Where a £250,000 budget still buys a house in Britain
With a budget of £250,000, buyers can still find a home in many parts of Britain, as our ranked table reveals.
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Opposite the Church: Britain's Favourite Bus Stop Names
We sorted 343,949 British bus stops by name. The nation waits for its bus outside the Post Office, by the Church, at the Village Hall, and at 597 War Memorials.
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How to Date a British Street by Its Name
Britain wrote its history into its street signs. There are 743 Wellingtons, 685 Jubilees and 449 Churchills, but only 4 streets in the entire country remember Sebastopol.
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SAD, MAD and PEAR: The Postcodes That Accidentally Spell Words
Strip the numbers out of a postcode and you are left with its letters. Across 1.8 million postcodes, those letters spell SAD 163 times, MAD 128 times and PEAR 101 times.
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Outcode and Incode: The Complete Anatomy of a British Postcode
Seven characters take a letter from anywhere in the world to one front door in Britain. Here is how the machine works: every segment of the postcode explained, measured across all 1.8 million of them.
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The Four Corners of Britain, by Postcode
The northernmost, southernmost, easternmost and westernmost postcodes in the country, plus the surprising address that sits at the statistical centre of it all.
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