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Try one from the whole world to begin with so you can hone your skills, if you play just one country then the scoring is quite strict. There are themed challenges so you can do famous buildings or locations too. Yeah you have to guess where you started, if you click on the little flag in the bottom left it takes you straight back there. Using the compass can be handy if you're by the coast or if you find a road sign. Playing with a time limit helps to keep it interesting. It really is one of those games that rewards you the more you play as you keep getting better and better as your geography knowledge improves. I love it.
@@Womberto I stopped for a tractor on a very narrow road near Lands End and a surfer in a van skidded on mud and it just touched my car's rear bumper. I cannot forget his small dog pinned to the windscreen like a cartoon character, or the surfer saying "Oh, bonus" on realising there was no damage and his and our dogs were OK. Happy New Year.
@@alansmithee8831 Haha, the roads in Cornwall have to be the worst in the country, especially considering the amount of traffic they get, glad your dogs were ok. Happy New Year Alan.
Sarah, I was just commenting on the dogs and the first fireworks went off early. The oldest dog was more annoyed than scared, as if it was the wrong time of year for "bang bangs" as bonfire night has gone already. I hope Scarlett is OK with them.
This really should have been the dullest, most uninteresting thing to watch but, I found it utterly brilliant. Great fun. You should do more of these. Your commentary on the cultural differences between the US and UK is fascinating and funny. Keep up the good work. I enjoy all your videos. Happy New Year 🥳
Really good on the last couple guesses, the reason it was within a couple miles away, is because you're supposed to guess where you started, and not where you walk to while exploring. Hope this helped REALLY liked this vid
Was gonna get the game until I found that out, I mean how are you Supposed to find out you’re original position again if your don’t know where you are? I mean if you could go to where you moved it would make the game possible to people, ruined the game for me
I literally shouted at the screen "YOU'RE IN MIDDLESBROUGH" when you showed the Ladgate Lane sign...Yes, Middlesbrough IS my home town. Another great video!
GB Roads are either M (Motorways, like Interstates), A - main roads or B (not main roads) The A and B roads are numbered (very) loosely on which motorway they're near/connect to. Very roughly - A1xxx roads are near the M1 - so tend to be north and east. M2 has A2xx roads, which are mostly south and east. M3 and A3xx roads are roughly south, south west. M4 and M5 and A4 and A5 are midlands and Middle/West, M6 and A6xxx roads are North and West. M7 and A7 roads are generally south Scotland, and M8/A8 roads are middle scotland, M9/A9 roads are north Scotland. The more digits, the less important the road. so the A1 will be more of a main road than the A1065, for exmple.
Some info , a close is a type of road that is blocked at one end , the circle sign with 30 is a speed limit sign, and ind est is short for industrial estate which is basically a non residential area.
Our country roads have so many bends in them because before the Romans came, with their weird straight road building ways, the locals would just build a road around a herd of cows or flock of sheep. ;¬)
Things that help : Bus Stops, Pub Names, Bin Lorries and Rubbish Bins. (those pictures were old). The First bus was First PMT (Potteries Motor Transport) Based in Stoke On Trent. Clue is the river trent. The Potteries are the Six Towns (and I can never remember the names), Is that Newcastle Under Lyme ? The Big out of Town Tesco probably on a site of one of the old pottery companies (Doulton - no they were London ?))
Europe is way less car centric than the states, we are comfortable with smaller roads. We also use smaller cars. While we do have "stroads" (a very uncomfortable mixup of roads and streets with 20m wide driveways and 50cm pedestrian paths), they are comparatively rare. Mostly we have streets in urban, suburban and countryside neighbourhoods, where the width of the lanes relates to the maximum allowed speed (the slower, the narrower)
About your comment regarding narrow roads in the UK, maybe this will help 🤪 ; Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire, And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire; A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head. I knew no harm of Bonaparte and plenty of the Squire, And for to fight the Frenchman I did not much desire; But I did bash their baggonets because they came arrayed To straighten out the crooked road an English drunkard made, Where you and I went down the lane with ale-mugs in our hands, The night we went to Glastonbury by way of Goodwin Sands. His sins they were forgiven him; or why do flowers run Behind him; and the hedges all strengthening in the sun? The wild thing went from left to right and knew not which was which, But the wild rose was above him when they found him in the ditch. God pardon us, nor harden us; we did not see so clear The night we went to Bannockburn by way of Brighton Pier. My friends, we will not go again or ape an ancient rage, Or stretch the folly of our youth to be the shame of age, But walk with clearer eyes and ears this path that wandereth, And see undrugged in evening light the decent inn of death; For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green. "Before the Romans came to Rye" by G K Chesterton. Rye in this instance is a town in East Sussex, one of the Cinque* Ports on the English Channel coast. * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinque_Ports
Colorado is the closest state in area size to England, but England’s population is somewhere above 56 million, Colorado’s is about 5.8 million, so effectively think of England as Colorado but with 10x the amount of people living in it
The road sign like a T with a black vertical line and a red horizontal line means no through road, its a dead end, so you'd have to turn round and come back.
The sign that says Bungay A144 (A143) means that you're currently on the A144, but that to GET to Bungay, you will (at some point, in the direction shown) need to turn ONTO the A143... We have roads beginning with M for Motorways, main non-motorway routes are A roads, and there are also numbered B roads, which are smaller/less important than A roads.
Stoke on Trent is notable for ceramics and pottery and similar industries - more in tha past than now. A are A class roads, B are B class roads and C/unclassified roads. Your interstates are our Motorways so M1, M2 and so on. A roads often follow the route of old - Roman - roads which were our main roads until the 1800s. Round Norwich, they're _all_ Roman roads or older :) Goods inwards -> delivery entrance to a factory or similar. 30 is a speed limit - 30 miles an hour T with a red bar - it's a no through road so you'd have to turn round ... CIA world factbook - UK, slightly smaller than Oregon :)
You know you're on the middle of nowhere when someone leaves their bicycle in a bus stop. That place in Scotland looks lovely but you wouldn't get away with that in Glasgow Great video btw, hope you do more
I've lived all my life in the UK and still struggle with geoguessr. I did find myself talking to my screen when you had the cursor right next to Stoke-on-Trent on the map 🤣 Quick explanation of the road types in the UK. M... (M1, M2, M3 etc.) designated roads are Motorways, equivelent to a freeway/interstate. All junctions are 'off ramps', so no roundabouts. All but one are at least 3 lanes in each direction. Carry blue signs with white writing A... (A1, A2, A3 etc.) These are our most poular type of road between towns and cities. There are hundreds of them and the numbers go on into 4 figures (A1260 for example) Generally, the lower the number the larger the road is. These type of roads can be either single carriageway, one lane in each direction, usually sharing the same stretch of tarmac. Dual carriageway, 2 lanes in each direction seperated by a central reservation. These can go to three lanes and are often designated with an additional M to signify Motorway rules (ie A1M). This is still an A road though..🙃 B... (B660, B1288) These are our minor roads that link small communities and outlying buildings to the main road structure. One other thing is that if, on a road sign the road number is in parentheses that means the junction to get ON that road is in the direction the sign is pointed in. 17:40 The A143 is up the road to the left as we are looking at it. I thought you did alright considering you're not used to our comparitively weird roads. I've tried the U.S version and more often than not it seems to enjoy putting me in the middle of nowhere and have to skip for miles and miles before find anything remotely populated 🤔
Small correction on single/dual carriageway info. It has nothing to do with the number of lanes only whether opposing traffic shares the same continuous stretch of tarmac. so it is possible to get single lane dual carriageways and more common multi lane single carriageways, This is a far more important definition than many people realise as the national speed limit is different depending on what type of road you are on, 70mph for a dual carriageway and 60mph for a single (this is for a car/bike not towing), which often leads to cars driving 10mph under the limit because they believe you can only do 70mph on motorways (all motorways are dual carriage ways) the A40 out of London can be notorious for this. Fun fact: only 5 of us out of the 11 people on my speed awareness course a few years ago knew this, there is a certain irony that the majority of people on a speed awareness course learning they can legally drive faster in many situations
I would totally watch you livestream full unedited GeoGuessr, the only risk is the people giving away “hints” in that chat, ie, telling you where the town is
@@steviebudden3397 more our friend plays the game, we get to sit back and explain what she is seeing and share knowledge and stories, ind est, nah mate, that’s just short for i industrial estate. X upon Y, x is a city, Y is the river it is grew upon and so on. Personal stories can be enjoyed by all, but it would need a strong admin team to filter out any tips like “check the south coast” or “it’s just East of Manchester” as it sucks the joy out of it for everyone
@@MrKnowledge0014 it can work, one of my fav Twitch guys before he quit always played something off the wall, he often did GeoGuessr snd could spend hours on on guess, his angle was comedy (whereas `soGal’s is learning), but he had banners and regular reminders stating no spoilers, and an on point mod team to deal with any transgressors. It worked
You might have noticed that some of the older larger cities have more signal light intersections than roundabouts, but there are almost no stop signs to be found.
Great video, as someone who loves GeoGuessr and is very good at it, it’s always fun to watch newcomers play. The UK is quite a difficult map and you did very well. You should try out the Europe map, it would be interesting to see how you do on there
Sogal: some words in England: trash cans = rubbish bins ( recycling bins etc). Sidewalk = pavement. Parking lot = car park. PS the Newcastle here is Newcastle Under Lyme, and Stoke area is also known as The Potteries, home of many potteries in the day, eg Wedgwood. Hence the pub was the Potters Bar.
I love GeoGuessr, play it religiously everyday. First one cracked me up as I literally live 18 miles away from the villages of Melvich & Portskerra in Scotland’s most northerly town of Thurso. Which as a matter of fact is one of the top surfing venues in the world, not a lot of people know that.
There are three newcastles in England, so as soon as you saw that sign you were doomed. The A in A roads is sometimes said to stand for Arterial, but then you have B roads which are smaller. The direction signs have the road number you are turning onto, and when its in brakets, it's telling you what direction to take to reach that road number. The T symbol with the red top means its a cul-de-sac, or a dead end / road leading to a dead end.
British Roads: Mxx are Motorways, equivalent to freeways. Specific motorway rules apply. Axx(M) are trunk roads or 'primary' routes between major centres. Often two-lanes each way. (M) denotes motorway rules apply. Axxxx are major routes, often one lane each way. Bxxxx are minor routes and can be single lane only where drivers must cooperate to pass by each other. The [ T ] sign means 'No through road' ahead. Where a sign says, for example, B1018 (A12), it means you are on the B1018, the brackets means it leads to the A12. (30) Maximum speed limits are black numbers on a white background with a red circle around it.
However much you know it’s only when you get here or try something like this game/quiz that you realize what you don’t know! Stoke-On-Trent is known as the Potteries, their historic industry is pottery. There were loads of pottery companies there, if it was made of china or porcelain then there was a chance it was made in Stoke. Some of the hundreds of Bottle Kilns still exist. The bus company, First Bus probably had the Potteries on it, Near Stoke is the big Theme Park of Alton Towers. The road sign, if you know the rules, tells you it’s a tourist attraction because it has a brown background. In the UK we have 4 types of road classifications. M roads are Motorways, like your freeways but a few are toll roads, the A roads are almost like your Interstate Highways but some are dual carriageways, most are just two lane highways. Some in the north of Scotland are very narrow, single track, with passing places. Roads between villages are usually B class roads, and again can be very narrow. Loads of country roads are unclassified and these are very narrow. The road numbers are London centric. The M1 & A1 go north to the Scottish border, almost to Edinburgh. The M2 & A2 go east of London towards Kent and Dover. The M3 roads tend to be around the Manchester area. THE M4 & A4 go west towards Cornwall & S Wales. The M5 & A5 go North West through Birmingham to North Wales and Holyhead. The M8 & A8 roads tend to be in Scotland. Most roads are maintained by local authorities but the M roads and some of the major A roads are maintained by devolved Highway Authorities. A Happy New Year to you, Roger and Scarlet!
The First Bus Company existed BEFORE Facebook... It took over most of UK bus lines in 2000. Fun fact, un London, some of the First lines are now part of the RATP Group, the international branch of the Paris transport company.
The infrastructure have never been about looking at each individual street sign to know where to go. Before the mid 2000's you were expected to have a map and know the general way to go, and if you could not see the sign, then you would still have a general idea of where you are. Outside of the street signs that are placed on the side of a building (usually in very narrow places, like city centers), the signs are a height where you can sit on the sign like a bench. It is also why we have the nearest towns on the signs instead of North, West, South, East directions. Road 144 North or Motorway 12 South means nothing, you are near a town.
22:00 yes people use the sidewalks, and especially if they go to a football field or indoor arena. It is more of a culture shock that no one does that in USA, Europeans get honked at when doing that in the states.
You did blimmin well! Britain, and England in particular, is jam packed with interesting little nooks and crannies of places so it's no wonder you got a bit confused. Google maps is both fascinating and a bit intrusive 'cause it (seems) to have gone down every lane and street. We used to live in a little place slap bang in the middle of England where Google street map DIDN'T go down. If your nosey, type in Bottom Row, Pleasley Vale, Mansfield, England and try and 'go' down Shire Road. Happy New Year.
Fun game. 1st one looked typically rural Scotland: the McEwans sign on the tiny hotel was a clue & if it was Wales you could have found some bilingual road signs - not just that place name. You might guess which coast from shadows & satellite dishes, but it could easily be misleading.... Ready for round 2 😃 ...Kicked my butt on round 2 - I didn't think to look at the wheelie bins. That's a very generic UK housing estate of the 80's onwards, could've been anywhere. Ooo no - have you sold yourself a dummy here - don't pick the wrong Newcastle! ....Anyone else navigating by brewery chain?
Merthyr Tydfil (Is Welsh named after Tudful the Martyr, the daughter of Chieftain Brychan) 200years ago it was just known as 'Llandydfil' (St. Tydfil), a small hamlet until coal-mining and industrial revolution came the Town of Merthyr absorbed other hamlets and created a town about 100x its original size at one time it was its own county the merged with Caerphilly known for a leaning Castell tower and CHEESE!!
"The Potteries" is a nickname for the area around Stoke in the Midlands because it has been famous for producing pottery, dishes, ceramics etc since the industrial revolution
Watching people playing Geoguessr is for some reason really enjoyable. I guess it comes to something like seeing new places, listening comments on differences in other countries and making own guesses alongside. If you ever do another Geoguessr video, interested in Europe (including Russia), especially northern Europe, and North America. Only because those are most familiar places for me. Goods Inwards!
We have concrete pavements too. There's not another Newcastle, sometimes a sign will point to a city miles away. We have A roads, B roads and M roads, M is Motorway and is often the bigger of the three.
A few people have mentioned that Stoke-on-Trent is (or was until recently) well known for its potteries. Nobody's mentioned that it's in Staffordshire. So if you've ever heard of Staffordshire China, then it was made in Stoke. Also, it's sometimes known as 'the five towns' as it consists of five towns which merged together.
Stoke makes the fine china. Just down the road is the small village of Armitage location of the Armitage Shanks company who makes about half of the toilets in UK.
Happy New Year Sarah! The letters on the roads go as follows M stands for Motorway, these are 2 to 4 lane dual carriageways with a maxium speed limit of 70mph, pedestrians, cyclists and learner drivers are not permitted on them. A stands for A road these are major roads that can be single or dual carriageways with a max speed of up to 60mph (single carriageway) or 70mph (dual carriageway). A roads will generally connect towns and cities (although not always). B stands for B road these are the narrow country roads that criss cross the rest of the country.
Out of all the stunningly scenic places in wales you could get, you end up near Nelson where I used to live, right next to that embarrassingly crappy 'discount pram' place I used to disdain the existence of every-time I drove past.
Wow! your far more patient than me Sarah! anyway a happy new year to you and Scarlet, 4 hours to go here so getting ready to see the new year in the UK! cheers!
Stoke on Trent is a notoriously difficult area to navigate, it's several large towns which merged into one big city, the whole area is known as 'The Potteries' as there used to be so many potteries there including the famous Wedgewood Pottery, which is actually only a few miles away from where you had to guess, I do cross country racing in the winter in a place called Park Hall which is right next to where you had to guess too, the spot you had to guess was in a town called Meir which you saw printed on the bus.
As you mentioned companies doing trash pickup, in the UK that’s done pretty much entirely by local councils (local government) And we don’t have suburbs in the same way as the US because of different zoning laws so there’s less sprawl in the UK We also have a lot less billboards high up, that’s the first thing that stands out every time I get to the US - that and the rumbling whining noise the roads make 😂 and then the lack of sidewalks where we’d expect to see them. There’s definitely plenty of the US that looks like the UK and vice versa in terms of landscape, there’s a reason New England is called that. Also cities only refer to very specific locations in the US, villages, towns and cities have very distinct definitions that they don’t in the US. As you mentioned street signs there’s a Top Gear segment about the design of motorway signs you might want to react to.
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is well known for its pottery industry. This is why there are references to it. However, names can be deceptive. The town named Potters Bar, which has been part of Hertfordshire since boundary changes in 1965, has noting to do with pottery, or alcohol. It was actually a forest gate, owned by the Potter family. Bar meant gate, and is still used as a reference to something that has been closed off (as in barred').
2:50 lots of people complain that cars are too wide, yet the farmers like to drive their wide ass tractors around hauling 3 tonnes of cow manure. You gotta love this country
If you've travelled the UK a bit, you can often tell from grass, landscape, building types, the region you're in, such as south east, west country, etc
Place direction signs are in different colours. Green or blue on A roads or motorways for major routes or towns. White signs for local small towns or villages. Brown signs for tourist attractions. Lots more, esp in towns eg a sign to the local swimming pool, car parks etc
25:11 The sign mentions Llancaiach Fawr, a 16th-century manor-house which is a "living museum" today. Home of the wealthy Prichard family, it was once visited by King Charles I, in whose honour a banquet was held. In an effort to impress the King, the Prichards sent their housekeeper to Cardiff Docks to buy some exotic imported goods for the feast. This included a pineapple, which cost the Prichards a small fortune... thousands of pounds, apparently.
MY GOD i was yelling at my TV when i saw the Dustbins (trashcan) with Stoke on Trent stamped on them , must watch my blood pressure . I suppose id be just the same as you if it was me in your area LOL . Love watching your channel
Great job! The 2nd one in Stoke was painful to watch though lol you were so close so early on! Also there is a button in the bottom left that puts you back to the original location they put you
Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire. It known as The Potteries as it was at the heart of the pottery industry in the industrial revolution. It’s still famous for pottery.
Funny you hit Nelson, only 5 miles from where I live in the UK. FYI Llancaiach Fawr is a 16th century manor house and renowned for being one of the most haunted buildings in Wales.
I was shouting at you when you were in my home city of Plymouth, Britains Ocean City. Wnen you were at Plymstock Morrisons & McDonalds roundabout I was wandering if you were heading towards the.historic Barbican and Mayflower steps where the Mayflower set sail for the New World. This was good fun, frustrating but enjoyable to watch! Happy New Year. Sarah
At the end of some road (modern) signs you'll see a T symbol with a red top. That indicates a "dead end" no through road. The other clues are close, drive, end etc.
I've been playing geoguessr for a few years now and I was shouting at the screen she skipped over Stoke on Trent a number of times thought she was going to do the same with Merthyr
Worth mentioning, you have to place the pin where you started. So if you move to a place, and you know where that is, you still won't get the points because it's not where you started.
Trent is one of the larger rivers running through England, therefore Stoke-on-Trent means on the River Trent, so find and follow that river and you should across Stoke. Some cities have upon in their name which also means upon a particular river, eg - Newcastle upon Tyne or Stratford upon Avon.
Sidewalk/pavement. Our roads were widened when cars came along -before most were for horse and carts. Happy New Year. Newcastle has the real name of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Many towns and cities share names.
There are several Newcastle's (- under Lyne, - Upon Tyne, and - Emlyn) Cities are top tier and have a Cathedral, Towns are next down, then Villages and then Hamlets. Halesworth and Bungay where American airbase's in WW2 You looked to be spot on with Portsmouth. 30 is the speed limit. The "T" sign signifies a dead end, a 'Close' or a Cul-de-sac or a country lane that ends nowhere. 92 miles by road - in a straight line - is impossible in the British Isles.
General clue from "A" Road (Main road) numbers: They link Cities, Towns (population centres) Single digit= major road, double, triple, quadruple = lessor (status) road The first digits 1-5 generally radiate in sectors clockwise around London 1N-E, 2 E- S, 3 S-SW, 4 SW-NW 5 NW- N First digit 6 originate in the Midlands and NW England, 7, 8 and 9 N England and Scotland. Similar pattern for Motorways (M...)= Interstate? Dual language signs: apparent lack of vowels=Welsh/Cymraeg(sometimes Cornish/Kernow), Accented vowels= Gaelic (Scottish Highlands &Islands or Ireland)
Strangely fascinating. I don't think ivedvedpointedand shouted 'There it is!' at a youtube video while pointing g at a map on screen, so much...in fact at all, in my life.
The sign with a Red horizontal line and a white vertical line forming a T means a cul-de-sac or a no through road - IE it is basically is a dead end road.
I enjoyed it. It really is interesting to watch. Britain is so small it wouldn't be the same watching a Brit do it because it would be too easy. I think you have a pretty good knowledge of the UK. xx
French here. For the first place, the McEwans sign on a pub was telling you you were in Scotland. Second place, the Marston's sign was a clue you were in England, not far from Brimingham ;) Learning geography thru breweries...
That's just playing with Google maps. I might have done a little better but I don't think I'd have the patience! Few tips and observation. The road numbers are arranged like a clock centered on London. So A1 heads to Edinburgh any road number beginning A1xxx will be in the north east. A2 goes to Dover so A2 numbered roads are in the south east. A3 goes to the west country, the south west, Cornwall and Devon. A4 goes to south Wales ( Merthyr Tydfil!) A5 goes to north Wales, and A6 heads to the north west. M1, M2, M3 etc are the motorways going in the same directions. A roads are the primary roads, B roads are secondary routes, c roads are lanes etc, their numbers aren't put on signs no one usees the issued number for them, just the local authority which maintains them. Goods Inwards = deliveries. Stock they need for their business. Ind Est is industrial Estate ( business park) they abbreviate it on road signs. The blue Square with a T Shape on it indicates the road is a dead end. No way out. I guessed Scotland but thought it was South West Scotland, not the far north. Stoke, Norfolk, Plymouth, and Merthyr would have presented few problems. I belive Capt Cook was from Whitby in the north east - a massive clue there, and I've been to Middlesbrough too. It's not a bad way of suss in out the nature of a place. McDs does use its yellow M but not too big, advertising signs shouldn't invade the visual environment. California might be a good one to try next!
The rural roads are usually not much wider than the one at 2:30 when they are not a main road with a center line. They are a double lane road, and you can go a bit on the grass to pass other vehicles if they a larger one. There are many reasons why people dont drive giant pickup trucks or huge SUV's, and roads like that are one of them. Also the standard in Europe is to have speed limits on a circle sign with red reflexive paint, instead of the weird plain white square ones in North America. It is not even an EU standard. Recommend watching top-gear drive on the windy narrow roads in Scotland or the French and Italian riviera
The funny thing in this video was that you were looking for Stoke Trent, when you were looking at the map. Just before you stopped at Manchester the map showed Stoke on Trent (Mid England between Manchester and Birmingham)
You were done in on the first Stoke location by the sign that said "Newcastle" on it. You soon learned that there are two Newcastles in the UK, with the one you guessed , Newcastle-upon-Tyne, being the bigger and more famous one. While we haven't lived in the area for over 30 years, I was born in Stoke-on-Trent, and my brother was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme :-) And then you were plonked right in the city in which I now live. I knew exactly where you were when I saw the road sign at 20:22.
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Try one from the whole world to begin with so you can hone your skills, if you play just one country then the scoring is quite strict. There are themed challenges so you can do famous buildings or locations too.
Yeah you have to guess where you started, if you click on the little flag in the bottom left it takes you straight back there. Using the compass can be handy if you're by the coast or if you find a road sign.
Playing with a time limit helps to keep it interesting. It really is one of those games that rewards you the more you play as you keep getting better and better as your geography knowledge improves. I love it.
Also all those narrow country roads that look like you can only fit one car through have a 60 mph speed limit!
@@Womberto I stopped for a tractor on a very narrow road near Lands End and a surfer in a van skidded on mud and it just touched my car's rear bumper. I cannot forget his small dog pinned to the windscreen like a cartoon character, or the surfer saying "Oh, bonus" on realising there was no damage and his and our dogs were OK.
Happy New Year.
@@alansmithee8831 Haha, the roads in Cornwall have to be the worst in the country, especially considering the amount of traffic they get, glad your dogs were ok. Happy New Year Alan.
Sarah, I was just commenting on the dogs and the first fireworks went off early. The oldest dog was more annoyed than scared, as if it was the wrong time of year for "bang bangs" as bonfire night has gone already.
I hope Scarlett is OK with them.
The 30 in the red circle you keep seeing on signs is the speed limit.
The T with the red top is the sign for a dead end
And the triangle with the weird bend
The triangle (point at the top) indicates a warning and the warning in that case was that there was a junction on a bend coming up.
This really should have been the dullest, most uninteresting thing to watch but, I found it utterly brilliant. Great fun. You should do more of these. Your commentary on the cultural differences between the US and UK is fascinating and funny. Keep up the good work. I enjoy all your videos. Happy New Year 🥳
Really good on the last couple guesses, the reason it was within a couple miles away, is because you're supposed to guess where you started, and not where you walk to while exploring. Hope this helped
REALLY liked this vid
Was gonna get the game until I found that out, I mean how are you Supposed to find out you’re original position again if your don’t know where you are? I mean if you could go to where you moved it would make the game possible to people, ruined the game for me
@@cdawvq There is a flag you can click and it will show you your original position
I literally shouted at the screen "YOU'RE IN MIDDLESBROUGH" when you showed the Ladgate Lane sign...Yes, Middlesbrough IS my home town. Another great video!
ME TOO.
I was the same when Stoke on Trent kept coming up on her map.
Me too
I LIVE NEAR THERE AND KNEW IT
Yes, Middlesbrough IS a shithole, but I'm from Wakefield so I can't really saw owt...
I must say, watching an American trying to decipher the road numbering system when about 90% of the UK can't work it out it's very entertaining.
GB Roads are either M (Motorways, like Interstates), A - main roads or B (not main roads)
The A and B roads are numbered (very) loosely on which motorway they're near/connect to.
Very roughly - A1xxx roads are near the M1 - so tend to be north and east. M2 has A2xx roads, which are mostly south and east. M3 and A3xx roads are roughly south, south west. M4 and M5 and A4 and A5 are midlands and Middle/West, M6 and A6xxx roads are North and West. M7 and A7 roads are generally south Scotland, and M8/A8 roads are middle scotland, M9/A9 roads are north Scotland.
The more digits, the less important the road. so the A1 will be more of a main road than the A1065, for exmple.
M4 goes from London to near Carmarthen in South Wales.
Some info , a close is a type of road that is blocked at one end , the circle sign with 30 is a speed limit sign, and ind est is short for industrial estate which is basically a non residential area.
What you've got to understand with British roads, they were built for horse and carts, not cars. Some roads date back to two thousand years.
Also many of the windy roads are built in between farm land, so even newer ones are just not built wider.
@@TrashskillsRS Indeed.
Our country roads have so many bends in them because before the Romans came, with their weird straight road building ways, the locals would just build a road around a herd of cows or flock of sheep. ;¬)
Things that help : Bus Stops, Pub Names, Bin Lorries and Rubbish Bins. (those pictures were old). The First bus was First PMT (Potteries Motor Transport) Based in Stoke On Trent. Clue is the river trent. The Potteries are the Six Towns (and I can never remember the names), Is that Newcastle Under Lyme ? The Big out of Town Tesco probably on a site of one of the old pottery companies (Doulton - no they were London ?))
Europe is way less car centric than the states, we are comfortable with smaller roads. We also use smaller cars. While we do have "stroads" (a very uncomfortable mixup of roads and streets with 20m wide driveways and 50cm pedestrian paths), they are comparatively rare. Mostly we have streets in urban, suburban and countryside neighbourhoods, where the width of the lanes relates to the maximum allowed speed (the slower, the narrower)
Can you share where you can find a stroad?
2:26 i think thats a slab of stone to keep the lids closed , windy at the coast ;)
About your comment regarding narrow roads in the UK, maybe this will help 🤪 ;
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire,
And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire;
A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread
The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.
I knew no harm of Bonaparte and plenty of the Squire,
And for to fight the Frenchman I did not much desire;
But I did bash their baggonets because they came arrayed
To straighten out the crooked road an English drunkard made,
Where you and I went down the lane with ale-mugs in our hands,
The night we went to Glastonbury by way of Goodwin Sands.
His sins they were forgiven him; or why do flowers run
Behind him; and the hedges all strengthening in the sun?
The wild thing went from left to right and knew not which was which,
But the wild rose was above him when they found him in the ditch.
God pardon us, nor harden us; we did not see so clear
The night we went to Bannockburn by way of Brighton Pier.
My friends, we will not go again or ape an ancient rage,
Or stretch the folly of our youth to be the shame of age,
But walk with clearer eyes and ears this path that wandereth,
And see undrugged in evening light the decent inn of death;
For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,
Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
"Before the Romans came to Rye" by G K Chesterton.
Rye in this instance is a town in East Sussex, one of the Cinque* Ports on the English Channel coast.
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinque_Ports
Why did I find this so entertaining lmao
edit- OOH Nyoooo Stoke on Trent appeared on the map in big letters on about 3 different occasions lmao 😂
It was dead centre of the map in bold. :)
Yeah, you were literally hovering over it on the map at one point
I love how she's like I'm near Newcastle.
Actually yes... but also no
Colorado is the closest state in area size to England, but England’s population is somewhere above 56 million, Colorado’s is about 5.8 million, so effectively think of England as Colorado but with 10x the amount of people living in it
The Welsh pronunciations are cracking me up! A great vid!
The road sign like a T with a black vertical line and a red horizontal line means no through road, its a dead end, so you'd have to turn round and come back.
Also a European sign standard 😂
The sign that says Bungay A144 (A143) means that you're currently on the A144, but that to GET to Bungay, you will (at some point, in the direction shown) need to turn ONTO the A143...
We have roads beginning with M for Motorways, main non-motorway routes are A roads, and there are also numbered B roads, which are smaller/less important than A roads.
By the way rabbits live in burrows, we in the UK live in boroughs, pronounced like burruh.
Stoke on Trent is notable for ceramics and pottery and similar industries - more in tha past than now. A are A class roads, B are B class roads and C/unclassified roads. Your interstates are our Motorways so M1, M2 and so on. A roads often follow the route of old - Roman - roads which were our main roads until the 1800s. Round Norwich, they're _all_ Roman roads or older :) Goods inwards -> delivery entrance to a factory or similar. 30 is a speed limit - 30 miles an hour T with a red bar - it's a no through road so you'd have to turn round ...
CIA world factbook - UK, slightly smaller than Oregon :)
Great fun (only 500 yards off one of them) 😀 ... I'd watch another one when you get chance ... Happy New Year & all the best for 2022
You know you're on the middle of nowhere when someone leaves their bicycle in a bus stop. That place in Scotland looks lovely but you wouldn't get away with that in Glasgow
Great video btw, hope you do more
11:00 Re: The Potters Bar, the pub is named for the history of making pottery in the area around Stoke-on-Trent.
I've lived all my life in the UK and still struggle with geoguessr. I did find myself talking to my screen when you had the cursor right next to Stoke-on-Trent on the map 🤣
Quick explanation of the road types in the UK.
M... (M1, M2, M3 etc.) designated roads are Motorways, equivelent to a freeway/interstate. All junctions are 'off ramps', so no roundabouts. All but one are at least 3 lanes in each direction. Carry blue signs with white writing
A... (A1, A2, A3 etc.) These are our most poular type of road between towns and cities. There are hundreds of them and the numbers go on into 4 figures (A1260 for example) Generally, the lower the number the larger the road is. These type of roads can be either single carriageway, one lane in each direction, usually sharing the same stretch of tarmac. Dual carriageway, 2 lanes in each direction seperated by a central reservation. These can go to three lanes and are often designated with an additional M to signify Motorway rules (ie A1M). This is still an A road though..🙃
B... (B660, B1288) These are our minor roads that link small communities and outlying buildings to the main road structure.
One other thing is that if, on a road sign the road number is in parentheses that means the junction to get ON that road is in the direction the sign is pointed in. 17:40 The A143 is up the road to the left as we are looking at it.
I thought you did alright considering you're not used to our comparitively weird roads. I've tried the U.S version and more often than not it seems to enjoy putting me in the middle of nowhere and have to skip for miles and miles before find anything remotely populated 🤔
Small correction on single/dual carriageway info.
It has nothing to do with the number of lanes only whether opposing traffic shares the same continuous stretch of tarmac. so it is possible to get single lane dual carriageways and more common multi lane single carriageways,
This is a far more important definition than many people realise as the national speed limit is different depending on what type of road you are on, 70mph for a dual carriageway and 60mph for a single (this is for a car/bike not towing), which often leads to cars driving 10mph under the limit because they believe you can only do 70mph on motorways (all motorways are dual carriage ways) the A40 out of London can be notorious for this.
Fun fact: only 5 of us out of the 11 people on my speed awareness course a few years ago knew this, there is a certain irony that the majority of people on a speed awareness course learning they can legally drive faster in many situations
Road numbers and place names in parentheses (brackets in the UK) indicate that it can be reached from a junction off that road in that direction.
merthyr is just down the road where i am been there a few times, interesting thing to pop up on geo guesser
I found this fascinating, would be more than happy if you did this again
I would totally watch you livestream full unedited GeoGuessr, the only risk is the people giving away “hints” in that chat, ie, telling you where the town is
A sort of crowd sourced game.
@@steviebudden3397 more our friend plays the game, we get to sit back and explain what she is seeing and share knowledge and stories, ind est, nah mate, that’s just short for i industrial estate. X upon Y, x is a city, Y is the river it is grew upon and so on. Personal stories can be enjoyed by all, but it would need a strong admin team to filter out any tips like “check the south coast” or “it’s just East of Manchester” as it sucks the joy out of it for everyone
@@Rokurokubi83 Yeah, your right. Pity. The first part of your comment could be vey enjoyable.
@@Rokurokubi83 Sometimes that can make for a fun experience, like if it's stated no big hints unless the streamers asks for 1.
@@MrKnowledge0014 it can work, one of my fav Twitch guys before he quit always played something off the wall, he often did GeoGuessr snd could spend hours on on guess, his angle was comedy (whereas `soGal’s is learning), but he had banners and regular reminders stating no spoilers, and an on point mod team to deal with any transgressors. It worked
You might have noticed that some of the older larger cities have more signal light intersections than roundabouts, but there are almost no stop signs to be found.
Great video, as someone who loves GeoGuessr and is very good at it, it’s always fun to watch newcomers play. The UK is quite a difficult map and you did very well. You should try out the Europe map, it would be interesting to see how you do on there
1. Sutherland & Caithness. I have drank in that Hotel many times and booked a room for myself and girlfriends.
Sogal: some words in England: trash cans = rubbish bins ( recycling bins etc). Sidewalk = pavement. Parking lot = car park. PS the Newcastle here is Newcastle Under Lyme, and Stoke area is also known as The Potteries, home of many potteries in the day, eg Wedgwood. Hence the pub was the Potters Bar.
I love GeoGuessr, play it religiously everyday. First one cracked me up as I literally live 18 miles away from the villages of Melvich & Portskerra in Scotland’s most northerly town of Thurso. Which as a matter of fact is one of the top surfing venues in the world, not a lot of people know that.
There are three newcastles in England, so as soon as you saw that sign you were doomed.
The A in A roads is sometimes said to stand for Arterial, but then you have B roads which are smaller. The direction signs have the road number you are turning onto, and when its in brakets, it's telling you what direction to take to reach that road number.
The T symbol with the red top means its a cul-de-sac, or a dead end / road leading to a dead end.
Goods inwards is where a factory etc. takes in their supplies.
British Roads:
Mxx are Motorways, equivalent to freeways. Specific motorway rules apply.
Axx(M) are trunk roads or 'primary' routes between major centres. Often two-lanes each way. (M) denotes motorway rules apply.
Axxxx are major routes, often one lane each way.
Bxxxx are minor routes and can be single lane only where drivers must cooperate to pass by each other.
The [ T ] sign means 'No through road' ahead.
Where a sign says, for example, B1018 (A12), it means you are on the B1018, the brackets means it leads to the A12.
(30) Maximum speed limits are black numbers on a white background with a red circle around it.
The ‘30’ signs indicated speed limits - maximum not minimum as a lot of drivers seem to think!!
@Mark Williamson. For an example see "wild Bradford driving" to see why my insurance halved when I moved from the city I grew up in.
However much you know it’s only when you get here or try something like this game/quiz that you realize what you don’t know! Stoke-On-Trent is known as the Potteries, their historic industry is pottery. There were loads of pottery companies there, if it was made of china or porcelain then there was a chance it was made in Stoke. Some of the hundreds of Bottle Kilns still exist. The bus company, First Bus probably had the Potteries on it, Near Stoke is the big Theme Park of Alton Towers. The road sign, if you know the rules, tells you it’s a tourist attraction because it has a brown background.
In the UK we have 4 types of road classifications. M roads are Motorways, like your freeways but a few are toll roads, the A roads are almost like your Interstate Highways but some are dual carriageways, most are just two lane highways. Some in the north of Scotland are very narrow, single track, with passing places. Roads between villages are usually B class roads, and again can be very narrow. Loads of country roads are unclassified and these are very narrow. The road numbers are London centric. The M1 & A1 go north to the Scottish border, almost to Edinburgh. The M2 & A2 go east of London towards Kent and Dover. The M3 roads tend to be around the Manchester area. THE M4 & A4 go west towards Cornwall & S Wales. The M5 & A5 go North West through Birmingham to North Wales and Holyhead. The M8 & A8 roads tend to be in Scotland. Most roads are maintained by local authorities but the M roads and some of the major A roads are maintained by devolved Highway Authorities.
A Happy New Year to you, Roger and Scarlet!
The First Bus Company existed BEFORE Facebook... It took over most of UK bus lines in 2000. Fun fact, un London, some of the First lines are now part of the RATP Group, the international branch of the Paris transport company.
Also ALTON TOWERS!!!!!! Sorry, I have to do that every time I see a sign for it, it’s an impulse! Alton Towers is a popular theme park in England
The infrastructure have never been about looking at each individual street sign to know where to go.
Before the mid 2000's you were expected to have a map and know the general way to go, and if you could not see the sign, then you would still have a general idea of where you are.
Outside of the street signs that are placed on the side of a building (usually in very narrow places, like city centers), the signs are a height where you can sit on the sign like a bench.
It is also why we have the nearest towns on the signs instead of North, West, South, East directions. Road 144 North or Motorway 12 South means nothing, you are near a town.
@votejj Well they are designed to be seen, but they can be obstructed by vehicles. It is just not so vital that they must not be obstructed.
@votejj putting street signs on poles were done until the 1960's, they can still be seen in places with older signs.
22:00 yes people use the sidewalks, and especially if they go to a football field or indoor arena.
It is more of a culture shock that no one does that in USA, Europeans get honked at when doing that in the states.
Why would you not walk on the sidewalk?
@@BobWitlox Well in most places in the states that is still weird when not in the city center
We can also cross a road when we want
This was fun! Hooray for the algorithm. Subbed.
Sarah, I could happily have watched that for 2 hours it was very good.
19:20 You need to find the point you started at each round, not where you've moved to while looking around.
You did blimmin well! Britain, and England in particular, is jam packed with interesting little nooks and crannies of places so it's no wonder you got a bit confused. Google maps is both fascinating and a bit intrusive 'cause it (seems) to have gone down every lane and street. We used to live in a little place slap bang in the middle of England where Google street map DIDN'T go down. If your nosey, type in Bottom Row, Pleasley Vale, Mansfield, England and try and 'go' down Shire Road. Happy New Year.
Another Stags fan? Come on you Stags!
19:10 The game is asking you to pinpoint the place you started at, not where you are when you make the guess.
White vertical line with a red crossbar (all on a blue background) is a dead end.
The Tesco you showed is were I do my shopping, you were in the Meir Park district of Stoke-on-Trent. Great video more please.
I'm British but I've been living in the south coast of Spain since last year. This really takes me back to when I lived in the UK
Fun game. 1st one looked typically rural Scotland: the McEwans sign on the tiny hotel was a clue & if it was Wales you could have found some bilingual road signs - not just that place name. You might guess which coast from shadows & satellite dishes, but it could easily be misleading....
Ready for round 2 😃
...Kicked my butt on round 2 - I didn't think to look at the wheelie bins. That's a very generic UK housing estate of the 80's onwards, could've been anywhere.
Ooo no - have you sold yourself a dummy here - don't pick the wrong Newcastle!
....Anyone else navigating by brewery chain?
Your experience of trying to understand signs reminds me when two friends and I first went to the US for a fly drive holiday in the 1980’s
Stoke on Trent and the surrounding area is known as The Potteries. Stoke City’s nickname is The Potters
Merthyr Tydfil (Is Welsh named after Tudful the Martyr, the daughter of Chieftain Brychan) 200years ago it was just known as 'Llandydfil' (St. Tydfil), a small hamlet until coal-mining and industrial revolution came the Town of Merthyr absorbed other hamlets and created a town about 100x its original size at one time it was its own county the merged with Caerphilly known for a leaning Castell tower and CHEESE!!
"The Potteries" is a nickname for the area around Stoke in the Midlands because it has been famous for producing pottery, dishes, ceramics etc since the industrial revolution
Watching people playing Geoguessr is for some reason really enjoyable. I guess it comes to something like seeing new places, listening comments on differences in other countries and making own guesses alongside.
If you ever do another Geoguessr video, interested in Europe (including Russia), especially northern Europe, and North America. Only because those are most familiar places for me.
Goods Inwards!
Newsagents are usually found on the end of housing estates or streets. They sell general everyday things like newspapers,milk,bread ect.
We have concrete pavements too. There's not another Newcastle, sometimes a sign will point to a city miles away. We have A roads, B roads and M roads, M is Motorway and is often the bigger of the three.
A few people have mentioned that Stoke-on-Trent is (or was until recently) well known for its potteries. Nobody's mentioned that it's in Staffordshire. So if you've ever heard of Staffordshire China, then it was made in Stoke.
Also, it's sometimes known as 'the five towns' as it consists of five towns which merged together.
Stoke makes the fine china. Just down the road is the small village of Armitage location of the Armitage Shanks company who makes about half of the toilets in UK.
Small one-storey houses are called bungalows. Many of them are owned by a local or city council, and very often designated for retired people.
Happy New Year Sarah! The letters on the roads go as follows M stands for Motorway, these are 2 to 4 lane dual carriageways with a maxium speed limit of 70mph, pedestrians, cyclists and learner drivers are not permitted on them. A stands for A road these are major roads that can be single or dual carriageways with a max speed of up to 60mph (single carriageway) or 70mph (dual carriageway). A roads will generally connect towns and cities (although not always). B stands for B road these are the narrow country roads that criss cross the rest of the country.
Out of all the stunningly scenic places in wales you could get, you end up near Nelson where I used to live, right next to that embarrassingly crappy 'discount pram' place I used to disdain the existence of every-time I drove past.
Wow! your far more patient than me Sarah! anyway a happy new year to you and Scarlet,
4 hours to go here so getting ready to see the new year in the UK! cheers!
Stoke on Trent is a notoriously difficult area to navigate, it's several large towns which merged into one big city, the whole area is known as 'The Potteries' as there used to be so many potteries there including the famous Wedgewood Pottery, which is actually only a few miles away from where you had to guess, I do cross country racing in the winter in a place called Park Hall which is right next to where you had to guess too, the spot you had to guess was in a town called Meir which you saw printed on the bus.
Also you saw Newcastle-under-Lyme which confuses a lot of people as it's not as well known as it's namesake Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
As you mentioned companies doing trash pickup, in the UK that’s done pretty much entirely by local councils (local government)
And we don’t have suburbs in the same way as the US because of different zoning laws so there’s less sprawl in the UK
We also have a lot less billboards high up, that’s the first thing that stands out every time I get to the US - that and the rumbling whining noise the roads make 😂 and then the lack of sidewalks where we’d expect to see them. There’s definitely plenty of the US that looks like the UK and vice versa in terms of landscape, there’s a reason New England is called that.
Also cities only refer to very specific locations in the US, villages, towns and cities have very distinct definitions that they don’t in the US.
As you mentioned street signs there’s a Top Gear segment about the design of motorway signs you might want to react to.
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is well known for its pottery industry. This is why there are references to it. However, names can be deceptive. The town named Potters Bar, which has been part of Hertfordshire since boundary changes in 1965, has noting to do with pottery, or alcohol. It was actually a forest gate, owned by the Potter family. Bar meant gate, and is still used as a reference to something that has been closed off (as in barred').
2:50 lots of people complain that cars are too wide, yet the farmers like to drive their wide ass tractors around hauling 3 tonnes of cow manure. You gotta love this country
If you've travelled the UK a bit, you can often tell from grass, landscape, building types, the region you're in, such as south east, west country, etc
The low buildings at the start were typically scottish, but I thought poss N Ireland
Place direction signs are in different colours.
Green or blue on A roads or motorways for major routes or towns.
White signs for local small towns or villages.
Brown signs for tourist attractions.
Lots more, esp in towns eg a sign to the local swimming pool, car parks etc
HI Sarah
Happy new year.
Love the video. You did extremely well. Each part of the UK has its own character. That was difficult for a non UK resident.
The 30 sign you were wondering about is the speed limit. IE: 30mph in that area
25:11 The sign mentions Llancaiach Fawr, a 16th-century manor-house which is a "living museum" today. Home of the wealthy Prichard family, it was once visited by King Charles I, in whose honour a banquet was held. In an effort to impress the King, the Prichards sent their housekeeper to Cardiff Docks to buy some exotic imported goods for the feast. This included a pineapple, which cost the Prichards a small fortune... thousands of pounds, apparently.
Love the fact that around the 10 minute mark the map in the bottom corner rests over the little village of wadhurst where I lived for 12 years.
Wadhurst is lovely. I used to have friends who lived there and I always looked forward to visiting them.
@@ftumschk yes I miss it , although Middlesbrough has its plus points. Lol.
MY GOD i was yelling at my TV when i saw the Dustbins (trashcan) with Stoke on Trent stamped on them , must watch my blood pressure . I suppose id be just the same as you if it was me in your area LOL . Love watching your channel
Great job! The 2nd one in Stoke was painful to watch though lol you were so close so early on! Also there is a button in the bottom left that puts you back to the original location they put you
Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire. It known as The Potteries as it was at the heart of the pottery industry in the industrial revolution. It’s still famous for pottery.
Funny you hit Nelson, only 5 miles from where I live in the UK. FYI Llancaiach Fawr is a 16th century manor house and renowned for being one of the most haunted buildings in Wales.
I was shouting at you when you were in my home city of Plymouth, Britains Ocean City. Wnen you were at Plymstock Morrisons & McDonalds roundabout I was wandering if you were heading towards the.historic Barbican and Mayflower steps where the Mayflower set sail for the New World. This was good fun, frustrating but enjoyable to watch! Happy New Year. Sarah
At the end of some road (modern) signs you'll see a T symbol with a red top. That indicates a "dead end" no through road. The other clues are close, drive, end etc.
This may have been a torture for you, but it was fun to watch.
I've been playing geoguessr for a few years now and I was shouting at the screen she skipped over Stoke on Trent a number of times thought she was going to do the same with Merthyr
At 13:46, Alton Towers is near Stoke-On-Trent, (44 miles from Manchester) & Newcastle-Under-Lyme, (42 miles from Manchester),
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Worth mentioning, you have to place the pin where you started. So if you move to a place, and you know where that is, you still won't get the points because it's not where you started.
Trent is one of the larger rivers running through England, therefore Stoke-on-Trent means on the River Trent, so find and follow that river and you should across Stoke. Some cities have upon in their name which also means upon a particular river, eg - Newcastle upon Tyne or Stratford upon Avon.
We don’t say stop lights in Britain we say traffic lights.
We would also use traffics lights, but I seem to default to stop light.
@@SoGal_YT That so reminds me of my first attempt at a traffic light circuit in "Hardware" practical lesson at university. "Stuck at stop".
You should definitely make this a series now you’ve paid for it, a few months time and we’ll be watching a U.K. geography expert haha
Sidewalk/pavement. Our roads were widened when cars came along -before most were for horse and carts. Happy New Year. Newcastle has the real name of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Many towns and cities share names.
I had a burger a couple of days ago in the McDonalds you showed in Plymstock , just off the Pomphlett road . You did well Sarah . Happy New Year .🇬🇧
There are several Newcastle's (- under Lyne, - Upon Tyne, and - Emlyn)
Cities are top tier and have a Cathedral, Towns are next down, then Villages and then Hamlets.
Halesworth and Bungay where American airbase's in WW2
You looked to be spot on with Portsmouth.
30 is the speed limit.
The "T" sign signifies a dead end, a 'Close' or a Cul-de-sac or a country lane that ends nowhere.
92 miles by road - in a straight line - is impossible in the British Isles.
General clue from "A" Road (Main road) numbers:
They link Cities, Towns (population centres)
Single digit= major road, double, triple, quadruple = lessor (status) road
The first digits 1-5 generally radiate in sectors clockwise around London 1N-E, 2 E- S, 3 S-SW, 4 SW-NW 5 NW- N First digit 6 originate in the Midlands and NW England, 7, 8 and 9 N England and Scotland.
Similar pattern for Motorways (M...)= Interstate?
Dual language signs: apparent lack of vowels=Welsh/Cymraeg(sometimes Cornish/Kernow), Accented vowels= Gaelic (Scottish Highlands &Islands or Ireland)
Princetown Close was the name of the road, a close is a dead end road,
Strangely fascinating. I don't think ivedvedpointedand shouted 'There it is!' at a youtube video while pointing g at a map on screen, so much...in fact at all, in my life.
The sign with a Red horizontal line and a white vertical line forming a T means a cul-de-sac or a no through road - IE it is basically is a dead end road.
I enjoyed it. It really is interesting to watch. Britain is so small it wouldn't be the same watching a Brit do it because it would be too easy. I think you have a pretty good knowledge of the UK. xx
French here. For the first place, the McEwans sign on a pub was telling you you were in Scotland. Second place, the Marston's sign was a clue you were in England, not far from Brimingham ;) Learning geography thru breweries...
That's just playing with Google maps. I might have done a little better but I don't think I'd have the patience!
Few tips and observation.
The road numbers are arranged like a clock centered on London. So A1 heads to Edinburgh any road number beginning A1xxx will be in the north east. A2 goes to Dover so A2 numbered roads are in the south east. A3 goes to the west country, the south west, Cornwall and Devon. A4 goes to south Wales ( Merthyr Tydfil!) A5 goes to north Wales, and A6 heads to the north west.
M1, M2, M3 etc are the motorways going in the same directions.
A roads are the primary roads, B roads are secondary routes, c roads are lanes etc, their numbers aren't put on signs no one usees the issued number for them, just the local authority which maintains them.
Goods Inwards = deliveries. Stock they need for their business.
Ind Est is industrial Estate ( business park) they abbreviate it on road signs.
The blue Square with a T Shape on it indicates the road is a dead end. No way out.
I guessed Scotland but thought it was South West Scotland, not the far north.
Stoke, Norfolk, Plymouth, and Merthyr would have presented few problems.
I belive Capt Cook was from Whitby in the north east - a massive clue there, and I've been to Middlesbrough too.
It's not a bad way of suss in out the nature of a place.
McDs does use its yellow M but not too big, advertising signs shouldn't invade the visual environment.
California might be a good one to try next!
Roads prefixed 7, 8, and 9, are all in Scotland.
Goods inwards is where the company wants deliveries made.
The rural roads are usually not much wider than the one at 2:30 when they are not a main road with a center line. They are a double lane road, and you can go a bit on the grass to pass other vehicles if they a larger one. There are many reasons why people dont drive giant pickup trucks or huge SUV's, and roads like that are one of them.
Also the standard in Europe is to have speed limits on a circle sign with red reflexive paint, instead of the weird plain white square ones in North America. It is not even an EU standard.
Recommend watching top-gear drive on the windy narrow roads in Scotland or the French and Italian riviera
Have a Happy New Year 2022, with many more videos for us to watch.
Speed Cameras are automated, they take a picture of the driver and recognise the number plate, then they send you the fine.
The funny thing in this video was that you were looking for Stoke Trent, when you were looking at the map. Just before you stopped at Manchester the map showed Stoke on Trent (Mid England between Manchester and Birmingham)
You were done in on the first Stoke location by the sign that said "Newcastle" on it. You soon learned that there are two Newcastles in the UK, with the one you guessed , Newcastle-upon-Tyne, being the bigger and more famous one.
While we haven't lived in the area for over 30 years, I was born in Stoke-on-Trent, and my brother was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme :-)
And then you were plonked right in the city in which I now live. I knew exactly where you were when I saw the road sign at 20:22.