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Posted 7 years ago #
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I do like maps. Especially ones that put us in our proper place.
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A. What is going on with Brazil?
B. On the a70 heading east after tarbrax you leave south Lanarkshire before the toll house now nearly completely fallen down. 50 metres before you enter west Lothian, by the sign posts anyway.Could we move there and start our own country?
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Could we move there and start our own country?
Let's keep an eye on this meantime;
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Second link to map of the village paddyirish linked to - this time on OSM (clearer in this rendering):
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.4410/4.9308Posted 7 years ago # -
I don't think there's an analogous place on the England / Scotland border. There's a handful of villages on one or other side of the border abutting against it e.g. Kershopefoot in England or Coldstream in Scotland but none seem to actually span it.
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There is a little bit of Scotland south of the Tweed near Coldstream and an even smaller bit of England west of the Tweed near Horncliffe but neither seem inhabited.
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Looks like the best (and only?) contender for a border straddling 'place' is Scotsdike with two of its three houses north of the border and the other three plus a hotel to the south.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.0492513,-2.9610613,275m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
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Although the urban part of Gretna is north of the border there's a couple of outlying houses just south of the border.
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"Also on the Tweed, the border mysteriously cuts an island in half here"
Britain in miniature.
I wonder of the Kippies and Dreepers get along?
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I wonder how Upsettington (just north of there) got it's name.
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Stretching it a bit but the chain bridge honey farm at horncliffe on the tweed near Berwick is in England but cross the bridge, you can only do so on foot or bike, or if local ignoring risk and you get to a house in Scotland, but you hav to walk a bit. The bee farm famous for having a cafe inside a double decker bus.
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A map from CEC planning dept. showing local development plans, etc:
More info:
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Lyth, Pilrig, Restalrigh, Brunstoun, Nyddry...all there on Open Streets 1654 stylee;
http://maps.nls.uk/view/00000395#zoom=5&lat=3368&lon=3806&layers=BT
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It was the chainbridge at Honey Farm that newsnight filmed an episode with kirsty ward, and Nicola Sturgeon before the referendum, most people voted yes so received no newspaper coverage or reporting after it aired live. We had to walk over the bridge and vote the BBC had tried to choose a balance of undecided voters we got phoned before to confirm undecided
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There's a 'Weirdy' next to Grantoun.
http://maps.nls.uk/view/00000395#zoom=6&lat=3704&lon=3367&layers=BT
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I quite like Nether Kramont and Ober Kramont instead of Cramond and Barnton.
Mind you, at least they're only using one M unlike pretty much everyone else, ever.
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@Ed1 the chain bridge is getting £5million makeover
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I like Inner Lythe (Inverleith of course!), though the giant testicle to the west is worrying.
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"the giant testicle to the west is worrying"
Possibly connected to the alarming protrusion just west of Lyth.
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Speaking of such things, I like the huge sperm whale between Nether Gogar and Korstor C(astle).
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I like the way Edenburgh intra muros is depicted as a gurnard.
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The Kaiser would have felt right at home in Ober Kramont
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& Gorgy seems to have moved downstream & east in the interim
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To be fair the map is Dutch and pre-GPS, pre-theodolite even. I say Dutch, it pre-dates the Kingdom of Holland too.
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"Long Gilmoortoun"
No sign of a Short Gilmerton.
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Newbridge has moved considerable further from town in the last 4 centuries. Imagine what the people of Roseburn would do should there be a suggestion for a new bridge there now.
I can see why the people of Weirdy decided to change to spelling it with an a though.
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