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furthest you have been in each direction in the uk?

N - berwick on tweed
S - brighton?
E - either burnham on crouch, or thetford, i'm not really sure
W - pwllheli?

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Aberdeen
S - Land's End
E - Lowestoft
W - Land's End!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm going to do 'furthest places i've had fun' cos land's end was a dull trek at 7 years old.

N - the toon
S - brighton (i meet loads of folks in london who say they live in brighton and come from the north.. they've all got these disgusting limp handshakes)
E - you know, i don't know the geography. i've been alla long the yorkshire cost but that might not be as fat east as walthamstow.
W - fuckin wales

― matthew james (matthew james), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

N - The Quirang the Isle of skye
S - Lizzard Point
E - Dover?
W - Skye, Pembroke, Angelsea, Penzance not sure which?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Edinburgh
S - Swanage
E - Sheringham, tiny village in Norfolk
W - Bristol

― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Cape Wrath or pretty near to it
S- West of Penzance though I don't think actually Land's End
E - Somwhere on the Norfolk coast
W - I don't think I went far enough west on Skye to beat Cornwall

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, I forgot Jersey.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Aberdeen
S - The Lizard
E - Harwich
W - Land's End

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Kirkcaldy again then, though my Scottish geography is hazy
S - Isle of Wight
E - Sheerness
W - Pembrokeshire

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm, I don't think Jersey is part of the UK.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Edinburgh
S - Lizard point
E - Ramsgate
W - Penzance

― chris (chris), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Ardnamurchan
S&W: St Austell
E: Dungeness

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Cromarty, Scotland
S - I think I went to the Lizard when I was even smaller than I am now. Somewhere near there anyway
E - Lowestoft
W - Portnahaven, Isle of Islay, Scotland

― Tag (Tag), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

n & w isle of skye (think that's further west than bits of w wales)
s falmouth (I think I may have been to lizard pt as a tiny kid, but i don't remember it)
e great yarmouth

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

(ILE is being very old skool today)

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Newcastle Upon Tyne
S - Land's End (not 100% about this)
E - probably Sheringham
W - Land's End

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Butt of Lewis
S- Somewhere in Hampshire
E- East London
W- Holyhead (Galway if you include Ireland)

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 13 June 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Loch Ness (so probably Inverness)
S - Plymouth?
E - Norwich
W - Pendene, Cornwall.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 13 June 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Glasgow
S - Porthleven, Cornwall
E - Dover
S - Portleven again

(If you listen carefully you can hear the clatter of Ilxers conducting Google image searches for UK maps)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 13 June 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Inverness
Plymouth/Swanage
Lowestoft
Bude

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 13 June 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

N. Strathy Point (unless you count Orkney, in which case, Orkney)
E. Bury St Edmunds
W. Skye
S. Does the Isle of Wight count? If so, there, if not, Portsmouth

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Thurso
E - Great Yarmouth
W - Armadale, Skye
S - Sidmouth

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Edinburgh
S: London
E: London
W: Holyhead

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 June 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

N: Glasgow
S: I think Brixham, in Devon
E: Dover, probably
W: Pwllelli, I think.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 13 June 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I went far enough west on Skye to beat Cornwall

Did you only go to Kylerhea? Because I think that's the only populated area on Skye that's east of Sennen or Land's End. Kyleakin is 5deg44min W, which is beyond England's reach.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 13 June 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Edinburgh
S - Isle of Wight
E - Dover
W - Land's End (or does that count as the most southerly too?)

― C J (C J), Friday, 13 June 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

N Dumfries & Galloway
S Plymouth
E Dover
W Pembrokeshire

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 13 June 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Montrose
E - Yarmouth?
S - Lizard Point (furthest south you can go)
W - Isles of Scilly

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 13 June 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I think:

N - Inverness
S - Bath
E - Whitby
W - Lyme/Regis

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 13 June 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You guys! Why have so many of you been to Inverness yet never ventured further north? In fact, come to think of it, why have so many of you been to Inverness?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 13 June 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Nessie.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 13 June 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

N Edinburgh
S somewhere in kent, probably
E Southend
W Oxford

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"That Girl" is well travelled!, [however Lyme Regis is south of Bath]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i actually relocated to Inverness for 6 months when i was about a year old...not on my own of course - my Dad had a job up there, in fact i think he was on an oil rig at one point.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

21st Century:

N - Wood Green
E - Kings Cross
S - Richmond
W - Uxbridge

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

*shock*

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Aberdeen
S - Launceston
E - Cromer
W - Boscastle

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Ailsa, I was in Inverness because my old girlfriend's family lived in Nairn, so there ya go. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 June 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Was she from Nairn? Or were her family golf-course or caravan-park fetishists? (I can't think of any other reason why anyone would want to live in Nairn)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 13 June 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. Her dad worked in the oil industry and was assigned to various spots -- they lived down in Dundee for a while, also over near...argh, can't remember the name exactly, somewhere a little to the north of the main Edinburgh-Glasgow conduit, nearer to Edinburgh. But I believe both of her parents were originally from the Inverness area in any event -- they originally lived in a house pretty much on the Firth but then moved over to a REALLY nice place a couple of blocks inland.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 June 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

My answers for S and W were on the same trip. I was visiting a friend who lived in a little village called Lezant, not far from the border of Devon and Cornwall.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 13 June 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

N - York
S - Saint Helier, Jersey
E - Lowestoft
W - Torquay

― DG (D_To_The_G), Saturday, 14 June 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

N - embo
S&W - lands end
E - dungeness

have lived in scotland, england & wales

― joni, Saturday, 14 June 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine for the last couple of years would be much like Jel's. I've not left London in over two years.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 14 June 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin, that's the most depressing thing I've heard in ages.

― Tag (Tag), Saturday, 14 June 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

There is no wall of fire around the M25. I was begining to think there was, but I went to Cambridge on Thursday and all was fine. (It was lovely actually).

N - Glasgow
S - Land's End
E - Ramsgate
W - Land's End again.

― Anna (Anna), Saturday, 14 June 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

For me, it's one of the non-depressing parts of my life, over the last couple of years! I like London. I am thinking that I might need to make the trek to St Ives and/or the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to see the Barbara Hepworth shows.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 14 June 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

N - New Galloway
S - Ventnor, I.O.W.
E - Great Yarmouth
W - St. David's Head, Pembs.

― David (David), Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

21st century version

N - Scarborough, North Yorkshire
E - Norwich/Ipswich
S - Bournemouth
W - Bristol/Portishead

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 14 June 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Grantown on Spey
E - Dunbar
S - Portsmouth
W - Belfast

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

N - Aviemore
E - Dover
S - Dover
W - Either Exeter or ST David's (Pembrokeshire). Though mallaig is quite far West.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 16 June 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Exeter is south of Dover. St. David's is considerably west of Exeter.

― David (David), Monday, 16 June 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Exeter is south of Dover. St. David's is considerably west of Exeter.

And Mallaig further west than either.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 16 June 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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