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A friend of mine theorises that it's called Jerusalem because the Ark of the Covenent is buried there! He may have been drunk at the time.
hulloutpost
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That's a bit random Davidimp in the middle of a discussion about exotic place names.
Merthyr Imp
Vital Football Hero
Hell can be found in Norway.
Are you sure? I thought Hell was DN35 7PY.
Merthyr Imp
Vital Football Hero
The A180 is paved with good intentions.
Quite often go passed the sign to Dull, on a dreich day it really is dull. Up the road, the Fortingall Arms is worth a visit on a Friday night. Musicians descend from the area and play rock favourites and Scottish Folk, till late. Last time met a Shepherd who only drank Vodka and orange, but about twenty of them, and there were nine dogs in the bar! All listening or enduring the music.
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impede
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Seven metres. OS maps have not been redrawn to suit Brexit voters yet.
It was an old map (before the OS maps had been redrawn to suit Common Marketeers). The same map shows Wragby Road as 199 ft.
impede
Vital 1st Team Regular
The modern map still shows it as 7m (I did check). BTW, as you obviously prefer imperial measurements, can you explain to me why they are better than metric please?
I think a metre is a rather large unit when considering heights of less than 10 feet.
The website that I use for old maps has only the OS 7th series in 1:63360 scale - you can compare old maps alongside modern satellite images. Notice the clip of Lincoln I posted has the Instn shown - the Burton Road Institution, previously the Workhouse.
The 1:2500 maps of 1891-1912 I find interesting. That appears to have Chapel Hill as 8 feet.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sid...3.07151&lon=-0.19926&layers=168&right=BingHyb
Asylum attendant
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I lived in North Worcestershire for many years, close to the village of ‘Bell End’, which was quite close to ‘Lickey End’.
Chesterimp
Vital Football Hero
Working in the building industry, metric is way better than Imperial. Though I'm old enough to be able to translate between both, the thought of dimensioning in imperial does my head in, 7' 6 3/8"? Do me a favour.
I expect 75% of the UK population now only understand metric.
I know the BBC Home Service is 1500m and Steve Cram held the world record for it for 38 days which is approximately 0.10404055172 years.
. But while we’re about it how about Six Mile Bottom in Suffolk (?). My dad always joked about the station master there who would announce a train arrival with a broad Suffolk accent “Suck My Bottom” 
NottyImp
Vital Football Legend
I think so. They famously managed to crash a Mars probe into the northern polar cap because it was a joint project and someone forgot to do the conversions in the code.
That's where Trondheim airport is - I've stayed in a hotel and caught a train there.
