What areas of England are anomalies within their county/ region? High Peak is definitely an anomaly within Derbyshire and the wider East Midlands.
by Ranoni18
What areas of England are anomalies within their county/ region? High Peak is definitely an anomaly within Derbyshire and the wider East Midlands.
by Ranoni18
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Can you elaborate?
I have trouble processing the fact that Slough is in the Royal County of Berkshire. Not just that, it’s literally up the road from Windsor and Eton. The worst bit is, Berkshire got it in arguably the worst trade deal of all time during the 1974 county border reorganisation. They gave the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire (including the county town of Abingdon!), and in return they got Slough from Buckinghamshire.
Newmarket almost being an exclave of Suffolk that juts out into Cambridgshire for no apparent reason. I’m sure there’s a history behind it but I’ve lived in Suffolk my entire life and never heard anyone else knowing the reason why. Mind you, you could say the same about Bungay and how it’s juts out into Norfolk.
To add another one that’s more geographical than a case of border gore. Haverhill, in Suffolk, is easier to reach by travelling east through Cambridgeshire than it is to reach it travelling west through Suffolk. The roads on the Suffolk side are absolutely atrocious narrow country lanes that are riddled with potholes (which is definitely a running theme for Suffolk County Council).
Tbh, I’m not entirely sure what you meant by anomaly but I just wanted to add some peculiarities about my home county.
I’m confused, lots of Derbyshire is hilly and green and lots of Derbyshire has towns similar to Buxton (Buxton is a quintessential Derbyshire town, part pretty, great park in middle and proper rough round around the edges!).
South Derbyshire is very well to do and is more akin to the North Leicestershire and South Notts areas, if anything South Derbyshire is more of the anomaly IMO.
Don’t get me wrong, some of the villages in the Highe Peak are stunning and it may be your angle that this is out of kilt for Derbyshire, but Derbyshire has loads of pretty villages all over, you just need to look away fr the Notts/Derby border!
Not quite on topic but whoever decided Herefordshire and Worcestershire ought to be lumped together as the “West Midlands” was a pillock of the highest order seeing as how there’s a bloody great range of mountains in between them!
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