As the crow flies vs. distance by land transport

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Discounting amazingly bad mistakes:

 

Sheffield - Gainsborough: 28.403/34.562. Also 85% by rounding off, but fractionally better than London. If you don't round things off, London is still better.

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Stoke Staffs crow flies 37.997 (38)

 

Stoke Staffs surface 70.67 (71)

 

= 53.5 54%

 

that's what the site says.

 

now that ties in with my own experience. I don't know Stoke, but I did pass through there once on a drive to visit one of my now-deceased relatives in Ceredigion - it kind of looked the quickest way on the map. Big mistake. It took ages.

 

btw, Ceredigion is 80%.

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Stoke Staffs crow flies 37.997 (38)

 

Stoke Staffs surface 70.67 (71)

 

= 53.5 54%

 

that's what the site says.

 

 

That is, indeed, what the site says; but look at the map, and where it's worked out the drive to. That point is nowhere near Stoke, Staffs!

 

If you enter "Longton, Stoke-on-Trent" you get a more realistic drive, and a figure of 78%. The reason Stoke takes such an annoyingly long time to drive is not so much because you go a long way round, but because the roads are bad.

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so Uttoxeter is the lowest then, at 56 so far. That indisputably is Uttoxeter, not Toxteth or something. I can't get a reading for Campbelltown.