Settlement Association

[Eagle]

Corfe, Dorset is also in an area traditionally called an isle despite the fact it's nothing like one.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flint and Corfe both have a ruined castle.

 

[Ivo]

The Welsh spelling of Cwmbran is also virtually identical to the English spelling.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Newtown and Cwmbran are the only two official "New Towns" in Wales.

 

[Schnellzug]

Newtown is one of the less imaginatively named New Towns. Welwyn Garden City, though, sounds so much more picturescque.

 

[12CSVT]

Stockport is dominated by a tall viaduct which carries an electrified main line

 

[deltic1989]

so is Bawtry

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chester and Bawtry were both Roman settlements and in the year 616AD, the Anglo-Saxons were victorious in battles that were fought at both locations...(at Bawtry between King Raedwald of East Anglia and King Aelthelfrith of Northumbria...and at Chester between the Anglo-Saxons and the Welsh).

 

[Ivo]

Chepstow also straddles the English-Welsh border.

I think this one has been before. Ah well...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ludlow and Chepstow both have racecourses

 

[Schnellzug]

Ludlow, as well as being a town in Shropshire, was the name of a bus company based in Halesowen, that was subsequently bought by the Rotarola group.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Spilsby and Halesown both had Poor Law Unions

 

[deltic1989]

Horncastle is also on Stagecoach Lincs/Lincs County Councils Inter connect 6 route.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ribchester (Bremetenacum Veteranorum) and Horncastle (Banovallum) both had Roman Forts.

 

[Class172]

Silchester is also now a lesser known place than it was during the Roman occupancy of Britain.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cockerham (as Cochreham) and Silchester (as Ciltestere) were both settlements that were entered in the Domesday Book.

 

[Ivo]

The local commercial centre for Cockerham is Lancaster.

 

[Schnellzug]

The not quite so succesful predecessor of the Lancaster was the Avro Manchester, thanks to the use of Rolls-Royce Vulture engines.

 

[deltic1989]

and the almost forgotten sucsesser to tge Lancaster was the Avro Lincoln.

 

[Class172]

Cirencester is also on the Fosse Way.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Colchester (as Camulodunum) and Cirencester (as Corinium Dobunnorum) were both very early Roman settlements in Britain.

 

[deltic1989]

Princetown. home of another well known (well to sailors and marines anyway) prison. i.e. hmp dartmoor.

 

[Eagle]

Princetown used to have the highest railway station in England; that honour now belongs to Dent, Yorks.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lazonby & Kirkoswald and Dent are both stations on the Settle and Carlisle Railway.

 

[Ivo]

Lazonby & Kirkoswald and Dent are both stations on the Settle and Carlisle Railway.

Wrong thread Paul

Will have to continue from Dent. Each letter in Dent appears in Tenterden.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Do railway ones not count as a Settlement Association ?

 

[Ivo]

They should do in theory (although are obviously better suited to the Station game), but the station you chose has more than one settlement in its name!

 

[Eagle]

Tenterden is the Limb of Rye.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

New Romney and Rye, in medieval times, were members of the extended family of military sea defensive establishments of the Cinque Ports.

 

[Class172]

New Tredegar also has the word 'new' as a prefix to the main name.