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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Britanniaville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Britanniaville and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
    • To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above, we pass this GPS location for Britanniaville:
    • 41.918712, -71.105602
    • Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
    • Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Britanniaville
  • Bird Watching ...
    • We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
    • The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Bristol County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bristol County
    • Since Britanniaville is near Plymouth County and also Norfolk County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Plymouth County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Norfolk County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Britanniaville

Communities Also Named Britanniaville ...

We found one communities that are also named Britanniaville.

Within Massachusetts, the name Britanniaville is unique.

Beyond Massachusetts, there is another community also named Britanniaville in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Ontario
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Britanniaville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Britanniaville ...

As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.

  • Camp Titicut
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Camp Titicut is located in Plymouth County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Titicut
  • Chestnut Tree Corner
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Chestnut Tree Corner is located in Bristol County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Tree Corner
  • Copper Works
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Copper Works is located in Bristol County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper Works
  • Cranes Station
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Cranes Station is located in Bristol County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cranes Station
  • Five Corners
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Five Corners is located in Bristol County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Corners
  • Furnace Village
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Furnace Village is located in Bristol County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furnace Village
  • Meadow Brook
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Meadow Brook is located in Bristol County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Brook
  • Norton Furnace ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Norton Furnace is located in Bristol County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norton Furnace
  • Perrys Corner
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Perrys Corner is located in Bristol County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perrys Corner
  • Pratts Corner
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Pratts Corner is located in Bristol County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pratts Corner
  • Prattville
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Prattville is located in Bristol County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prattville
  • Precinct
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Precinct is located in Plymouth County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Precinct
  • Scotland
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Scotland is located in Plymouth County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotland

How Far From Britanniaville to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Britanniaville to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Britanniaville and extending to:

  • Taunton, which is the Seat of Bristol County, lies just to the South Southeast.
  • Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies 30 miles [48.3 km]<2> to the north (N). If you could walk a straight line from Britanniaville to Boston, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 375 miles [603.5 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,523 miles [8,888.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,228 miles [10,023 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,104 miles [6,604.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Britanniaville could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Britanniaville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<4>The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Britanniaville to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Britanniaville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9187, Longitude: -71.1056       In this case, the coordinates for Britanniaville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.068 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.601 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.817 degrees.