Settlement Association

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Leighlinbridge in County Carlow also lies on the line of the River Barrow.

 

[Radley]

Nottingham also has a garden named Millennium Garden.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Manchester also has a modern tramway system.

 

[Radley]

Southend-on-Sea also has a railway station with ‘Victoria’ in its name.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

This works in exactly the same manner as the Station Association Quiz, only this thread concentrates on the thousands of inhabited locales instead of their railway stations. As such, a small request has been made in the Station Association Quiz to keep everything in that thread railway-related from here on.

• Settlements may be anywhere in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland (Éire), Isle of Man and The Channel Islands.
• A description of the association should be incorporated in each posting, without simply posting the name only.

This extract from the rules of the quiz rules out railway (but not tramway or guided busway) associations being made in posting submissions.

 

[Radley]

This extract from the rules of the quiz rules out railway (but not tramway or guided busway) associations being made in posting submissions.

I was a little uncertain posting that! Thanks for the reminder.

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Cambridge also has a football team that uses the ‘United’ suffix.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cheltenham in Gloucestershire also hosts a folk-music festival.

 

[Radley]

Newbury also has a racecourse.

 

[Calthrop]

Oxford is also twinned with a settlement in the Italian province of Veneto. Newbury's "twin" is Feltre; Oxford's is Padova (Padua).

 

[Radley]

The University of Bristol is also a member of the Russell Group.

 

[High Dyke]

Bristol is one location granted Fairtrade status. The Fairtrade movement was founded in Garstang, Lancashire.

 

[Radley]

Betws-y-Coed, Caernarfonshire is also the location of a hotel named ‘Royal Oak Hotel’.

 

[Calthrop]

Betws-y-Coed is one of those Welsh place-names which tend to be bugbears for English visitors unacquainted with the Welsh tongue; often rendered by such folk as "Betsy Co-ed" (Elizabeth educated at at an establishment catering for pupils of both genders?). A similar sore trial for many such folk is Machynlleth, Powys -- sometimes rendered by the poor so-and-so's, as "Makinilek".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Waterford in County Waterford also has a clock tower.

 

[Calthrop]

Armagh also has both a Catholic, and a Church of Ireland, cathedral.

 

[Radley]

Armagh City competes in the NIFL Championship, as does Bangor.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Caernarfon also has a premier yacht club with the word "royal" in its title.

 

[Radley]

Frinton-on-Sea also has a golf course adjacent to a body of water.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Blackburn in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to the Sacred Heart,

 

[Radley]

Blackburn compete in the EFL Championship, as does its Lancashire neighbours Preston.

 

[High Dyke]

Did you know the term ‘teetotal’ originated in Preston? The Preston Temperance Society, founded by Joseph Livesey in 1833, founded the teetotalism movement, advocating for complete abstinence from alcohol.

Temperance clubs and institutes came into being, one of the largest in the UK, formed in 1864 and still in use, was Wisbech Working Men's Club and Institute in Cambridgeshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Thorney Toll in Cambridgeshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Wisbech.

 

[Tetragon213]

The A47 runs throuhg Thorney Toll. Follow it for long enough and it spits you out at Lowestoft

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dun Laoghaire in County Dublin also has a maritime museum.

 

[Tetragon213]

Dun Laoghaire was previously named Kingstown. Similarly, Cobh was previously named Queenstown.

 

[D6130]

Arundel in West Sussex also has a Roman Catholic cathedral.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pulborough in West Sussex also lies on the line of the River Arun.

 

[High Dyke]

Minsmere, Suffolk also has an RSPB nature reserve.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eastbridge in Suffolk also lies on the line of the Minsmere River.

 

[Radley]

Chapel Road is situated at Eastbridge, as it does at Saxmundham, just over 5 miles away.