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.
Several perspectives. Thanks, Warmest regards, Ed
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Britain is a small country, with a large amount of prejudices.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It is interesting that you change perspectives into prejudices. Warmest regards, Ed
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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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Just think how much more prejudice you all could generate if you had more space in which to generate it like we do.
Warmest regards, Ed
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Yes, it is just as well we are a small country.
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So now I know where all the crackpots come from!
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Yes, they all live in North Yorkshire, David.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I really enjoyed this!
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Happy to hear that, Jennie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Keep the maps coming. Best to you, Pete.
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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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I had a similar experience in Northern Scotland. (Wick) I always suspected it was deliberate on the part of the shopkeeper concerned. 😉
Best wishes, Pete.
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South London, here be dragons? Is that because North Londoners don’t venture across the river?
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Exactly that, Jude. They regard us as savages! I suspect a north Londoner drew that map.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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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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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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I’m there now and then visting my step-mum. With me mam in Liverpool and me step-ma in Norwich it can get hectic
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Norwich is 20 miles east of where I live. For Norfolk, it’s the ‘big city’!
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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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We don’t even have a pub in Beetley, and the nearest shops worth going to are in Dereham, 3.5 miles south.
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I’m curious about “There be dragons.”
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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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I knew about the origin of the dragons phrase, but not why that area was designated that way. Thank you for the additional information!
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These made me laugh. I was reminded of Bill Bryson’s book Notes from a Small Island.
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Bill came to understand the way it works in the UK, not many foreigners will ever get that.
Best wishes, Pete.
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lots of smiles this morning
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Some of those made me laugh out loud, Beth. They are exaggerated of course, but also accurate in so many cases.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Cheryl Cole!!! 🤣 🤣
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Some of those made me laugh out loud.
Best wishes, Pete.
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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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Hull and Grimsby were both pretty awful when I las visited. But that was quite a long time ago.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I love these maps…..sheeposexuals? LOL chuq
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Yes, the old jibe that lonely Welsh shepherds have sex with their sheep. That insult has been around for a very long time, chuq.
Best wishes, Pete.
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