Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Whilst the described happenings in Richmond (London) could have been "the gate" to salvation for those poor unfortunates, on a far nicer note, Richmond in North Yorkshire is "the gate" to the Yorkshire Dales.

 

[Ivo]

One of Richmond's most famous residents was one Robert Baden-Powell, who was of course the man that orchestrated the Scouting movement. He held his first camp on Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour.

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Assuming I have counted this correctly, given Quiz Forum posts are not shown in posting totals and have not been since the middle of last year, including both mainstream posts and Quiz Forum posts (and obviously not including the three-figure number of posts I have had deleted for various reasons, most commonly Forum Tidy in Challenge threads or where others' threads have been deleted) this is my 8,000th post! Across just under 800 days, including two periods of sustained absence, that works out at approximately 10.1 posts per day, or nearer 16 by the time my two periods of absence are considered.

I post too much

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

One of Richmond's most famous residents was one Robert Baden-Powell, who was of course the man that orchestrated the Scouting movement. He held his first camp on Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour.

I post too much

Taplow in Buckinghamshire was also where an Iron Age settlement was discovered.

I too post far too much...:roll:

 

[Welshman]

Maidenhead

on the opposite bank of the Thames.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Horncastle holds the English rainfall record for a 3-hour period of 178mm (set in 1960), whereas Maidenhead holds the English rainfall record for a 1-hour period of 92mm (set in 1901).

 

[VTPreston_Tez]

Hornchurch is a station in London that boasts a "horn" prefix-thing but that's not what we're looking for, as a settlement that has "church" in it that also isn't a major religious site is Christchurch! (I love how everything here's ending up in Dorset or Hampshire)

 

[Ivo]

Hornchurch is a station in London that boasts a "horn" prefix-thing but that's not what we're looking for, as a settlement that has "church" in it that also isn't a major religious site is Christchurch! (I love how everything here's ending up in Dorset or Hampshire)

Paul said Horncastle, not Hornchurch. I shall have to rule this out - sorry!

Horncastle shares much of its name with the ill-fated Cornish village of Boscastle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Similar to the happenings recently in Boscastle, in 1952, Lynmouth in a similar position at the seaward end of a deep-sided sloping valley was devastated by the flash floods that were caused by an unusual meteorological combination of weather patterns which led to a total of 229mm of rainfall to precipitate in a 24-hour period.

 

[Welshman]

Lynmouth is connected to Lynton by a water-powered funicular cliff railway.

[and if that's too much of a "railway" connection, Lynton & Lynmouth are twin tourist centres on this N.Devon coast]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ivybridge is also on the line of "The Two Moors Way".

 

[Welshman]

Edmund Barron Hartley [b.Ivybridge 1847], awarded the VC for bravery in S.Africa, died 1901 in Ash, Hampshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hazel Grove also has an aboreal significance.

 

[LE Greys]

Shirley (in the West Midlands) can also be a woman's name

 

[Ivo]

A suburb named Shirley also exists in Southampton.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Portsmouth also has ferry services to the Isle of Wight.

 

[Welshman]

Aberdeen

the location of the first Ragged School in Scotland.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Penzance also has a heliport.

 

[Welshman]

Kenilworth

before his partnership with W.S.Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan wrote "The Masque at Kenilworth"

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ludlow also has a fine example of a ruined castle.

 

[andrew bell]

Uttoxeter also holds National Hunt horse races

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Swanage also has been a place where Bronze Age axes have been excavated.

 

[Ivo]

Margate is another "resort" in an area that incorrectly holds the title of "Isle".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ramsgate and Margate were both "limbs" of the Cinque Ports Confederation......Ramsgate is a limb of Sandwich and Margate is a limb of Dover

 

[Welshman]

Hastings

is one of the Cinque Ports

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Skipton also has a ruined castle.

 

[Welshman]

Leeds

Thomas Spencer was born in Skipton, his business partner Michael Marks was born in Belarus, but upon naturalisation lived in Leeds.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bradford was also a settlement of the Brythonic Kingdom of Elmet.

 

[Ivo]

Another set to complete here:

Wakefield is the third city in the ceremonial county of West Yorkshire.

 

[Welshman]

Rothwell

another tip of the rhurbarb triangle.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Brockenhurst was also the site of a royal hunting lodge.