Settlement Association

[Ivo]

Eccles also gives the impression of sweet/savoury food. Rather obviously

 

[Class172]

Cheddar also has an item of food named after it.

 

[Welshman]

there are also caves at

Castleton in the Peak District

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Conwy also has a castle

 

[Welshman]

Llanfairpwll

The success of the wrought iron tubular bridge at Conwy [opened 1849], lead Stephenson to build the original Britannia Bridge to a similar design.[This bridge was opened in 1850, and survived until 1970, when some boys playing in it managed to set it alight].

 

[Schnellzug]

Llanfairpwll, etc, is famously the longest place name in the world, or in Wales.
The longest place name in England is Cottonshopeburnfoot, a hamlet in Redesdale in Northumberland, England.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Pennine Way passes through that last-named settlement in a northerly direction to its terminus at Kirk Yetholm, that is situated just inside the Scottish border.

 

[Welshman]

Edale
is at the other end of the Pennine Way.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tideswell was also a settlement that was connected to the post-Norman Conquest hunting area that was known as the Royal Forest of the High Peak.

 

[Ivo]

The first syllable of Loughborough suggests it should be besides a major water feature but is in fact some distance from the sea, as is true of Tideswell.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whitechapel (London) also has a long tradition of bell-founding.

 

[Schnellzug]

Whitechapel is not all that far around the District line from Blackfriars.

 

[W-on-Sea]

The "Blackfriars" are Dominican monks. There is a Dominican priory in North-West London at Gospel Oak

 

[Welshman]

Slough

another place in which the late John Betjeman did not want to live!


Here from my eyrie, as the sun went down,
I heard the old North London puff and shunt,
Glad that I did not live in Gospel Oak.

from "Summoned by Bells"

and

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now.

from "Slough"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

King Henry III had palaces in Bristol and in Slough.

 

[Ivo]

Bristol vies with Plymouth for the title of "Regional Capital".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portsmouth also has a very long naval tradition.

 

[Welshman]

Grangemouth

Portsmouth sounds like it should be at the mouth of a River "Port", but it's not.
Grangemouth sounds, etc... but it's not

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanlow also has an extensive oil refinery.

 

[Welshman]

Irlam

its container terminal is also on the Manchester Ship Canal

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Warrington (Joseph Crosfield) and Irlam (C.W.S. Soap Works) share a historical link to soap manufacture.

 

[Welshman]

Nottingham

also has a municipal bus transport system

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chard, in Somerset, is also known for lace manufacturing.

 

[Welshman]

The infamous Judge Jeffries held some of the "Bloody Assizes" in Chard. He also sat in
Taunton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Birmingham also has a county cricket ground.

 

[Class172]

Birmingham and Kidderminster are served by the A456.

 

[Ivo]

Kilmarnock has a short name used by many that is very similar to Kidderminster: "Killie" vs "Kiddy"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Axminster also has a carpet manufacturing tradition.

 

[Welshman]

Sir William Tite, who designed the mock-gothic frontage of Axminster station, later became MP for Bath

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Harrogate is also noted for being a spa town.