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What's the "catchment area"?
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Well, questions have been asked about what books we are reading and about Incitatus, now I have a curiosity: How far and wide does the Answerbank "readership" spread? The internet should be global but I get the impression most correspondents are in England, particularly London, and particularly North London. Is this right? I myself live in the South West London/Surrey area.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I live on Brentford Dock, in Middlesex, on the north bank of the Thames, across the river from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in Surrey.
I live where Caius Julius C�sar's legions crossed the Thames during their invasion of Britain; where Offa, King of Mercia, gave battle in the seventh century; and where the Battle of Brentford was fought in 1643 (during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a conflict known more commonly and very wrongly as the English Civil War - it was not purely English, since the kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland were intimately embroiled in it, and no war is ever civil).
My next-door neighbour at Syon House is His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. About one minute's walk away from where I live is the church of Saint Lawrence (now sadly deconsecrated and derelict), which has a tower over a thousand years old, and a seventeenth-century interior.
History oozes from every pore here, as it does the length and breadth of these islands in which we live and breathe and have our being.
On a more persona note, my good friend Incitatus has been an occasional guest here, and is always welcome :o)