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Parishes & Pubs

The Cambridge Travel Guide has become the place to post events, so Local Journal is going to focus on Parish-based info, and pubs.

One thing I’ve found interesting with the Parishes data is distances based on postcodes. I’ve published all the parishes in my district East Cambridgeshire with postcodes based on something that should be central - Village Hall, Church or postal address of the PC.

Using freely available postcode data with some trigonometry, I can now list parishes by distance from any given starting parish. As usual, this Half Baked Idea is not original, and not new - not even to me. I first worked on a exactly this kind of postcode distance idea several decades ago. However, things are a