Talk:Buxton

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[edit] Drabble -- is it drivel?

Any one got a verifiable WP:V source for "Lisa Drabble whom inspired Monty Python to create 'The Drabble' - an extremely short work of fiction with exactly 100 words" Billlion 21:25, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

I've done a large online search, and only found the origin to be Monty Python. Given that Margaret Drabble was active at the time, and one of the books contains an entry by Phil Drabble, I'd have said they were the more likely people, if people there were, who were in the originator's thoughts when the name was conjured up. I suggest it is simply removed, and the editor who put it in can re-enter it with verification if desired.  DDStretch  (talk) 21:39, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photograph caption

This comment on my change of caption from "Panoramic view of Buxton from the top of Peak District." to "Panoramic view of Buxton." was posted on my talk-page, but I think the discussion would be better here --VinceBowdren 14:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC) :

Dood, that was the top of peak district. Well, we were in peak district and they told us that that was the highest mountain, so i guess that was the peak district, well, not peak district which was everything but the peak of peak district, so that's it. There was a medieval tower at the top. It was the mountain at the bottom of which you can find those caverns (btw they are nothing special and they cost a lot of money lol). If u know the name of the mountain we can add it. Onofre Bouvila 17:33, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid you're misunderstanding what the Peak district is. It is not a district centred on a particular peak, but the name of a large area with a number of high hills (few of which have distinct peaks as such); so it doesn't really make sense to say that a particular point is the 'top of peak district'. The highest point in the peak district is on Kinder Scout, but that is some distance away and Buxton is certainly not visible from there. I don't know Buxton too well myself, but comparing the photo against a map I would guess that it was taken from a hill just south of Buxton - perhaps Grinlow? That has a tower on it certainly. --VinceBowdren 14:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Axe Edge? (I'd asked the same question, but on the image page) Linuxlad 16:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)