Cities and Footy

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  1. Red

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    tbh more of a trip of despair!
     
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    Bath
    Canterbury
    Chelmsford
    Chester
    Chichester
    Durham
    Gloucester
    Lancaster
    Lichfield
    Ripon
    Salisbury
    St Albans
    Truro
    Wakefield
    Wells
    Winchester
    Worcester
    York.

    http://www.wildengland.com/englands-cities/

    not sure if you can count 'City of Westminster' in this ?
     
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    But they've got a baby eating bishop #blackadder
     
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    That’s 2 on yer in mi little notebook. :)
     
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    I think the problem for Wakefield per se, is that it's made up of five towns, three of which
    re- Castleford, Featherstone and Wakefield are all predominantly egg chasing areas.

    From my time as a part time Youth Worker, my perception was that Castleford and Featherstone
    had quite a number of Leeds United fans, with areas like Normanton and Ryhill having it's fair
    share of Reds fans, as did / does Ossett with a sprinkling of Huddersfield Town and Leeds United
    supporters as well.
     
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    "Oh aye" became a popular colloquial term in Barnsley because, in the area of Jump (formerly known as Elsebus), visitors would always hear the local women shout JUMP, followed by a distant, male, meek voice asking - in archaic dialect - "how high?"

    So the humourous nickname "Jump" stuck, as when anyone asked where you were from and you said Jump, the other person would mockingly reply, "oh, aye"
     
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    Knew someone would get to Blackadder. TICK.
     
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    Legend has it (Being from there originally) . So we were told as young uns. There was a stream between Hoyland and Wombwell and you had to JUMP Over it, ( Jump ending up being a parish of wombwell) to get from one to the other. I’ve never seen or heard owt to contradict it.
    One legendary article says people jumped over it to get to work. From where and to ?. I can only assume it refers to the above.
     
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    Think it were miners gerrin to werk that did the jumping.
     
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    I can't resist a pun!
     
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    Lichfield
     
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    Oh aye? ;)
     
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    Prefer your version :)
     
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    Pontefract gets a sprinkling of Manure.
     
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    and the furthest point in England and Wales from any Football League Ground is Aberdaron on the Lleyn Peninsula -- I think!
     
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    A claim to fame :)
     
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    Sunderland has the same postcode as Newcastle - so could eb counted - but Bradford has a different postcode to Leeds - so can't (imho)
     
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    Barnsley has the same postcode as Sheffield - does that mean that Barnsley and Rotherham are part of Sheffield? It also make Grimsby part of Doncaster...

    Oh, and Sunderland is SR, Newcastle is NE, so not the same postcode at all
     
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    you are right, my bad.

    I have a mate who is a Sunderland fan and his postcode is NE, but he doesn't live in Newcastle, he lives in South Shields. It's all his fault :mad:
     
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    Its only 16 miles from Pwlheli and not much further to Caenarfon (34) or Bangor (42). You didn't specify *which* football league. :) It is 89 miles from Wrexham or the nearest top 4 leagues is Shrewsbury or Tranmere at 104-106 miles

    Great Yarmouth is 20miles from Norwich. Skeggy is ~40 to Grimsby or Lincoln. Berwick is 63 from Newcastle. Penzance is 76 from Plymouth
     

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