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English villages: pretty weird sometimes
Barmymoo:
Yeah, I meant to add that in places which aren't odd village-like suburbs of large cities, villages are still only a few minutes' walk apart quite often. You've got to remember that you could fit the whole of England into the state of Michigan (if you chopped it up and reorganised the bits).
GarandMarine:
Takes us back to that old quote "In America a 100 years is a long time, and in the U.K. a 100 miles is a long drive"
The Seldom Killer:
Of course part of the problem with being such a small country is that occasionally villages grow so big that they connect to the neighbouring one. This leads to this sort of thing.
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At this point I feel compelled to suggest that the next passing mod should probably excise a portion of this thread to the English is Weird thread as being far more appropriate for posts that have veered a little bit away from Whiskey.
BeoPuppy:
Probably a lot of work, maintaining that lake.
Barmymoo:
My mum and stepdad live near the Welsh border. At one point, Wales had a law against pubs serving alcohol on Sundays, but England didn't. One of the pubs was right on the border, with the result that the front room was in one country and the back was in the other. At midnight on Saturday, the drinkers simply moved into the English room and continued to drink (this may be apocryphal, but I love the story!).
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