Has anyone tried work out the centres of UK, England and Scotland. I have tried various methods all of which have produced some spectacular results.For UK centre I drew a line from John o' Groats to Lands End and from Cape Wrath to Dungeness. By this method the centre of the UK is, would you believe, Aviemore north Scotland . Using similar method centre of Scotland is Stirling, no surprise there. Now comes the big surprise, the centre of Engand , I drew a line from the Scottish border north of Carlisle to Dungeness and from Berwick to Lands End, the line crossed at Penrith, just south of Carlisle. I did not use islands, and if start and end locations are altered slightly it doesn't make much difference. So there we have it, Penrith is the centre of England, we have been conned for centuries that B'ham is the Midlands area but to my, unscientific,is there such a word, calculations someone has got it very wrong. Come on egg heads prove me wrong
2007-03-25
23:04:34
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