Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Essex. It's the only way
Boundary with Hertfordshire near Langley Lower Green
Boundary with Hertfordshire near Langley Lower Green
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County boundary lines challenge
- Thread starter Willd
- Start date
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Nice to see it without scaffolding
FrothNinja
Veteran
A once highly contested boundary??
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Three shires post ridden past it loads but never noticed it before.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Special kudos to anyone that can bag the Lincolnshire-Northants county line, the shortest in the UK.
Interesting, just 20 yard long, a fact now lodged in the brain forever.
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
There’s a four shires one just outside Moreton-in-Marsh that I keep meaning to visit.
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ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
When I was a teacher on the of the Senior Teachers was a Geography teacher
He told us something in perfect sincerity once
You know when you drive along a road and it says
"you are leaving Wales" - obviously insert any county/country name
but then there is a significant gap before you see "Welcome to England"
well - he told us that the signs are in the right place and the gap between them is caused by the thickness of the line on the official map showing the official border location
Apparently once county/country ends at one edge of the line and the other doesn;t start until you get to the other edge of the line!!
This was from a Geography teacher - who had a proper degree in the subject and had done a proper degree level course in map making!
so it must be right
I should add that his wife - who was Head of Geography - was sitting in the same group at the time and I glanced at her while he was explaining this - and she was rolling her eyes - don;t know why - probably not connected.
He told us something in perfect sincerity once
You know when you drive along a road and it says
"you are leaving Wales" - obviously insert any county/country name
but then there is a significant gap before you see "Welcome to England"
well - he told us that the signs are in the right place and the gap between them is caused by the thickness of the line on the official map showing the official border location
Apparently once county/country ends at one edge of the line and the other doesn;t start until you get to the other edge of the line!!
This was from a Geography teacher - who had a proper degree in the subject and had done a proper degree level course in map making!
so it must be right
I should add that his wife - who was Head of Geography - was sitting in the same group at the time and I glanced at her while he was explaining this - and she was rolling her eyes - don;t know why - probably not connected.
FrothNinja
Veteran
I'm aiming to go to Lincolnshire later in the year (when this 'orrible cold wind has disappeared
).My target is the Rutland / Lincolnshire border which isn't too far away from this and I reckon I could get to within (on a road-bike) about 150m of the Lincolnshire / N'hants border.
