Non-motoring > Whre's this? Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Enoughalready Replies: 27
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 Tue 13 May 14 11:09 
 Whre's this? - Enoughalready
I have a desktop background that changes as a slideshow. Windows 7 came with various picture packs one of which is called United Kingdom.

I know most of the places but where is this? I'm guessing Scotland?
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 Tue 13 May 14 11:16 
 Whre's this? - martin aston
Its Dunnottar Castle juts outside Stonehaven, a small coastal town south of Aberdeen. Beautiful location and a substantial ruin. I recommend a visit if you are ever in the area.
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 Tue 13 May 14 11:17 
 Whre's this? - Enoughalready
Thanks Martin. Another one for the bucket list.
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 Tue 13 May 14 11:17 
 Whre's this? - No FM2R
www.dunnottarcastle.co.uk/
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 Tue 13 May 14 11:17 
 Whre's this? - No FM2R
Darn, pipped.
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 Tue 13 May 14 11:21 
 Whre's this? - Enoughalready
Looks fabulous. I never get up to Scotland, must make more effort.
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 Tue 13 May 14 11:41 
 Whre's this? - Cliff Pope
>> I never get up to Scotland,
>>

Isn't that an anglocentric way of looking at a nearly-independent nation?
Geographers are riddled with institutionalised direction-prejudice. :)
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 Tue 13 May 14 11:49 
 Whre's this? - Enoughalready
You're correct of course. I'll have to think of that whenever I intend to go down north ;)

However, everything above Watford is up.
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 Tue 13 May 14 11:49 
 Whre's this? - CGNorwich
It's alway "up" to London wherever you are.
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 Tue 13 May 14 11:59 
 Whre's this? - Bromptonaut
>> It's alway "up" to London wherever you are.

Only if you travel by rail.
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 Tue 13 May 14 12:01 
 Whre's this? - Crankcase
"Down" to London for me, but "up" to Scotland, and "over" to Wales. Purely north south map thing in my head.

Don't know how I'd have got on in ancient Egypt though, where they put south at the top of their maps.
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 Tue 13 May 14 12:16 
 Whre's this? - sooty123
>> It's alway "up" to London wherever you are.
>>

Could you explain that? For those abit slow on the uptake.
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 Tue 13 May 14 12:32 
 Whre's this? - Bromptonaut
>> Could you explain that? For those abit slow on the uptake.

One answer is that travelling by rail to London the 'Up' line is always London bound while opposite direction is 'down'.
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 Tue 13 May 14 13:01 
 Whre's this? - Ambo
"Up to London" is a class locution except that we usually say "Up to Town".
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 Tue 13 May 14 13:07 
 Whre's this? - sooty123
Ah, a train term. Thanks.
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 Tue 13 May 14 13:14 
 Whre's this? - CGNorwich
I think that may where it originated but common usage was certainly "going up to London" wherever you were in in the country. Things change of course and that may no longer be the case although I would always go "up to London" from Norwich however I was travelling.
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 Tue 13 May 14 13:20 
 Whre's this? - sooty123
Not sure about common usage can't say I've heard of that phrase before. Perhaps like you say, a phrase more common in the past?
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 Tue 13 May 14 13:35 
 Whre's this? - Crankcase
My wife's family and Mrs C herself always say "up to London".

Thus, in a kind of Heraclitian mode, we can travel on the same train which is going both up and down to London at the same time.
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 Tue 13 May 14 13:42 
 Whre's this? - Gromit
Many folk in this part of Ireland go "up to Cork", "up to Donegal" and "up to Dublin" - even though they're in different directions (due south, north and east respectively!)
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 Tue 13 May 14 14:57 
 Whre's this? - Dog
Everywhere is 'up' from Cornwall, as in up country.
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 Tue 13 May 14 15:16 
 Whre's this? - Fenlander
Down to London in this household... mind you I've heard London is a place south of Biggleswade so perhaps an appropriate description.
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 Tue 13 May 14 16:08 
 Whre's this? - Gromit
At least there's some logic to that - you couldn't go too far down country from Cornwall before running out of land :-)
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 Tue 13 May 14 16:12 
 Whre's this? - Armel Coussine
Up to London from the South and West, down to London from everywhere else.

Stands to reason. North is up and south is down innit?
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 Tue 13 May 14 16:22 
 Whre's this? - Roger.
Yes.
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 Tue 13 May 14 17:12 
 Whre's this? - CGNorwich
At the end of the day of course neither up or down is necessary. You just go to London.

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 Tue 13 May 14 17:54 
 Whre's this? - Bromptonaut
>> At the end of the day of course neither up or down is necessary. You
>> just go to London.
>

Or in Leicestershire just "I'm going London".
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 Tue 13 May 14 16:26 
 Whre's this? - Dog
There is land west of Cornwall, it's just that it's covered by the sea: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyonesse
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 Tue 13 May 14 20:51 
 Whre's this? - Runfer D'Hills
@ Gromit - Roscommon?
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