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

We have a town crier. A market every Wednesday and a farmers market once a month. A witches cave and a petrifying well. A castle. A river with rowing boats, this has a viaduct over the river which train frequent often.

@SoDiorDarling

We have a town crier. A market every Wednesday and a farmers market once a month. A witches cave and a petrifying well. A castle. A river with rowing boats, this has a viaduct over the river which train frequent often.

Oh my favourite place! I used to live in Wetherby so I spent a lot of time in Knaresborough. usually getting ice cream and making friends with the ravens :)

We have a collection of 'wild' (released, but years ago) parakeets in our town and every now and then you get a glimpse of them in a tree. Always fun when someone who doesn't know posts in the local Facebook group like '...er, am I imagining things?'.

@kindlingtwigs

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 haven’t, 12 buildings were used to store textiles and ours isn’t in the online archive. The set also isn’t listed on the ‘Strike’ locations documents.

Someone on MN once thought they lived in the same building as me using those clues, turns out they don’t as they also link to a completely different building that can be easily found online. That building is very posh and expensive, mine isn’t at all posh or expensive 😂

@whoamongstus

We have a collection of 'wild' (released, but years ago) parakeets in our town and every now and then you get a glimpse of them in a tree. Always fun when someone who doesn't know posts in the local Facebook group like '...er, am I imagining things?'.

Radio 4's Broadcasting House has recently created a Parakeet map - here.

Parakeets seem to have spread all across England.

I've had to name change for this as it's really outing and there are only 5000 people that live here :

It's the oldest borough in England
Burial place of the first King of England (plenty of people who live here can trace their families all the way back to the battle that decided his reign in 880 and are called the Wardens of the town)
It was the scene of the first manned flight in England - a monk made himself some wings and jumped off the top of the Abbey
A girl was killed by a tiger here in about 1830 - the first death by tiger in England!
We also have the oldest church in England

It is really quite Hot Fuzz, as you might imagine

I used to live on the street where Ronnie Biggs had lived before the Great Train Robbery.

Not exactly quirky, but on occasion I have found myself waiting for buses in the dark not knowing for certain they will turn up. Probably not so unusual in rural areas.

A girl was killed by a tiger here in about 1830 - the first death by tiger in England!

Even earlier than that - 1703!

More interestingly, a village not so far away isolated from the outside world completely during the plague.

@AdoptedBumpkin I was absolutely AMAZED when I drove through London and saw the digital timetables on bus stops telling you when the next bus was expected! I spent a huge amount of my youth sitting at bus stops wondering whether I had just missed the bus into town (and would have to wait until next Thursday for the next one) (and the journey took over an hour anyway)

@SabrinaThwaite did you Google that or.... hard stare

Catherine of Aragon was held prisoner in the villiage where I grew up. Wish I still lived there, much nicer than where I live now.

@ZooeyS, must have been crap!

@Monty27

My neighborhood has declared itself as a village! Top that in sarf east London. It ain't no village 😂

There's one of these just up the road from me - it's a tiny parade of shops and the GP! Not remotely village-like.

My area of SE London does have SE London's oldest bookshop though...

We have a Bristol postcode
Our postal town is Bristol
We have Bristol dialling codes for landlines

We aren't in Bristol. We are in another county entirely. Our town has been in Somerset, then Avon and is currently in Bath and North East Somerset.

Our doctors surgery is in a former chocolate factory. The new road leading up to it has a Latin name.

I have to drive over two cattle grids and over a moor with sheep roaming free on the school run from our village to the high school. We have the ruins of a Bishops Palace which was a sanctuary and our area is known for it's persecution of Witches, they drowned 3 in our village back in the day.

@PenCreed What is the bookshop called?

Name changed for this.

But I live on top of Hadrian's wall. As in smack on top of it if you look at the detailed maps. We can't actually see anything as it's all been built over now, but it causes absolute merry hell when we need any new building works done. New garden wall- easy you might think. Nope, we needed a full archaeological survey and they didnt even find anything.

[quote AdoptedBumpkin]@PenCreed What is the bookshop called? [/quote]
Kirkdale Books.

waves at other SE Londoners

[quote Aethelstan]**@SabrinaThwaite* did you Google that or.... hard stare*[/quote]
Google - you can relax!

@TooManyButtons

I can see polar bears from my bedroom window (I live in the UK )

Assuming you live in the houses overlooking project polar at ywp!

Jealous isn’t a strong enough word for what im feeling.

We have a huge network of caves.

We are on the boundary of three local authorities - a few properties have different combinations of postcode/dialling code/council.

@Brendabigbaps Sadly not that close, but yes, it's those polar bears I can see 😊