How much did you know about…

You might be surprised: some of the weirder facts may turn out to be true..

Although if any h2g2er does live in Doggerland, we want photographic evidence.

True or false?

1. Milton Keynes is listed on the Gough Map. F. (The Gough Map was made in the Middle Ages.)
2. There are three villages in the UK named Cackle Street. T. (One is near Brightling.)
3. A hamlet is a village without a church.T. (Is this true in Denmark?)
4. Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts. T. (Giving local meaning to the term 'bicoastal'.)
5. London's population reached the 1 million mark in 1905. F. (Try 1810.)
6. The Humber Bridge is the world's longest single-span suspension bridge. F. (Not any more, it's fallen to 7th place.)
7. Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the UK. T. (But rumours about the discovery of Donald's troosers up there are probably apocryphal.)
8. Ogof Ffynnon Ddu ia Welsh for 'hiding place of stolen sheep.'F. (It's Welsh for 'cave of the black spring.')
9. Altnaharra, Scotland, has the coldest temperatures in the UK. T. (It even beat out the South Pole once.)
10. If you live in the UK, you are no more than 75 miles from the sea. T. (You realise that in the US, that's practically beachfront property?)
11. Some h2g2ers live in Doggerland. F. (Not unless you can breathe underwater.)

Got 'em all? You're ready to write the guidebook. Oh, wait…we do that…

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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