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For as long as I can remember, there's been a butcher's bike propped up outside (when it was a butcher's shop).

Is a Horwich a sandwich eaten by a .... better not!

For information it's pronounced Horritch.
It's important you get it right...like New castle.

fausto copy wrote:For information it's pronounced Horritch ...

Correct! Not many people know that the humble but proud town of Horritch (the true powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution) is actually right at the geographical centre of the United Kingdom, and now has the most cafes and rainfall per square mile than anywhere else.

patricktaylor wrote:

fausto copy wrote:For information it's pronounced Horritch ...

Correct! Not many people know that the humble but proud town of Horritch (the true powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution) is actually right at the geographical centre of the United Kingdom, and now has the most cafes and rainfall per square mile than anywhere else.

There are other places laying claim to being the centre of the UK. Haltwhistle in Northumberland for one - Wiki says ...

"There has long been debate over the exact location of the geographical centre of the United Kingdom, and its constituent countries, due to the complexity and method of the calculation, such as whether to include offshore islands, and the fact that erosion will cause the position to change over time. There are two main methods of calculating this "centre": either as the centroid of the two-dimensional shape made by the country, or as the point farthest from the boundary of the country (either the sea, or, in the case of constituent countries, a land border). These two methods give quite different answers.

For centuries Meriden, West Midlands held the claim to be the geographical centre of England, and there has been a stone cross there commemorating the claim for at least 500 years. The justification is that the point farthest from the sea is in the vicinity of Meriden. A rival claim for the true location of the centre of England is made by the site of a tree, the Midland Oak, situated on the boundary between Lillington and Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

Similarly, the town of Haltwhistle in Northumberland (NY706640) still sports banners stating that it is the 'Centre of Britain', although depending on how it is calculated the centre can also be said to be Dunsop Bridge, traditionally in the West Riding of Yorkshire, but now in the administrative county of Lancashire, 71 miles (114 km) to the south.

Centers?
England or UK or Great Britain?

Dunsop Bridge:-
http://www.visitlancashire.com/site/des ... sop-bridge

i'll go with Dunsop as it's nearer home.
on a more important note do you have a name for the cafe? i've waypointed in my gps but would rather it had a name!
thanks