what is your town known for

[gerrymander61]

The university and prisons.

 

[neoman10]

Helsinki is famous for...being a capital?

 

[Nothankyou]

The Beatles

 

[NuclearPenguin]

I live in bromölla, sweden. We're known for being the town with the most bullies/idiots/violators/wannabe gangsters/worst schools yet its one of those quaint little towns where everyone knows everybody and rumors travel at warp speed.

 

[Dr Namgge]

Oscar Wilde went to prison in my town. Also we used to make biscuits. Pretty lame claims to fame there.

You forgot the Reading Festival. Not that that's worth mentioning...

 

[Mighty Lighty]

the sand that made windows in spitfires in ww2

 

[JimmerDunda]

Beer and drinking. Yup, I am from a Wisconsin city.

 

[ColdHavoc]

my town is famous for a plane crashing into our mall around Christmas time in 1985 and Tom Hanks was born here.

 

[jebussaves88]

My home town was the last plave in England which gave the death penalty to a man found guilty of homosexuality. It was death by crushing....yeeuugghh.

Also, the band The Feeling are from there.

 

[ghostalker.cepo]

Reading Festival, upcoming film Cemetery Junction http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196204/ (I live on cemetery junction) and Kevin Warwick (Cyborg man) of the University of Reading

 

[hazabaza1]

...
Uh...

Hmm...
Anyone ever heard of Wellingborough? Or Northampton, at least?

We got a North Hampton here in New Hampshire New England, however if your talking about some place in acual England then i really don't know.

Yeah, it's actual England.

 

[Hiphophippo]

I hail from the Quilt Capitol of the WORLD.

No, i'm not joking.

 

[Barky13]

Having a large heroin problem and apparently parts of the original Wicker Man were filmed here.

 

[Mozdoc]

Saw this thread and thought I'd chip in. Lancaster, California and its surrounding areas have a windfarm in the Tehachapi mountains, I'm right near Edwards Air Force Base where the shuttle lands and aircraft are tested, the Honda Musical Road is on Avenue G west of the freeway after it was paved over on Avenue K and everybody wanted it back, and lastly the freeway travels right across a fissure of the San Andreas Faultline on the south edge of the valley.

 

[WeedWorm]

Beer and hurling, making us one of the most Irish towns in the country.

 

[Valksy]

I live in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. Of the top of my head this city is known for:

Ship building, brown ale, a football team that mostly sucks but has the most rabid of fans, women who go out clubbing and never put a coat on even if it is minus 9c outside, an accent that is often baffling, Gazza, Fog on the Tyne...and about 50 more cliches and stereotypes.

I originally came from Milton Keynes, which is most well known for having hundreds of roundabouts in the road system and being so concerned about over-urbanisation that they compensated by putting a herd of concrete cows in a small field...

 

[Xaki]

The town I grew up in was called "the tree sculpture capital of Nova Scotia" for a few years.
It is also known as "The hub of Nova Scotia" which I believe is a reference to Canadian National Railway.

 

[ShakyFiend]

My city is STILL the smallest in England... FUCK YEAH!!!

 

[sam_savage1393]

i live in trinity county, a.k.a. emarald triangle, known for being the leading marijuana producer in America. it was on the cover of high times and well known for it's pot

 

[Ph33nix]

at the battles of Lexington and Concord my town (Groton) was Hiding the Cannons the American's used over the next few years in Massachusetts.