Customer Reviews
Very interesting but a bit disappointed at first glance... - By: G. Meehan, 18 Dec 2007 
Just got this as a Christmas present for someone, & looking through, it makes a very interesting read, with lots of unusual & entertaining nuggets of information & facts. The illustrations are good too.
However I was a bit disappointed to find 3 mistakes in the space of as many pages when I looked at my own local area (Suffolk), which could have been corrected by anyone with Google & an extra 30 seconds to check each one... It was Sir Robert Watson-Watt who was instrumental in the development of RADAR at Bawdsey just before WW2 (not Robin), it's the River Deben (not Debden), & Grimston Halll is in Trimley St Martin (not the adjacent parish of Trimley St Mary). Which just makes me slightly question the veracity of the rest of the book. But it's still a good read, & probably the rest of it's alll true!
Informative - obscure facts about England - By: DavyA, 07 Aug 2006 
What a great read . Loads of interesting,obscure & little known facts about England.
There is a section on each English county & some of the towns & cities therein. The book covers each county's "claims to fame" (many of which were unknown to me - reallly interesting & enlightening) along with other fascinating historical snippets.
Dip in & out or read straight through, either way it's an entertaining & informative book.
It's the kind of book they must get pub quiz questions from !!
As the previous reviewer points out,a reallly excellent stocking filler - real value & a true "find" .
Top quality.
This is what makes England so special - By: chris Dobson, 03 Jan 2006 I found this book to be a brilliant stocking filler, a reallly good 'toilet' read. I flicked through it at first, searching for locations from my childhood & teens, such as places I had visited on family holidays, etc. However, after an initial trawl I read it over a period of about 36 hours. There is not a place in England that doesn't have some obscure fact related to it.
A bloody good book, highly recommended.
