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Friday on YNT is Fact Friday where as well as the news I regail you with a fascinating fact that you never knew before; so without further waffle here is this week's fact....
The Cornish town of Lostwithiel was so named due to the fact the town would be moved around the countryside to fool unwelcome travellers. This was achieved using a cunning and intricate system of brass pulleys and valves set up in Victorian times and operated by the mayor of Lostwithiel while sitting in a seat in the towns control room situated in the guildhall that looked similar to the time machine in HG Wells' book of the same name. The practice continued until the 1950s when the town received a visit from a very annoyed official from the Ordnance Survey.
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I grew up nearby in St. Austell and can divulge that the practice of obscuring the location of Lostwithiel continues to this day.In order to defuse an upwelling of nationalist sentiment a compromise had to be agreed on. Instead of moving the town, nowadays it 's the railway station that moves:- it's on rails and is shunted onto the main line a few miles East,there to masquerade as Bodmin Parkway.As I'm sure anyone familiar with the line will agree this is a strange station in the middle of nowhere( as are all stations whose name ends in'Parkway')
ReplyDeleteEver noticed how trains through Cornwall never stop at both Lostwithiel AND Bodmin Parkway?