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Monday, March 29, 2021

Five lists

The 10 nearest National Parks to London
1) South Downs (22 miles)
2) New Forest (58 miles)
3) The Broads (76 miles)
4) Brecon Beacons (107 miles)
5) Peak District (111 miles)
6) Exmoor (123 miles)
7) Dartmoor (147 miles)
8) Snowdonia (151 miles)
9) Yorkshire Dales (171 miles)
10) Pembrokeshire Coast (177 miles)

The last 10 step-free tube stations
2017: Bond Street
2018: Bromley-by-Bow, Buckhurst Hill, Victoria, Newbury Park
2019: Finsbury Park, South Woodford
2020: Mill Hill East, Cockfosters
2021: Amersham (number 81)
and the next six: Debden, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Ickenham, Osterley, Sudbury Hill, Wimbledon Park

The first appearance of all the 5 minute children's programmes shown just before the BBC1 early evening news
1965: The Magic Roundabout
1968: Hector's House
1969: Babar
1970: The Adventures of Parsley, Abbott and Costello
1972: Sir Prancelot, Crystal Tipps and Alistair
1973: The Wombles
1974: Captain Pugwash, Roobarb
1975: Barbapapa
1976: Paddington, Ivor The Engine, Noah and Nelly
1977: Fred Bassett, Ludwig
1979: The Perishers
1980: The Amazing Adventures of Morph
1981: Willo the Wisp
1983: Henry's Cat

The 10 London boroughs where the most shopping journeys are made on foot (pre-pandemic)
City of London (88%), Islington (66%), Camden (65%), Westminster (63%), Hackney (60%), Kensington & Chelsea (59%), Hammersmith & Fulham (58%), Lambeth (56%), Tower Hamlets (52%), Wandsworth (52%)
and the lowest five: Bexley (30%), Hillingdon (31%), Bromley (32%), Sutton (33%), Havering (36%)

The X longest Roman Numerals since Roman times
I) MDCCCLXXXVIII (1888)
II) MDCCCLXXXVII (1887), MDCCCLXXXIII (1883), MDCCCLXXVIII (1878), MDCCCXXXVIII (1838), MDCCLXXXVIII (1788), MCCCLXXXVIII (1388), DCCCLXXXVIII (888)
IX) MDCCCLXXXIX (1889), MDCCCLXXXVI (1886), MDCCCLXXXIV (1884), MDCCCLXXXII (1882), MDCCCLXXVII (1877), MDCCCLXXIII (1873), MDCCCLXVIII (1868), MDCCCXXXVII (1837), MDCCCXXXIII (1833), MDCCCXXVIII (1828), MDCCLXXXVII (1787), MDCCLXXXIII (1783), MDCCLXXVIII (1778), MDCCXXXVIII (1738), MDCLXXXVIII (1688), MCCCLXXXVII (1387), MCCCLXXXIII (1383), MCCCLXXVIII (1378), MCCCXXXVIII (1338), MCCLXXXVIII (1288), DCCCLXXXVII (887), DCCCLXXXIII (883), DCCCLXXVIII (878), DCCCXXXVIII (838), DCCLXXXVIII (788)

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