Tamworth is just down the road from where I live (near Lichfield) in Staffordshire. The direction to Drayton Basset is still the same too: turn right at the next gallows! When the thread name caught my eye I misread it as Edward VI, who founded a school in Lichfield (and 500 years later a leisure centre!). Maybe Staffordshire was just popular with royalty in those days.

Plompton Park is in Cumberland, though -- it's a long way for a Tamworth chap to go, especially when he's got his business at home. I don't know of another PP in the Midands. And I wonder why DB is called the North Country? I suppose if you spend all your time in London, it's hard to tell the difference. Ah -- maybe there's some confusion about the geography on the part of the writer, who's a southerner and doesn't know where everywhere is? Any suggestions?

Steve