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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5668 on: November 22, 2021, 03:42:18 PM »
I was simply using the OS maps selection. Some of the earlier ones had blue on water courses, but that one was selected because it had fewer identifiable features. I cut off Bog Farm as that was easily found through Google.


That was a 25 inch to the mile search within the drop down options.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5667 on: November 22, 2021, 11:08:46 AM »
I was simply using the OS maps selection. Some of the earlier ones had blue on water courses, but that one was selected because it had fewer identifiable features. I cut off Bog Farm as that was easily found through Google.


That was a 25 inch to the mile search within the drop down options.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5666 on: November 22, 2021, 09:49:08 AM »
Thanks JohnFilmer. 


Out of interest, which of the NLS maps are you using?  I don't seem to have the same map as you use in the drop-down selection.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5665 on: November 22, 2021, 09:28:35 AM »
It is the old watercress beds at Newington. Well done JW.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5664 on: November 21, 2021, 08:59:27 PM »
Nearer the coast JW. North of A2.


There’s a church off to the south east of the map.


I found one at Newington earlier but my map showed similar but different to yours.  All my maps have water features coloured blue so I discounted it.


So my guess is Newington.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5663 on: November 21, 2021, 05:54:47 PM »
Nearer the coast JW. North of A2.


There’s a church off to the south east of the map.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5662 on: November 21, 2021, 05:36:19 PM »
Near the river Beult ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5661 on: November 21, 2021, 04:27:38 PM »
Too far west

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5660 on: November 21, 2021, 02:55:20 PM »
Springhead, Gravesend area?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5659 on: November 21, 2021, 01:53:56 PM »
Well that was a surprise...
Over 20 years ago, we went to Bedgebury to collect a pig hut (as you do), the things that look like shrunken Nissen Huts. Borrowed twin axle flat bed trailer that was wider than our Land Rover Defender 110. Trundled a fair way up an unmade track to a couple of houses only to find that the hut was still in the woods. Much entertainment reversing the combo in (my wife did that, she drives better backwards ::) ) and strapping the hut down, then a simple matter of driving back home.
We came up by the pond in Goudhurst, turned right and then I had to negotiate the narrow bit around the church with its double right angle bends. Not for the faint hearted  :o
Had a bit of trouble finding a quick bit of map, as every good idea that I had, the map gave away too much information, or that was too easily googled. So its a bit small, from 1908 25inch OS, Nls maps again.
North Kent
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5658 on: November 21, 2021, 10:50:25 AM »
A real guess as I can’t see a picture of the font, Goudhurst?


St Mary's Goudhurst it is JohnFilmer - good guess.


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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5657 on: November 21, 2021, 10:35:05 AM »
A real guess as I can’t see a picture of the font, Goudhurst?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5656 on: November 20, 2021, 07:44:17 PM »
Nice views

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5655 on: November 20, 2021, 02:37:26 PM »
Nice pub/hotel next door

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5654 on: November 19, 2021, 01:27:18 PM »
SW of mid Kent