Settlement Association

[John Griffiths]

Litton in North Yorkshire is also a settlement that gives its name to the dale in which it is located.

 

[Tetragon213]

Coleraine Co. (London-)Derry is also home to a Queen's Arms pub.

 

[Calthrop]

Something which I have just discovered: Coleraine, not [London]Derry, is the county town of the latter-named's eponymous county. A phenomenon which occurs in several instances in England: including Derbyshire's county town -- not Derby, but Matlock.

 

[High Dyke]

Douglas, Isle of Man also used to have a cable tramway system. It opened on 15 August 1896 and closed on 19 August 1929.

Matlock Cable Tramway operated between 28 March 1893 and 30 September 1927.

 

[Tetragon213]

After Douglas, the next largest settlement on the IoM is Ramsey (IoM)

 

[High Dyke]

Frongoch in Merionethshire, Wales also had an internment camp. Primarily used for prisoners of war during WW1, but also for approximately 1,800 Irish republicans from the 1916 Easter Rising.

 

[Calthrop]

There have been, and are, tiny enterprises based in Wales, for the distilling and marketing of specifically Welsh whisky (one has to feel, more as a deliberately "fun" and incongruous gimmick, than anything else). There was such a distillery at Frongoch for a spell of a very few decades, around the turn of the 19th / 20th centuries. Since 2004, a Welsh-whisky enterprise has gone on, based at a distillery at Penderyn, Rhondda Cynon Taf -- a little way north of Hirwaun.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ystradfellte , in Brecknockshire, famous for its caves and water features, was also once administered by the Hundred of Denynnock.

 

[Calthrop]

Ystradfellte was for a fair while, the home of the writer of satirical verse in the Welsh language Evan Bevan, 1803 -- 66 (per name, sounds as though he were invented by Dylan Thomas ). Bevan, who wrote under the pseudonym of Ianto'r Castell, was born in Llangynywyd, now in the County Borough of Bridgend -- the village is a couple of miles south of Maesteg.

 

[Tetragon213]

If you follow the A4063 southbound, the road ends at Maesteg

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Treochy in Rhondda Cynon Taf also has a noted male voice choir.

 

[Calthrop]

Treorchy's rugby union club is nicknamed the Zebras. The football club (soccer variety) of Dorchester, Dorset -- Dorchester Town -- also has a nickname of a zoological kind: the Magpies. Presumably, both teams play in black-and-white attire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cattistock in Dorset also lies on the line of the River Frome

 

[High Dyke]

Cattistock previously hosted the Dorset knob throwing event.

A Dorset knob is a kind of hard, dry, savoury biscuit from Dorset which is very crumbly and has the consistency of very dry stale bread or rusks.

Swaton, Lincolnshire hosts the World Egg Throwing Championships.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Scotter in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Eau.

 

[Calthrop]

Broadstairs, Kent, also has a church dedicated to St. Peter (St. Peter-in-Thanet, to give this one its full title).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Macclesfield in Cheshire East also has a church that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

 

[Calthrop]

Town-twinnings -- favourite "go-to" of mine -- Macclesfield is not officially twinned with anywhere; but the town had until 2010, an informal bond with Eckernfoerde in the German State of Schleswig-Holstein: dating from the aftermath of World War II, when the townsfolk sent aid to Eckernfoerde. Cirencester, Gloucestershire, is fully-and-formally twinned with Itzehoe, in the same German State.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Duxford in Cambridgeshire also holds an annual Advent Market.

 

[D6130]

Weybridge in Surrey also has an aviation museum.

 

[High Dyke]

Scotter in Lincolnshire also lies on the line of the River Eau.

Though two different Eau.

Weybridge in Surrey also has an aviation museum.

The novelist E. M. Forster (1879–1970) lived at 19 Monument Green, Weybridge from 1904 until 1912.

There's a monument to Forster in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, near Rooksnest where Forster grew up.

 

[Tetragon213]

Lewis Hamilton grew up in Stevenage. His first F1 team was McLaren, who are based out of Woking

 

[Calthrop]

Delia Smith -- chef, cookery writer, TV presenter, and for a long while prominent person re Norwich City FC: was born in Woking in 1941. Ms. Smith has, among other honorifics, an honorary degree from the University of Nottingham.

 

[High Dyke]

Chislehurst, Kent also has a cave system in its locality.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Keston in Kent was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ruxley.

 

[Tetragon213]

Crawley is also home to a Fox Inn pub