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Getting closer. From Lincoln the top of the Wolds is in line of sight, and from there you can see higher ground (in Nottinghamshire I think). Not by a lot though.

 

We're after something of similar height to the Wolds, but more isolated from other high ground.

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Lets have another go, then... There a trig point on the top of the Gog Magog hills, in Wandlebury Park just southeast of Cambridge. It's claimed that if you look north from there, the next higher point is over the north pole in Russia. Not sure about the other directions but it's all pretty flat around there. Is that one of the places you're looking for?

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No... that's local to me and you can see much higher ground to the SW.

 

This is much harder than I thought, so here's a more specific hint. The place in question is between 100 and 150m high, it's called "Hill" and there's nothing else as high within about 40 miles.

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Leith Hill (about 10 miles away) is one of the four points, but not the most northerly.

 

If nobody gets the correct county by 5pm, I'm going to award it to the person who has nominated the nearest point to the hill in question.

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Leith Hill (about 10 miles away) is one of the four points, but not the most northerly.

 

If nobody gets the correct county by 5pm, I'm going to award it to the person who has nominated the nearest point to the hill in question.

 

Not very north, but how about Ivinghoe beacon in the Chilterns? Used to go on family picnics there as a kid and watch gliders. Nothing to see but flatness for miles

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So the DING goes to Pharisee at about 70 miles away: the county is Norfolk and the hill Beacon Hill on the north coast - nothing else of any height until you get down into mid-Suffolk.

 

The other three points in England are Leith Hill in Surrey and Walbury Hill in Berkshire, together with High Willhays in Devon.

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Ohh.... that was a bit unexpected :)

 

OK.. I'm a very distinctive hill. I'm south Hadrian's Wall, I'm north of the Humber and east of the Pennines. I also sound like something you'd put on your favourite dessert. What's my name and where am I?

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Would that be Roseberry Topping, at the North of the North Yorkshire Moors, not too far from Great Ayton if my memory serves me correctly.

 

It would indeed... and a right pig it was to climb. I seem to remember being almost on my hands and knees at one point and all to log the trig at the top!!

 

A DING to you.

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Lets have another go, then... There a trig point on the top of the Gog Magog hills, in Wandlebury Park just southeast of Cambridge. It's claimed that if you look north from there, the next higher point is over the north pole in Russia. Not sure about the other directions but it's all pretty flat around there. Is that one of the places you're looking for?

 

Except the trig point in Wandlebury Country Park isn't the highest point in Cambridgeshire [that's in Great Chishill, nearer Royston in Hertfordshire] and it's on the edge of a clump of trees, in a field, surrounded by trees. On a clear day, you can see Ely Cathedral from the edge of the Park, overlooking the golf course.

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An excellent reason to go there again. (I think I knew you were from that area.)

 

A topical question in memory of Leonard Nimoy: who originated the idea of Star Trek?

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:lol:10 out of 10 for you

Thanks, as a 14 year old boy at the time I watched the performances with great interest :ph34r:

 

Anyway, I've just been watching the film "Whisky Galore", which was based on a true story, so the question is what was the name of the ship that ran aground in real life, and what was the name of the same ship in the film?

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:lol:10 out of 10 for you

Thanks, as a 14 year old boy at the time I watched the performances with great interest :ph34r:

 

Anyway, I've just been watching the film "Whisky Galore", which was based on a true story, so the question is what was the name of the ship that ran aground in real life, and what was the name of the same ship in the film?

 

That would be the SS Politician, and I seem to recall reading that it had a more valuable cargo than the whisky - but I can't remember what it was!!!

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:lol:10 out of 10 for you

Thanks, as a 14 year old boy at the time I watched the performances with great interest :ph34r:

 

Anyway, I've just been watching the film "Whisky Galore", which was based on a true story, so the question is what was the name of the ship that ran aground in real life, and what was the name of the same ship in the film?

 

That would be the SS Politician, and I seem to recall reading that it had a more valuable cargo than the whisky - but I can't remember what it was!!!

 

Half a ding for SS Politician, but what name did it have in the film?

 

Any yes it was also carrying ten bob notes (I know you will remember them Dave ;-) )

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ISTR the cargo also contained currency that the Royal Mint had produced for another country and that the name of the ship in the film was based on the real-life name; so I'll try "SS Chancellor"?

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:lol:10 out of 10 for you

Thanks, as a 14 year old boy at the time I watched the performances with great interest :ph34r:

 

Anyway, I've just been watching the film "Whisky Galore", which was based on a true story, so the question is what was the name of the ship that ran aground in real life, and what was the name of the same ship in the film?

 

That would be the SS Politician, and I seem to recall reading that it had a more valuable cargo than the whisky - but I can't remember what it was!!!

 

Half a ding for SS Politician, but what name did it have in the film?

 

Any yes it was also carrying ten bob notes (I know you will remember them Dave ;-) )

 

Cheeky!

 

Cabinet Minister?

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Thanks Dave.

 

Sticking with films of that vintage, what was the 3 word astronomical name (It had a different name in the US) of a film set on a Nazi occupied channel island?

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Thanks Dave.

 

Sticking with films of that vintage, what was the 3 word astronomical name (It had a different name in the US) of a film set on a Nazi occupied channel island?

 

OhHo, Dirk Bogarde, "Appointment with Venus" = a rather beautiful young Jersey cow!!

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Thanks Dave.

 

Sticking with films of that vintage, what was the 3 word astronomical name (It had a different name in the US) of a film set on a Nazi occupied channel island?

 

OhHo, Dirk Bogarde, "Appointment with Venus" = a rather beautiful young Jersey cow!!

 

DING - back to you Dave

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Still on the war films front then.

 

When I was at school one of the Classics Masters talked often of "My friend Leo" - referring to Leo Genn. I iPlayered a film of his about a pow escape using a piece of gymnastic apparatus. What was the film?

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