What is a city/town 70 miles east of London?

Question

my Father used to live there, he wouldnt tell me the name because he told me at lest 50 times but i keep forgetting. but he did tell me he lived 70 miles east of london

Answer 1

-  Literally 70 miles due east is in the North Sea.

-  Margate is about 75 miles driving from central London. It is basically the tip of the peninsula for Southeast England.

-  It would be difficult to say since there are no major cities on this peninsula. It could be anyone of dozens of villages or towns, or regions.

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It is possible that he referred to his home by the county name. The two counties east of London are Kent and Essex.

Kent, pop. 1,634,500

Essex, pop. 1,670,000

Answer 2

Directly 70 miles east of London would probably land you in the sea, towns nearest might be Great Yarmouth, Norwich, Colchester, Ipswich. Goodness knows though, because a tad north might land you in Cambridge or a Tad south might land you in Southend (although that's a lot less than 70 miles. Why not have a look on google earth and see if it rings any bells.

Answer 3

There is not a single city to the east of London, just smaller towns

Answer 4

70 miles due east of London is the Thames Estuary/North Sea.

The most likely candidate is Colchester, which is north-east of London.

Answer 5

Could be Canterbury - about 65 miles from London

Answer 6

Colchester, maybe? That's just under 70 miles east of London.

Or Margate: again, around 70 miles away...

Harwich is further... about 80 miles from London.

Why don't you pull up a Google or multimap map of London and have a quick look at the towns to the east. There aren't that many. =)  http://www.multimap.com/maps/?lat=51.466...