Settlement Association

[Eagle]

Scrabster is at one end of the A9; the other end is in Polmont. (Historically it started in Corstorphine, Edinburgh, but the airport got built over some of it and it got shortened. More info on the SABRE wiki.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Inveresk and Polmont were forts built by the Romans along the line of the Antonine Wall.

 

[Ivo]

Inveresk has been "swallowed" by Musselburgh.

Almost hit 48 hours...!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Almost hit 48 hours...!

Yes, I was becoming somewhat worried about the recent matter of the rules of the quiz forum being clarified, but this particular thread appears to have been spared

Ludlow and Musselburgh both have racecourses.

 

[Ivo]

The syllables in "Swansea" also all begin with the same letter.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackburn and Swansea have Premiership football clubs

 

[Eagle]

The syllables in "Swansea" also all begin with the same letter.

:? One begins with S and one begins with E...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Darwen and Blackburn have long standing cotton industry connections.

 

[martinsh]

Like Darwen, Gelligaer had a municpal bus operation than was absorbed into a larger organisation in the the 1974 local government reorganisation.

 

[Eagle]

Gelligaer has a 2nd-century Roman fort, as do many Welsh places such as Capel Curig.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seathwaite and Capel Curig are both places with very high rainfall levels.

 

[Ivo]

There is more than one place in Cumbria that goes by the name "Seathwaite". This is also true of Bromley in London, although only the larger of the two commonly uses this name now (owing to LUL influence). Continuing from Bromley in South London please

The syllables in "Swansea" also all begin with the same letter.

:? One begins with S and one begins with E...

Swan - Sea ?

 

[martinsh]

Gelligaer has a 2nd-century Roman fort

Who's been using Wikipedia then ?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Canterbury and Bromley (as stipulated by Ivo) both have affiliations to the See of Rochester, which the oldest and smallest of the Sees in Britain.

 

[Class172]

Swanley is also bypassed by the A2.

 

[Ivo]

Staines is also just inside the M25.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

York (71AD) and Staines (43AD) were early Roman settlements in Britain.

 

[Eagle]

York is the home of a couple of well-known confectionery companies, as is Sheffield.

Swan - Sea ?

Swans - ea (it's pronounced with a 'z' sound, and S can't do that at the start of a syllable). Also being as it means Sweyn's Ey (island).

Who's been using Wikipedia then ?

Everyone on this thread, I think :P

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bristol and Sheffield both have two Football League clubs.

 

[Ivo]

Portsmouth's history has also been affected by one I.K.Brunel.

Who's been using Wikipedia then ?

Everyone on this thread, I think :P

Always try to avoid using it wherever possible. It's just that sometimes you get the odd dud that is really hard to follow on from...!

Swans - ea (it's pronounced with a 'z' sound, and S can't do that at the start of a syllable). Also being as it means Sweyn's Ey (island).

Whatever

"Swansea, like Ludlow, has a railway station managed by Arriva Trains Wales."

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackburn and Portsmouth both have cathedrals.

 

[Schnellzug]

the MP for Blackburn since 1979 has been John Whitaker Straw, also known as Jack Straw, who is not, as might be thought, the one after whom Jack Straw's Castle, the well known hostlery on Hampstead Heath, London, is named.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tunbridge Wells and Hampstead were famous for the chalybeate water in their environs.

 

[Ivo]

Wootton Bassett has recently been given the prefix "Royal", which has adorned Tunbridge Wells for over a century (1909).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Malmesbury and Wootton Bassett are both named in the Land Charter of the ecclesiastical area of Malmesbury Abbey.

 

[Eagle]

Malmesbury has an evil-looking area code (01666); the equally satanic A666 is a major road in Bolton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bury and Bolton are famous for their markets

 

[Eagle]

Dudley's also associated with black pudding.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester and Dudley both have a zoo.

 

[Eagle]

Chester has suburbs that rhyme (Bache and Lache), as does Coventry (Binley and Pinley).