Wiltshire's FOUR Unique spots!!
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Welcome to this weeks offering where you join us on a little adventure to try and find the centre of a land mass. Whilst this video isn't intended to teach you anything new, its more over to take you on the journey that we took in order to come to the conclusions that we made! Enjoy
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I do enjoy your videos - very nicely done!
Interesting result
There ought to be a plaque at that location stating 'Centre of Wiltshire - according to Paul and Rebecca'
All good fun. I live in Central Cardiff. A sign states Cardiff East 1 mile. Follow the sign and in under a mile you are underwater.
Nice video and honestly enjoyed watching it and the top of that hill was stunning
Nice one.
Very entertaining I'm going to try and find the centre of Carmarthenshire
If you use the cut out and pin method, I believe the centre of GB is near the village of Dunsop Bridge in The Trough of Boland in Lancashire.
Amazing 👏
Thanks 😄
Great video 😁
Loved seeing the path up from Urchfont, used to go sledging down the hill, when the weather was right!
Yes it's a very steep hill 😂
Facing! And my home county too!
Rebecca's hiking trousers 😍
I hope you went for a pint at the Kings Arms in All Cannings ….
Hey guys new subscriber here, and am.i glad I did, what an amazing channel you guys have
Where I live in Wiltshire we all know we are in the centre, of the world, that we are all cousin’s may cloudy our judgement.
Rather than balancing your cutout on a pen, just put a pin in it (near the edge is best, but anywhere works) and let it freely hang vertically. The centre will be on a line directly below the pin. Now repeat that with the pin in a different position. Where those two lines intersect is the centre.
Johnny Ball, BBC - Think of a Number!
We used to do that in school geography lessons with the pre-made plastic templates of countries outlines we used to draw round.Holes already drilled by the teacher and included in the kit was a something to hang it (a bit of stiff wire) and a length of string with a weight on the end of it.We weren't told how,but were given the bits and had to work it out for ourselves.
Yes, that was the method I knew about - it will find the centre of gravity of the shape. This could of course be outside of the shape itself - probably the case if you tried it with Croatia, for example. Also, it's difficult to apply if the territory is in multiple parts, e.g. the U.K., New Zealand, Indonesia, etc.
A good example of Richard's comment is that the center (of mass) of a doughnut is in the "hole" which is "outside" of the doughnut (at least for topologists)
oooooh nice! Where were you whilst we filmed this!!??
:) you two another fab video and martin zero next :)
Liked with comment
Good fun. Nerdy, but the fact I watched it with great interest tells it's own story...
Think you should head to the centre of Britain....Haltwhistle (Northumberland)
It is also the end of the South Tynedale Railway....a disused line that ran from Haltwhistle to Alston (Englands highest market town) 😀
You need the centroid, aka the first moment of area.
Am Wiltshire born and bred (Devizes & Marlborough).. lovely to see the county on show.
read about the balance method in Scientific American's Metamagical Themas page back in the 80's Clever bit of work.
Loving Rebecca's reactions in this video.. Priceless. I love Wiltshire.
I love Wiltshire too, my emotional home. I wasn't born there or live there, but I love it.
Another great video! Surely the rectangle method should use the four corners rather than the extremity points?
That look on Rebecca's face when talking about THAT hill 😂
Oooh yes
I love the way the subtitling software had you balancing the cutout on a PAN not a pen and that you were hearing BANKS out near the firing range. 😁
Haha... also.... Wheelchair! Instead of Wiltshire
You are obsessed Paul. Mind you it does make an interesting video.. thanks for taking me along. Please take care and stay safe
I know the dead centre of Surrey.
The London Necropolis, in Surrey, is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and was once one of the largest in the world. Opened in 1854
Grew up in a village 20 minutes drive from Stonhenge and 5 miles from Devizes
I live in Wiltshire. I'm not really bothered where the centre of the county is. Unless it was in a pub of course..
A very interesting dilemma to solve. It reminds me of the content of a Tom Scott video 😂
Now the real mystery was who was holding the camera as Paul and Rebecca were both in shot. Was it the stig?
It was the very same!
Fascinating thought processes, Paul.
However, I'm afraid it reminds me of the weird thoughts that went through my brain in the first 2 weeks after my stroke before the swelling around the injury subsided. LOL
Weird times indeed!!!!!
T.Y 🙏🙏
Here I was, thinking "what a lovely countryside the middle of Wiltshire has", until the artillery started. As far as I'm concerned, the middle doesn't have to be that exact, ever again.
As always, another great video.
Lol!! Great Vid and lots of serious stuff, but on the humorous side, I have always found the dead centre of anywhere I visit to be the grave yard
Get ya coat on thw way out
@@pwhitewick LOl! Every day I dodge the man in the big black car with the fancy wooden box in the back, so far so good !!!
You have made a mundane subject very interesting. Thank you.
There are many mathematical ways to obtain an "average"; there's mean, median, mode, etc. But as it turns out, for the Plain-est answer would be to find the mid-Range(s)...
finding this is a lot more common than you might imagine - PostGIS provides a function that generates the centre of a polygon, multiple polygons or a collection of points. Solving this problem means that you can find the best place to build your Distribution Warehouse - being central to all your delivery points.
You're a lovely couple...enjoy your videos....I wish I had friends like you two.
Another good one! Thanks, you two.
I was cycling from London to Gloucester, on a round trip to visit family. On the second night, I stopped in a place that was just A SINGLE HUGE FIELD and A SINGLE PUB.
I camped in the field and slept well.
Arriving back home, I mapped my journey and discovered that I'd spent that night in a place called Halfway! 😃
(Always ask permission if possible; never do any damage; never leave ANY rubbish behind; scoop your own poop; leave the place exactly like it was when you arrived) 😊
I once camped in a village called Chipshop near Tavistock, Guess what the village didn't have. 🤣
The one on the A4? If I remember correctly the pub is called the Halfway Inn.
There's quite a few Halfways, I live in a different one myself now!
@@AlexL1805 Yes the one between Newbury and Hungerford, on the A4.
@@lordbungle6235 cod?
@@lordbungle6235 Was that where they held the Potato Olympics?
There is legend of an old ritual, of when the Chips Hopped.
It was about the time when Haggis used to run wild across the Highlands;
And the ancient martial art of Ecky Thump was still widely practised in Lancaster.
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Fantastic subject! Indeed.
A related video, Matt Parker (Stand up Maths) did a video asking if when the area of a country is measured does it take in account the flatness of the land? Also curvature of the Earth.
My guess is neither of the methods we used did that
My colleagues in the Droitwich ordnance survey office were asked by BBC local radio to find the exact centre of the, then single, County of Hereford and Worcester. Their solution was to cut an outline of the county from stiff cardboard, then suspending it from a series of pinholes around the perimeter they could plumb bob, using thread down from the pin to the gravitational centre of the shape. The pencil lines started to create a star shape at the centre. Some lines missed, but as many points could be dropped as required, until a concensus of intersecting lines gave a coordinate. Not long after the counties were split into two bodies, so it's only an academic exercise now.
I rather like Wiltshire too 😊
What fun.
Your Extremities were exposed, but you got an answer in the end. I drove through Haltwhistle last week and that is claimed to be the geographic centre of something.
I live not far from the center of England, Meriden , how ever many people disagree, as kids we were miffed we lived farthest away from the seaside , being the wash nearest, great, i wonder where the center of England is ?
We did this at school in the 70's for the UK, we cut out the UK in cardboard and then hung it from 3 different points and projected the line downwards each time, where the 3 lines met was the center :)
Manchester is the center regardless of how far off it is
Well don't keep us in suspense Steve. Where is the centre?
The centre could also be the furthest point fron the sea (on an island I suppose) and I thought that was Benson in Oxfordshire but I may be wrong (According to my wife I normally am!)
@@tomstorm41 are your wife and mine sisters?
@@derek-press That's somewhere in northern England isn't it, the name rings a bell.
Get your laminated cardboard map and a plumb line dangle then both vertically, allow them to settle under gravity and mark aline. repeat this twice more from opposing edges [roughly 120 degrees around the edge and plot the lines, where they intersect is your centre of Gravity/ centre of landmass.
Taught to me 43 years ago in Uni by a geography professor.
I'm quite idle in working things like that out, so I'd have simply sent an email to the Ordnance Survey. But it wouldn't have been as interesting.
I notice you had a camera man / woman… did you enlist one of your children? 😜 great video as always!
I wondered whether their "friend" was in fact the cameraman...?
Well that was something completely different! Fascinating.
You two are always full.of ideas and always entertaining. Thank you.😀
This was incredibly silly and I'm ALL IN. Job done, let's get tea! PS: We need the MAP MEN to chime in, here.
Next adventure: Find the exact intersection of educational and silliness.
Normally I find myself in the middle of nowhere
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An interesting way!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂
I grew up in Heddington between Devizes and Calne. I was convinced that it was the centre, but I wasn't too far off! Thanks for the video, was super interesting.
Hang the shape by a point and have a plumb line continue down from that point. Mark the line on the shape. Now hang it from another point and due the same. Repeat this for multiple points for improved accuracy. Where those lines cross is the center of mass for the object. If the model accurately represented the mass of the land (hills) it would be more accurate for the real land, but a uniform density object is probably close enough.
Another project might be to find the nearest town or village to every beach in the UK. Here in Australia it is Alice Springs.
Keep up the innovative stories, love them.
From your thumbnail photo I thought this was going to be a video here in Warwickshire/Leicestershire (the centre of England). Please come up here sometime!
Loved this. And everywhere you went in this clip was very familiar to me. Lived in Devizes for about two years-ish and ran, walked and cycled a lot of that area.
brilliant idea for a video and i love the way you both work the interaction on the video cameras.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I enjoyed this interesting video. :)
Swindon is the heart of Wiltshire
Lovely video! I'm an American and in the summer of 2021 I was traveling across the US and I had a similar adventure tracking down the multiple locations that claim to be the "Geographic center of the US" each calculated by different methods just like you had shown. There really is no true consensus on how to do such a thing.
Sounds great!
Thank you for the video today. An interesting journey as always. See you on the next. Cheers mates!
I love watching you two on CZcams, you deserve to hit the 100k subscriber mark very soon
No wonder you guys! You've been looking in the wrong place because the subtitles at 6:00 says ' .... a lovely view of China ' . 🤣🤣🤣
I just love it. Thank you.
due to fractal nature of perimeter your centre of balance will always be an approximation 🙂fun though
Interesting and different Paul & Rebecca. The complexity of geometry but a successful conclusion nice👍😉
Best thing about a Sunday evening is looking forward to your latest CZcams video popping up!
One of my favourite videos. This now means we should all follow suit and find the centre of our counties, purely for scientific interest
on a computer show an image of Wiltshire (or anywhere) take a copy of it, overlay on the original, then shrink the copy to a point. Voila, the exact centre!
Ooooooh never considered that
Twyford - now in Berkshire - used to be in Wiltshire. What happens if you add it back in?
Hey Paul and Rebecca, very interesting video, thank you. Just for interest's sake, the UK pole of inaccessibility (which is different than the center of a land mass, being the point furthest from all seas) is about four miles SW of Swadlincote in South Derbyshire. It's at N52.726° x W1.620°. 🙂
That's interesting, never heard of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility before!! Here's some info for anyone else wondering.
First of all: I agree with Pauline Hedges. But regarding to the pole of inaccessibility: Such a characteristic will on occasion show up on CZcams, most often as the point furthest from the sea. As with all map-related characteristics, its exact value depends on the amount of detail shown on the underlying map. So, to know what the exact characteristics are, you need not just a term, but also its exact definition (which is different from parentheses with a description but no certainty which term it refers to).
What fun and completely pointless. This is what makes Britain great. Thank s for a very entertaining post!
Interesting new camera work, motion shots where your clearly not in control, do you now have a camera man ??
I was wondering whether they attached their camera to their dog perhaps...?
If you ever want to go to the middle of nowhere may I recommend Nageezi, New Mexico?
Use QGIS and find the centroid of Wiltshire based on a polygon of the County.
That was really enjoyable. Beautiful scenery. An explore with a difference. Well done. Thank you.
Many thanks!
I.ve watched a lot of the videos you've done, Very interesting, clever couple, especially Rebecca, keep putting likes on them🤗
The balance method seems so simple yet it's probably the most accurate. Nicely done 🙂
What about the population centre, the place that has the same number of people living north, south, west and east of it?
I'm glad that Paul's obsession with Wiltshire's center gave us so many beautiful images of the county.
In another life, many years ago, I used to do old GIS mapping. I had to laugh when you started this one... I could explain the process of finding the geographic center of a land mass, but it appear to make no sense and it never appears to be where one would think it is. There is a formula for it.
You know you can get help for OCD Paul 😂
I’m camping in the middle of the Forrest of Dean as I text 👌
Therapists? ... or Enablers ? Not sure , either way i love your content lol. Cheers.
Both, for sure!!
The bald spot it where the center is
Use a download of the OS maps perimeter and take the weighted average Latitude and longitude. Easy! I like maths
hello again Paul and Rebecca , that was very interesting , really well done and thank you guys 😊
There's a pub called the "halfway hotel" in my home town, which claims to be half way between the city centre and the port, but I prefer to think that it is half way between another pub called "the worlds end", and a starting point which seems to be a random point in the ocean. (yes, too much free time with google maps, or too much time in pubs, or maybe both)
You both make these videos informative and enjoyable to watch!
Its a Sunday . Paul and Rebecca and Jago Hazard where is Geoff Marshall to make it full but at least we have Hal at Sharks Happen.
Did you try the bubble method ?
Erm.... nope