Talk:Clitheroe

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There's also this:

which is the arms of the former Clitheroe RDC, but the page seems too brief to warrant two largish images.

[edit] 'The place is now believed to be the most central town in Britain'

Do we have a source for this? --Nick Boalch ^?!? 15:58, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

this is possibly incorrect. The ordnance survey say that the "Geographical" centre of UK/Great Britain/British isles (Can't remember which!) is a place in the trough of Bowland near a village called Dunsop bridge. The nearest town to this is Clitheroe, hence the claim. There is controversy about it in the local paper. It depends on the definitions of britain and centre. Certainly Clitheroe qualifies as the most central town in one of these definitions but I don't know which.

--Totalthinker 02:16, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I've rephrased the sentence slightly to explain the claim a bit more clearly and include a link to Dunsop Bridge. --Nick Boalch ^?!? 11:01, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

when i was a pupil at CRGS [1977–84], we were taught [by mr john 'beefy' hesketh in maths] that a point between dunsop bridge and clitheroe was the centre of gravity of 'mainland' [horrible phrase] great britain, ie the bits of england, scotland and wales that are contiguous.

so you could balance this piece of land on a hypothetical needle... no definitive source however [though the other things he taught me in maths have turned out to be true as far as i can work out].

R7 16:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Well "Beefy" Hesketh would probably be right becasue he certainly knew his onions when it came to local geography. Good lad. Oakeshott 21:48, 21 January 2007 (UTC)