Monday, February 24, 2020
Our capital city is 36 miles across and 28 miles wide, so a lot of places lie directly north, south, east or west of somewhere within it.

Here are a select few.
Not quite North
Lerwick
Whitby
Grantham
Lincoln | Scarborough
Hull
Grimsby
Peterborough
Cambridge
Bedford
Luton
Due North | Not quite North
Skegness
King's Lynn
Downham Market
Newmarket |
Not quite West
Cork, Milford Haven, Merthyr Tydfil, Cirencester, Oxford | Not quite East
Chelmsford, Rotterdam, Paderborn, Łódź |
Due West
Bantry Bay, Swansea, Cardiff, Bristol, Bath, Swindon | LONDON | Due East
Margate, Eindhoven, Essen, Dortmund, Leipzig, Chernobyl |
Not quite West
Banff, Calgary, Minehead, Cheddar, Andover, Basingstoke | Due South
Worthing
Brighton
Eastbourne
Le Havre
Lourdes
Valencia
Benidorm
Accra | Not quite East
Maidstone, Sandwich, Bruges, Antwerp, Düsseldorf |
Not quite South
Guildford
Littlehampton
Bordeaux
Zaragoza
Timbuktu | Not quite South
Herstmonceux
Tours
Bergerac
Ibiza
Benin |
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