Where Is Ambridge

Ambridge is the village inhabited by the characters in The Archers; it is close to Borchester, the county town of Borsetshire. The BBC maintains that these places are fictional, but we know the truth.

But where exactly are these places? Careful examination of the broadcast material yields clues ...

• To get to Ambridge from London by rail, one goes from Euston and gets off at Hollerton Junction, and the journey takes about 2 hours and 20 minutes. Birmingham is 1 hour 30 minutes from London, but that's an express train. Anyway, it's somewhere along here <http://www.silverlink-trains.com/timetable/index5.html>.