Settlement Association

[EbbwJunction1]

Riley Green is on the route of the Blackburn Bus Company's Service 152 between Preston to Blackburn; this services also passes through Feniscowles.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Reedley also lies on the line of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

 

[Nick_C]

Robert Nutter was a preist at Reedley, and was executed as a Catholic Martyr - but not until after he'd escaped from imprisonment in Wisbech Castle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Billing in Northamptonshire also lies on the line of the River Nene.

 

[Calthrop]

Chessington (Royal Borough of Kingston-on-Thames) is also the location of an entertainment complex which features, among other things, watery fun.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tilehurst also has a church that is dedicated to St Catherine of Siena.

 

[Calthrop]

Nuneaton also has associations with a figure of note in the field of cryptozoology. Tim Dinsdale, who did much work attempting to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, lived for many years in Tilehurst; Richard Freeman -- author and journalist who has extensively covered reputed creatures unrecognised by science, in general: was born in Nuneaton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wormbridge in Herefordshire is another settlement when Benedictine Nuns have settled.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Wormbridge is the home of NFU Mutual; I have a friend who used to work for them, but he lives in Brecon.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanelwedd has also hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The electoral ward of Llanelwedd includes the communities of Llanelwedd, Aberedw (where there's a fine pub called the Seven Stars!) and Glascwm.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Disserth in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St Cewydd.

 

[Calthrop]

Disserth in Powys also has a church that is dedicated to St Cewydd.

Desperation setting in, as it occasionally does in this game: Disserth lies on the River Ithon. In Aberdeenshire is the River Ythan (three letters out of five are the same, in the same positions -- and the names probably sound quite similar when spoken ) -- most likely, not linguistically related; Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic, being of different branches of the Celtic languages family. On the river Ythan lies the town of Ellon .

 

[John Griffiths]

Ellon is the home of craft brewers Brewdog, founded by James Watt and Martin Dickie, both raised in Fraserburgh.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Fraserburgh FC play in the Highland League; one of the current opponents are the splendidly named Inverurie Loco Works FC who play at Harlaw Park which, unsurprisingly, is in Inverurie.

 

[Calthrop]

Fraserburgh FC play in the Highland League; one of the current opponents are the splendidly named Inverurie Loco Works FC who play at Harlaw Park which, unsurprisingly, is in Inverurie.

Also the location (Inverurie's, the Battle of Harlaw -- hence, presumably, the eponymous Park) of an extremely bloody 15th-century battle with a huge death-toll; is Towton, about a dozen miles south-west of York.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kirkby Wharfe was another part of the upper division of the Barkstone-Ash Wapentake.

 

[johnnychips]

The nearest non-school bus service from Kirkby Wharfe runs from nearby Ulleskelf.

 

[Springs Branch]

Ilkley is also on the course of the River Wharfe.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yealand Conyers in Lancashire also has a Society of Friends' meeting house.

 

[johnnychips]

Edlington, S Yorkshire, also has a Catholic St Mary’s church.

 

[Springs Branch]

The Yorkshire Main Colliery at Edlington was closed during 1985.
This was the same year as the closure of Ackton Hall Colliery at Featherstone.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashton-on-Mersey also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Ashton upon Mersey lies on the south bank of the River Mersey which flows into the Manchester Ship Canal at Irlam.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Waterfoot also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

 

[Calthrop]

Waterfoot also lies on the line of the River Irwell.

Waterfoot's neighbouring village -- of greater importance long ago, but has been eclipsed by "the W-place" -- is Newchurch-in-Rossendale. There is another Newchurch in the Isle of Wight.

 

[Nick_C]

Newchurch lies on the river Yar. The Isle of Wight has two rivers called Yar, the other nearly bisecting the western end of the Island as it emerges just 140 meters from the south coast in Freshwater.

 

[Calthrop]

There were two poets -- contemporaries, in a decidedly broad sense -- who both dwelt for a long while, in places far from their respective "native heaths". Tennyson lived at Freshwater; A.E. Housman, in Cambridge.

 

[Nick_C]

Caithness also hosts an annual science festival.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

I see that Caithness is actually the name of the County area and not a specific settlement; in addition, the science festival is held in various parts of the county, principally around Wick, Thurso and rural Caithness. Do you want to revise your suggestion, please?