Guess the Town or City

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sOLIHULL ??

 

[gg1]

sOLIHULL ??

No, but that's the closest so far.

 

[Ivo]

Castle Bromwich?

 

[gg1]

Castle Bromwich?

Almost but not quite

 

[Ivo]

WEST Bromwich?

 

[gg1]

WEST Bromwich?

Correct

Europe's largest supermarket in 1971 was the West Brom branch of Tesco.
The Jensen Interceptor was built there.
It's also the birthplace of Robert Plant, Phil Lynott and a couple of members of Judas Priest.

 

[Ivo]

A prominent suburb of a major city, this town shares its name with a very famous person in the world of music. It shares its station with a much smaller area.

 

[dzug2]

A prominent suburb of a major city, this town shares its name with a very famous person in the world of music. It shares its station with a much smaller area.

Blundellsands and Crosby?

 

[Ivo]

Touche...

 

[dzug2]

It's also the birthplace of Robert Plant, Phil Lynott and a couple of members of Judas Priest.

Who???? Should I have heard of any of them? :cry:
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Touche...

Assuming that means yes then here's an easy one

This town is famous for sports cars (another one yes - seem to be oodles of them)

And for water.

 

[Schnellzug]

This one's Malvern.

Robert Plant? he was responsible for this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TGj2jrJk8

 

[dzug2]

Correct - I knew it would be too easy

What's Led Zeppelin (he says slightly ingenuously....)?

 

[Schnellzug]

Led Zeppelin is an unaerodynamic airship.

Onto a Town, then: This (topically) once had an Abbey (now demolished) that contained what was believed to be a, or perhaps one of several, heads of Saint Valentine.

 

[Ivo]

Ignoring the fact that it says "Town" as oposed to "City", it sounds like Winchester.

 

[Schnellzug]

It was a Town then.

 

[Ivo]

Does that mean Winchester is correct?

 

[Schnellzug]

it does, yes.

 

[Ivo]

Okey-doke then. Try this:

75 years ago this large town was but a small village. A far larger settlement existed to the east, and to the west, and to a lesser extent to the south. Then came the New Town Act - and the roles were reversed as the village expanded to engulf the other three. One of the town's nicknames was inspired by a prominent city in Nevada.

 

[dzug2]

Milton Keynes?

 

[Ivo]

Not MK.

 

[CarterUSM]

Telford.

 

[Ivo]

Not Telford either.

 

[W-on-Sea]

Ha, Pitsea to east, Vange to the south, Laindon to the west

Bas Vegas on the '127,

Basildon in the rotten centre

 

[Ivo]

I knew you would get that one.

 

[W-on-Sea]

Well, yes. Try this one.

This town has a statue of a famous king on its market place, and a park nearby, with a stream running through it, named after a prominent poet. Both the king and the poet had some connection with the town. Sometime between the life of the king and the life of the poet the town was a notorious centre of criminality, and a got a nickname that reflected that.

 

[dzug2]

Wantage - the King being Alfred, born there, and the poet Betjeman lived there.

 

[W-on-Sea]

Yep, spot on, Wantage it is.

 

[dzug2]

A short clue:

********* the town built ill

(the number of asterisks is not indicative of the name length)
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A short clue:

********* the town built ill

(the number of asterisks is not indicative of the name length)

OK - another clue.

AKA the Great Wen

 

[madannie77]

London

 

[dzug2]

London

Yep - first description from Housman, second from Cobbett