Quizzes - UK Landmarks by County

[Pingu]

Hmmm, there evidently aren't any landmarks in Powys...

Or Scotland.

[Exit Stage Left]

Hmmm, there evidently aren't any landmarks in Powys...

Or Scotland.

Here's one for you. I got 19/33
https://www.sporcle.com/games/lkgo30921/find-the-historic-scottish-counties

[Wowbagger]

20/20 in Middlesex but there again they're all in London and I am a black cab driver

The Kent one has a couple that are really London too, but you won’t get those because they’re south of the river.

I got 19/20 on Middlesex/London, and the one I didn’t get I really should have.

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Feckin’ Guildhall!

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I got 20 in Middlesex. I knew the Guildhall, partly because my piano teaching diploma is from its School of Music & Drama. Curiously, the one I struggled with the most was the stadium noted for its oblate spheroids.

[Wowbagger]

Hmmm, there evidently aren't any landmarks in Powys...

Or Scotland.

Here's one for you. I got 19/33
https://www.sporcle.com/games/lkgo30921/find-the-historic-scottish-counties

Thanks. 22/33. I managed some of the very small ones, which pleased me as they turned up early and I had not much to go on. There were a few extremely near misses - I was just the wrong side of the border for Sutherland/Caithness (got the second one, obviously) and being a political geek helped a lot, eg knowing that David Steel's constituency was Roxborough, Selkirk & Peebles, and that there used to be a constituency called Kinross and West Perthshire. Having said that, I failed on two out of three Lothians! Jan and I cycled through Roxborough, Selkirk & Peebles quite a long time ago on a hired tandem and I was utterly gobsmacked at how tiny the villages were that gave their names to parliamentary constituencies.

[Exit Stage Left]

There's an English ceremonial counties one on there, with no outlines and sudden death. Which is sort of manageable until they throw the City of London at you, which is so small that it's difficult to target, and I've lived in Middlesex, Essex and Kent.

[Wowbagger]

I've done that a few times. As you say, a lot depends on the order that the counties randomly come at you. I reckon I'm OK to find 80% or more of the English counties on a blank map, and of course the coastal ones are easy.

Edit: just completed it at about the 6th attempt. Greater London is a complete git, and the jigsaw of Warks/Staffs/Worcs/W. Midlands is a bit tricky.

[citoyen]

16 because

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it wouldn't accept 'Dickens Home' for 'Dickens House Museum' and the Romney Marsh one I thought, "That's a church on Romney Marsh but I don't know the name of it"  The other 2 were the same as you.

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Dickens never lived there so calling it his home would be incorrect - it was the home of the original Betsy Trotwood. I spotted that one instantly, having grown up in Broadstairs (and even had a job in the Charles Dickens pub next door), but if you look closely at the picture there’s a big clue... personally, I think Bleak House would make a better Broadstairs landmark, or the North Foreland lighthouse.

The church on Romney Marsh is the Thomas Becket in Fairfield, which is famous for still being there even though the village is long gone. Although strictly speaking it’s on Walland Marsh (so-called Romney Marsh is actually three separate areas - Romney, Walland and Denge).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield,_Kent

[nicknack]

16 because

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it wouldn't accept 'Dickens Home' for 'Dickens House Museum' and the Romney Marsh one I thought, "That's a church on Romney Marsh but I don't know the name of it"  The other 2 were the same as you.

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Dickens never lived there so calling it his home would be incorrect - it was the home of the original Betsy Trotwood. I spotted that one instantly, having grown up in Broadstairs (and even had a job in the Charles Dickens pub next door), but if you look closely at the picture there’s a big clue... personally, I think Bleak House would make a better Broadstairs landmark, or the North Foreland lighthouse.

The church on Romney Marsh is the Thomas Becket in Fairfield, which is famous for still being there even though the village is long gone. Although strictly speaking it’s on Walland Marsh (so-called Romney Marsh is actually three separate areas - Romney, Walland and Denge).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield,_Kent

[L CC]

I just got 19/20 in Northumberland because I call this:
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Howick Beach

and not 'Rumbling Kern'.

FFS. It's the Beach, at Howick.

[Wombat]

Hampshire, being in either Isle of Wight, or Dorset, and one of them said I had given the wrong answer, yet told me the answer was what I had just entered

 IoW is part of the historic county of Hampshire In the case of other alleged inaccuracies, you can let the quiz maker know in the Comments section below the quiz. If the Cheshire quiz is anything to go by , they are ready to edit the quiz accordingly.

I'm well aware of what it used to be quite a few years ago, having lived in Hampshire for 65 years, thanks!  Folk from IOW are likely to be seriously offended by suggestions they are in Hampshire, but at least the separatism means we can keep making the insults about them...

[perpetual dan]

That revealed as much about my spelling as my knowledge of the local landmarks. Neither is great :’)

[T42]

Hmmm, there evidently aren't any landmarks in Powys...

Or Scotland.

Nor yet Norn Iron, and you haven't lived until you've seen Ballymaccaret. You mightn't live afterwards either if you're wearing the wrong scarf.

Mind you, I'd be crap at most Norn Iron landmarks, I haven't been there for years and most of them have probably been converted into strongpoints or burger joints.