I do find it bizarre that New Addington and the countryside next to it are in a seat called Croydon Central.
I'm guessing you would think that "Croydon East" would be better. The reason it's "Central" is because it contains the town centre, and all the bits which make up the town centre.
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I don't think there are any constituencies in the wrong place, but I am reminded of general election night when the TV screen said "Conservative hold South Holland" and one of my colleagues asked where "South Holland" was.
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I wonder what people would have made of the former constituency of Liverpool Scotland.
When I first came across this in writing it was as the "Liverpool division of Scotland" (and referring to TP O'Neill's parliamentary career of course) and, unfamiliar with the dated expression, I was genuinely unsure whether this meant there was a neighborhood called Scotland in Liverpool or another town called Liverpool in Scotland, eventually settling on the first as more probable.
Post by Pete Whitehead on Oct 28, 2017 10:19:14 GMT
The old Tamworth county division of Warwickshire used to confuzzle me. Also in that area I was surprised when I discovered that the 1955-74 version of Birmingham Aston was largely a suburban seat (covering much of what is now Erdington)
The old Tamworth county division of Warwickshire used to confuzzle me
I didn't know such a thing ever existed, that's genuinely bizarre
Not so bizarre when you consider that a large part of what is now Tamworth borough did lie in Warwickshire and there was also in that county the Tamworth Rural district
The Conservatives once came up with a proposal that would have moved both Crewe Hall and Crewe railway station into the Congleton constituency.
Network Rail probably came up with a proposal to put Crewe railway station near Georgemas Junction.
I had to read that several times to get past thinking "Where's Gormenghast Junction?"
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This thread reminds me of my childhood. I didn't believe it when somebody told me that Everton football club were based in Liverpool.
Everton, as far as I was concerned, was a tiny village in the New Forest, near where my grandparents lived. How dare they be somewhere else? What devastating fucktardedness was this?
I still haven't forgiven them really. (Well, I haven't forgiven them for the match fixing disgrace of 1994, but their location in the wrong place didn't help!)
I didn't know such a thing ever existed, that's genuinely bizarre
Not so bizarre when you consider that a large part of what is now Tamworth borough did lie in Warwickshire and there was also in that county the Tamworth Rural district
The old Tamworth county division of Warwickshire used to confuzzle me
I didn't know such a thing ever existed, that's genuinely bizarre
The river used to be the boundary between Staffordshire and Warwickshire I think. Most of the old town centre is north of the river but these days something like 80% of the population of the town live south of the river.
