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Methinks there is an interesting digitization problem here. Maybe some image processing people have thought about it...

Peter Cameron | Homepage | 13.09.18 - 7:19 a.m. | #

I decided to check out the post from my neck of the woods (Hampshire) and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was about Gosport (my dad was born there). I would certainly recommend both museums mentioned in that post as I have been to each of them a few times!

X-Plaistow | 13.09.18 - 8:05 a.m. | #

While musing, I mused as to whether you tried out other sizes of rectangles. I think perhaps you did, because the layout you have chosen seems to make quite a good fist of an impossible task.

Malcolm | 13.09.18 - 11:44 a.m. | #

You need to do All of Cornwall!

Cornish Cockney | 13.09.18 - 12:22 p.m. | #

South Yorkshire needs a bit of your love! Unless there's a trove of more interesting posts that you didn't link to.

dg writes: It's top of my list.

Eric | 13.09.18 - 12:28 p.m. | #

An impressive achievement indeed. Too few people explore our own country or go beyond the most common tourist destinations. The previous poster commenting on the Hampshire link going to Gosport is spot on. I doubt it's a
place on many visitors radar but I visited that submarine museum too and thoroughly enjoyed it. You do seem to have a knack of finding something interesting pretty much anywhere!

I was comparing your list with my own. Unless you count driving through or passing through on a train or changing trains only (I don't) I've not visited anywhere in Nottinghamshire and not sure about Herefordshire. (I've walked the Malvern ridge but I'm not sure it goes into Herefordshire). But I have been to all other counties.

Jon Combe | 13.09.18 - 6:58 p.m. | #

I think I've been to every county not just passing through, other than Rutland and Lincs. Not sure about Bucks, need to check a map. But when administrative, traditional and "public opinion" boundaries differ, it's difficult to say for certain

dg writes: Ceremonial counties are very well defined - see Wikipedia link.

John | 13.09.18 - 7:31 p.m. | #

They are well-defined but sometimes quite pointless - eg Tyne & Wear was invented in the 70s for administrative reasons but the administration was abolished in the 80s. Having had a county council for 12 years seems a poor reason for being a ceremonial county, given that many other counties have more than a millennium of history (with varying boundaries).

Alan | 13.09.18 - 11:22 p.m. | #

Tyne and Wear exists because it is a metropolitan county. They are a special type of county created around urban areas. The county remains and the council responsibilities were passed to the metropolitan borough councils. There are still some county wide bodies.

They were the forerunners in some ways to the modern unitary council. There are now several counties that no longer have county councils. Cheshire, for example.

Ultimately counties have always existed purely for administrative reasons. There is nothing particularly divine or special about Cheshire, Lancashire or Yorkshire, compared to Tyne and Wear and Greater Manchester. They were just ways of parceling up land.

Even Scotland, England and Wales as entities are pretty arbitrary. Why is the Scottish/English border where it is after all.

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 16.09.18 - 10:48 a.m. | #

South Yorkshire now has a 'proper' post.
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2018/10/park-hill.html

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.10.18 - 7:38 a.m. | #











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