Settlement Association

[deltic1989]

Cathrine Cookson was born in South Shields and resided in Corbridge

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scarborough was also attacked by the Germans in World War 1

 

[12CSVT]

Halifax is also home to a football team which went out of the football league, folded, and later re-formed

 

[Ivo]

One of Halifax's shortest streets goes by the name of Sunderland Street.

 

[Welshman]

Jarrow

also used to have a ship-building industry

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

World War 1 saw the development of the Felixstowe Flying Boat.

 

[Ivo]

Southampton also has a major container port.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

London also hosts a large Boat Show.

 

[Ivo]

Some people will tell you that London is the country's largest city. By standard definitions (i.e. using either administrative or historial boundaries) however, Britain's largest city is actually Birmingham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sutton Coldfield also has archeological finds of Late Neolithic period Burnt Mounds (Charcoal and shattered rock).

 

[gg1]

Blyth is also home to a non-league football team with a name taken from classical history.

(Blyth Spartans and Romulus)

 

[12CSVT]

Coalville has a railway but no station

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wigan also has a long connection to the coal mining industry

 

[Ivo]

Everyone knows this, and it's been done before, but oh well.

Wigan is famous for its Pier. Unless I imagined my first 20½ years of life, so is Southend.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scarborough also has a cliff railway.

 

[Welshman]

Stratford-on-Avon

has the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.
[Scarborough the Acykbourn Theatre]

 

[LE Greys]

Bradford-on-Avon obviously

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tockenham is also a settlement in Wiltshire where the remains of a Roman Villa were found.

 

[Schnellzug]

Tockenham should now be confused, as could easily be done, with Twickenham.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Isleworth was also another one of the areas that made up the Hundred of Hounslow in medieval times.

 

[Ivo]

Linking between Isleworth and a well-known northern town via Florida:

There is a golfing community named Isleworth in the small town of Windermere, just outside Orlando. Isleworth Golf & Country Club is Tiger Woods's local course, and also the site of his best ever round - 59. In spite of this, it is the longest and most difficult course course in the State, and was designed by one of the game's greatest players, Arnold Palmer.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Coniston also offers cruises on a lake in the Lake District.

 

[Ivo]

There is a school named Coniston in Patchway. It is named after the nearby Coniston Road, one of the main residential roads through the area.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hatfield (Hertfordshire) also has historical links to the aeroplane industry.

 

[Schnellzug]

As does Radlett, home of Handley Page.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Canterbury also lies on the line of the ancient pathway called Watling Street.

 

[Welshman]

Walsingham

another focus of pilgrimage.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portsmouth has a Russian Orthodox church (St Silouan of Mount Athos) as does Walsingham (St Seraphim)

 

[Ivo]

Portsmouth has been featured in recent Traveline South-West advertising. The name "Portsmouth" appears on a sign, and a cartoon version of Admiral Nelson (complete with missing right arm) can be seen staring through his telescope. Another such location is Cheddar. In this instance, a mouse is the "mascot".

I am aware of eleven others:

BATH (rugby player)
BEER (drunk youth)
CHELTENHAM (horse jockey)
COWES (cow)
EDEN PROJECT (Adam and Eve)
GLASTONBURY (rocker)
MOUSEHOLE (cat)
PENZANCE (pirates)
POOLE (dolphin)
STONEHENGE (caveman and dinosaur)
STUDLAND (a "stud"; i.e. male pin-up)

There may be others as well, but I believe these are all the ones I've seen across the region.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trawsyfnydd also possesses a notable gorge.