Xenophon PCDGS
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Featherstone and Coventry had settlements of the Celtic Corieltauvi Bronze Age tribal peoples.
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gg1
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Hull also has a Rugby League team whose name ends in Rovers.
Selby is also served by the A63.
Eagle
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Settle is also now in North Yorkshire but formerly of the West Riding.
Carlisle and Settle both feature in the name of that famous route, the Settle & Carlisle.
gg1
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Berwick Upon Tweed is another English town which was once part of Scotland.
Ivo
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Another "BUT" is Burton-upon-Trent.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Bury St Edmunds and Burton-upon-Trent both have a long established history connected with brewing.
Kettering is also bypassed by the A14.
Ivo
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Kettering is acknowledged by its locals as a dump. However, they think that Corby is even more of a dump!
Xenophon PCDGS
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Poulton Lancelyn and Corby (as Corbie) are entered in the Domesday Book.
Schnellzug
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Poulton Lancelyn was a distinguished 19th century Shakespearean actor, particularly noted for his role as Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night.
No? All right then. Actually this is almost as interesting. Poulton Lancelyn comes within the borough of Bebington in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England. Stone quarried at Bebington was used for the construction of Birkenhead Town Hall, some of the villas around Birkenhead and Rock Parks and most famously of all the Empire State Building in New York City. New York City is not the only New York; the better known one is a hamlet in East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The hamlet has a population of less than 150 at count in 2001. It is situated in the Lincolnshire Fens, on the B1192 road 18 km north of Boston.
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No? All right then. Actually this is almost as interesting. Poulton Lancelyn comes within the borough of Bebington in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England. Stone quarried at Bebington was used for the construction of Birkenhead Town Hall, some of the villas around Birkenhead and Rock Parks and most famously of all the Empire State Building in New York City. New York City is not the only New York; the better known one is a hamlet in East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The hamlet has a population of less than 150 at count in 2001. It is situated in the Lincolnshire Fens, on the B1192 road 18 km north of Boston.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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I will do you the honour of having a somewhat convoluted association, in respect of the long posting that you have made above.
Colchester had an Augustinian abbey dedicated to St.Botoloph and the present Colchester Town railway station was formerly known at St Botolphs station....whereas the largest church in Boston is also dedicated to St Botoloph.
Colchester had an Augustinian abbey dedicated to St.Botoloph and the present Colchester Town railway station was formerly known at St Botolphs station....whereas the largest church in Boston is also dedicated to St Botoloph.
Ivo
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...? OK? That Boston one was... different!
From Colchester to Stourbridge. Both have been subjected to bus station works this year.
From Colchester to Stourbridge. Both have been subjected to bus station works this year.
Xenophon PCDGS
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St Helens and Stourbridge have glass making traditions.
St Albans and St Helens are both named ater saints.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Colchester (as Camulodunum) and St Albans (as Verulamium) were Roman settlements.
gg1
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Colchester and Winchester are both former capitals of England.
Ivo
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We were away from Colchester for long...!
Saffron Walden is also dominated by 'B'-roads.
Saffron Walden is also dominated by 'B'-roads.
Eagle
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Peper Harow, Surrey also has a spicy name.
Xenophon PCDGS
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You have come up with quite a challenge here, so I shall try to be worthy of rising to the task of making a good following "association" below:-
Hexham (Old English : Hagustaldes Ea) and Peper Harow (Old English : Pipers Hearg) both have place names derived from Old English and also, both are places where point-to-point races take place.
Ivo
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The village of Cauldon, between Leek and Ashbourne and only a couple of miles north of Alton Towers, could also be thought of associated with witchcraft.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Peak Dale and Cauldon (sometimes spelt Caldon) are both areas where limestone quarrying takes place.
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Clayton West is another town with a type of long-withdrawn diesel locomotive in its name
Xenophon PCDGS
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Ravenglass (Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway) and Clayton West (Kirklees Light Railway) both have trains that run on a 15 inch gauge line.
gg1
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Crowthorne also begins with the name of a member of the Corvidae family.
Schnellzug
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Crowthorne is the location of the Transport & Road Research Laboratory, who do crash tests and that sort of thing. Similar work is also carried out at the Millbrook Proving Ground, Bedfordshire.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Altnabreac and Millbrook (Bedfordshire) both have railway stations serving very small communities
Ivo
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A better known remote location in the Scottish mountains would be Braemar.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Dunoon (Cowal Highland Gathering) and Braemar (Braemar Gathering) are both places where Highland Games gatherings are held.