Settlement Association

[Class172]

The Fosse Way also runs through Cirencester.

 

[Eagle]

As with Salisbury, an older name for Bath was also formed of two words.

What older name for Salisbury is that?

 

[Ivo]

New Sarum (I know this is still used in some contexts)

 

[Eagle]

New Sarum (I know this is still used in some contexts)

Eh? It's just Sarum (no one's really called it "New Sarum"), which is a colloquial/dialectal shortening of Salisbury, the original name—well, if you exclude Sorviodunum of course :P.

 

[Ivo]

Whatever I've seen that name plenty of times before now though!

 

[Eagle]

Whatever I've seen that name plenty of times before now though!

Go to the A30 round those parts and you'll find mileposts saying "Sarum 12 Shaston 10".

 

[Welshman]

I'm assuming we're still in Cirencester, so I'm going to post

Golcar

[another name pronouned differently from its spelling - the locals call Cirencester "Ciren" or Sisister; the good folks of the parish of Golcar call their homeplace "Gokka"]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I have decided to end my self-imposed exile from this particular quiz as a rules clarification was posted this weekend......but only to make this posting to see if it is deemed as acceptable

Wysall (in Nottinghamshire) as Wysoc and Golcar (as Goullakarres) were both settlements that were entered in the Domesday Book.

 

[Class172]

Wysall and Wythall share similar spellings.

 

[Welshman]

Shildon
also has a transport museum

 

[12CSVT]

Inverurie used to have railway workshops

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Railway connections as a whole aren't banned, but where a connection would work in the Station Association game I ask that you refrain from using it if possible....A blurring of the definition of "Station Association" was what formed this game in the first place; now, I ask that the same blurring doesn't occur here.

Just thought that I would post this quote from only a few days ago.

 

[Welshman]

Aberdovey

Inverurie = Mouth of the Ury.
Aberdovey = Mouth of the Dovey

 

[Eagle]

Just thought that I would post this quote from only a few days ago.

I don't see the problem with the railway workshops connection, as this applies to the town of Inverurie and not the station.


Anyway, Clydebank, like Aberdyfi, is a former shipbuilding hub on the Irish Sea side of the country.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I don't see the problem with the railway workshops connection, as this applies to the town of Inverurie and not the station.

I do apologise......it was the words "railway connections" in the rules clarification rather than the words "railway station" that confused me.

Apologies to 12CSVT for casting aspersions upon his posting.

Do you ever have one of these weeks occur when nothing you do is right..:roll:
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Anyway, Clydebank, like Aberdyfi, is a former shipbuilding hub on the Irish Sea side of the country.

Bo'ness was near to the eastern end of the Roman Antonine Wall whereas Clydebank is near to the western end of the wall.

 

[deltic1989]

Do you ever have one of these weeks occur when nothing you do is right..:roll:


.

Yes thats every week for me :roll:

on from Bo'ness I'll go Westward Ho! as another settlement with a punctuation mark in it's name. Altough I'm aware that it may not fly as Bo'ness is an abbreveation.

 

[Schnellzug]

Westward Ho, chaps! (to give it its full name :-? ) got its name from the title of a novel by Charles Kingsley. Another popular seaside destination in the south west of England to be mentioned in the title of a novel is Weymouth, Dorset, whose Sands were mentioned in the title of a novel by John Cowper Powys.

 

[Eagle]

Weymouth is half a borough (by far the more populous half); the other half is the township of Portland.

 

[Welshman]

Portland is famous for its cement production.

So is Ketton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sledmere (East Yorkshire) also has a parish church (St Mary) that is over 800 years old.

 

[deltic1989]

Fridaythorpe is also served by the B1251

 

[Eagle]

Wednesbury also has a weekday connection in its name...

 

[12CSVT]

And Sheffield has a football team named after a weekday

 

[deltic1989]

If this assosiation affects or offends anyone in any way I humbally apologise but,

NottingahmForest was one of the teams playing at the time of the Hillsbourgh Disaster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Derby and Nottingham were two of the Five Burghs of the Danelaw.

 

[Class172]

The A38 serves both Derby and Bodmin.

 

[deltic1989]

Jeruselem, Lincolnshire and Bodmin are both places near which big cats have been reportedly sighted.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

deleted...just beaten by deltic1989

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Jericho in Bury also is an Old Testament named town.

 

[deltic1989]

Episode 1 of Inspector Morse was called 'The Dead of Jericho' Oxford was where Morse Lived.

 

[Welshman]

Lewes

sounds like the name of Morse's sergeant!