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[Ivo]

Derby was also awarded City Status in the second half of the 20th Century.

 

[Eagle]

Buckingham also has a county named for it, but isn't its county town.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Buckingham also has a county named for it, but isn't its county town.

As is the case with Lancaster

 

[Nym]

Southsea, another sea ... I Really need to stop opening multiple tags on these things and not refreshing them.

And also York.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wimborne and York each possess a Minster.

 

[Eagle]

Wimborne and York each possess a Minster.

Wimborne was on a railway mainline that was bypassed and eventually closed, as was Darfield, Yorks.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Frome and Darfield are both places where buried amounts of Roman coin have been found.

 

[Ivo]

Where one of McLaren's drivers is from the Frome area, the other is from the Stevenage area.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chipping Sodbury and Stevenage have long historical links to being market towns.

 

[deltic1989]

Cleethorpes has an exellent CHIP shop. (called Salts IIRC)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skegness and Cleethorpes are holiday resorts on the North Sea coastline.

 

[Eagle]

Ashbourne is near the other end of the A52.

 

[Ivo]

The London suburb of Brockley also has two syllables in its name, formed of a common last syllable in settlement names preceded by a Pokémon character

 

[Schnellzug]

I'm not sure I understand that one, but Brockenhurst might also be associated with badgers.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Beaulieu and Brockenhurst have connections in the New Forest.

 

[Eagle]

Beaulieu hosted one of the first jazz festivals; a more well-known one is in Merchant City, Glasgow

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh and Glasgow are the only two Scottish teams to play in Rugby Union's Celtic League.

 

[Class172]

Carlisle and Edinburgh are both places were single digit roads terminate/originate.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Windsor and Carlisle both have a castle.

 

[Eagle]

Windsor is home to the country's second most-visited theme park; the most-visited is near Rocester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ambleside and Rocester were places where Roman forts were built.

 

[Ivo]

Keswick is another semi-prominent Lake District destination.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coniston and Keswick once were served by rail.

 

[Class172]

Coniston and Grasmere both have bodies of water named after them.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nice as the Lake District is, it is time to move away.......


Market Drayton and Grasmere have a "gingerbread" tradition.

 

[Ivo]

Rye is another fairly small market town to have its own phone code.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winchelsea and Rye were the only two 12th century "Antient Townes" in Britain.

 

[Schnellzug]

Winchelsea has many of the same letters as Winchester.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ripon and Winchester both have a cathedral

 

[Class172]

Both Ripon and Ely are small cities.