Purton University, High Street, Purton
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Purton University, High Street, Purton
Image: © Vieve Forward Taken: 3 Mar 2012
The idea that there was a University in Purton was a long-standing joke before Purton 4th World University was set up with serious aims in 2009 by John Papworth, an ecologist and former Anglican priest. It is in fact a website exercise of which he is "Acting Chancellor", and attempts to "arouse new political thinking and more research in human-scale terms for the battle for ethnic freedom and the global crisis of war, environmental abuse, oil run-down, population numbers, citizen powerlessness and social disintegration". It also publishes "Purton Today", "an independent journal seeking to relate village affairs to the global crisis and the crisis to the village". http://www.purtonuniversity.com/#
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Image Location
Latitude
51.586827
Longitude
-1.873225