Author Topic: Modest places with a high profile (Read 1842 times)

Wowbagger · « **on:** 24 February, 2024, 03:11:48 pm »

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.

Quote from: Jim Laker

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.

Giraffe · « **Reply #1 on:** 24 February, 2024, 05:21:44 pm »

Glastonbury. Population, at a guess, 10,000.

Kim · « **Reply #2 on:** 24 February, 2024, 06:15:15 pm »

TTIUW Didcot and Swindon

MikeFromLFE · « **Reply #3 on:** 24 February, 2024, 08:19:03 pm »

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.

citoyen · « **Reply #4 on:** 24 February, 2024, 10:06:55 pm »

Anyone who has been to John O’Groats will know there is fuck all reason to visit the godforsaken place.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5 on:** 24 February, 2024, 10:12:25 pm »

This is true. Dunnet Head is great - but no pub. We didn’t get to Duncansby Head, I’m sorry to say.

StuAff · « **Reply #6 on:** 24 February, 2024, 10:23:12 pm »

Places that have much to be modest about…

sam · « **Reply #7 on:** 24 February, 2024, 10:30:11 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 24 February, 2024, 10:06:55 pm

Anyone who has been to John O’Groats will know there is fuck all reason to visit the godforsaken place.

End-to-ennui

rogerzilla · « **Reply #8 on:** 25 February, 2024, 07:23:47 am »

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.

Canardly · « **Reply #9 on:** 25 February, 2024, 11:04:46 am »

Dunwich. There ain't a lot there apart from the Priory as most of it is under the sea.

liam_whippet · « **Reply #10 on:** 25 February, 2024, 12:43:08 pm »

Marsh Gibbon??

rafletcher · « **Reply #11 on:** 25 February, 2024, 02:43:07 pm »

Gretna Green.

telstarbox · « **Reply #12 on:** 25 February, 2024, 04:11:23 pm »

Leicester.

Paul H · « **Reply #13 on:** 25 February, 2024, 05:10:53 pm »

Scotch Corner, no other roundabout is signposted from so far away.

PaulF · « **Reply #14 on:** 25 February, 2024, 05:15:03 pm »

Didcot

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #15 on:** 25 February, 2024, 05:27:53 pm »

Siberia. Everyone knows where it is* but no-one wants to go there. Allegedly.

* Apart from TV's Eleanor Of Aquitaine

cycleman · « **Reply #16 on:** 25 February, 2024, 07:47:20 pm »

Slough

citoyen · « **Reply #17 on:** 25 February, 2024, 08:11:27 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 25 February, 2024, 02:43:07 pm

Gretna Green.

The most memorable thing about Gretna was the Scotch pie I had there.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #18 on:** 26 February, 2024, 05:35:37 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 25 February, 2024, 07:23:47 am

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.

Tomsk · « **Reply #19 on:** 26 February, 2024, 06:02:19 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 25 February, 2024, 02:43:07 pm

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.

L CC · « **Reply #20 on:** 27 February, 2024, 08:45:03 am »

Sycamore Gap

Giraffe · « **Reply #21 on:** 27 February, 2024, 05:46:25 pm »

No - that has a low profile!

FifeingEejit · « **Reply #22 on:** 27 February, 2024, 05:56:44 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 25 February, 2024, 02:43:07 pm

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.

Deano · « **Reply #23 on:** 27 February, 2024, 09:24:54 pm »

Tan Hill Inn.

Flite · « **Reply #24 on:** 28 February, 2024, 08:15:50 am »

Hartside cafe
Very low profile atm, but it is due to be re-built

Author Topic: Modest places with a high profile (Read 1842 times)

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