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Smoogie
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 Posted - 2009/01/18 : 11:31:20
Im nead County NOT Country! If your country has states or provinces you can also add them here! The way I see is counties (or equivalent) are countries within a country!
Im from Dorset! The largest town is Bournemouth, then Poole (my town) & then I think it is either Christchurch or Weymouth. Dorchester, our county town is the fifth largest.
The rest of Dorset is small market towns like Wareham & Blandford & villages & small coastal towns such as Swanage & Lulworth.
Until 1974 B'mouth & Xchurch where in Hampshire. Dorset borders Hampshire, Devon, Wiltshire & Somerset.
Dorset is famous for the Abotsbury Giant which is a large giant drawn into the land with a large penis!  We also don't have a motor way (except the very entrance of the M27) Some places no longer have a train service & some villages don't even get a daily bus service! The local bus company, Wilts & Dorset & also known as 'Cuts in Dorset' due to the rediculious amount of buses cut in the county in the last few years! 
Some parts of Dorset though have steam trains again, this being the Swanage to Corfe Railway line that reopened in the 70s.
Corfe has a Castle with history & the village is old with stone houses with small doors (people where smaller once)
We have many more small villages with thatched cottages & slate roofs & made of stone & villages often have names like Tarrent or Sturminster! Bournemouth has no old buildings before the 19th century though except in the Kinson area which was a village that got taken over! Kinson has thatched cottages, a Regency mansion house (the only one in Bournemouth) & an olde chuch with grave yard!
My area, Wallisdown was once a village as well. Poole also has old style buildings going backa few hundrad years but most from the 18th century onwards. Poole wnet a bit mad in the 60s with rebuilds & built a shopping centre called the Arndale (now Dolphin) with an ugly bus station that was a chav hang out but at last they are rebuilding it after 40 years! Poole is also the only Dorset town to have high rise blocks of flats but there arn't that many of them & they are not that tall & not on ghettos! There are some chavvy areas in Poole where the local mushdies are conviced they are from a ghetto in inner city London but listen to popcore & donkcore on the bus along with their RnB music!
Our rave scene is weak unless you like trancy vocal popcore! 
An old saying goes 'Dorset born, Dorset bread, strong in arm, good in bead!' 
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 Posted - 2009/01/18 : 13:31:26
well, i was born in dorset - parents eventually moved to cornwall (isles of scilly) then i moved to illinois, USA for 5 years.. and now im back in england, im in Cumbria (no that isnt a dirty joke anyone not in england lol - its the british lake district :P )
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Craigavon raver
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 13:43:41
i,m from county armagh in good ol ireland,armagh city is the biggest place in the county(well i asume it is as its the only city lol)but craigavon is the best FACT!
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Smoogie
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 13:48:00
quote:
Originally posted by DjTriquatra:
well, i was born in dorset - parents eventually moved to cornwall (isles of scilly) then i moved to the USA - and now im back in england and im in Cumbria (no that isnt a dirty joke anyone not in england lol - its the british lake district :P )
Where in Dorset where you born?
On wikipedia is says that Armagh isn't the bigest town in County Armagh but it dosn't mention Craigavon at all!
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Jay-Owen
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 14:17:18
My family geography is a somewhat confusing mystery that even my father and mother sometimes struggle to remember:
- my father is from Notthinghamshire (Cotgrave, to be precise), but moved to Herefordshire when he 3/4 or something, then to Redditch, a small town south of Birmingham, but actually in Worcestershire
- my mother is a mixture between a Liverpudlian mother and a midlands dad. She was born in Solihull, in the midlands.
- I was born in Newport, Gwent (Monmouthshire), in South Wales. Don't ask how we got there, I don't actually know. My family moved over to Belgium when I was two, and here I am now, in the 'region' (not county) of Région Bruxelles-Capitale (Brussels Capital Region)
PS: Although I am South Welsh technically, I consider Redditch (Worcestershire) to be my hometown, at least in the UK
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rosin007
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 14:20:04
Nordland county in norway : >
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 14:22:31
born in greater manchester (stockport)
and now i live in cheshire (macclesfield)
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Triquatra
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 14:50:47
born in dorchester hospital - lived in holwell :)
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K-Hole
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 15:00:12
Rutland! The smallest county that no one has ever heard about!
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Righteous9
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 15:02:56
Cook, The Chi USA! Chicago is the 3rd Largest city in America! We got an elevated train (nick named the El), and a subway, famous for the tallest building in America the Sears Tower and soon Trump Tower but F NY our Pizza is better (Deep Dish)! Also the first ever McDonalds! =)
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Squishy Star
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 15:07:43
New York City..
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Jay-Owen
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 15:10:53
quote:
Originally posted by K-Hole:
Rutland! The smallest county that no one has ever heard about!
Very true! What's a rutland?
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Jay-Owen
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 15:14:13
quote:
Originally posted by Jay-Owen:
quote:
Originally posted by K-Hole:
Rutland! The smallest county that no one has ever heard about!
Very true! What's a rutland?
After some research, I found out what a Rutland was:
It's a small county in the East Midlands with 2 towns in it. Oakham and Uppingham
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K-Hole
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 15:22:02
quote:
Originally posted by Jay-Owen:
quote:
Originally posted by K-Hole:
Rutland! The smallest county that no one has ever heard about!
Very true! What's a rutland?
Between the lovely cities of Leicester and Peterborough.
It was once mentioned in Blackadder and that is the only great thing about it.
I hate living there, it's so boring with a mass lack of jobs and anything decent to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland
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SPOOX
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 15:32:04
I'm from Surrey. Not much round my area so best place for me to go raving would be London.
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Posted - 2009/01/18 : 15:45:59
Finland Proper (these days its a region in Province of Western Finland).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_Proper_(region)
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