Fetch Fest:The Centre of The UK?

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Wriggling Snake Jul 2019 11:10am, 10 Jul 2019 23,231 posts	0 Wriggling Snake Well, there is a wiki, my thought was, if you took a cardboard cut out of the UK and hung it up, where would it balance.....that turns out to be in Lancashire, if you exclude or the far flung islands, it still turns out to be Lancashire.....Whalley! Perhaps the cardboard cut out needs to be weighted according to fetch populations.....and someone with a brain and a BIG calculator. en.wikipedia.org
Derby Tup Jul 2019 11:15am, 10 Jul 2019 32,744 posts	0 Derby Tup Derby
westmoors Jul 2019 11:15am, 10 Jul 2019 3,374 posts	0 westmoors Whatever method is used, I'm nowhere near!
Wriggling Snake Jul 2019 11:27am, 10 Jul 2019 23,236 posts	0 Wriggling Snake Indeed. It'll have to be a Glastonbury style 4 day event to make it worthwhile. Actually, rather than geographic, perhaps it should be transport based.
westmoors Jul 2019 12:14pm, 10 Jul 2019 3,375 posts	0 westmoors Glastonbury would be good for me
HellsBells Jul 2019 12:15pm, 10 Jul 2019 25,539 posts	0 HellsBells Glastonbury would be perfect for me - I could borrow a proper bedroom from my sister
McGoohan Jul 2019 12:21pm, 10 Jul 2019 40,401 posts	0 McGoohan I don't think cutting it out in cardboard is quite accurate enough. Most of the hills and mountains are in the West (Wales) or the North (Northern England, Scotland). I think you'd need a 3D model to take account of these and then put a pivot in it somewhere further North and West.
The Mighty Fleecy Jul 2019 1:11pm, 10 Jul 2019 46,766 posts	0 The Mighty Fleecy But what about population density? Geographical centres are all well and good but the carbon footprint will be smaller if more people can travel less far...
Autumnleaves Jul 2019 1:58pm, 10 Jul 2019 13,789 posts	0 Autumnleaves Or indeed public transport hubs or road connectivity - south of Birmingham and we would be very unlikely to head there on a Friday by road due to sheer hideousness!
Old Croc Jul 2019 2:05pm, 10 Jul 2019 30,103 posts	0 Old Croc Most northerly point of mainland is Dunnet Head 58.67 degrees north, most southerly is the Lizard at 49.96 degrees north - so mid point is 54.3 degrees - draw a line between Kendal and Scarborough and you aren't far off - north of that is the north of mainland, south of that is southern half.