Do you know English geography?

Brought up in Stevenage, when I came down to Cornwall aged 14 I was thoroughly teased by my new classmates because I said "barth". On a holiday to Australia some years ago, my sister-in-law told me the locals thought the Queen had come to stay, I talked so posh! I still retain my "Oxford" English, though my Cornish variety is, my Cornish husband tells me, more convincing than his!

I loved geography in School but I am better at it now, I compete with the sat. nav. and I am usually right.We live in Sweden and people often say " oh Sweden with the mountains" I have to say no its not Switzerland, its Sweden with far less mountains, in Scandinavia.

Ninathenana , I went to a grammar school in the 1960s and most of our geography lessons were about geology too . Eg how various river valleys were shaped and not much about places . Saying that I’m not too bad on where places are .

Having just completed a 1500 piece jigsaw map of the world, my geography is now amazing!

My geography isn't brilliant but I think I could pin the majority of British place names in roughly the right area on a map. But it doesn't help that some county boundaries have altered and international countries keep changing their names!

Our AC and GC's geography is not great either. We gave one GC an illuminated globe when she started secondary school, she wasn't the least bit interested, when it was dropped and broken it then became a football!! I have two antique globes which I find fascinating.

During the past year we have watched a lot of 'celebrity' quiz programmes and I've noticed how poor these people's geography and general knowledge often is. As many of them are intelligent and well travelled I would have expected better.

Well done Cambia!

As a born-and-bred resident Bristolian, I have no intention of being located the other side of the Severn, thank you very much, vaccination hub or not!
And as someone who worked in Bath for years, 'natives' pronounce it the same as the name of the receptacle in which you put hot water to wash yourself, and it is only pronounced with the long-drawn-out 'a' sound by those who aren't 'native'.

Americans are the worse at geograpy. I lived there and they thought Manchester was near London, and that England was a county in UK!

As a born-and-bred resident Bristolian, I have no intention of being located the other side of the Severn, thank you very much

Hey up, steady on, we're not uncivilised heathens!

A Welsh relative still vexed about seeing an American reference book 20 years ago that simply said: ‘For Wales, see England.’ ?

Callistemon, the north-south divide you describe is very inaccurate (l have heard it before). I am from East Anglia with one Staffordshire parent and one Cumbrian one. Norwich is further north than Birmingham; roughly on a par with Leicester and Cromer is about equilateral to Stoke-on-Trent. Even Ipswich is at a similar level to Stratford-upon-Avon! Still who can forget Jade Goody not knowing where “East Angular” was?

According to Angelo Cyrus Bantam, Esquire, Master of the Ceremonies, greeting Mr. Pickwick, it is pronounced Ba—th. And who dare argue with him?

East Angular is on my bucket list, a visit there has been thwarted there many times due to various reasons Musicgirl

The knowledge of geography is generally appalling, to prove it choose 4 towns and ask any friend which county they are in. It comes up in quizzes frequently.

MaizieD Most people imagine England ends and Scotland begins at Hadrian's Wall! So all of Northumberland is, apparently, in Scotland!

lizzypopbottle

MaizieD Most people imagine England ends and Scotland begins at Hadrian's Wall! So all of Northumberland is, apparently, in Scotland!

Well, I was just thinking that very thing before I saw your post, lizzypopbottle!

Telepathy?

Great minds think alike, Callistemon (I won't mention the usual counter to that!)

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Now, I've done all the south and southwest.
The middle bit is easy - Herefordshire = Hereford, Gloucestershire = Gloucester, Monmouthshire = Monmouth, Oxfordshire = Oxford

Its enough to drive you to ???
Bedfordshire = [yawn]
not very imaginative are they?
Bored now

grumppa I'm reading The Pickwick Papers all over again but they've only just left Rochester, in Kent. That hapless quartet have already given me several laugh-out-loud moments, which is just what we need these days.

I remember my Mum ringing up the BBC whenever they announced something about Humberside to ask them where it was?! Humberside as a county disappeared many years ago with the East Riding of Yorkshire coming back as its own county again.

A neighbour of a dd (in a professional job, that was the bit!) told dh how she was looking forward to her holiday in Rhodes.
She then asked him where it was - was it in the Canary Islands?

Callistemon - that reminds me when I was on a P Office training course in Bletchley and the girls thought the only town in Scotland was Edinburgh and contained a few houses, loads of hills right to your doorstep with haggis running round!! We thought they were joking but unfortunately not ?

I know Glasgow is on the left of Edinburgh, Blondie

Greyduster in my experience many people go on holiday ithout the faintest idea of where they are, especially if they go by air