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The trick is that the listener assumes that all of the others must be totaled up, forgetting that only the narrator is said to be going to St Ives. [1] [6] If everyone mentioned in the riddle were bound for St Ives, then the number would be 2,802: the narrator, the man and his seven wives, 49 sacks, 343 cats, and 2,401 kits.
The rhyme itself doesn't specify whether the entourage is going to or from St Ives, so the description of how many cats, wives, et al are going from St Ives is faulty. sheridan 14:44, September 10, 2005 (UTC) Besides, polygamy is not recognised in the United Kingdom, therefore six of the so-called "wives" can't really be considered wives at all.
St Ives has been a popular tourist destination since the St Ives Bay Line opened in 1877, allowing visitors to easily get to the town. [46] St Ives has been named the best UK seaside town by The Guardian in 2007, [7] and by the British Travel Awards in 2010 and 2011. [3] [47] In 2020, St Ives was named the most expensive seaside resort in the ...
John Knill (1 January 1733 – 29 March 1811) was an English attorney who served as the Collector of Customs at St Ives, Cornwall, from 1762 to 1782.. Knill is primarily remembered for having his own memorial constructed, a 50-foot-high (15 m) three-sided granite obelisk [a] known as Knill's Steeple (also known as Knill's Monument or "The Steeple"), which still stands. [1]
St Ives railway station, in the town; St Ives (UK Parliament constituency), the parliamentary constituency that covers the far west of Cornwall; St Ives, Cambridgeshire, formerly in Huntingdonshire St Ives (Cambridgeshire) railway station, a former railway station in the town; St Ives, Dorset; Bingley St Ives or St. Ives Estate, West Yorkshire
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The passenger service between Huntingdon and St Ives closed on 15 June 1959, and the line closed completely in 1969. By the 1960s it was obvious that the route between March and Cambridge via St Ives was losing money, and local traffic was insignificant. The March to St Ives line was closed on 6 March 1967.
The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall preserves the 20th-century sculptor Barbara Hepworth's studio and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there. She purchased the site in 1949 and lived and worked there for 26 years until her death in a fire on the premises in 1975.