A map of the British Isles takes an acid trip
In the face of overwhelming popular demand, the very bad British county map from French cartographers Delamarche (1858) referenced earlier:
Double click it, it is worth it.
And the South East in close up:
My own former county of Essex gets a particularly raw deal, although the cruciform shape of Leicestershire is novel, as is Bucks bordering Huntingdonshire.
There is nothing else quite so comically bad of the world well known to Europeans in this particular atlas, but I might offer up Africa later.
Double click it, it is worth it.
And the South East in close up:
My own former county of Essex gets a particularly raw deal, although the cruciform shape of Leicestershire is novel, as is Bucks bordering Huntingdonshire.
There is nothing else quite so comically bad of the world well known to Europeans in this particular atlas, but I might offer up Africa later.
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I quite like it in fact; as a Northerner, I never really saw the point of the South East anyway; I would also add that they are an ill-mannered bunch beneath that oh so smart Home Counties veneer.
Pack 'em all off to France say I!
EtB - Ma Croydonian hails from Cheshire, so I am not too Northernist meself.
perhaps the lingering result of some subtle disinformation from the era of the Napoleonic Wars ?
Nick - could be. At the very least Second Empire administrators would have got very confused.
Newmarket's in Suffolk, not Cambs... mind you, they get the East Anglian borders all wrong anyway. Suffolk also seems to have lost Lowestoft to Norfolk...
Bet they can't pronounce Wymondham...
Jay - I dare say a few Britons would make a hash of it too.
If tha's Cheshire stock, there's always Cholmondeley to confuse the French and other Suvverners.
Cheshire and London parental heritage, born in Surrey....
I think Ma C sounds pretty RP meself, but fellow north westerners generally twig, even though she left those parts in her youth.
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