I want to visit every city, town and village in England, however don’t know how to go about it?
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As per the title, this is a challenge I want to do, every time I complete a county I want to mark it off on a map.
However there are thousands of villages in England, how should I redefine my goal?
I was thinking of doing three challenges in each location to say I’ve “unlocked” the city/town/village. But again, villages are long to complete with them being in such high number.
deadeyes1990@reddit
Visiting every village in England sounds like the kind of idea that starts off charming and ends with you crying in a Premier Inn car park because you can’t remember whether you’ve already been to Nether Wallop.
I’d narrow it down a bit. Maybe every city, every county town, then a handful of villages in each county that actually have something going on — good pub, weird church, local ghost, tiny museum run by one enthusiastic bloke, that sort of thing.
And give yourself a rule so it feels real: have a pint or a coffee, see one thing, chat to someone, then it counts.
Otherwise you’re not travelling, you’re just collecting roundabouts.
Pyjama365@reddit
Every county town is a great way of getting to lots of different places with a specific plan of what counts.
Bjornhattan@reddit
Also a lot of county towns aren't places you'd otherwise visit. While a lot are fairly obvious, some are places like Trowbridge or (going off old counties) Appleby - not places you'd ever really visit of your own accord.
the_bacon_fairie@reddit
My first thought was that OP would miss all the lovely towns and villages in Wiltshire but still have to go to Trowbridge!
Bjornhattan@reddit
As I recall, Trowbridge only got it because of geography - when it was being decided in 1889, Swindon didn't want it in Salisbury and vice versa (partly because of the length of journey between them making council business harder) but Trowbridge had a rail connection to both so it was a compromise.
I always think Devizes "feels" most like the county town, and it's more geographically central, so I imagine it would have won had it had better rail connections. And in fairness, Wiltshire has always felt like three counties in a trench coat to me anyway (Swindon and surrounds which look to Swindon or Oxford/Reading; West Wiltshire which looks to Bath and Bristol; Salisbury and surrounds which look to Southampton and the south coast).
Pyjama365@reddit
In honesty, I hadn't considered this point. Maybe biggest town per county + 1 village. It's up to OP, but at least considering the logistics of how something along these lines looks on a map might give a useful steer to what's they eventually decide.
lovelight@reddit
Also villages can be dull to visit. Plenty have no centre or obvious point to actually visit. All the county towns does sound like a much more interesting idea
This_Rom_Bites@reddit
Like the one I live in: it's basically just a dormitory for commuters who us the motorway we're right beside.
TheMonkeyInCharge@reddit
Right? Ours is just a bunch on bungalows on a B-road. No one should come here.
RaedwaldRex@reddit
Ours is all holiday homes and a few year round stuffy old people.
JennyW93@reddit
My village is one road, up and down a hill, population 200. There is a primary school, but I suspect they wouldn’t necessarily welcome visitors
Ranger_1302@reddit
That isn’t the point.
N7twitch@reddit
Agreed. My village has a coop, and a chippy that apparently won an award some time in the last decade. There is nothing to do here. No sights to see.
OP could get a fish and chips I suppose 🤷♀️
MountainMuffin1980@reddit
Yeah the vast majority are just boring, functional suburbanish areas with nothing interesting to see. County Towns and Cities would be better.
Quiet_surprise79@reddit
I grew up near a couple that don't have any shops or cafes etc. One has a population of 280 people. There's absolutely nothing to see.
GaladrielsArmy@reddit
To be fair, the Wallops are lovely, and he could visit the Army Flying Museum!
Foz90@reddit
It’s sad that because I’m from the area, I can picture the exact Premier Inn car park they’d be crying in.
LordMogroth@reddit
My favourite one is Middle. I love that your phone stops working as you drive between them as the airbase jams the signal.
Papervolcano@reddit
Taking parishes as a decent-enough proxy: There are around 10500 parishes in the UK. Assuming you can cross off 5 a day (allowing time for travel, finding 3 challenges in Lower Mudford, etc) it’d take 6 years working full time to complete this challenge. Which is a lot of time to invest in touring housing estates.
Deadeyes suggestion is a good one - Cities and County Towns, and a representative sampling of local points of note is achievable and interesting. And if OP wants to keep going after completing that tour, that’s when it’s time to break out hard mode and complete the village collection.
GrandAsOwt@reddit
This would save the anguish over what actually is a village. Take Leeds, clearly a city. Farsley feels like a village on its outskirts. But what about Armley? That’s about the same size as Farsley but it feels like part of Leeds. Is it a village? What about Chapeltown?
OP needs to do some serious trimming.
TheShakyHandsMan@reddit
Farsley is a village but happens to be within the boundary of Leeds. It’s technically actually part of Pudsey which is a small town with a Leeds postcode.
As mentioned above, having a dedicated parish church defines it as a village.
l8yters@reddit
Thanks chatGPT
dwair@reddit
There are aparently 25,976 roundabouts in the UK with over 130 in Milton Keynes alone. Collecting roundabouts would be one hell of a mission. I'd buy the book.
Ranger_1302@reddit
Oh, just help him with his goal. Don’t narrow everything down to ‘Well, this is easier.’
Emperors-Peace@reddit
Yeah my village is a lovely place to live but there's nothing to do for someone ticking off a list. You'd literally be driving 30minutes from the nearest city, driving through and leaving. Completely pointless and I'd imagine 99% of villages are like this.
BarryIslandIdiot@reddit
The other issue with villages is how you define them. I grew up in a village that was wholly separate from the neighbour geographically, however we were technically considered part of that villages Parish. It even had the name of thebother village on our sogn. There were several other smaller villages that were also considered part of that village. I now live in a village that has a smaller village connected to it in the same way. Would you need to visit one of those, or all of the smaller villages? If just one, does it have to be the main village, or will any of the smaller villages be ok?
LostInAisle1@reddit
Village has a definition - it is a settlement with a parish church. Any other small settlement is a hamlet.
Jonny_rhodes@reddit
Tiny museum run by an enthusiastic bloke you say ? Southport lawnmower museum
lesterbottomley@reddit
Doing the tour based on ridiculous museums would be a great way to go imo.
dwhite21787@reddit
Visit every local post office and mail yourself a card by handing it to the postmaster/mistress.
rositree@reddit
As a potential extra criteria, look up weird and wonderful celebrations/festivals particular to a small village in each county. Something like worm charming, bog snorkeling, Widecombe Fair - they're usually well attended village events that give an insight into the local way of life.
Justan0therthrow4way@reddit
The crying in a premier inn carpark bit made me laugh but you make a good point.
I agree with the having a pint or a coffee and talking to a local to make it “count”
__badger@reddit
Just do every wetherspoons and you won't be far off
heyitsed2@reddit
Get a campervan and a GoPro, turn your mission into a monetized social media effort.
"The great British pub crawl" has been on a mission to have a drink in every pub in the UK for ~5 years and I believe it's now his full time job.
Oldham_athletic@reddit
Dale from pub crawl been a fame chaser his whole life Fair play to him but if he wasn't doing this he would be chasing it in a different way
simonjp@reddit
That sounds like being forced to smoke every cigarette in a pack. You'd get so sick of pubs, wouldn't you?
heyitsed2@reddit
I think you'd get sick with jaundice first.
Deep_Supermarket_617@reddit
you have to set your parameters first. What counts and what doesn’t count as a town/village? What counts and what doesn’t count as a visit?
If every named settlement counts and you need to spend a night in each, then I’d say you’re in for a real challenge.
I’m seeing online that there are ~5000 “built up” areas in England with more than 1000 people. Maybe the challenge should be a picture with the sign, and at least one purchase of anything (petrol, pint, lunch, etc.).
Either way, I’d suggest clustering. Check off a whole area, go home and reset, then get a new area. Sweep the whole country
anabsentfriend@reddit
A lot of villages are about four houses in the middle of nowhere. I have to work in such places. If you think the potholes are bad in the towns you should see the state of some of these tracks pout in the sticks.
Hampshire-UK@reddit
Definitely as others had said, pick a theme like visit every football ground or every church etc
Dennyisthepisslord@reddit
Are you immortal?
TheShakyHandsMan@reddit
If he’s immortal he’s got to do them all in alphabetical order and insult someone in each stop for it to count.
Asuperniceguy2@reddit
You can't do villages but you could do towns and cities if it was a life goal.
Good-Animal-6430@reddit
To expand on this a little, it's very hard to define villages. As an example, near me in Essex there's a village called Birch, near Colchester zoo. There's a bit of birch called Birch green. There's another bit called Hardy's green. People used to use some or all of those as postal addresses, but no need now cos it's just house number and postcode. So would you visit birch and be done, or do birch green and hardys green count separate (locals argue whether they are separate villages). Multiply this by every cluster of houses across the whole country.
ZeldaandWillow@reddit
Whether you complete this or not, I'd love to follow your progress. Will you be setting up up any blog or social media that I can follow?
TepidHalibut@reddit
The number of villages, and the definition of city vs town vs village vs hamlet could drive you mad.
I'd suggest for each English County have three targets, visit the largest city/town, the most southern and the most northern. (For awkward ones like "City of London", the northern/southern suburbs or similar.
Or Eastern / Western.
LordMogroth@reddit
Do this but meet someone from grindr in each location. Then write a book about it
AirConEngineer@reddit
I’m currently doing this challenge with every country in Europe. I’m on 18 currently but now I find myself running out of destinations that I actually want to go to and I’m sometimes just looking to tick things off of cheap flights. I don’t think this is something that I’d recommend and to be honest I think I might give up on this challenge and maybe just start doing things that I enjoy a bit more rather than trying to see how how cheaply I can get to Azerbaijan for the Weekend.
LordMogroth@reddit
Be specific. Have a pint with someone called Dave in every town in England. Netflix might pay for that.
AdLower3335@reddit
Tickbox tourism?
LordMogroth@reddit
A car and an a to z.
Puzzled-Job9556@reddit
Why don't you split each county into quadrant? Visit cities/towns and 3-4 villages in each?
paolog@reddit
If, after getting the very long list of all the places in England and working out how much this would cost you, you aren't put off and are still determined to go ahead with it, you will need to plan your route to make it as efficient as possible. After all, there's no point going from Penzance to Newcastle and then back down to Truro and up to Carlisle again. Seems obvious, but even travelling to all the places in a small county can be done in thousands of different ways.
You'll need to know which places have routes between them (roads or railway lines, depending on how you are planning to travel) and what the journey times are between them. Then you have sn example of what is famously known in mathematics as the travelling salesman problem. Finding the optimum route between many hundreds of places is difficult or time-consuming to solve (and requires a computer to do it), but you can come up with a reasonably efficient route. r/askmath or r/theydidthemath may be good places to have someone work this out for you.
ggdak@reddit
Most large cities lending libraries have the collection of "Buildings of England", otherwise known as "Pevsners". These are county-based books which define villages from hamlets as simply having a church. The towns and villages get their own entry, hamlets do not. The oldest editions from the fifties to the seventies would be best, as pretty much all the villages' churches would still exist. They also form a handy guide book on the more worthy architectural sights.
I've never seen any digital versions or online resources based on them unfortunately. You could look on eBay for a tattered old version which may inform you of the scale of the task. It took Sir Nikolaus forty years, and he didn't finish it. Best of luck with a fantastic challenge.
bopeepsheep@reddit
The Victoria County Histories are online, though. https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history Obviously dated, but not that much more than Pevsner.
I-live-in-room-101@reddit
Get a job as a national delivery driver or something.
But honestly, even if a lottery win gifted me time and money, this sounds like a biting and pointless mission.
Sage-Freke-@reddit
If you like running or wanted to take up running, you could aim for every Parkrun in the UK. There are around 900, so if you go every weekend it would take 18 years, or give yourself 20 if you don’t go every weekend. It would allow you to see a good spread of the whole of the country and can visit the local area afterwards. Of course you could hate running or want the challenge to be much shorter.
ThisIsMyRedditAcct20@reddit
Let me know when you get to Badshot Lea
Educational-Angle717@reddit
If you do it you should def film a vlog and stick it on YouTube.
TwoPlyDreams@reddit
Get a job with streetview. Or practice a county using streetview.
Your proposition is not reasonable, maybe try cathedral cities and cities.
Or talk to map men.
Inoffensive_Comments@reddit
Map men, map men, map map map men. Men.
tetlee@reddit
When I found out Jay is Beardyman's brother I wasn't the least bit surprised and the intro song became so much more on brand
dew1911@reddit
TIL, never knew that!
eivoooom@reddit
I wouldn't do every village, there are some good villages but there are some like one I used to live where all it had was a pub and a recently built spar which was the size of the bottom floor of an average house
TheLoneEcho@reddit
Villages might be a bit much. There is one by me called Newlandrig - it is a single road about ¼ of a mile long with nothing there but houses.
Ill-Opportunity8918@reddit
What is classed as a village?. It's easy in the sticks but there are places people call a village that just feels like a regular suburb. There is no official number which makes it hard. Some places are like a road with 6 houses on it. I'd stick to towns and cities. But looking into it there isn't an official number of towns either.
UnacceptableUse@reddit
Adding the challenges aspect is going to 10x or 100x the time and effort and money this would take. If I were you I'd just stop in each town and take a picture with the town sign, you could probably get a good chunk of them done per day that way.
4x6x8@reddit
Specialisation is the key here to give the quest meaning. Like the women who had a cream tea in every national trust place.
amytee252@reddit
I kind of did something like this over the period of a couple of years. Every weekend I'd go somewhere new, somewhere in England. One day I'd be in Berwick upon Tweed and then the next be in Wareham. It was a great two years and gave me a deep appreciation for how beautiful England is.
I literally just picked somewhere on a map the night before and just get on a train the next day. It helped that I had either free or heavily reduced train travel (dad used to work for the railways). It also helped that I live in London so could get around the country on high speed trains easily.
Necessary_Money_9757@reddit
It would be impossible. You could do every city, but every city, town and village would take multiple lifetimes.
Hal1342@reddit
Even to visit every county would be a tall order. Just pick places you fancy to go.
diabeticoats@reddit
If you want to do this then why not look to visit every parish in the county?
The problem is that some sprawling villages have given names to a cluster of homes. Is that Bottomhouses a separate hamlet or is that part of Nether Wilston.
A county has loads of town and parish councils. That should be a good place to get a list.
Wormella@reddit
If you were looking for village criteria then best kept village or Britain in bloom winners might help curate your list.
onionsofwar@reddit
What's the point of doing this if you're not actually going to get to know the towns cuz you have to do them so quickly. This is like when people visit one beach town of a whole country and then scratch it off on a world map.
Maybe just take your time and over weekend visit some nice places that are worth visiting. That way you get to get a broad view of different towns around the country without wasting your time and money going to shithole towns and constantly spending money on trains or petrol.
surfermark99@reddit
The UK is broken up into counties.
You should be done in a very expensive year of travelling doing it that way.
Alternatively, spend some time looking up worthwhile locations like a normal person and come on a decent holiday.
Hard to advise you without knowing your timescale or budget.
mike9874@reddit
There are also 382 principle authorities (councils, not including Parish), they cover the majority of the country but it's an achievable figure
ICantSpayk@reddit
The county capital of Berkshire surprised me. Always thought it was Reading.
Crunchie64@reddit
Impossible.
Otherwise-Term6608@reddit
Impossible, unnecessary, and boring.
Scramjet-42@reddit
I would do every town and city with a population of >10k. You’re looking at around 1,000-1,500 places, which is a hell of a lot, but you could knock off a few each day.
Would be an interesting challenge for the rest of one’s life.
Apprehensive_Plum755@reddit
According to the ONS there are just over 1000 conurbations with population between 1k and 225k
AncientImprovement56@reddit
Well, this website seems to list them all for a starting point: https://www.townscountiespostcodes.co.uk/towns-in-uk/
Cornwall seems like a good place to start, because it's at the edge. I'd get that list, and a really big map, and make sure I knew the location of every one of the 1442 towns and villages in Cornwall. Then I'd try and plot a value sensible route between them.
Doing 26 per day would allow you to complete Cornwall in a week. Then it's on to Devon!
crb11@reddit
Doesn't look very reliable to me. Looking at Cambridgeshire, it includes Kym and North Level Main Drain, which are waterways, and places like Haddenham End Field, and Commercial End which are parts of villages with their own place name. On the other hand, it's missing Orchard Park and Northstowe which are both substantial (5k+ places) although relatively new, so I think their database is at least 10 years out of date.
Betelgeaux@reddit
There is a guy who has visited every football club in the country down to about 8 leagues, really great toys football level, took him around 40 years. As villages to the mix and it sounds like a hell of a task!
carson63000@reddit
Unfortunately your maths is off by a factor of 10 I think.
AncientImprovement56@reddit
Oops... I guess that's what happens when I reddit before waking up properly!
Bombadombaway@reddit
That’s an absolutely wild plan.
Why not do something more interesting like visit every single National Trust property in the UK?
FantasticWeasel@reddit
Make a spreadsheet, oh gosh this is an exciting plan. Im currently working on visiting every county for at least a day trip. Finished having a day out in every London Borough a couple of years ago.
ddbbaarrtt@reddit
This isn’t possible
Just in the northernmost point of this map of Lincolnshire there’s over 25: https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s19259/map.pdf
That’s a strip of around 5x20 miles, and the list doesn’t include every village
-Rhymenocerous-@reddit
Work for a nationwide compliance company like I did.
Over a span of 10yrs Ive pretty much covered the entire country and likely visited more McDonalds drive thrus than 99% of the british population
batch1972@reddit
I think it’s doable if you achieve immortality. Seriously you could visit every county town. That would be 50-60 and include some really pretty ones- example Canterbury, Colchester, Bristol, Exeter, Chester etc
Puzzleheaded-Web1519@reddit
What are your plans for accommodation? If you complete your plans I would think that you would be able to write a very interesting book highlighting your experiences. Good luck.
ddbbaarrtt@reddit
The problem is that there’s so many villages that OP would har very little to say because their mission would just be ticking off endless locations for years on end
BeaksFalcone@reddit
Wait until you're old enough to get a free bus pass then do as much as you can for free
Dennyisthepisslord@reddit
Tell me you don't live outside London please. It would take me an hour to get to the other side of my hometown by bus when it's 10 minutes in the car.
Pyjama365@reddit
Problem is loads of villages don't have busses, so even if you had infinite time this would not be a full solution.
And lots of towns have very patchy service at best. There's a town of about 12,000 people I can think of that is only on 3 bus routes (and one just goes around the town itself, so wouldn't be of use for getting there from anywhere else).
AncientImprovement56@reddit
The only problem with this is that it will take so much longer than doing it by car that you're likely to spend more on hotels than you save on transport.
DaveBeBad@reddit
Very slow though if you live at one end and want to use free buses to get to the other end…
Norklander@reddit
Visit event location with a rude name. By bike. The ride from Twatt to Gropecunt Lane is supposed looks like a decent challenge.
Pyjama365@reddit
The people behind 'All The Stations' are doing this with railway stations, and their possible top number was 2,563 stations just in England, Wales and Scotland.
I should add that, just in my county, I can think of multiple quite sizeable towns that don't have a railway station, and probably about 50+ villages if you gave me a while to name them (and probably 100+ I've never heard of), just in my county that don't have railway stations.
I think the suggestions to cut it down to everywhere with a population size of above x, or a city/town/village in each country/area are a lot more reasonable.
Someone said every county town (which are sometimes also cities anyway). If you want to see villages too, then I'd suggest looking up the county town + 1 village in each country as a starting point. You'll get an idea of how big a job that would be, before committing to what you actually want to do.
kryptopeg@reddit
That's like a lifetime goal tbh, it's a huge job unless you're not reliant on working at all.
Simplest way to organise is pick some cut-off for what you call a significant settlement - say, 500 residents or more. Or use what are officially classified as villages rather than hamlets, etc.
Logistically, you're going to want a car or motorbike. Bicycle or walking is way too slow, public transport doesn't go to enough of these places on a workable enough schedule to make it feasible. Or get a helicopter license, and count 'overflying' as a visit!
elom44@reddit
That’s too big, you need a series of quests.
Visit a place starting with every letter of the alphabet Visit every county in the UK Visit the 100 most populated towns/cities Visit the 100 places with the longest names etc
And what constitutes a visit? Just driving through? Spending the night? Having a cup of tea?
There is a great idea here, it just needs more definition!
sprucay@reddit
Do a YouTube channel if you're doing it, if you're luckily it'll start paying for it
Do_not_use_after@reddit
Get a copy of the Domesday book, and go to everywhere mentioned. It's a defined list, at least.
Neat-Cartoonist-9797@reddit
That’s a fun idea!
Betelgeaux@reddit
Cities and towns I get, they are definable. Villages are a bit harder to define and also there are so many of them!
As for the tracking aspect have you heard of an app called Squadrats? This will take the GPS tracks of your bike rides, walks. runs etc and then show you what squares you have visited. It splits the world into mile squares (Squadrats) and then the mile squares further into 8x8 squares (like a chess board). That way you can look at a map and see exactly where you have explored. You can easily track your walks around a new place using the free version of Strava on your phone.
Neat-Cartoonist-9797@reddit
You could sign up as a parcel delivery driver for every depot and do a month in each one? Something like Amazon Flex (if that still exists?)
fussyfella@reddit
You might find definitions a challenge too as to what is a village. I would just get a list based on a definition you like (easily Googleable) and use that. You might consider "settlements" a term used in some government geographic analyses, or perhaps just aim to visit every civil parish in the country (some of which might have more than one settlement) but are well defined.
Good luck, sounds like a fun thing to do.
anoamas321@reddit
There are 55 cities and around 850 towns. Im not even started on the villages. Good luck....
ArcTan_Pete@reddit
so, you've got this thing you really want to do, but don't know what you want to do, or how to do it, so you come onto reddit to get people to tell you what to do and how to do it.
have i got the gist of it?
tanoshimi@reddit
When I get the late bus home after a night out, I swear it takes me round every tiny little village in the country before it gets to my stop...
PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit
I suppose you'd be best off getting a touring motorcycle with some decent panniers. It may become a challenge in the winter without a car though.
That aside, you need to either retire, have a lot of savings, or find a way of monetising it.
If you're really going to do every village, I'd start up in Scotland where things are less densely populated so you can ease yourself into the process of planning routes etc, as it'll become much more difficult when you get to say Hertfordshire.
theworldsaplayground@reddit
Not MysteryHike is it?
Silver_Emu4704@reddit
Quit your job and buy a motorcycle
lewisl7034@reddit
This would be incredible, I love holidaying in the UK and I'd be jealous of anyone that could achieve it.
This sounds like the "travelling salesman problem". Essentially with every added town/city/village it gets kinda exponentially harder to achieve the best route, unless you just go for the "nearest neighbour"... But there's 50k+ places to visit, so even that would miss alot of places by the end of the tour purely because you'd skip past a village that was ½mile away from the next catchment.
maybe a redefinition of what you want to do in each one, or maybe visit place with a population above a certain threshold to reduce the numbers to a more reasonable number? And visit one point of interest in every village (eg, the medieval church which would probably be in most villages) maybe 2 in each town (eg, the church again and a blue plaque of where someone famous lived), and 3 in a city (pick your vice)?
Don't want to sound like I'm pooping on your dreams (sorry!), but with 50k places, and you visiting a place every hour 24/7 it would take nearly 6 years to see everywhere... And our roads SUCK alot of the time 🤣 and maybe wait until fuel comes down a bit 👍🏻
millimolli14@reddit
Camper van, then get a good book about travelling England, there are a few on Amazon
Educational_Skirt_81@reddit
You could only realistically do a place per county. Maybe a couple of places. There’s just way, way too many places overall lol.
If I was going to do this I’d probably just pick the most well known place and do the most well known tourist thing in each of them. Although get ready to enjoy A LOT of cathedrals and castles.
Funny_Tank8531@reddit
Sounds like a task I could absolutely become obsessed to achieve.
Can’t see how you’d do it without driving but I’d get a paper road atlas of UK, AA publish them yearly and just set out on an old fashioned Sunday drive. Drive around following roads and visiting the different places on your travels, when go on holiday / long weekend drive to furthest spot and just meander your way through the places. Stopping in places of interest or significance.
Main question is how you plan to mark them, if looking to explore each place going to be a lifelong task, if just need to enter each then score out or highlight each in your atlas or to take a selfie at each welcome to sign will be slightly easier.
At least that’s how I would approach it, whether it is doable, good luck to you.
Resident_Ebb_9354@reddit
I’d do it all via Wetherspoons pubs.
Tick off all the pubs and explore the areas in between as you go. Could even do brekkie, lunch and dinner with a cheeky coffee or beer in between too. Some are even hotels to help you out as well
Skylar_Diggins@reddit
You should have a look at Geocaching, I'm sure there should be at least one in every village/town?! Fun way to mark it off your map.
carson63000@reddit
First, ask ChatGPT to plot a route which is the shortest path touching all the towns. That should be a simple algorithm for it to execute, travelling salesmen were doing that before computers were invented.
Sakurabloomydoll@reddit
Maybe redefine it to market towns, county towns, or places with a train stop/landmark, then do your 3 “unlock” challenges there. Way more doable but still feels like you’re covering the whole country.
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