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Xenophon PCDGS said:
As a brief aside, quite a few years ago on the Closed Stations Journey quiz during a trawl through closed Welsh stations in the back-of-beyond", one particular wag made the statement....

"Welcome to Wales, the land of the Consonant".... :)
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I'd reckon that the Czech Republic deserves that title even more richly: the Czech language specialises in totally vowel-less words.

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Cardiff also has a Crown Court
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Glastonbury also features in a comic poem by G.K. Chesterton.
 
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Guildford is also twinned with a settlement in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. (Guildford's twin is Freiburg im Breisgau; Glenrothes's, Boeblingen.)
 
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Alfred Wainwright, author of a famous series of guides to walking in the Lake District and the Pennines, was born in Blackburn. Before he died he directed that his ashes should be scattered on Innominate Tarn, not the ideal place for this game. The nearest settlement, on the other side of Haystacks, is Gatesgarth, close to the eastern end of Buttermere.
 
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The heart of King Robert the Bruce is buried at Melrose Abbey. During his turbulent career he was in 1306 excommunicated, for the murder of his rival, John Comyn, in front of the high altar of the Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries.
 
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The heart of King Robert the Bruce is buried at Melrose Abbey. During his turbulent career he was in 1306 excommunicated, for the murder of his rival, John Comyn, in front of the high altar of the Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries.
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@John Griffiths: you just beat me to it, with gen concerning Melrose ! Find self needing to fall back on works of fiction. P.F. Chisholm writes, in my opinion superb, historical-novels-cum-thrillers set in the Anglo-Scottish Borders at the end of the 16th century: basically from the point of view of the English, "civilised" kind thereof. In one of these, complicated intrigues take the books' hero, Sir Robert Carey, to Dumfries where most of the action takes place; and where he is given a bad time by a favourite of King James VI (shortly also to be James I of England) -- Alexander Lindsay, a most unpleasant person. For a while, James created Lindsay the Earl of Spynie: his seat the castle of that name, near Lossiemouth.

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A Happy Easter to all Settlementeers!
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And to you, sir.
 
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Euphoniously, three miles west along the road from Kellas, is Dallas: not inhabited so far as I know, by the super-rich and ruthless Ewing family :smile: !
 
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Saint Werburgh (c.650 - 700) was born in Stone. She has been held in considerable regard as the patron saint and protector of the city of Chester.
 
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In 2017-19 the UK town with the lowest life expectancy for women was Blackpool (79.54). The second lowest (79.48) was Dundee.

(source: Office of National Statistics)
 
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In 2017-19 the UK town with the lowest life expectancy for women was Blackpool (79.54). The second lowest (79.48) was Dundee.

(source: Office of National Statistics)
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(Paging Mr. McGonagall to produce a poem lamenting the above sad circumstance...)


Eccles also has a "cake"-type item of baked goods named after it.
 
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Faversham was also twinned with a town referenced in a popular World War One song (Faversham was formerly twinned with Ypres - 'Far, far from Wipers I long to be' - Stalybridge is twinned with Armentieres - 'Mademoiselle from Armentieres... parlez vous')
 
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The late-16th-century play Arden of Feversham [spelling variant] -- about the murder of Thomas Arden of that town -- is thought possibly to be by Christopher Marlowe, or possibly by Shakespeare. Another Shakespeare / Arden connection, involves his liking for the Forest of Arden in his own Warwickshire "patch" -- for instance, As You Like It is set in that Forest. Taking its name from the forest, is -- just down the road from Stratford -- Henley-in-Arden.
 
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Twickenham was fairly hard-hit by the widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in the mid-1660s. Less so, however, than Eyam, Derbyshire: which in respect of that event in that time, self-sacrificingly quarantined itself.
 
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The church of St Hugh at Charterhouse was designed by the prolific ecclesiastical architect WD Caroe, who was also responsible for the 1930s rebuilding (after mining subsidence damage to the original) of St Michael and All Angels, Sunderland (Sunderland Minster).
 
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