Hagrid in GH

[Mark]

No: HPFGUIDX 140580

> Geoff:
> He wouldn't try to lie low in the Welsh valleys. Sparsely 
> populated is hardly the description I would use. The Welsh 
> valleys were the centre of the coal-mining areas and are the 
> centre of heavy industry. <snip>
>
> Geoff:
> <snip> On the question of distances, Bristol lies about 120 
> miles almost due west of London. If we place Little Whinging 
> on the western edge of the capital and assume that there will
> be fairly quick access to the M4 motorway, you could get from 
> there to the centre of Bristol in a little over 1½ hours; the 
> speed limit on a dual carriageway in the UK is 70 mph. If, as 
> some of us think, Godric's Hollow is perhaps beyond Swansea in 
> West Wales would be a further 2 hours or so. <snip>


Indeed the Welsh Valleys are a highly industrialised area, alas 
since the downfull of the coal industry they are now some of the 
poorest and most deprived areas of the UK. However, further to 
the west, past Swansea, is a very rural area wehere the rather 
mystic Welsh language is still spoken, GH could well be in that 
area, and Bristol would be on a direct path to the rather 
affluent Surrey.

"torinarg"