County boundary lines challenge
- Thread starter Willd
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DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Well I'm still none the wiser, given that the first post on that link has no content.
No, I'm just cycling to as many different counties as I can
I'm just using modern boundaries and not getting too hung up about the different definitions - historic, modern etc. 
The other thread is / was a challenge to visit 26 places in alphabetical order. I think the original poster no longer visits here, so the first post has been removed.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I think you just might get the drift from the 1,307 other posts in the thread.
As a further variant thinking of road names, being potentially more achievable over winter, but with an added twist of their being something notable on the road so ruling out pure suburban roads etc. The first three having a school, police station and recreational garden on them.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
I think you just might get the drift from the 1,307 other posts in the thread.
I'll be sure to let you know once I've read them all ...
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
Being aware of county boundaries was important during some lockdown stages. I live in Oxfordshire but am very near the border with Berkshire - for a while Oxfordshire was at a lower level of lockdown than Berkshire meaning it was not only possible but probable that a small group of cyclists (6 max) could legally start a ride from my village and within less than two miles along bridleways or byways find themselves flouting the law in Berkshire, where such groups were forbidden. There are no county boundary markers and even people I spoke to who have ridden extensively around the area didn't know where the borders were, with some being part-way along well-used tracks. Of course practically the risks of both COVID transmission and being caught in the wrong place were very small, but ignorance is supposedly not a defence, and we do come across rural police vehicles every now and then.
A road names thread does exist somewhere
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
I remember wondering about that at the time, given that Berkshire hasn't existed as an administrative area for more than 20 years.
Oxfordshire (most northerly bit) added today. The Tripoint of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire is in the middle of nowhere, so nothing much to photograph there.
There is a Three Shires farm (plus plough collection), so presumably it's on their land.
Actually found a boundary sign
HS2 workings have destroyed the Northamptonshire one 
Warwickshire
Northamptonshire
Oxfordshire
Tally so far -
Leicestershire
Northamptonshire
Oxfordshire
Warwickshire
West Midlands
There is a Three Shires farm (plus plough collection), so presumably it's on their land.
Actually found a boundary sign
HS2 workings have destroyed the Northamptonshire one Warwickshire
Northamptonshire
Oxfordshire
Tally so far -
Leicestershire
Northamptonshire
Oxfordshire
Warwickshire
West Midlands
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Here I am, entering Kent from Surrey
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Bedfordshire county border on Turvey bridge
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire highway boundary marker .
