Dear Humphrey,
I got your previous email after sending mine up - yes!!! this is what's
needed - will there be access to it by place-name as well as post-code
(people researching ancestors who went to Australia or Zimbabwe tend to
know 'Surrey' not 'GU12 5LF')
People in Olney not only tend to think they live in Milton Keynes - they
actually do (i.e. in the current Unitary Authority of that name). Oh
dear, now I think of it, so is Newport Pagnell - they've achieved their
aspiration.
Now I need a new example of people claiming to live somewhere they never
would have! Not at the county level, but when I lived in the south of
Morecambe, my landlady insisted it was Heysham. And Spelthorne's nearly
there (sometimes referred to as the London Borough of Spelthorne - but
more by people ridiculing them than by inhabitants of Staines, I think).
The 'buffers' you propose will probably catch the wishful thinkers -
I've never heard anyone from Bedford claiming that they live anywhere
else!
Best wishes,
Pat
In message <[log in to unmask]>,
Humphrey Southall <[log in to unmask]> writes
>This is what we are trying to do: map as many definitions of
>Nottinghamshire as possible.
>
>My answer to the final question is simple: put "buffers" round the defined
>area, adding (say) all points within five miles of the boundary. My guess
>is that very few people in Olney say they live in Milton Keynes, and nobody
>in Beford!
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Pat Reynolds
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