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More Geezer diemwnt, os gwelwch yn dda!
Dan | 10.10.15 - 7:07 a.m. | #
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Northern Ireland left off again, the lack of Wales and Scotland is notable,
St. Albans is East Midlands?
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A handy list of links, nice to look back and recall some of your past visits.
Maybe Southwold in the East could be a town for you to visit.
Then in the west there is all of Cornwall.
John | 10.10.15 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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This was a great idea; really enjoyed the excuse to go back through some of these posts.
{And that's pretty good coverage for a London-based blogger - even as a proud Welshman I'm not upset about only Mumbles figuring. Feel free to add Caerleon / Isca Siluum, St Faggans or Big Pit should you ever find yourself my corner}
Tunnel Bore | 10.10.15 - 8:29 a.m. | #
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Skegness is in the North?
dg writes: Not any more it isn't. I've been shuffling quite a few of these places around between approximate regions.
timbo | 10.10.15 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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You really need to go to Cornwall! Though you might find you never want to leave! :D
And I suppose, Devon, if you really have to!
Cornish Cockney | 10.10.15 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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What have the Celts done to you that you avoid them so?
Steve | 10.10.15 - 10:21 a.m. | #
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a) A lot of Britain is a long way away from where I live, so not quick/cheap/easy to get to.
b) Sometimes I visit places without writing about them - Sheffield and Chepstow are fairly recent examples.
c) I've been to lots of Cornwall, and lots of Wales, and plenty of other places around far-flung Britain, but all before I started blogging, so they don't appear.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.10.15 - 10:30 a.m. | #
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Yes indeed a great idea. That's today dealt with, dreaming of upcoming travel in DG's wake...
Malcolm | 10.10.15 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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I get around, round, round, round. I get around!
Bronchitikat | Homepage | 10.10.15 - 11:01 a.m. | #
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Letchworth is in the east Midlands ????
News to me and I live there.
Oli | 10.10.15 - 12:40 p.m. | #
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Do we get one for (the rest of) Europe/World tomorrow?
E | 10.10.15 - 1:34 p.m. | #
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Cardiff (and the aforementioned St Fagan's) is well worth a visit - went there for the first time myself last month, found myself wishing I'd stayed another day.
Darryl | Homepage | 10.10.15 - 2:13 p.m. | #
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Very handy for reference - thank you!
Suse | 10.10.15 - 4:14 p.m. | #
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All of those places in the South Midlands region are in the South East. Bletchley / Milton Keynes could be regarded as South Midlands (as is Northampton often). East Midlands is centred on Leicester / Nottingham, so Rutland & Worksop appear to be in the right grouping.
Much depends on whether you go by the ONS's regional definitions, of course (in which case South Midlands and South don't exist, and Essex is part of East Anglia, and so on).
shirokazan | 10.10.15 - 9:31 p.m. | #
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@Shirokazan South is most definitely an ONS region, and includes 47 of the 112 places DG lists, so it seems sensible for him to have subdivided it. Likewise, combining the three northernmost ONS regions makes sense from a metropolitan perspective.
I dislike the ONS regions anyway, because they put Grimsby in with Yorkshire simply because there was a short-lived boundary change which tried to pretend the Humber doesn't exist.
However, if you go by them:
NORTH EAST (2) - Beamish/Durham and Northumberland
NORTH WEST (3) - Liverpool, Blackpool and Salford
YORKSHIRE (5) - all the rest of your "North " group except IoM and Grindleford
- IoM is not in the UK at all, but is a Crown dependency
EAST MIDLANDS (5) - would include Grindleford it is (just) in Derbyshire - the railway tunnel passes under the boundary with Yorkshire, but excludes Beds and Herts(both East Anglia) and Bucks (South).
the ONS's SOUTH region (47) includes
- Kent
- your South Midlands group
- Ivinghoe, Milton Keynes, Bletchley and Chequers (all in Bucks)
- Winchester and Bournemouth (both Hants), although you did stray over the border into Poole on the Bournemouth trip
- SOUTH WEST (7)
- EAST ANGLIA (30) For ONS purposes it includes Essex (although its name makes it clear it was settled by Saxons, not Angles) It also includes Bedford, Stewartby (both Beds) Letchworth and St Albans (Herts)
timbo | 10.10.15 - 11:08 p.m. | #
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If you've got a better name for 'the box west of London' and 'the box north of London', I'm all ears.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.10.15 - 11:31 p.m. | #
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I am just as impressed by the colspan's and rowspan's
Have you ever tried a family tree, both vertical and horizontal ?
Kate Demonstration | 11.10.15 - 5:23 a.m. | #
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What a fantastic resource. Thanks for compiling it.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 11.10.15 - 9:54 a.m. | #
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"Northern Ireland left off again"? Read the title - it's a tour of Britain. Northern Ireland is not part of Britain, it's part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So Northern Ireland doesn't belong in a tour of Britain and DG has not left it off - it wasn't there to leave off!
Tim | 11.10.15 - 10:39 a.m. | #
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@ timbo: Bournemouth hasn't been in Hampshire for over 1.3 billion seconds, as DG might put it...
Gerry | 11.10.15 - 2:33 p.m. | #
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@timbo
When I said ONS regions, I was intending to refer to the regions as used by central government (e.g. for the now-abolished Regional Development Agencies), in which South doesn't exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_England#List_of_regions
I had assumed these are used by ONS for dividing up England. Maybe they are, maybe they're not (I can't be bothered to check).
shirokazan | 11.10.15 - 3:16 p.m. | #
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@timbo what a detailed response which unfortunately is littered with errors; there is no ONS South definition or East Anglia definition for a start.
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@timbo
Nope. Can't find any reference to South on the ONS website. I can find something to support my earlier assertion though, you'll be pleased to hear:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/regional-statistics/index.html
Perhaps you can direct me to their definition of South?
shirokazan | 11.10.15 - 6:03 p.m. | #
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Sorry, the small scale map I was using didn't have the names:
for East Anglia read "East of England"
for South read "South East"
and yes, I was wrong about the Bournemouth Unitary Authoritory area - it is in the SW Region, having been in Dorset since 1974
timbo | 11.10.15 - 11:05 p.m. | #
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for the box west of London: how about Thames Valley (that's what the police force covering those counties is called)?
lockedintheattic | 12.10.15 - 12:49 p.m. | #
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For some reason this reminds me of the Spitting Image "Tory Atlas of the World".
langdon | 13.10.15 - 5:45 p.m. | #
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@ langdon: Or perhaps the 'View of the World from the A11 Road' !
Gerry | 13.10.15 - 9:24 p.m. | #
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