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Wrong !
it is in Lancashire |
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Up there is the "Centre of the British Isles" |
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- in 1991 the Ordnance Survey officially declared it so. |
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The first location was a site at Cromwell's Bridge, Chaigley
which is a couple of miles due west of Clitheroe in Lancashire. |
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It was then found that the calculations failed to include all
the islands around Britain and the centre was finally pinpointed ten miles
(16km) further north at a point near Whitendale Rocks. |
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The British National Grid reference for the rocks is SD 644
565. |
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Good old British Telecom sited their hundred thousandth
payphone at Dunsop Bridge, the nearest village to the centre of
Britain.
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