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Is there a rural equivalent of "mild urbex"?

MartinG | 18.09.21 - 7:56 a.m. | #

A walk around the Kent/Surrey/East & West Sussex borders could be done within an hour I’d have thought.

dg writes: Probably 30 minutes.

Paul | 18.09.21 - 8:17 a.m. | #

My mental picture of the counties of England and Wales was created by the Victory County Jigsaw. I think that used the pre 1888 situation, with Soke of Peterborough still part of Northants for cutting purposes, Rutland was quite a small piece, susceptible to loss, as it was. I think it was marked by a printed line on the Northants piece though.
I used to be fascinated by the name Brecknock. My phone spell check has heard of it, even today.

Malcolm of Kent | 18.09.21 - 8:50 a.m. | #

Drove past there only yesterday.

As the A1 at that point is not a motorway, it is legal to walk along it. Not recommended, of course (there is no footway), and as the map shows Rutland extends to the foot of the embankment and there appears to be no public access to the A1 from any of the footpaths passing underneath you would need to walk half a mile through Wothorpe to get into Lincolnshire using public highways.

timbo | Homepage | 18.09.21 - 9:24 a.m. | #

Wothorpe Grove belongs in a gothic novel.

Sarah | Homepage | 18.09.21 - 9:24 a.m. | #

Love these rural jaunts.

Cornish Cockney | 18.09.21 - 9:35 a.m. | #

I love how the official map can’t spell CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Henry | 18.09.21 - 9:43 a.m. | #

Well I have done that twice on the train... If you were to spend a little more than 4 minutes in Rutland you will find a lot of material for your blogs and if you go on a few miles you will be in the fifth county Leicestershire.

dg writes: been, thanks.

davews | 18.09.21 - 9:43 a.m. | #

I would think that the more rational move for the two tripoints is not, sadly, to form a quadripoint, but to remove the A1 from any sort of jurisdiction of Northamptonshire.

Alfie | 18.09.21 - 11:17 a.m. | #

Best I can do near here is three counties in three minutes but it is not by any stretch of the imagination a pleasant or scenic walk. It does involve a river and a railway line though and it's unlikely any of the paths or bridges will dissappear. [map]

Don | Homepage | 18.09.21 - 11:27 a.m. | #

n.b. Stand in the right place and you can do three counties in 0 seconds.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.09.21 - 12:02 p.m. | #

To find the origin and destination of the freight train go to RealtimeTrains and put in Stamford and detailed view, and you can check the trains around the time you were there. It’s most likely to or from Felixstowe, but the other end could be quite a range of places.

Robert Butlin | 18.09.21 - 1:15 p.m. | #

Estimated shortest walking distances:

• Lincs/Rutland/Northants/Cambs 1km?
• Kent/Surrey/E Sussex/W Sussex 2km
• Derby/Staffs/Leics/Warks 3km
• London/Surrey/Berks/Bucks 5km

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.09.21 - 1:32 p.m. | #

One meeting place of three counties is to the west of Kimbolton (Cambridgeshire) on the B645. Just outside the appropriately named Three Shire House..

Putters | 18.09.21 - 3:03 p.m. | #

You of course are talking about counties but in Vaals its about countries the borders of the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium meet, plus it's 323 meters high the highest point in the Netherlands.

Michael | 18.09.21 - 3:23 p.m. | #

The most minor of pedantic points be we abbreviate it to LGBCE not LGBCFE. :-)

dg writes: updated, thanks.

Mark | 18.09.21 - 3:46 p.m. | #

Did most if not all of this walk a couple of years ago when on holiday in Stamford. As a Geography graduate I could not resist the challenge.

Fiona Stephenson | 18.09.21 - 3:55 p.m. | #

London/Surrey/Berks/Bucks 5km

Really? According to the OS map, if you walk from Stanwell Mopr, through Poyle, to Horton (along Horton Road and Stanwell Road) you will cross three county boundaries in less than 1km - from Surrey to Greater London to Bucks to Berks.

dg writes: Poyle is in Berks, not Bucks.

timbo | 18.09.21 - 4:33 p.m. | #

John Clare country. Always wanted to visit Stamford since reading 'The Edge of the 'Orizon'

I can do Middlesex, Herts, South Bucks if I go to my local Tesco in a circular route. Without the shopping trip I can do it easily in 20 minutes, driving of course.

JohnnyC | 18.09.21 - 7:29 p.m. | #

In the earlier days of geocaching, a friend and I put a geocache very close to the 4 county point - hopefully it gave a few others an excuse to visit the location!

Sam H | Homepage | 19.09.21 - 11:08 p.m. | #

I believe there is a place in the US where 4 states converge on a single point.

Adrian | 20.09.21 - 4:05 p.m. | #











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