Talk:Blackdown Hills National Landscape

message: We've covered roads, presumably we can say that there aren't any other forms of transport, like railways or canals, passing through?Pyrotec (talk) 16:48, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know of/can't find any evidence of others - apart from the airfield mentioned in the section above.— Rod talk 17:22, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added the Grand Western Canal and the Reading to Plymouth Line, as a point of info, as they are both near to the M5 motorway. However, I've just discovered the Culm Valley Light Railway, its not needed for the GAR, but it (or its remains) may lie within the AONB. Pyrotec (talk) 20:25, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right it does cross the hills & should be included.— Rod talk 20:29, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transport 

message: The Rocky Mountains, Mendip Hills, Chiltern Hills, Pennines, South Downs etc. are all referred to as plural in their respective articles. Cannot see why these should be different - despite what is said in the GA comments. --TimTay (talk) 20:57, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Depends on how the "Blackdown Hills" is defined. Nothing to do with the Rocky Mountains or anywhere else. Blackdown Hills is defined as a range in the lead. Is there some doubt that "range" is singular? --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 21:52, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: They are hills which form a range, just as the Rocky Mountains are: "The Rocky Mountains ... are a broad mountain range ..." from its lead. The only case where I could imagine "The X Hills" or  being treated as a singular entity is where it is the name of a local authority district, like "Tower Hamlets". PamD (talk) 23:01, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I find the singular awkward. It's theoretically possible, but unusual. There's a little scope in English to emphasise the parts ("the crowd applaud") or the whole ("the crowd applauds"). I suspect that the plural is usual for these Hills. Tony (talk) 01:56, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

text: That appears to me to be nonsense. How we interpret the subject determines whether it is singular or plural; the form of the verb then matches that interpretation. I've got no strong feelings either way, but I do find inconsistencies such as: "The Blackdown Hills are a range of hills along the Somerset-Devon border in south-western England. It was designated ..." to be jarring. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 18:37, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Presumably one of the sources of confusion is that the AONB is always singular. Are we clear, in each instance, whether we are talking about the hills in general, or the precisely-delimited AONB? almost-instinct 18:50, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blackdown Hills - plural 

message: This article has now been a fairly stable Good Article for over a year and I am looking for ideas about what would be needed to get it to meet the Wikipedia:Featured article criteria? This is one part of the Featured topic about Physical geography of Somerset. The rules about FT's have changed and we need to get one of the GAs included in the topic up to FA status or the whole FT will be demoted to a Good topic. Any ideas appreciated.— Rod talk 20:59, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What else is needed to get this article to FA 

message: I recently reverted a good faith edit to this article but my edit summary didn't properly explain why. The addition said "The Hardy Monument near Portisham in the Blackdown Hills was the origin (meridian) for the 6 inch and 1:2500 Ordnance Survey maps for Somerset and Dorset". I believe the site being referred to is at the Hardy Monument, Portesham on Black Down, Dorset rather than the Blackdown Hills described in this article. It can be confusing as there is another Black Down, Somerset not that far away.— Rod talk 08:56, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
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