Totally Obssessed - Found It! - Spinners End - Near BRISTOL!

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 117197


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
  
bboyminn:
> 
> Hate to sound like a broken record, but I still think you are 
looking
> too deep for something that isn't there. There is no grand 
conspiracy
> or deep revelation. 



Geoff:
Agreed. Two weeks or so ago, Spinners End wasn't even in the frame. 
Suddenly, we all want to know about Spinners End and, equally 
suddenly, SE is linked with Hagrid's journet to bring Harry to Little 
Whinging.... So the question is posed, who put the two together?



> Hargrid flew near Bristol: /A/, maybe not /THE/ but /A/, Spinners 
End
> is near Bristol. Discuss.
> 
> If you draw a straight line from just north of Weston-super-Mare 
(the
> approx location of Spinners End) to Staines in North Surrey, you 
will
> pass within 3 to 4 miles of the heart of Bristol. (my map has a
> resolution of 16 miles to the inch; so best guess)
> 
> Now I've never been to Bristol, but if you go to the heart of
> Minneapolis and drive 3 to 4 miles in any direction, you are still 
in
> the city. Given that people don't speak in absolutes, Hagrid might
> seen 3 to 4 miles from the heart of the city as 'flew over 
Bristol'. 

Geoff:
I travelled into Bristol quite frequently until a couple of years ago 
living only an hour and a half's drive away.

Bristol is a fairly compact city, spreading out more to the north. 
Setting out from Weston-super-Mare which, for non-UK folk, is a well-
known seaside town south of the city on the Bristol Channel, he would 
be more likely to find himself flying over Bath.

However, I still think the whole matter is pure speculation and the 
link between Godric's Hollow and Spinners End is very tenuous.

Geoff
http://www.aspectsofexmoor.com