Trivia: Station that can reach most stations within a county.

[unlevel42]

Hallamshire is the name of a rail line, a constituency and a battalion.
It was last a county in the 16th century. It does exist, but comes under South Yorkshire county council and the ceremonial one so doesn't count on here.
I'm sure no one would mind areas like that being used if it's defined.
Today it's the same as Sheffield metropolitan borough council area more or less.
Other similar areas which were counties included Richmondshire, Hullshire, Hexhemshire, Cravenshire, Winchcombeshire and Howdenshire. Shire was used on non-counties too. For example Cramlingtonshire and Leylandshire.

Hallam Line
Hallam Constituency
Hallamshire Battallion disappeared in the 60s
Hallamshire was never a County
South Yorkshire County Council no longer exists
As for its boundaries-no one knows apart from it being on the boundary with Mercia

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

Hallam Line
Hallam Constituency
Hallamshire Battallion disappeared in the 60s
Hallamshire was never a County
South Yorkshire County Council no longer exists
As for its boundaries-no one knows apart from it being on the boundary with Mercia

It was recorded as a county in 1546 according to British History Online which is referenced on the Wikipedia page. [15]

 

[unlevel42]

It was recorded as a county in 1546 according to British History Online which is referenced on the Wikipedia page. [15]

Wikipedia also says:
Non-county "shires" including Hallamshire.
British History Online makes one reference to the County of Hallamshire and dozens to Hallamshire in the County of York.

 

[CKiltie]

Cleveland, Humberside, London, Avon, Sussex have all been split for ceremonial counties which is apparently what is used on this question.
That means Darlington is best connected for County Durham.
Lewes for East Sussex.
Brighton for West Sussex.
I do not know if Victoria or Piccadilly are connected to tge most ib Greater Manchester.

Brighton is in East Sussex though.

Edit: Never mind..someone mentioned that already.. Sorry!

 

[po8crg]

If we count station groups, then Manchester Stations can reach every station in Greater Manchester, and Liverpool Stations all but four in Merseyside.

 

[scrapy]

There is no service from Manchester to Bryn, Reddish South or Denton

 

[Springs Branch]

Stamford in Lincolnshire is the same in that it's not linked to any other same county stations..

Lancashire is a county reasonably well provided with railway lines & stations, but from Upholland you cannot reach another Lancashire station without changing once at either Wigan or Salford Crescent, or twice at Kirkby & Kirkdale.

 

[backontrack]

-All East Sussex stations (except Tunbridge Wells-Hastings) can be reached from Lewes.
-Does Ashford serve the most stations in Kent? There is the new St Pancras-St Pancras HS1 service via Chatham, Margate, Deal and Folkestone.
-All Argyll & Bute stations can be reached from Glasgow Queen Street.
-All Moray stations from Aberdeen or Inverness and stations between.
-All Aberdeenshire stations can be reached from Aberdeen.
-All Worcestershire stations can be reached from Shrub Hill.
-All Herefordshire stations can be reached from Hereford.
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And Bottesford for Leicestershire.

Though given how far away in a little thin "peninsula" of Leics. Bottesford is, not surprising.

How about Lockerbie? No direct services between it and the rest of Dumfries & Galloway.

 

[DarloRich]

I have never heard anyone in Redcar or Middlesbrough say they're in North Yorkshire as everything of importance is either Cleveland/Teesside or the local council.

You want to speak to my family members then, or the many people in Middlesbrough, often of a certain age, who consider themselves to be proud Yorkshire people!

I have seen Yorkshire CCC play at Middlesbrough many times. There is a campaign to restore "Yorkshire" status to the area south of the tees, including Middlesbrough & Redcar!

The river boundary isn't obvisious to any map readers.
And the legal stuff says "for the time being the centre of the river".
What does that mean? These ceremonial counties should be scrapped.

It is fairly obvious where the boundary is to anyone with a modicum of common sense!

What do you think the "legal stuff" means? It means, until such time as someone changes the rules the boundary is in the middle of the river! it isn't rocket science!

The county may be abolished and have no council. But Cleveland does exist.

CLEARLY the land that once formed the county of Cleveland exists. It hasn't been completely blown away in a massive explosion or rotted away through the caustic smog that lingers in the atmosphere BUT THE COUNTY OF CLEVELAND DOES NOT EXIST!

It was replaced, on the 1st of April 1996, by a number of unitary authorities. Yes one of those, Redcar and Cleveland, contains the word Cleveland but that doesn't mean the County of Cleveland exists. Ok? I think you might be a little confused.

If the Tees is the boundary then Bernard Castle is in two counties!

It was at one point. And it is Barnard Castle.

Croft on Tees was in exactly the same situation. The authorities renamed the part of the village on the Durham side of the Tees Hurworth Place.



Anyway - back on topic. Buckinghamshire is a county ( ) where it is not possible, yet, to travel directly between all stations within the county

For instance, i can not go from Bletchley to Aylesbury without going to London!

 

[adrock1976]

How about Todmorden?

Todmorden historically straddled both Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire many moons ago. I believe regarding the communications industry, Todmorden has an OL postcode (Lancashire) and a Halifax dialling code (Yorkshire).

I'm wondering if which side of the Calder residents were born or reside has ever determined which county cricket team to support?

In peace

Adam

 

[JamesRowden]

-All East Sussex stations (except Tunbridge Wells-Hastings) can be reached from Lewes.

Lewes doesn't have services to Preston Park, the East Sussex West Coastway stations or the Uckfield line. See my earlier post:

According to my calculations Lewes is beaten by Brighton, St Leonards Warrior Square, Hastings and Ore. All four of these stations score the same.

 

[po8crg]

What do you think the "legal stuff" means? It means, until such time as someone changes the rules the boundary is in the middle of the river! it isn't rocket science!

Actually, that's not what it means. It means that the boundary is wherever the middle of the river happens to be. If those words weren't there, then it would be where the middle of the river was at the time of the enactment, so if the river moved then the boundary wouldn't.

All boundaries that are on rivers are "for the time being the centre of the river X" (or one bank of the river, sometimes) because rivers do change their course with time and having boundary stay still when the river moves is silly.

 

[DarloRich]

Actually, that's not what it means. It means that the boundary is wherever the middle of the river happens to be. If those words weren't there, then it would be where the middle of the river was at the time of the enactment, so if the river moved then the boundary wouldn't.

All boundaries that are on rivers are "for the time being the centre of the river X" (or one bank of the river, sometimes) because rivers do change their course with time and having boundary stay still when the river moves is silly.

agreed - the boundary is the middle of the river at that point in time - but i thought that might be to complicated! (And i have a hang over!)

 

[Andyjs247]

-All East Sussex stations (except Tunbridge Wells-Hastings) can be reached from Lewes.
-Does Ashford serve the most stations in Kent? There is the new St Pancras-St Pancras HS1 service via Chatham, Margate, Deal and Folkestone.
-All Argyll & Bute stations can be reached from Glasgow Queen Street.
-All Moray stations from Aberdeen or Inverness and stations between.
-All Aberdeenshire stations can be reached from Aberdeen.
-All Worcestershire stations can be reached from Shrub Hill.
-All Herefordshire stations can be reached from Hereford.
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How about Lockerbie? No direct services between it and the rest of Dumfries & Galloway.

There are no direct services between Worcester (Shrub Hill or Foregate St) and Alvechurch / Redditch.

Also, amongst the most disconnected places Gillingham (Dorset) has no direct services to anywhere else in Dorset.

 

[47832]

Also, amongst the most disconnected places Gillingham (Dorset) has no direct services to anywhere else in Dorset.

Think Sherborne is still in Dorset.