Botany Bay, Derbyshire
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Botany Bay is the name of a small hamlet in south Derbyshire near Linton and Coton in the Elms in the National Forest.
Botany bay has few claims to notability. The major one is its name as it is a long way from the British coast. Unlike the nearby town of Melbourne it is unlikely to have a common source with its more famous Australian 'namesake'. Botany bay in Australia was named after the quantity of botany that was found there. Botany Bay is the location for a surprising investment by Penguin books. They have purchased a 650 acre woodland[2].
Botany Bay also gives its name to one of three nearby lakes.
[edit] Irony
The real irony of the name is that the Ordnance survey have calculated that a point near Coton in the Elms is the furthest point from the British coast. South east of Coton – at grid reference SK253144 – is Church Flatts Farm, a claimant to be the furthest point from the sea in Great Britain.[3].
[edit] References
- ^ Image from Wikimedia Commons June 2007
- ^ Woodland Trust announce new woodland
- ^ BBC report centre of England
