Do you know English geography?

Sarnia, thank you for that company. Puzzles are a great way to learn geography. I loved that subject and am interested maps and physical geography.

My mother spent all her life (after immigrating) that she was not English, she was from Jersey in the Channel Islands, and explaining to people where they were.

I must admit to failing miserably locating African countries. I should make that my goal in the next few months to brush up on this.

Quite a few of you will be happy to know I 'google' your locations and cities mentioned to see whereabouts you are. My knowledge of UK is not horrible, but I guess it is all relative.

I think I have learned more UK geography since I stopped living there in the early 1970s because we research our British holidays and where to stay and go! When I lived in London we didn't really travel that much, we thought a day out was Brighton and that was about it!

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

I know Glasgow is on the left of Edinburgh, Blondie

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 ?

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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!

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, 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'.

Well done Cambia!

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.

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

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 .