Maps: A Different Look At Britain

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The counties and county towns of England. You may have heard of all of them, but now you can place their location in the country. Beetley is in Norfolk, on the right hand side of the map.

Real and unusual place names in Britain. (I live quite close to Great Snoring)

An uninformed and biased view of the regions. (Funny though, if you are from London like me)

Stereotypes. Amusing, and partly true.

Not a map, but the origins of some common surnames here.

35 thoughts on “Maps: A Different Look At Britain”

        1. They are genuinely prejudices. I have lots of them, regarding certain cities in the North, and the so-called ‘Travelling Community’. (Gypsies) And the people in the North have various prejudices against Londoners. We are very different kinds of people, forced to live on the same island. 😊

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  4. Many years ago, I was in Avebury (Henge), in the pub there, when a fellow came up to me and engaged me in conversation. Or that’s what I’d anticipated. He moved his mouth, and words, of a kind came out, but none of it was even closely intelligible. Even that far from Wales, I was informed he was Welsh. I’d thought him deranged. He looked English enough I figured to have understood him. To this day I still have no idea what he was speaking about.

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  6. Coming from the land of the red dragon I can say it makes perfect sense that there be a dragon or two in Norfolk, as my daddy lived there for the last 20 years of his life – and I have no doubt when the rugby was on that old red dragon roared.

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    1. Not many Welsh people, or dragons, that I have seen in Norfolk, Jezzie. The arrow on the map is pointing to South London where it says’ Here be dragons’. I am originally from South London, so assume the map-maker must be a North Londoner! 😉

      Best wishes, Pete.

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          1. Oh I totally get that. Where step ma is now it’s a bus ride to the city, which is far better for her than where they were – a tiny village with a pub, a church, and the obligatory co-op.

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    1. That is pointing at the southern half of London, where few north Londoners ever venture. (I am from south London) ‘There (or Here) be dragons’ can be seen on many genuine medieval maps to denote unknown parts of the world where civilisation was not believed to exist. So to me, that is a very funny addition to the map.

      Best wishes, Pete.

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  12. Interesting stuff, Pete. Hull seems to have a poor rep: I believe there’s a street called Land of Green Ginger there, but I don’t know how attractive it might be. With regard to strange place names, I always used to enjoy passing Nempnett Thrubwell, when I lived in Bristol 😀 Cheers, Jon.

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