The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography Anarchy@lemm.eeEnglish · 3 days agoMap of every pub in the UKlemmy.worldimagemessage-square127fedilinkarrow-up1591arrow-down15
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minus-squarepastermillinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·3 days agoWhy so empty on the northern part? Non British here.
minus-squareScott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·3 days agoThe people who lived there were forcibly relocated to the colonies because the lairds worked out that it was more profitable to use the land for sheep than peasants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
minus-squareMatch!!@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·3 days agowell, why don’t the sheep have pubs?
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoThose are called shrubs, and there are lots of them.
minus-squareScott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoThe sheep were tired of getting fleeced…
minus-squareNielsBohron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 days agoUnderrated comment right here
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoScotland is way less densely populated than England
minus-squareNigelFrobisher@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoThat doesn’t normally stop us, but barely anyone lives in the highlands.
Why so empty on the northern part? Non British here.
The people who lived there were forcibly relocated to the colonies because the lairds worked out that it was more profitable to use the land for sheep than peasants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
well, why don’t the sheep have pubs?
Those are called shrubs, and there are lots of them.
The sheep were tired of getting fleeced…
I think they’d say the same.
Underrated comment right here
Scotland is way less densely populated than England
I think it’s mountains?
That doesn’t normally stop us, but barely anyone lives in the highlands.