[Talk-GB] Fwd: In mainland Britain, you are never more than 34 miles from a pub.

Nick Whitelegg Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Thu Jun 12 11:10:02 UTC 2014


Actually that's further north than I expected... I always thought it was somewhere near Coventry, I'd have put Derbyshire closer to the sea as in the Mersey/Dee estuary.
I guess the Coventry area is nearer the North Sea than I thought (the part of England between the M1 and the east coast is probably the part of England I know least well) as it's a fair way from Bristol and Liverpool.

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From: thomas van der veen <th.vanderveen at gmail.com>
Date: 12/06/2014 11:45AM
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Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: In mainland Britain, you are never more than 34 miles from a pub.

And here is the Wikipedia quote  from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coton_in_the_Elms

Distance from coast[edit]
Southeast of the village – at grid reference SK253144 – is Church Flatts Farm, which is defined by the Ordnance Survey as the farthest point from the sea (at the mean low water line) in Great Britain.[1] The location is Latitude: 52° 43.6' N Longitude: 1° 37.2' W. Coton is, by definition, equidistant from Fosdyke Wash in Lincolnshire; White Sands between Neston in Cheshire and Flint, Flintshire in Wales; and Westbury-on-Severn in Gloucestershire – all of which are 113 kilometres (70 mi) away.[1][2]


so it mean low water line. And low water  of course doesn't happen at the same time around the country... so in real live you could argue it moves around all the time (I am getting quite pedantic now IMHO).

Thomas

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
I think it depends on your definition of 'sea' - and probably the definition of lighthouse too! There's a lighthouse in Tower Hamlets - as well as some in the Scottish lochs. 

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On 12 June 2014 11:12, Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:

One thing that surprised me was "61 miles from a lighthouse" as (and I don't know this) I'd have guessed that some of the central parts of England would be getting on for 100 miles from the sea.
But my geography of that part of the world isn't great so I'm probably wrong...

Nick

-----Craig Wallace <craigw84 at fastmail.fm> wrote: -----
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From: Craig Wallace <craigw84 at fastmail.fm>
Date: 11/06/2014 09:53PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: In mainland Britain, you are never more than 34 miles from a pub.


On 2014-06-08 16:28, Dan S wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In mainland Britain, you are never more than 34 miles from a pub.
> http://mcld.co.uk/feet-from-a-rat/pub.html
>
> And luckily, in mainland Britain, you are never more than 30 miles
> from a public toilet.
> http://mcld.co.uk/feet-from-a-rat/public-toilet.html

Several of the calculations seem to be including the Mull as part of 
mainland Britain, ie churches and golf courses. It is definitely an island.

As for public toilets, must be a few missing from the map. I think 
there's toilets in Thurso and Bettyhill, though it has been a few years 
since I visited these.

Craig

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