Talk:Clitheroe/Archive 1

Archive 1

'The place is now believed to be the most central town in Britain'

Do we have a source for this? --Nick Boalch ^?!? 15:58, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

this is possibly incorrect. The ordnance survey say that the "Geographical" centre of UK/Great Britain/British isles (Can't remember which!) is a place in the trough of Bowland near a village called Dunsop bridge. The nearest town to this is Clitheroe, hence the claim. There is controversy about it in the local paper. It depends on the definitions of britain and centre. Certainly Clitheroe qualifies as the most central town in one of these definitions but I don't know which.

--Totalthinker 02:16, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I've rephrased the sentence slightly to explain the claim a bit more clearly and include a link to Dunsop Bridge. --Nick Boalch ^?!? 11:01, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

when i was a pupil at CRGS [1977–84], we were taught [by mr john 'beefy' hesketh in maths] that a point between dunsop bridge and clitheroe was the centre of gravity of 'mainland' [horrible phrase] great britain, ie the bits of england, scotland and wales that are contiguous.

so you could balance this piece of land on a hypothetical needle... no definitive source however [though the other things he taught me in maths have turned out to be true as far as i can work out].

R7 16:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Well "Beefy" Hesketh would probably be right becasue he certainly knew his onions when it came to local geography. Good lad. Oakeshott 21:48, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Gustav Moose?

What is all this Flaming Moose business? Is it vandalism? I am going to revert it. AFCR 10:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Religion

I have removed the following sentence from the second paragraph: "There has been some controversy surrounding this, and previous entries for Clitheroe, for instance, have noted that the growing Muslim community is "unfortunate" for the town.". First of all, referring to the opinion of a previous (single anonymous) editor of this article is nonsense. I don't live in Clitheroe, so I've no idea if there is any notable controversy or not. But if there is, the reason needs to be explained and references to reliable published sources are required. --Dr Greg 12:05, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Co ordinates of Castle

The coordinates for the castle point at some where in Cheshire - this needs correcting. AFCR (talk) 10:15, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Unemployment rate

The unemployment rate claim has no citation. I have found this article which puts it at 'less than two %', but I can't find anything more specific. The article: http://legacy.thisislancashire.co.uk/lancashire/clitheroe/info/guide.html Izax143 (talk) 11:22, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

West Riding of Yorkshire!!!

According to FreeBMD, 'The district Clitheroe spans the boundaries of the counties of Lancashire and West Riding of Yorkshire'. If this is correct, as Clitheroe never appears to have been in Yorkshire, it may be worth noting that it was possible to be born in Yorkshire, but to have had the birth registered Lancashire. Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 15:18, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Full protected 3 days

I don't know enough about the topic to have an opinion, but I do have an opinion on edit warring: Don't or you risk getting blocked. Hammer it out, if someone is behaving badly or trolling, take it to WP:ANI, but we don't want to see WP:3RR broken. WP:BRD is a good guide. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 22:29, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Pronunciation

You can source the transcription to the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18th edition). — lfdder 23:03, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

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what citation should be used for local businesses

I updated the info about some of the local shops and it's been marked as "citation needed". I am not sure how to cite references for this, or what references would be suitable. There are several business directory pages that show what businesses are located in the town, or of course the individual websites of the companies in question - but I'm concerned citing the individual websites would be seen as spam! Could anybody give me an idea? I'm new to editing wikipedia as you can probably tell, and would like to make sure I do this right. Thanks in advance for your help! 81.157.128.32 (talk) 12:56, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the new material, Yes, it can be tricky. Sometimes local newspaper will cover the opening of a new store. Not sure what else to suggest. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:15, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi Martin thanks for the suggestion, I will have a look later and see if I can find some newspaper articles that mention them. It shouldn't be too hard, I'm sure most of the local businesses have been in the paper one time or another! I'll probably do this tonight if that's okay. 81.157.128.32 (talk) 13:27, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

As it's now tagged, there's no problem with leaving it a short while. It's hardly very controversial material. In case you had not yet noticed, many articles have far more significant details tagged for years! Martinevans123 (talk) 13:32, 12 March 2019 (UTC)