Each month our Yellow Pages Smart Ways team surveys different parts of the country, writing about each area’s attractions, days out and activities. And they climb a mountain of weird and wonderful facts on the way. Here’s January’s haul.
Plymouth
100+ The suspected age of 13lb lobster ‘Mad Jack’, caught near Plymouth in 2008 and presented to the National Marine Aquarium.
Cornwall
1792 The year the first domestic house in Britain was lit by gas – the Redruth home of the system’s inventor William Murdock.
Brighton
36m The height of Britain’s tallest Christmas tree, the giant redwood at Wakehurst Place, decked with nearly 2,000 lights every year.
Sheffield
141.5m The depth of the Titan natural cavern near Castleton, the deepest shaft of any known cave in Britain.
Norwich
873 The number of lives Coxswain Henry Blogg helped save around the Cromer coast during his 53 years’ service. He was the RNLI’s most decorated lifeboatman.