County boundary lines challenge

[ebikeerwidnes]

Northumberland to Scottish Borders

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Great example here

You see the difference in location between the "Welcome to Scotland" sign - and the county welcome sign behind it

well this is due to a legal "funny" thing

The official map defining the county boundary is obviously drawn to scale - and the pen used to draw it has a finite thickness

Hence the country starts at one place and the county starts a few yards later - the difference bing the scaled up thickness of the pen used to define the border on the official map!


I know this to be true as it was explained to me by a Geography teacher - so it must be true!!


(having said which - his wife was sitting next to him at the time and she rolled her eyes quite dramatically when he said it - she was also a Geography teacher!!!)

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I went through Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland and Leicestershire yesterday. Only saw boundary signs for Cambridgeshire, Rutland (twice) and Leicestershire though.

 

[Willd]

Hertfordshire today. I didn't spot any opportunity that the sign spoke of though

Tally so far

 

[skudupnorth]

Taken on the Rochdale canal

 

[Jenkins]

From last week where the River Waveney forms the Norfolk/Suffolk boundry

And behind me...

 

[Dogtrousers]

Did you know that Buckinghamshire was the birthplace of the Paralympics? It was the Stoke Mandeville Games originally

Did you know that Shakespeare was from Warwickshire? Of course you did.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Blink and you'll miss it. Kresigrenze (county border) of Tübingen and Freudenstadt, Eyach, south Germany. Normally there'a more decorative sign but I suspect the remoteness of the location, lack of space between track and road, and very minor road anyway, meant that they didn't bother.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Rutland border near Harringworth viaduct

 

[Willd]

Lincolnshire yesterday

I've now managed 16 - all travelling from home and back. I reckon that's about my limit, as I'm not planning on going any further than 102 miles in a day. I do have a new cycle carrier for the wife's car though...

Tally so far:

I also managed to find UK's shortest border:

The border with Lincolnshire to Cambridgeshire begins at Crowland, Market Deeping and Stamford which form the southern boundary of the county with both Peterborough, Rutland and briefly Northamptonshire; the county's border with Northamptonshire is just 20 yards (19 m) long, England's shortest county boundary.

Which is roughly on the left hand side of the picture below

 

[FrothNinja]

Ye olde countie linie