what is your area 'famous' for?

[janeyo]

A few miles from us the annual World Pea Shooting Championships are held.

Another few miles from us and happenng this weekend I believe is the British Ploughing Championships...

exciting stuff I tells ya!


So come on what 'exciting' things happen in your neck of the woods?

[snuffer]

Edingley is about nine miles away from Sherwood Forest. Home of Robin Hood.

[janeyo]

yes but that's a sensible one! I want weirdy ones lol

[Glutton4...]

About 10 minutes drive from us they once held the World Water-Skiing Championships! (or so I'm told!)

[di]

The firast ever "Greenbelt" festival was held in Charsfield(my home village)...as was the home for "Akenfield"...a film in the seventies avbout village life & later an open garden a lady that had a role in said film.
Also "Artemus 81" was filmed there...starring Sting...many a day in primary school was spent calling out to him ^ then having him pop round as I was poorly when they set fire to the vicarage.
Got in my head there was something else.but can't right now think what?

[SarzWix]

Flippin' Brontés! I don't even like most of their literary works... But everything round here seems to stick their name in the company name somewhere

And The Railway Children was filmed near here too.

[zazen999]

Lady Chatterley's Lover was filmed near here; in Elvaston Castle.

That's about it. We have the annual Well Dressing in the next village; but then again I believe that is quite common round these parts.

And we have the annual oldies versus heavy metalheads in the Co-op every time Download [the new version of Monsters of Rock, plus camping] is on....which never fails to make me smile as chuffin great metalheads pick up lemon fancies and ask their skinny metalhead girlies if they can have a packet. Even better - the lemon half moon cake. Has me in stitches every year.

[smallblueplanet]

Stonehenge, Avebury...oh and of course weirdy crop circles!

The Barge Inn, Honeystreet, Pewsey,

[Rocketron]

Suicides. Beachy Head is a favourite spot.

[shirlthegirl43]

Early potatoes, LNG and fuel protests. The Shell Cottage part of the final Harry Potter film and Russell Crowe's Robin Hood were filmed locally.

[FionaH]

The opening war scenes in Gladiator were filmed near here. A new Robin Hood film was filmed in the same woods a few weeks ago. Thats it!

[HeyWayne]

The next village to us - Toddington has a fanatastic sausage, the Toddington Thumper. It's a whopper.

Not exactly "famous" but we also have the Bedfordshire Clanger - similar to a Cornish pasty, but noweher near as well known.

We have Luton Hoo which has loads of stuff filmed there (brother-in-law's girlfriend works there so we hear all about it).

There's something about John Bunyan and Harlington that's "famous" but I can't remember what.

Lu-on airpawt of course!

Charles Bronson (the thug, not the film star) was born in Luton, as was Paul Young.

There's the Sharpenhoe Clappers about 2-3 miles from here - some fantastic views from up there.

The Great Train Robbery happened about 20 minutes from here.

I live here.

[bubblewrap]

Stilton Cheese, Pork pies(Melton Mobray 14 miles) Taylors Bell Foundry, Great central Railway, Ladybird Books(Closed) The University,The Brush (Engineering) Luddites,................................................................................& ME!

[Snadger]

Errrrmmmm...............lets see now................coal?

[janeyo]

I am LOVING these .... keep em coming! Brilliant!