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Originally posted by Ginger Yellow View Post
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It's really weird to me that the existence of unregistered land is treated as some kind of sinister phenomenon. It's just a historical legacy, arising from the fact the land was originally all unregistered, and only becomes registered on transfer. When I studied law in the late 1980s, we learnt the systems of registered and unregistered land law side by side with roughly equal time on each.
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- Mar 2008
- 18789
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Yes. I couldn't quite get in close enough but a chunk of land on the map nearest to my house is either the grassed area around which the houses in my close are built, and council-owned I believe, or the nearby allotment.
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- Mar 2008
- 18789
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
UK homicides (interactive map at the foot of the story): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47156957
Quite fascinating, in a macabre way. Odd to see the likes of Mole Valley (essentially Dorking) and the Vale of White Horse (Abingdon & Wantage) at the top of the pile with parts of the big cities.Last edited by Nocturnal Submission; 07-02-2019, 12:36.
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- Mar 2008
- 18789
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
I would have thought that the locations apply to the areas in which the homicide was found to have been committed, but I could be wrong. Most UK homicides are solved, I believe, or if not a location for the original incident established.
If you'd have told me that a list of the worst 10 areas for homicides in the UK wouldn't include Hackney, Lambeth or Southwark I'd have been very surprised, but there you have it.
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- Mar 2008
- 18789
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
So far I've identified Lewes, West Oxfordshire, Rutland, Moray, Eilean Siar, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, Derbyshire Dales & High Peak as areas not having had any homicides in the last five years.
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The British-Irish Dialect Map Quiz - going dossing in your runners and finding some hairy mollies in the process gives a very accurate geographical pin-pointing.
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Couldn't make up its mind whether I was from north Lancashire (Blackpool in particular), West Yorkshire (Leeds in particular, which is where I grew up) or Lincoln. But then I haven;t lived in my native city full time since I was 18, or at all since I was 22.
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- Mar 2008
- 18789
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
I got quite a large area, pretty much the whole of SE England and East Anglia, though if there was a hot spot it was the southern Home Counties, which is fairly accurate as I'm essentially a South Londoner.
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It doesn't seem to have me very focused at all. I'm in a random splatter all over the South of England. It claims Cambridge and Bath as the two most likely cities. If there was a "hot spot" (following NS's definition), it probably would be the north-west Home Counties or South Midlands, which would be right for Oxford. It's interesting but unsurprising that it's the home counties which seem least specific.
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- Mar 2008
- 18789
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View PostI got quite a large area, pretty much the whole of SE England and East Anglia, though if there was a hot spot it was the southern Home Counties, which is fairly accurate as I'm essentially a South Londoner.
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