Quirky things about where you live

[BobISMyUncle]

I have discovered, quite accidentally, that I live in a recently designated Market Town. I love this! We have one market stall, on a Saturday. It sells trousers. Sometimes, it sells plants. Sometimes it sells tartan stuff. On Thursday, but might be Tuesday, it sells fish. Sometimes, none of the above is true.
We're a Market Town now!! Do not be messing with me, I've developed webbed feet

@SimonJT do tell 😀

@BournvilleGreen, my work used to use a training centre there! The smell of chocolate was delicious, but rather distracting!!

My village is fairly uneventful, but I can see the tallest unsupported structure in the UK in a nearby village in one direction, and the next village in a different direction is famous (locally) for enormous pies. And Jodie Whittaker comes from another local village - DS goes to her old school. My my village - not distinguished for anything much.

Half the year I live opposite a sports pitch. The other half, I live opposite a lake. The sports pitch miraculously recovers from the flooding every year ready to be used for the summer season. It's incredible

You don't need an umbrella in my town as most of the pavements are under cover - has come in handy when having to wait outside shops due to covid restrictions.

[quote Monty27]@SimonJT do tell 😀[/quote]
No because then you could find my building!

Similar one to @Slightlyunhinged - the village i grew up in has a tiny (now disused) railway halt up the hill from it. When my aunt was in her teens and working at a stable yard in the village she was told to take the lord of the manor's favourite horse out for exercise. She misjudged her timings slightly and as they rode along a bridleway near the railway tracks a train came up alongside them. The horse bolted and it was all my aunt could do to hang on as they flew straight along the bridleway, over a hedge, through a field of crops and over a 5 bar gate at the other end of that. A book of local history published in the 80s by some local ladies of the parish included a story from the 1950s of the day a 'daring young lad' raced the train and won

Where I live now we're surrounded by institutions that pride themselves on being slightly unhinged. We've got a tortoise fair, numerous hauntings, walking backwards for the end of British summer time, ceremonial wall inspections, and a song about a giant duck.

My village is built on a swamp. It used to be part of the river before the river was navigated in the 1700s. It was originally planned and built as a 'garden village' for the local steelworks but had to be stopped for the first World War. The second half of the village was built after the second World War and looks like army housing because it was built for the local RAF base.

Of course, the steelworks and RAF base are long gone. Now we're just left in a shit hole on a flood plain.

I live in one of the best places (I think) in the UK to find ancient shark teeth on th beach It's shockingly easy.

@BikeRunSki I can see said tallest structure from our spare bedroom

@Ginfordinner 👋

Loads of snow here today @BikeRunSki

Over 70% of dog owners in my village have developed physical similarities to their dog within the first twelve months of ownership.

I live in Niall Horans home town. His dad used to live in my estate at the height of One Direction fame & it was a regular occurrence to find groups of girls giggling & wandering the estate. Especially American girls. His dad also worked in my local Tesco.

The town itself has a few irish celebs actually.

Not my area, but my actual house. We have a field with a stream at the bottom. We had to remove some trees from the bank of the stream recently and discovered a lovely granite marker post with a capital B etched into it. Had no idea what it was but recall seeing one elsewhere in our local area.

Last night we were watching that Devon & Cornwall programme (we are in Cornwall' and learnt that it is a boundary stone which marks the parish border. Historically, and still done now on Dartmoor), the villagers 'beat the boundaries' every 7 years, so this means walking the route of the boundary and remarking the letting on the stone with a hammer and chisel. Their letters were Ts rather than Bs, but the principle is the same. We've checked up and our stream is indeed the parish boundary.

I live outside a village that hosts multiple traveller weddings every Christmas, I mean loads, there could be 30+ over 3 weeks, horse drawn carriages, hummers, limos, impossibly huge dresses, multiple bridesmaids in outlandish outfits and brides that look so young they should be still at school. Its part of life in this village and no heed is taken to it but if anyone not familiar with it passes through it must be strange.

We had a huge pirate ship made of driftwood. It stood strong for nearly 8 years but got destroyed in a storm in early 2020.
It's now getting rebuilt.

My house is part of a converted mental hospital. My neighbours remember that as children their parents would tell them to behave or they’d end up here

Where I work there’s a sports pitch that is under water half the year too.

My local beach is also rich in fossil sharks’ teeth, and WWII munitions regularly appear and have to be blown up.

Where I lived is one of many places claiming to be the instpirafion to Tolkien for Lord of the Rings and also for CS Lewis.

No because then you could find my building!

@SimonJT you might want to ask for your post to be deleted as you've already said enough to identify it.

I wonder what they both wanted @2018SoFarSoGreat

I love the idea of a tortoise fair @Gliblet

One of Jack the Rippers victims lived next door to me

I live in a village which is actually huge and not a village at all. It's very lovely though and we have enough pubs for a pub crawl!

I live in the town where Scalextric was invented!
When I moved here, my son wanted to discredit where I lived because I'd just crossed over the border into a different county.
The Scalextric claim makes it hard for him to say it is rubbish here

The major roundabout in my town has its own Facebook page.