Side Effect

[poliphilo]

"That's not Surrey" I said as we watched our tortured antihero climb a hilly street lined with cottages in buttery Cotswold stone- and "That's not Surrey" I said again as his car drove through a rolling landscape of multicoloured fields and ample prospects. I was right. The programme had been filmed out west, with Bristol pretending to be London and Gloucestershire pretending to be Surrey. Bristol just about pulled it off- because one big city is very like another- but Gloucestershire villages and landscapes are nothing like their Surrey counterparts.

Knowing the difference between Gloucestershire and Surrey is a gratifying side effect of extensive church-crawling.

Comments

[razorbladeromance]

And living in said country no? :D

[poliphilo]

Not really. I wouldn't have known the difference unless I'd been travelling about looking at buildings. Cotswold stone is a dead giveaway. It's a very distinctive creamy yellow and within the Cotswold area whole villages are built of it- but you don't see it being used in other parts of the country- such as Surrey.

[razorbladeromance]

Ahh.. ok. :)