I'm geographically challenged and, when Garden Grower wrote that they were in Suffolk, I struggled to place it on a UK map - and whether there were any more members who lived nearby. I think of the UK as a giant jigsaw puzzle, where each county interlocks with its neighbours, so I wondered whether, between us, we could complete the jigsaw, or, how many pieces are we missing.
How about "Claiming" your county and giving us a pen picture of the area? You can "Claim" your town or village or island too. For those in France, you can "Claim" whatever you like!
I'll start by Claiming the City and County of Cardiff, Capital of Wales and Land of My Fathers and Mothers. I live near the City boundary, where the houses run out and the woods and fields reign supreme. On a clear day, I can see England, Somerset to be exact, across the Severn Estuary. If anyone lives there I'll wave to you.
Unsurprisingly I’m detached from all of you ( and reality
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I’ll make a bold statement and claim the southern half of the Isle of Mull.
I'll claim South Yorkshire. Former industrial heartland now struggling with significant poverty and years of under-investment. However, also home to beautiful countryside, rolling hills, large woods, grassy fields, etc. Also contains one of the nation's newest cities (though I really can't see how it qualified!)
I lay my claim (bold from a genuine viking) to northern Lincolnshire. Not just North Lincolnshire in which I reside, but also North East Lincolnshire where I used to live. I claim it as my own and that I am a yellow belly, not by origin but by adoption.
I'll bagsy west wiltshire/ a stones throw away from the border of North East Somerset and the City of Bath.... I love it here, beautiful city and architecture alongside some stunning countryside.... if a little flat in places. This area is definitely a bolthole for the welsh that fancy a change
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The weather here has always been much drier and hotter compared to the welsh valleys so Im often bombarded by the welsh in search of a sunnier weekend.
I claim Durham,Durham,....... Durham,......... Durham, Durham, Durham .........home of the Pink Panther.
I was in Geordieland but am now on the border of Durham and Weardale we are not Geordies or Mackems but go by the rather strange name of Woolybacks! (I dunno whether thats because of the propensity of sheep which abound or a hint at our winter hardiness?)
Why anyone would want to live in this dispicable place I have no idea, but the scenery is very nice and it's a rural setting!
Oh, and I forgot, the fishing is good and we have a cathedral and quite a few castles!
My county of birth is Devon but I have had spells in Essex but home is NE Hampshire. My wife is a true Hampshire Hog, we live in Hampshires biggest town, Basingstoke, always berated in sitcoms but it is a nice place to live with below par unemployment.
Basingstoke also boasts of the south's best shopping centre.
As you all probably expect, I'll claim Salisbury and Amesbury in South Wiltshire.We have the history of Salisbury cathedral and stonehenge nearby and the dubious pleasure of the Porton Down scientific establishment just a stone's throw away. I think I'll put dibs on the Isle of Wight as well as we have a flat there, but I don't do much gardening there.
I'm claiming Derbyshire from Glossop in the Peak District across to Bolsover then down to the East Midlands airport and all the areas in between
It's perfect for walking but the hills are hard to cycle up then scary fast downhill.
Do any Claimed Counties have a common border yet?
I'm not expecting any neighbours here!