More Hex location pondering

[cdybedahl]

While forcing jennyaxe to watch Hex, I noticed that we actually get a small hint to where the school may be located. When Troy returns to Medenham Hall after Christmas and meets Cassie on her way to the hospital, he says that he's just been on the M6 for five hours. As far as I can see from shoddy online maps, the M6 runs from (roughly) Coventry where it joins with the M1 to the Scottish border where it changes name to A something. So it seems reasonable to guess that the school is somewhere in the northwestern quarter of England, and given the long trip probably near one of the ends of the M6.

Or maybe traffic was just awful past Manchester.

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

The statement 'I've just been on the M6 for five hours' has little or no meaning in distance terms. I've lost count of the times I've been on the M6 for several hours without moving 100 yards.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Can't you at least assume that the person saying it has spent those hours on or near the M6? So we can if nothing else rule out the theory that Medenham is in Kent?

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I think the reason the M6 is so goddamn impossible is that it's often the best way to get to virtually anywhere in the country. (The way the roads are laid out there are very few E-W routes, so to go almost anywhere long distance you have to go N-S on one of the M6, M1 or A1M.)

One could probably rule out London & environs, as then you'd have to be stuck on the M25 for an additional five hours without moving.

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

It is quite possible to be on the M6 for five hours around Birmingham

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

You mean to imply that it's possible ~not~ to be stuck on the M6 around Birmingham for 5 hours? :)

Although a friend of mine did recently find the secret. Ifyou go past Birmingham at around 6-7am, it's clear enough.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

The M6 toll road largely fixed that though, didn't it? After the alternative opened, I never had the Birmingham nightmare that I had almost every time before that. Mind you, I still avoided rush hours.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

When I lived in Coventry the afternoon radio traffic bulletins was not "there is a traffic jam on the M6" but "how many miles the jam is today". More than 25 or so was considered bad, more than 40 miles was considered a newsworthy event.