h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The lowest point in Britain. I'm sure this would be somewhere in the fens but where exactly I do not know.

it may not be lowest geographically, but it is the pits, I vote for Stevenage, Herts. I spent 16 months there, seemed like 16 years.

Good Question Smurf ! My Boys Own Book of the Lowest Points in G.B. tells me you are about right. It's 2.7 Mtrs (9 ft. in English money) below sea level in the Holme Fen near Ely, Cambridgeshire. If you count places you can't walk on without a diving suit in England it would be the bed of Lake Windermere, Cumbria at -27 Mtrs, and Scotland takes the lowest place with the bed of Loch Morar, Highlands at 301Mtrs below sea level. If you count caves G.B.s deepest is Ogof Ffynnon Ddu 308 Mtrs Deep in Powys Wales. Englands deepest cave is Giants Hole Oxlow Caverns Derbyshire at 214 Mtrs. Not a lot of people know that.The highest point BTW, although I'm sure you already know, is Scotlands Ben Nevis. (Just thought I'd chuck that in for the sake of completeness) Best Wishes, A.M.

I wouldn't go walking in the fens without a diving suit. Very marshy place. Ely Cathedral is quite impressive because it sticks out so much with all that flat land about. And of course Ely itself used to be an island. And I believe there was once a beach at Wisbeach.

Now what about the longest river? (it was along time ago that I did geography)

Er...yes, in the UK it's the Severn. 220 miles from the source at a lake at the east side of Plinlimmon, Powys in Wales to the Bristol Channel .
Can't say I've been to Ely, It sounds nice, Must pay it a visit and perhaps a walk around the fens.I've been to Peterborough though, I seem to remember it was quite flat.

To quote Noel Coward - "Very flat, Norfolk", (Private Lives)
The highest point in the UK from Siberia is the University Library tower in Cambridge. I lived behind it and it was COOOOOOOLD! The winds you know....

The fens are very famous for being flat, wet and very cold. I grew up in King's Lynn (I'm sure I've already said that) and I'm convinced there is nothing quite like the wind in the fens. A lovely place for a summer holiday (so I've been told).

Do YOU have a strange attraction to traffic lights??

Only when they're green.