Settlement Association

[Temple Meads]

Plymouth is also home to a naval base.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dover also has a ferry link to France

 

[ValleyLines142]

As does Newhaven

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Amazing to relate, Huddersfield also has a Bronze Age fort called Castle Hill (similarly named to the one in Newhaven)

 

[Welshman]

Indeed it has - and it affords a magnificent view from the top, and very windy it was too when I was up there a couple of weeks ago!

Huddersfield has some interesting buildings, not least the station itself. Outside the station there's a statue of Harold Wilson, who was born in Huddersfield, and later became MP for Huyton.

 

[Ivo]

Crosby is also on the edge of the wider Liverpool Urban Area.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Flimby is also a settlement on the west coast of Britain that signifies a Viking involvement by its "-by" name suffix.

 

[deltic1989]

Flimby is in the civil parish of Maryport

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wallsend had a Roman fort called Segedunum at the eastern end of Hadrians Wall, whereas Maryport had a Roman fort called Alauna at the western extremity of that wall.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Tynemouth is also a town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside without an operation railway station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lindisfarne also had a religious establishment sacked by invaders from across the North Sea.

 

[Welshman]

Iona

The monastery at Lindisfarne was established by St Aiden, who came from Iona.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Selby also has an abbey that is over 940 years old

 

[ValleyLines142]

Middlesbrough is also in North Yorkshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Edinburgh also had settlements of the Angles in its environs.

 

[Welshman]

Edinburgh is the setting for Ian Rankin's Rebus.

Oxford is the setting for Colin Dexter's Morse.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Cambridge is also a very well-known Uni city.

 

[Welshman]

Continuing the novel/TV detective fiction theme, "Cambridge" was the name of Henry Crabbe's assistant in the series "Pie in the Sky".

Apparently the building used for the frontage of his restaurant is in Old High St,

Hemel Hempstead.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hinton St Mary in Dorset also had artifacts (and mosaics) from a Roman Villa found in excavations.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Hamworthy is also a village in Dorset.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Castleford (Lagentium) and Hamworthy (Moriconium) were places the that the Romans built settlements after their invasion of Britain.

 

[Welshman]

Diseworth

also has a parish church dedicated to St Michael.


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Continuing my detective fiction theme:-

Castleford became "Denton" in some outdoor scenes in "A Touch of Frost".

Some outdoor scenes in "Juliet Bravo" [showing my age now!], were filmed in


Todmorden

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Peterborough was also where Bronze Age artifacts were excavated.

 

[Welshman]

Oundle

another settlement on the River Nene.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sedgeford in Norfolk also had an Iron Age settlement.

 

[Welshman]

Little Snoring

also has a round-tower church.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I know exactly where we are (for obvious reasons).....

Its sister village is Great Snoring......we are in North Norfolk near to "pilgramage" territory.

 

[Ivo]

thank you for providing a hard one Paul :roll:

Great Snoring is close to Fakenham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aintree also is a raceourse with steeplechase races.

 

[ValleyLines142]

Newbury is also a town with a racecourse.