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.
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[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)
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- 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.
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- 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].
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- 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)
[edit] Gustav Moose?
What is all this Flaming Moose business? Is it vandalism? I am going to revert it. AFCR 10:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Religion
I have removed the following sentence from the second paragraph: "There has been some controversy surrounding this, and previous entries for Clitheroe, for instance, have noted that the growing Muslim community is "unfortunate" for the town.". First of all, referring to the opinion of a previous (single anonymous) editor of this article is nonsense. I don't live in Clitheroe, so I've no idea if there is any notable controversy or not. But if there is, the reason needs to be explained and references to reliable published sources are required. --Dr Greg 12:05, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Co ordinates of Castle
The coordinates for the castle point at some where in Cheshire - this needs correcting. AFCR (talk) 10:15, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
