[SOC] The Mount Everest of Boring Places

Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:32:07 -0000

Agreed...Yate, Chipping Sodbury and Widnes are all on the same isobore (this
is a line on a map which joins together places of equal crappyness).

The Mount Everest of boring places is the village of Twenty, in
Lincolnshire, which is universally regarded (even by its inhabitants) as the
single most boring inhabited place on the face of the entire United Kingdom.

http://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/twenty.htm  (only if you are a
glutton for punishment)

It is a village without a centre...there is not even so much as a pub there,
and (apart from a few wind-blasted trees) the landscape is totally flat and
featureless right out to the horizon in all directions.

Some local comedian added 'Twinned with the Moon' to the road name signs.

Even Twenty's sole web page (above) doesn't even feature a picture of the
village, but is instead of its long-closed railway station, which is miles
from the actual village.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Bartlett" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: [SOC] Rugby

> >Then drove home (to Yate) in a 'casual manner' :-)
>
> It's rare to hear of anyone actually admitting to living in (or
> having lived in)
>
> Yate. On the subject of England being boring, Yate would have to
> be the capital.
>
> Most people just say they live near Sodbury.
>
> P ;-)
>
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