Well I never, that’s where that town is!

[CormoranStrike]

I have spent fifty years - okay, cumulatively probably just fifty minutes - being utterly convinced Exeter was near Cambridge.

Today I had to check it in a map! Who knew? It’s kind of a Torquay/Plymouth way.

My world is tilting in its axel.

Anyone have other random finds like this?

Shit. Just realised there are another 14 pages of thread. Hope my comment is still relevant

Dunkirk only looks Scottish because of how we spell it. The French spell it Dunkerque. Laughing at Exeter but I live in Devon so I did know where it was

Rutland is just north of Peterborough and Grafham is just south. I'm now going to have to go and check I've got them the right way around,

And since when do we have a county called Westmoreland? Never heard of it until that map went up!

That's one of the defunct counties which doesn't exist for administrative purposes now but perhaps does for some ceremonial/traditional ones. Cumbria was formed in the big county redefinition in 1974, from Cumberland, Westmorland, and a bit of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire (the latter also now defunct when the old ridings (thirds) of Yorkshire were redistributed.

Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire.. 2 whole counties that I have no idea where they are

Oxon is south of Warwickshire, Warwickshire is in the middle of Northamptonshire, Leicestershire Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire & now West Midlands, though that was part of Warwickshire originally and Derbyshire to the north

Buckinghamshire is south of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire

My world is tilting in its axel

Kernowgal - if it helps, my MIL always says I'm a Northerner and I'm from Dunstable!!

*I was surprised that Edinburgh is further west than Carlisle
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I just had to look that up because I didn't believe you. Mind = blown

There's a Dunkirk near Chester

Some people say that North of Portsdown Hill is "the North"

For years I was convinced Margate and Ramsgate were in the same place.

And I still can't get used to the idea that Bolivia is a South American country - it's eastern
European to me.

Reigate NOT Ramsgate

It blows my mind that the centrepoint of Great Britain is in a place called Haltwhistle, between Carlisle and Newcastle. Scotland is MASSIVE!

I was driving from East Anglia to Skye and decided to stay overnight to break the journey so booked a travel lodge type place. When I told somebody about it they expressed surprised because "when you get to Carlisle you are nearly there" - it was another 300 miles on top of the 250 or so I'd already have driven to get to Carlisle.

I thought Spain was east of France for years....

Slightly off subject but it really bugs me when people say that they're going 'up to London' or 'down to Manchester'. I live in the East Midlands - you go down south to London and up north to Manchester 🤷. I'm originally from the east coast so everything was up, maybe that's why it bugs me 🙈😂

*south east coast 🤦

Some people say you go up to the capital city, I think this was traditionally used for trains.

Palestine and Golgotha are both in Hampshire

and shall we raise a glass to Middlesex / Mddx
has not existed since 1974 but still essential to get letters delivered on time

@Tabbystar you go up to Cambridge as well.

Ah, I wish I had gone up to Cambridge, they wouldn't have me

I'm from near Billericay, maybe I should apply for an Irish passport? :)

In sixth form I didn't realise that Exeter had a university, and I thought that people who were "applying to Exeter" intended to go to Exeter College, Oxford. Even when I realised my mistake I didn't like to ask people which Exeter they meant in case it sounded like a stupid question.

I met my husband on pof and he was in herne bay, I thought it must be near herne hill in London 😳 as I'm from London and lived there at the time. We got talking and by the time is clicked I was about 70 miles away we were getting on so well we met up. That was 2010 and still together

Has anyone mentioned Aspatria? Clearly that should be in Tuscany or Ruritania. Definitely NOT Cumbria!

I'm up North. We go down to London, Cambridge and Oxford