Egremont
About Egremont
Egremont is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is situated just outside the Lake District National Park, five miles south of Whitehaven and on the River Ehen. The parish also includes the villages of Bigrigg and Moor Row.
On the show — 3 mentions total
Lord Egremont spent £3,000 building a greenhouse where he kept a single banana tree, because he wanted to grow his own bananas. The day came where he was having his first taste of it, at which he exclaimed, "Oh God, it tastes just like every other damn banana."
from 261: No Such Thing As A Chocolate Train, 2019-03-22 at 00:04:38 · read transcript
Other times Egremont came up
In fact, only people from Cumbria take part. Even the people of Devon looked down on the back. In 2014, the two runners up were both Swedish. It takes place in the Egremont crab fair. They say it's been happening since 1267. The fair, it seems, might have been happening since then on and off because we know that Ken Henry III granted a royal charter for a fair.
261: No Such Thing As A Chocolate Train, 2019-03-22 · listen
Coordinates: 54.4840, -3.5306