Buttsy
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Milton Keynes not a city? That's a new one on me!
The 86 being incorrectly named then?
The 86 being incorrectly named then?
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Ivo
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It was intended to be one, but it has never officially been granted full City Status. I find it somewhat surprising as well, but part of the problem is its awkward reputation among people who don't actually know the town.
Buttsy
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Warrington? Middlesborough, Darlington?
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I worked there for a year and the locals referred to it as a city! There again, being an Oxonian, I refer to going into town (rather than city)
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I worked there for a year and the locals referred to it as a city! There again, being an Oxonian, I refer to going into town (rather than city)
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Ivo
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Doesn't surprise me at all that the average person in MK thinks of it as a city. There are three possible explanations:
(1) They were brought up on the basis of it being a "New City" (as opposed to "New Town") and accepted as much;
(2) They really do believe it is a city, not least because it functions like one and has a centre to rival genuine cities far larger than itself;
(3) They're jealous.
I doubt (3) is correct in most cases but it cannot be discounted - unlike Middlesbrough and Warrington.
I will state that the remaining four begin with the letters C, D, E and R.
(1) They were brought up on the basis of it being a "New City" (as opposed to "New Town") and accepted as much;
(2) They really do believe it is a city, not least because it functions like one and has a centre to rival genuine cities far larger than itself;
(3) They're jealous.
I doubt (3) is correct in most cases but it cannot be discounted - unlike Middlesbrough and Warrington.
I will state that the remaining four begin with the letters C, D, E and R.
Buttsy
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Darlington, Crewe, Richmond
So which one was the 47th? Westminster was 46...
So which one was the 47th? Westminster was 46...
Ivo
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You said "Wakefield". That was #47.
None of the above unfortunately. Darlington and Richmond - if you mean the one oop north - are both quite close to the city that begins with the same letter they do (i.e. the D__________ and R__________ are both in the North-East). The same cannot be said of Crewe however.
Also, all of the remaining group are cathedral cities.
None of the above unfortunately. Darlington and Richmond - if you mean the one oop north - are both quite close to the city that begins with the same letter they do (i.e. the D__________ and R__________ are both in the North-East). The same cannot be said of Crewe however.
Also, all of the remaining group are cathedral cities.
Buttsy
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Ripon!
Ivo
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Three to go!
Buttsy
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|Durham (Do'h)
Ivo
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Two to go.
The C is down south, whereas the E is in the east.
The C is down south, whereas the E is in the east.
Buttsy
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Chichester
Ivo
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...and the E?
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Ely ?
Buttsy
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Ely? Really?
Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
I assumed it was a cathedral city.
Ivo
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Sorry Buttsy - Paul nicked it, and according to the challenge rule I set he wins the floor. Ely is the 51st and final city.
No prizes for guessing my next challenge
The full list can be found in Post #658.
No prizes for guessing my next challenge
The full list can be found in Post #658.
Buttsy
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I thought that with Southwell, but was proved wrong...
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Typical, I do teh donkey work and Paul nips in to win...
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Typical, I do teh donkey work and Paul nips in to win...
Xenophon PCDGS
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What is the regional name of a desert region of a part of China that had climatically dried and preserved human remains of long-dead humans with European facial features and long reddish-blond hair in a cave system.
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D841 Roebuck
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As you said "what is" rather than "what is the name of", I shall confidently proffer the answer ARID... 
Or is that a bit "gobi" of me??
Or is that a bit "gobi" of me??
Xenophon PCDGS
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As you said "what is" rather than "what is the name of", I shall confidently proffer the answer ARID...
Or is that a bit "gobi" of me??
Not so, young grammatical pedant..:roll:
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The wording is now more precisely formulated in the question.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Well done...it is the Tarim Basin area of the Taklamakan Desert.
Please set the next one.
Please set the next one.
Xenophon PCDGS
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I can only think of one of these two settlements that may qualify. Deerhurst in Gloucestershire has a traditional Saxon church of St Mary, but there is also the English Heritage Grade I listed Odda's Chapel that is contained as part of a large manor-style building complex, which was once part of a quite sizable former monastic settlement.
I hope that this posting may qualify, as the second one that I have quoted is not a free-standing church as normally understood in the general use of the word.
I hope that this posting may qualify, as the second one that I have quoted is not a free-standing church as normally understood in the general use of the word.
Ivo
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Isn't there one up north as well? Bywell (or something like that) maybe?
- Checking my AA atlas indicates the spelling is correct and that the place I am thinking of is in Northumberland. Whether it is correct or not is another matter.
- Checking my AA atlas indicates the spelling is correct and that the place I am thinking of is in Northumberland. Whether it is correct or not is another matter.
Xenophon PCDGS
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A little lateral thinking about religious events in pre-Reformation England on the eastern side of England that could well have many Saxon churches led me to the county of Norfolk. ..... There was a place of pilgrimage, not so well known as that of Walsingham, that has two Anglo-Saxon churches extremely close together in the same religious land area. The revered object of those medieval pilgrimage was Our Lady of Reepham.
I refer to Reepham and the churches of St Mary and of St Michael, which I will make as my second entry upon this quiz, to follow on from my earlier posting.
I refer to Reepham and the churches of St Mary and of St Michael, which I will make as my second entry upon this quiz, to follow on from my earlier posting.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Having visited the much-extended Grade I listed church of St Peter and the tiny St Patrick's chapel with its rock-carved currently open coffins virtually every year for the last 40 years and remembering the days when nettle beer was sold in the narrow lane leading down to the churches, I feel suitably embarrassed that I did not immediately name Heysham as my number one answer.
Can I therefore say ...OPEN FLOOR.