Borough also has a church that is dedicated to St James.

 

[Calthrop]

In the very early 19th century, Lord Nelson stayed at the inn at Pyle, on his way to visit naval installations in Pembrokeshire. The naval hero is known to have, at same or similar date and on similar business: stayed at East Rock House in Tenby, Pembrokeshire -- together with Sir William Hamilton and Lady Emma Hamilton (intriguing love-triangle thoughts might tend to come to mind ).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also hosts an Arts Festval.

 

[D6130]

Maxwelltown in Dumfries & Galloway also has a camera obscura.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glencaple in Dumfries & Galloway also lies on the line of the River Nith.

 

[Calthrop]

Salt-marsh areas near Glencaple are good in winter for observing in large numbers, barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis). A similar spectacle is available to, and acclaimed by, birdwatchers: around Bridgend on the island of Islay (Argyll and Bute).

 

[High Dyke]

The location falls under the Argyll and Bute council area. The administrative centre for the council area is in Lochgilphead. Argyll and Bute.

 

[91130nut]

Scunthorpe also hosted an episode of the game show It's a Knockout in 1982.

 

[Calthrop]

Barnstaple, Devon, is also twinned with a settlement in the German State of Lower Saxony. Scunthorpe's "twin" is Lueneburg (not an industrial hell-hole; but a rather handsome and gracious city, not too badly smashed up in WW2); Barnstaple's is Uelzen.

 

[High Dyke]

Barnstaple is on the route of the South West Coast Path, England's longest long distance path at 630 miles.

The path passes the smallest parish church in England, St Beuno's Church, in Culbone, Somerset.

 

[Calthrop]

County-borders: Culbone, on England's Bristol Channel coast, is just within Somerset -- a very little way east of the Somerset / Devon border. Malmsmead, two or three miles westward along that coast and the South West Coast Path: is literally right on the frontier of the two counties.

 

[High Dyke]

Pont Fawr is another stone bridge over a river constructed in the 17th century. Also known as Llanrwst Bridge it can be found in the village of Llanrwst, Conwy County, Wales.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanrwst -- a place with quite a history -- was at one time Wales's eighth-largest town, with a higher population than Cardiff. Current holder of that title (with, one takes it, fewer inhabitants than the capital) is Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.

 

[Tetragon213]

Dalmuir also had a noteworthy scrapyard, although Dalmuir tended to ply its trade in maritime scrapping instead.

 

[91130nut]

Lancaster also has a railway station with five platforms in use.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster also has a railway station with five platforms in use.

I think you are on the wrong quiz....This is is Settlement Association quiz, not the Station Association quiz.

 

[Calthrop]

Dalmuir also had a noteworthy scrapyard, although Dalmuir tended to ply its trade in maritime scrapping instead.

Struggling with this one -- a Scottish settlement with a similar-sounding name, is Dalmore, Highland -- near Alness, some dozen miles "per crow" north of Inverness.

 

[John Griffiths]

The pier at Dalmore was built by the US Navy when the area served as an American naval base 1917-1919. The US Navy also occupied the Glen Albyn distillery in Inverness as a mine base in the latter years of the Great War.

 

[Calthrop]

Berriedale, Highland -- seven miles north-east of Helmsdale -- also lies on both the long-distance walking route the John o' Groats Trail; and the A9 road; between Inverness and the northern extremities of the Scottish mainland.

 

[John Griffiths]

Berriedale is given as the place of death of George, Duke of Kent, killed in 1942 when the Short Sunderland flying boat in which he was travelling to Iceland crashed near Dunbeath. He had been born in 1902 at York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk

 

[Calthrop]

Snettisham, Norfolk -- four miles north of Sandringham -- is also located on the B1440 road.

 

[High Dyke]

Newark-on-Trent is another location where an iron-age gold artefact has been found.