Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Burnage is another district of Manchester that lies on the line of the post-Roman period defensive fortification known as the Nico Ditch.

 

[Calthrop]

On April 28th 1910, the French pilot Louis Paulhan landed his plane at a spot bordering on Burnage; thus winning the Daily Mail's competition for a £10,000 prize, for the first powered flight between London and Manchester. The flight was interrupted by a short overnight stop at Lichfield.

 

[Springs Branch]

Truro is another city with a cathedral which has three spires.

 

[Calthrop]

Bideford, North Devon, is also twinned with a town in Brittany. Truro's twin, is Morlaix; Bideford's, Landivisiau.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster also has a Meeting House of the Society of Friends.

 

[Calthrop]

Aylesbury was also accorded in 2005, the status of a Cycling Demonstration Town, to promote cycling as a means of transport.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cow Roast in Hertfordshire also lies on the route of the Sparrows Herne turnpike road.

 

[DerekC]

The Cow Roast Inn, which I have patronised many times, is a Grade II listed building. So is the George & Falcon at Warnford in Hampshire.

 

[Springs Branch]

Warnford is located on the A32 road which runs from Gosport and ends at the A31 road at the village of Chawton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Guisborough in North Yorkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Nicholas.

 

[DerekC]

Walter of Guisborough, a canon of Gisborough Priory, was an mediaeval chronicler who wrote about the period from the Norman Conquest to about 1346. In doing so he depended on, amongst others, an earlier history written by Henry of Huntingdon (1088 - 1157)

 

[Springs Branch]

Wisbech also has a twin town in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of France.

 

[Calthrop]

The journalist, political philosopher, and novelist William Godwin (1756 -- 1836) was born in Wisbech. In the earlier part of his life, he was a Congregationalist minister (a position which he later abandoned) in -- among other places -- Ware, Hertfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winteringham in Lincolnshire also lies on the route of the Roman road known as Ermine Street.

 

[Calthrop]

Winteringham has a pub called the Bay Horse. So has -- would you believe it ? -- Bay Horse (Lancashire) -- some seven miles south of Lancaster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Farleton in Cumbria also lies on the line of the Lancaster Canal.

 

[Calthrop]

Ravenstonedale, Cumbria: was also in Westmorland, when that county still existed as such.

 

[John Griffiths]

Watton in the East Riding also had a Gilbertine priory.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Driffield also lies on the route of the A164 road.

 

[Calthrop]

Driffield's name is thought to come from the Anglo-Saxon for "dirty (manured) field." Mucking (Thurrock Unitary Authority) looks and sounds as though it should have a similarly "earthy" origin; but is reckoned -- though also Anglo-Saxon -- to be derived in one way or another from the name of its supposed founder, an Anglo-Saxon worthy called Mucca.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Rudbaxton in Pembrokeshire also has a landfill site within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, prominent in the Napoleonic Wars, spent his childhood in Rudbaxton. In 1812, he purchased an estate near Carmarthen; didn't get much chance to enjoy it, because he was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.

 

[John Griffiths]

In the sixteenth century, Carmarthen was, it is claimed, the most populous town in Wales. There have been other contenders - Swansea and Merthyr Tydfil - before the mushrooming boom town Cardiff scooped the crown in the late nineteenth century.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pontypridd also lies on the line of the Glamorganshire Canal.

 

[John Griffiths]

James James, who composed the music of the Welsh national anthem Hen Wlad fy Nhadau, was born in Bedwellty but lived in Pontypridd from the age of about twelve years. He died in 1902 in Aberdare.

 

[Calthrop]

James James, who composed the music of the Welsh national anthem Hen Wlad fy Nhadau, was born in Bedwellty but lived in Pontypridd from the age of about twelve years. He died in 1902 in Aberdare.

I suppose he wasn't the bod celebrated by A.A. Milne --

"James James Morrison Morrison Willoughby George Dupree
Took great care of his mother, though he was only three" ?

Re Aberdare: there is a mountain range in Kenya called the Aberdare Mountains. In parallel -- mountains in Britain's Empire / Commonwealth, named after settlements in the old country -- there is in New South Wales, Australia, a Hastings Range.

 

[John Griffiths]

Athelstan, the first king of England, created a mint at Hastings, and also (among several other mints at several other places) at Hereford.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Trefriw also has a pedestrian suspension bridge.

 

[John Griffiths]

Llandovery is also on the Roman road called Sarn Helen.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abergwili also lies on the line of the River Tywi.