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Unusual "places of interest" in England

thx1138thx1138
edited April 2011 in Chit chat
I often ride across the country on B roads and minor A roads. Friday, for instance we crossed a private toll bridge near Henley on Thames - before that we followed a road sign along some twisty country roads and visited The Maharajahs Well

http://www.stokerow.net/well1b.asp?css=4

as we cut across from Sonning Common to get on the back road to Theale, crossing the motorway and avoiding Reading.

What unusual places of interest have you visited?
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  • zx1zx1
    edited March 2011
    Visited this place some years ago when leaving Culloden Battlefield in Invernesshire, very spooky.

    http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_photograph.jsp?item_id=35985
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • WinstonWinston
    edited March 2011
    The Chasms, about a 45 minute hike from my house.

    Great big, well, chasms in the ground. We went chasm jumping one day. This particular one is probably 600 feet deep... I didn't jump this one personally because I had already hurt myself from a bad landing from the previous one we had jumped!

    chasm-jumper.jpg
  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited March 2011
    Castle Knob (fnar fnar)

    http://www.ecastles.co.uk/gresley.html

    About 4 miles from where I live now and 500 yards from my last house.

    A Mott (fnar) and bailey castle with bizzarly a small cold war nuclear shelter and there was an ROC monitoring post there.
  • spectrumlinuxspectrumlinux
    edited March 2011
    murtceps wrote: »
    Castle Knob (fnar fnar)

    http://www.ecastles.co.uk/gresley.html

    About 4 miles from where I live now and 500 yards from my last house.

    A Mott (fnar) and bailey castle with bizzarly a small cold war nuclear shelter and there was an ROC monitoring post there.

    The ROTOR shelter looks interesting... :)
  • milemile
    edited March 2011
    murtceps wrote: »
    Castle Knob (fnar fnar)

    http://www.ecastles.co.uk/gresley.html

    About 4 miles from where I live now and 500 yards from my last house.

    A Mott (fnar) and bailey castle with bizzarly a small cold war nuclear shelter and there was an ROC monitoring post there.

    thats not a castle, it's a small hill. :razz:

    this is a castle

    monarch.jpg
  • WinstonWinston
    edited March 2011
    murtceps wrote: »
    A Mott (fnar) and bailey castle with bizzarly a small cold war nuclear shelter and there was an ROC monitoring post there.

    It was just for a couple of observer corps people, they would have instruments to observe the location and power of the nuclear attack. The atomica website has a bit of information on them, IIRC:

    http://www.atomica.co.uk/

    There's a bit about them in the UKWMO pamphlet. The funny thing is it would all be pointless, the tens of millions of lives they said they would save would only perish in the nuclear winter (which is nothing like winter at all, more like a bitterly cold night that lasts months, in a cold-war scenario nuclear exchange, in the couple of months after the attack, the light levels at mid day pretty much anywhere in the northern hemisphere would not exceed the light levels on a moonlit night)
  • spectrumlinuxspectrumlinux
    edited March 2011
    TBH, those ROTOR shelters always sounded like an idea Captain Mainwaring would come up with... (Captain Mainwairing was the leader of the Home Guard off Dad's Army, a comedy programme that used to be shown on the BBC back in the Seventies.)
  • milemile
    edited March 2011
    Winston wrote: »
    It was just for a couple of observer corps people, they would have instruments to observe the location and power of the nuclear attack. The atomica website has a bit of information on them, IIRC:

    http://www.atomica.co.uk/

    There's a bit about them in the UKWMO pamphlet. The funny thing is it would all be pointless, the tens of millions of lives they said they would save would only perish in the nuclear winter (which is nothing like winter at all, more like a bitterly cold night that lasts months, in a cold-war scenario nuclear exchange, in the couple of months after the attack, the light levels at mid day pretty much anywhere in the northern hemisphere would not exceed the light levels on a moonlit night)

    but what about all the mutants and the people who got super powers, they'd be fine i think.
  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited March 2011
    Winston wrote: »
    The Chasms, about a 45 minute hike from my house.

    Great big, well, chasms in the ground. We went chasm jumping one day. This particular one is probably 600 feet deep... I didn't jump this one personally because I had already hurt myself from a bad landing from the previous one we had jumped!

    In my town people usually love life... no 'eccentric' sports... ;)
  • MouseyMousey
    edited March 2011
    spectrumlinux wrote: »
    (Captain Mainwairing was the leader of the Home Guard off Dad's Army, a comedy programme that used to be shown on the BBC back in the Seventies.)
    It's still shown frequently on BBC 2. There's one this Saturday at 6.20pm!
  • MouseyMousey
    edited March 2011
    Winston wrote: »
    Great big, well, chasms in the ground. We went chasm jumping one day. This particular one is probably 600 feet deep... I didn't jump this one personally because I had already hurt myself from a bad landing from the previous one we had jumped!
    That photo scares me, let alone doing it myself!
  • milemile
    edited March 2011
    Mousey wrote: »
    It's still shown frequently on BBC 2. There's one this Saturday at 6.20pm!

    i don't think it's ever been off air. :-P
  • spectrumlinuxspectrumlinux
    edited March 2011
    My mistake.
    Its been three and a half years since I was back in the UK.:-)
  • milemile
    edited March 2011
    spectrumlinux wrote: »
    My mistake.
    Its been three and a half years since I was back in the UK.:-)

    Captain_Mainwaring.png

    stupid boy!
  • ModgeModge
    edited March 2011
    Dont tell him ya name Pike.
  • spectrumlinuxspectrumlinux
    edited March 2011
    File:Frank_Pike.jpg








    I'll tell mum!
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited March 2011
    Uncle Arthur...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • MouseyMousey
    edited March 2011
    I love how this thread goes from "Unusual "places of interest" in England" to "Dad's Army catchphrases" in just a few posts. ;)

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  • ModgeModge
    edited March 2011
    Mousey wrote: »
    I love how this thread goes from "Unusual "places of interest" in England" to "Dad's Army catchphrases" in just a few posts. ;)

    frazer.jpg

    :lol:
  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited March 2011
    JuanF. Ramirez wrote: »
    In my town people usually love life... no 'eccentric' sports... ;)

    That depends on your definition of eccentric :smile:

    The Malaga bullfighting season begins in April and runs through until September. The height of the season is mid-August, when the Feria de Agosto sees bullfights on an almost daily basis.
  • DanforthDanforth
    edited March 2011
    The book ******** to Alton Towers, and the followup volume Far From The Sodding Crowd are full of odd little leftfield places of interest. Abandoned villages, relentlessly specific museums (lawnmowers, paperweights, Bakelite), particularly strange buildings, formerly-secret nuclear bunkers and so on.

    EDIT: The auto-asterisked word would be a colloquial name for a part of the male anatomy typically arranged in pairs, which sounds a bit like a name for young male cattle :)
  • milemile
    edited March 2011
    Danforth wrote: »
    The book ******** to Alton Towers, and the followup volume Far From The Sodding Crowd are full of odd little leftfield places of interest. Abandoned villages, relentlessly specific museums (lawnmowers, paperweights, Bakelite), particularly strange buildings, formerly-secret nuclear bunkers and so on.

    EDIT: The auto-asterisked word would be a colloquial name for a part of the male anatomy typically arranged in pairs, which sounds a bit like a name for young male cattle :)

    penises?
  • BiNMaNBiNMaN
    edited March 2011
    saw the thread and mile had posted

    for some reason public toilets came to mind :-o

    what's that all about?

    :razz:
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited March 2011
    Danforth wrote: »
    The book ******** to Alton Towers, and the followup volume Far From The Sodding Crowd are full of odd little leftfield places of interest. Abandoned villages, relentlessly specific museums (lawnmowers, paperweights, Bakelite), particularly strange buildings, formerly-secret nuclear bunkers and so on.

    EDIT: The auto-asterisked word would be a colloquial name for a part of the male anatomy typically arranged in pairs, which sounds a bit like a name for young male cattle :)

    Wilbur? Thurston?
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited March 2011
    BiNMaN wrote: »
    saw the thread and mile had posted

    for some reason public toilets came to mind :-o

    what's that all about?

    :razz:

    I'm going to abuse my misunderstanding of psycomalology here but what you posted sounds psychosomatic to me. For whatever reason you equate Mile with public toilets ... but I don't know the flavour of your friendship, sounds like you guys get on rather well in public? (But count me out, ok)
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited March 2011
    why is ******** censored, when a court case was fought and won over the word in the 70s?
  • gasmangasman
    edited March 2011
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Wilbur? Thurston?

    "Male cow pet names"?!? Someone has failed at biology there...
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited March 2011
    gasman wrote: »
    "Male cow pet names"?!? Someone has failed at biology there...

    It not essentially be the same? Me so confused long time.

    "Male cow" vs "male cattle" them's all cows, right? It's just steak on the plate or milk on the saucer. (sure, gender is important in this case :-P )
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2011
    BiNMaN wrote: »
    saw the thread and mile had posted

    for some reason public toilets came to mind :-o

    what's that all about?

    :razz:

    A guide to Yorkshire Cottag[strike]es[/strike] ing? :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited March 2011
    Jumping Stack wrote: »
    That depends on your definition of eccentric :smile:

    The Malaga bullfighting season begins in April and runs through until September. The height of the season is mid-August, when the Feria de Agosto sees bullfights on an almost daily basis.

    Touch?, my dear friend...
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