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Lickable
23-08-2005, 12:46
Just out of intrest...

Does anybody know how far inland Sheffield is from its nearest coast?
drolnhoj
23-08-2005, 12:54
Approximately 70 miles!


By road!
cgksheff
23-08-2005, 13:21
As the crow flies (not road distances):

Humber Bridge - 47 miles
Immingham - 55 miles
Grimsby - 60 miles
Skegness - 73 miles
floyd77
23-08-2005, 13:36
Nowhere in britain is more than 78 miles from a coast.

Now there's a crap fact for you!
cgksheff
23-08-2005, 13:55
Originally posted by floyd77
Nowhere in britain is more than 78 miles from a coast.

Now there's a crap fact for you!

From the Ordnance Survey:

The further most point from the sea in the British Isles is at grid reference SK 257144.

This lies just east of Church Flatts Farm, approximately 1 mile south-east of Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire.

By my reckoning this only about 71.5 miles from either East or West coasts.
floyd77
23-08-2005, 13:58
Originally posted by cgksheff
From the Ordnance Survey:
By my reckoning this only about 71.5 miles from either East or West coasts.

Which is less that 78 miles is it not? :heyhey:
melthebell
23-08-2005, 18:42
im about a mile or something from the coast :)

if i was to walk through loads of farmers fields behind our house and jumped off a cliff id be in the sea w00t
Rich
23-08-2005, 19:03
The nearest Seaside is Cleethorpes and that's bang on an hour away traffic on the M18 and M180 permitting.