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

*England = One of the four countries making up Great Britain (along with Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland)

From friends in Canada I have heard Quebec wants to be a different nation because it has a complete social differentiation from the rest of the country; it is more French influenced, more socialist (or capitalist, I forget, the opposite of the other) and possesses no oil (or all the oil, again opposite of the other)

I'm sure there is more to it than that though.

This will be a great series. I await it with baited breath.

And seriously, *any* contribution is valuable. We'd rather have a small entry on a county than no entry at all. Even if you just fill in the gaps about where the county is and what its neighbours are.

Your h2g2 needs you!

Hey jimster


What do you need?? i'm not undrstanding, something like the pevesner guides, where you wright about... say... a village and can we have photos which we take ourselves, with a snipet of info to go with and also where do we post them

Sorry! but i like to give it a go RJR

"Guernsey and Jersey (the Channel Islands) and the Isle of Man are Crown Protectorates, subject to the British Crown but not part of the UK."

yeah that sounds about right, although with Jersey there is some form of independant government that decides everything, but we still like the Queen.

"And then there's Sark..."

what do you mean by that? i've been to Sark, i nearly got run over by a tractor.

oh, and by the way, yeah i was volunteering.

Is there going to be an article on the English Alps?

Which of them do you mean ?

I think my other half can help you on dorset and berkshire, but he is in hospital at the moment, but i know he would be willing to help as we live in berkshire and dorset is his love

"And then there's Sark..."

"what do you mean by that?"

Sark has its own very odd constitution and autonomous legislature. In fact the island's relationship with the Bailliwick of Guernsey is as complicated as Guernsey's relationship with the UK. I recently spent a whole evening reading the island's history and constitution on the official website: http://www.sark.gov.gg

Tony2Times - sorry to contradict, but NI is in the UK but not part of Great Britain.

Doesn't Rockall deserve a listing, and that other place Sealand?

I'll do a piece on Thanet, Kent, and Canterbury when I get chance. may also cover some of the smaller villages of east kent and the weald. lived there for enough years.

*realises one of her degrees might finally come in useful*

I'll dig out the 6,000 words I wrote on the history of Devon, then, and see if any of them are any use. Although they are probably stored on a floppy disk *which is actually floppy*, it was so long ago.

Mol

How's this for starters ? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/
Could clash when the County Message Boards get the DNA treatment

I do hope that if there are any more of these 'Regions and Counties' threads to be posted in Challenge h2g2 they'll be posted in smaller doses - my MP page (and, I imagine, that of everyone subscribed to Challenge) is clogged with them - at least four or five pages-worth

I've spent a good *ahem* minutes unsubscribing to places I've never heard of too

But I'm willing to give Nottinghamshire a go, I live in it after all.

Anyone famous live in Nottingham? anh, not really...but they did film Crossroads there...

Hey, what about the Sherriff of Nottingham, John Lackland and Robin Hood ? Aren't they famous enough ? And I do hope once all the entries are written, we'll get a link to our PS

The Sheriff of Nottingham? Who's he? You mean the one that was supposed to chase Robin Hood about Sherwood Forest? hmmm. History has a wonderful way of being complete and utter nonsense don't it?

No, Nottinghamshire does have some great history, and some good places to go too. There's D.H Lawrence, Lord Byron, some Olympic Badminton players, Alton Towers and Sherwood Forest. Plus there are caves and castles and no end of attractive women to explore.

Nottinghamshire is grand.

Plus Nottingham has been voted the worst place to live in the UK and has the highest level of gun crime, teenage pregancy and drunken stag nights.

What you waiting for! Drop on by!

But then you get the argument that the 'real' Robin Hood was in Yorkshire not Nottanghamshire

Funny, Unc never mentioned that - a´re you sure there's only one Nottingham in England ?

*Nottinghamshire

Couldn't care less where the arrow chucking deer stealing layabout was from, he still attracts tourists to the place