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Made my annual trip to Chippenham Folk Festival today. Always a good atmosphere there, with food and craft stalls as well as music and dance......and when somebody walks down the street dressed like a court jester nobody bats an eyelid  :jester:

That's quite normal in Chippenham

A friend of mines parents used/still do to organise the folk festival - used to be a good atmosphere when I walked around during my college years in Chippenham.

I fucking hate folk festivals..... for me the fölk music of England is some sort of fusion of techno, Bangra and the Buzzcocks, not some cunt wearing a smock, a mangy beard and playing a concertina.

If only you could reincarnate yourself, Reg, and pay a visit to the Chippenham Folk Festival in 2260...I'm sure the music then would be right up your street.

i hate herby derbies

HMMMM avoided it this year - didnt make it to Nam Sat night - Although I did cycle the whole cycle track from Calne to Nam and back yesterday which was V pleasent

 Good work JFW, cycling is really good for your figure  :)  I've walked a bit of that track, out of Calne, there's the posh bridge, Black Dog Halt. then the line of the old railway seemed to get lost and turn to roads.  Is there more old railway line towards Chippenham?  I branched off looking for the Wilts and Berks and back to Calne via Bremhill...I suppose I got as far as the medieval fishpond lumps and bumps of the now gone Stanley Abbey.

yeah - we cycled about 12 miles yesterday - You can go right into Nam - you can either get off at the bottom of Monkton park or it ends just before the railway station

When did the trains stop running from Calne?
 

The station closed in 1965, and was demolished a bit later

Isn't Calne one of the largest places without a railway station? In fact I'm sure there was a Calne facts thread not too long ago and I may have read it there.

Or I may have made it up.

I think you made it up? possibly - although I did say last week Calne didnt have a canal then ran past it at running club the following evening!  :-[

I'd be surprised if it was, but it's an interesting one...I'll look into it :)

Nah I reckon that's right, I do mean in the South West though.

What's the population of Calne, circa 15000?

Well that was easy....from Wiki.

Many of the towns in the list e.g. Dudley, Gosport, Newcastle under Lyme and Washington form part of larger conurbations or metropolitan areas, with a railway station within easy reach.

 If you exclude these towns, the largest British towns without direct access to a railway station are Ilkeston (population 37,500),Blyth (population 36,000), Rushden/Higham Ferrers (35,500), Dunstable (34000) Peterlee (30,000) and Coalville (30,000).

Oh so not Calne then!

It appears not, though all those places aren't in the south west.

Anyway, shouldn't you be creating a song for our future full back? I haven't seen a contribution from you yet young lady.

 I'd have Devizes down as bigger than Calne, and it doesn't have a station either. What about Bassett?

Calne is bigger by about 2000-2500 according to wiki.

It's probably a not a fact at all but I'd be pretty surprised if I made it up off the top of my head. Strange that.

Have you been on any psychotropics?

I would never outdo yours