Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Liverpool also has a major tunnel under a river.

 

[Calthrop]

Anstruther (Fife) is another port -- of sorts -- by the mouth of an estuary which is broader further upstream, than at its actual mouth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pittenweem is another Fife settlement that received Royal Burgh status in the 16th century.

 

[Springs Branch]

Samlesbury in Lancashire was also associated with persecution of suspected witches in the 17th Century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dilworth is another Lancashire settlement that once came under the jurisdiction of the Preston Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Slaidburn, Lancashire, also lies in the Forest of Bowland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Mearley was also once administered by the Hundred of Blackburn.

 

[Calthrop]

"Desperation department" as sometimes happens -- I seem to find that the above-bolded settlement is a very tiny one, on the summit and western slope of Pendle Hill. Resorting here, to the old North-of-England rhyme:

"Pendle Hill, Ingleborough, and Pen-y-Ghent
Are the finest hills between Scotland and Trent" --

I shall cite Horton in Ribblesdale (North Yorkshire), as the nearest settlement to Ingleborough Hill -- about two miles south-east of it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dent in Cumbria was also part of the administered area of the Ewcross Wapentake.

 

[Springs Branch]

Great Heck in North Yorkshire also has a microbrewery.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Osgodby in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Selby Poor Law Union.

 

[Nick_C]

There are two villages called Osgodby in North Yorkshire - the other lies just outside Scarborough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Babbacombe also has a cliff railway.

 

[John Griffiths]

John Lee, 'The Man They Could Not Hang', committed the murder for which he was sentenced to death in Babbacombe. Three unsuccessful attempts were made to hang him at the prison in Exeter on 23 February 1885.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chichester is also a cathedral city that has a ship canal.

 

[Springs Branch]

Canterbury was another city targeted by the Luftwaffe during the Baedeker Blitz of 1942.

 

[Nick_C]

Chichester's patron saint is St Richard, who wsa born in Droitwich in 1197

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prestwich is another settlement that was chosen as a site for a Lunatic Asylum.

 

[Calthrop]

Crown green bowling is also popular and much engaged in, in Bolton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Camden also has an elephant in its town coat of arms.

 

[John Griffiths]

Like Camden (Camden Lock), Leeds also has a trendy market area by a canal, in the form of the atmospheric Dark Arches by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal/River Aire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

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

 

[Calthrop]

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

Hunstanton (Norfolk) also has a three-syllable official name which is often rendered in speech, in a two-syllable version. Local Barnoldswick folk often call the town "Barlick"; re Hunstanton, local people -- and posh or would-be-posh people -- often say "Hunston".

 

[DerekC]

31 people died at Hunstanton in the 1953 North Sea Flood. Amongst many other affected places, 37 died at Jaywick in Essex.

 

[johnnychips]

A survey in 2015 found Jaywick was the most deprived ward in the UK, while Middlesbrough was the most deprived borough.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cowpen Bewley was also once under the jurisdiction of the Stockton Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Not much to work with here (which is part of the fun of the game) ! Roping-in ignorant amateur place-name-linguistics; I'd suspect that Cowpen Bewley's name actually has nothing to do with cows or pens -- but it looks superficially, as though it ought to. Similarly with Hogben's Hill near Faversham in Kent: can find no indication as to name's derivation; but one could imagine it to concern enclosures in which pigs kept...

 

[John Griffiths]

Hogben's Hill may have nothing to do with hogs, or bens,

 

[John Griffiths]

Hogben's Hill may have nothing to do with hogs, or bens, but it does have to do with Hogbens, one of whom runs the Hogben Pottery in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire

 

[Calthrop]

Hogben's Hill may have nothing to do with hogs, or bens, but it does have to do with Hogbens, one of whom runs the Hogben Pottery in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire

The late Nicholas Parsons lived for a long while in Princes Risborough. Like Margaret Thatcher and Sir Isaac Newton: he was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire.