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As a Brit that map at the bottom is very confusing. A Bristol not to far from a Glastonbury, ok yeah, that makes sense but the map mustn't be north-oriented. Oh
by baliex 2y ago
As a Brit that map at the bottom is very confusing. A Bristol not to far from a Glastonbury, ok yeah, that makes sense but the map mustn't be north-oriented. Oh, and what's Manchester doing so close to Glastonbury, and that's not where Durham would be, or Norwich, or New Haven. Hmm.. and I didn't think we had a _New_ London.
https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/da3386ad-a465-4e41-834e-354cc46f825a/legacy/att_ct_route_map_ch5s.jpg https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/da3386ad-a465-4e41-834e-354...
Also, Cheshire is a county in the north of England so the whole article was very confusing from the get go as to where this station was located. Here it is on Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/aEWT2L6QYqntYDDz5 https://maps.app.goo.gl/aEWT2L6QYqntYDDz5
Bolton, Kensington, Oxford, Coventry, and—slightly left field—Berlin are also nearby.
- Retric 2y agoThe 42 degrees north goes through the northern US and northern Spain, but is well south of England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_parallel_north https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_parallel_north The New is also a hint aka New York, New Jersey, etc. It’s a map of Connecticut, USA.
- willwade 2y agoI'm with you. I started reading and was like "wait.. this is not the Cheshire I know of - where has this been hiding".. Then on the map: Lebanon and Brooklyn. Also Wallingford. I bet thats nothing like the Wallingford I know of (Oxfordshire Town)
- qingcharles 2y agoSo many places in the USA have matching British names I had to check to see if Brooklyn was one of them, but looks like it's named for a Dutch town, which makes sense.
- com 2y agoYeah, that’s a funny spelling of Breukelen, now an exurb of Amsterdam, NL.
- PROMISE_237 2y ago[dead]
- worstspotgain 2y agoThat's why it's called New England. Here out west, most of the anglo town names are the names of settlers (with exceptions like Richmond née upon Thames.)
- PietdeVries 2y agoI stared at Google Earth for a while, using the 41:30 and 73 as a guide, but wasn't able to pinpoint the location of the site. With these huge vents, it shouldn't be too hard to find where this site was located. Anyone an idea?
- worstspotgain 2y agoWell we wouldn't want the Russians to find out too would we.
- jonotab 2y agohttps://maps.app.goo.gl/SpeEBjSmiDFAeqr17 https://maps.app.goo.gl/SpeEBjSmiDFAeqr17
- wil421 2y agoThere’s a reason they call the area New England. New York was New Amsterdam before the Brits took it over.
- mindslight 2y agoZoom out a bit and you get a whole bunch of Manchesters, and none of them had a Factory Records.
- sdwr 2y agoOld New York was once New Amsterdam...
- 1-6 2y agoWhy they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way … Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, oh Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks
- Iulioh 2y agoFor these wondering, this is the song https://youtu.be/0XlO39kCQ-8?si=SPHrV99reR579yPn https://youtu.be/0XlO39kCQ-8?si=SPHrV99reR579yPn Very catchy, it was re popularized by a netflix series a few years ago, j don't remember the name lf the series tho
- shawn_w 2y agoUmbrella Academy? And Tiny Toons many years earlier.
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoByzantion!
- tialaramex 2y ago
- fred_is_fred 2y agoWould guess you don't have a Mohawk either.
- rob 2y agoWait until you learn we here in Connecticut also have hundreds of miles of stone walls, just like England!
- mrguyorama 2y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/8o6xc5/road_sign_of_cities_in_maine/ https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/8o6xc5/r... This sign is just for the singular state of Maine. Notice the two distinct "Sweden"s, and that ignores "New Sweden" we have way up north. The colonists were not creative with names.
- singleshot_ 2y agoWait until you find out how to correctly pronounce “Worcester.”