Click on the map images for a world-wide view of things

Strictly speaking, Ampney Crucis is halfway between The Netherlands and Ireland. Certainly it is in Europe, though not always part of Europe.

For those of you not familiar with the north west corner of Europe, the United Kingdom (of Great Britain & Northern Ireland) is a couple of smallish islands (by world standards) left behind after the last ice-age.

N.W. Europe

The North  

The South  

Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales, though in Ampney Crucis we tend to think of it as mainly England. England, of course, is loosely attached to Europe by a 22 mile rail tunnel under the sea bed, which gives us a European outlook (sometimes).

More importantly, England is divided into two parts, The South (where we are), and The North (that’s everywhere else, though generally defined as everything north of Watford).

In London they think of Ampney Crucis (if they think about it at all) as being “somewhere in Gloucestershire”; Gloucestershire being a rather attractive county between the Midlands and the West Country, where Prince Charles lives.

Gloucestershire
(in Southern England)

In Ampney Crucis we take a more global view – coming out of Cirencester on the Fairford/Lechlade road, we are just before Ampney St Peter, just in front of Ampney St Mary, not as far as Down Ampney, and a long way from Ampney Sheephouse. That sums it up quite tidily I think.