Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: Wowbagger on 24 February, 2024, 03:11:48 pm
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It occurred to me yesterday, whilst driving into Nottingham, that I was aware of Radcliffe on Trent many years before I thought about it as a place.
And John Snow starts another over from the Rutcliffe Road End…
Jim Laker was from Brutford, W. Yorks, so that was how he pronounced it.
Radcliffe on Trent is actually a very pleasant little town with a Co-op and some decent eateries. And some very expensive looking houses.
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Glastonbury. Population, at a guess, 10,000.
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TTIUW Didcot and Swindon
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I'll nominate Loughborough.
A university dominated town but it's got a lot of engineering history with the Brush works and the bell foundry. The Great Central Railway continues this with its main works in the town.
Some excellent cycling once you're out the town too.
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Anyone who has been to John O’Groats will know there is fuck all reason to visit the godforsaken place.
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This is true. Dunnet Head is great - but no pub. We didn’t get to Duncansby Head, I’m sorry to say.
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Places that have much to be modest about…
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Anyone who has been to John O’Groats will know there is fuck all reason to visit the godforsaken place.
End-to-ennui
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Calleva Atrebatum isn't all it's cracked up to be. I followed Ermin Way all the way from Glevum and it turned out to be a field near Tadley.
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Dunwich. There ain't a lot there apart from the Priory as most of it is under the sea.
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Marsh Gibbon??
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Gretna Green.
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Leicester.
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Scotch Corner, no other roundabout is signposted from so far away.
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Didcot
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Siberia. Everyone knows where it is* but no-one wants to go there. Allegedly.
* Apart from TV's Eleanor Of Aquitaine
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Slough ;)
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Gretna Green.
The most memorable thing about Gretna was the Scotch pie I had there.
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Calleva Atrebatum isn't all it's cracked up to be. I followed Ermin Way all the way from Glevum and it turned out to be a field near Tadley.
Ermin Way goes through Glevum?
clickety click, yes it does. Ermin Way and Ermine Street are totally separate roads! Well, there's a thing WIHLT.
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Gretna Green.
On the other hand, Portpatrick on the Galloway coast is a delightful village, with pretty cottages around the harbour, and a ruined round-towered medieval church that is Irish in style, It's Ireland's Gretna - eloping couples could get straight off the boat, be hitched and back onboard for the return trip within the hour. I've been there twice, once in my motorbiking days and then on a cycling tour of southern Scotland when we lived in Ayrshire.
Very popular with yachties in and around the Irish Sea and also the start/finish of the Southern Uplands Way.
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Sycamore Gap
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No - that has a low profile!
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Gretna Green.
Now you mention it, unlike other legal system boundaries, Gretna doesn't have a huge shopping centre to take advantage of Scotland's more liberal retail hours laws.
And there isn't a massive Oddbins at Longtown either.
Edit: Ok yes there's the retail outlet, but does that count? the floor areas are smallish. I was meaning like Tesco.
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Tan Hill Inn.
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Hartside cafe
Very low profile atm, but it is due to be re-built
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Tan Hill Inn.
But that's a high place with a high profile!
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... Scotland's more liberal retail hours laws...
May be true, but alcohol is more expensive. My hairdresser was joking about going to Berwick upon Tweed to buy booze...
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... Scotland's more liberal retail hours laws...
May be true, but alcohol is more expensive. My hairdresser was joking about going to Berwick upon Tweed to buy booze...
The offies of Berwick are probably well-stocked with The Bucky and Frosty Jack's :)
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... Scotland's more liberal retail hours laws...
May be true, but alcohol is more expensive. My hairdresser was joking about going to Berwick upon Tweed to buy booze...
minimum pricing
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... Scotland's more liberal retail hours laws...
May be true, but alcohol is more expensive. My hairdresser was joking about going to Berwick upon Tweed to buy booze...
I did refer to that with the Oddbins just over the border.
Being able to buy breakfast cereal 24hrs a day may be of interest to the citizens of Carlisle and Berwick?