I walk the length of the Sheffield 'Greggs Line' and briefly examine how it might have happened
There's a weird quirk with Sheffield City Centre's Greggs. If you look at them on a map, they are almost in an exact straight line as the crow flies. Join me on a walk along the 'Greggs Line' while I try my best to understand how it might have happened.
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00:00 There's something a bit odd about the Greggs in Sheffield.
00:08 When I first came to Sheffield someone pointed out an interesting quirk with Sheffield's
00:12 Greggs that they called the Greggs Line.
00:15 If you look at all five Greggs in Sheffield city centre on a map they are strangely laid
00:19 out in an almost perfect straight line with only the Fargate location deviating off this
00:23 line by about 70 metres.
00:26 The distance between the first on the moor and the fifth on Angel Street is almost exactly
00:30 a kilometre as the crow flies and 1.1 kilometres if you actually walked here, equating to one
00:36 Greggs every 271 metres.
00:39 This also means that your average 400 calorie steak bake will give you the energy needed
00:43 to walk the Greggs Line around six times back to back without stopping to refuel.
00:47 I wondered if it was all due to Greggs' design or just a coincidence of city planning.
00:53 Comparing to major cities I couldn't see a Greggs Line in Liverpool, Manchester or
00:57 Leicester but then was shocked to see Nottingham had its very own Greggs Bow and with almost
01:03 the exact same distance and layout between locations.
01:06 But Nottingham certainly does not have a big thoroughfare like the moor to guide city planning.
01:12 My only conclusion is Greggs' aim is to have an outlet every 200 to 300 metres in
01:17 major shopping areas of their large cities and in Sheffield that just happened to lead
01:21 to three on the moor, one on Fargate and one on Angel Street.
01:26 And whether the Greggs Line was intentional or not is just not clear.
01:30 But I mean like, it doesn't really matter though does it?
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